Bill Gardner, guardian of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, says he won’t set early state’s date until late next year.Source: California’s 2020 shadow sparks New Hampshire fears...
The Supreme Court released the calendar for its February sitting today.Source: Justices release February argument calendar...
MIAMI — A handful of presidential battleground states experienced a population explosion over the past year, altering the landscape in at least three key states that stand to play a pivotal role in the 2020 election.Source: Population boom could remake 2020 map...
Earlier today, Bradley Smith continued our conversation about whether Donald Trump’s hush-money payments violated federal election law. I say maybe — depending on the evidence.Source: Yes, Donald Trump Is in Real Legal Jeopardy for Campaign-Finance Violations...
Video Michael Cohen's guilty plea and subsequent sentencing for campaign-finance violations and other crimes revived speculation about President Trump's potential legal exposure -- but some former Federal Election Commission members say neither of them necessarily committed a violation with hush-mSource: Former FEC commissioners: Trump-Cohen 'hush' payments not necessarily a violation...
It took Christine Stenquist years to find something to take the edge off of her chronic pain. Bedridden for a decade and a half after a massive seizure, she suffered from nausea triggered by pain medication that also gave her depression and insomnia.Source: Utah voters passed a bill legalizing medical marijuana. The Mormon church helped derail it....
The U.S. Supreme Court had asked the Utah government to respond by January 2, in Utah Republican Party v Cox. This is the case over whether the First Amendment freedom of association clause protects a party’s right to decide for itself how it nominates.Source: Utah Government Asks U.S. Supreme Court for More Time to Respond to Republican Case...
Final Utah election returns show that Proposition Four, setting up an independent redistricting commission for U.S. House and state legislative boundaries, passed with 50.3% of the vote. The final tally is: yes 512,218; no 505,274. The measure failed in 25 of Utah’s 29 counties.Source: Utah Initiative for Nonpartisan Redistricting Passed, Even Though it Lost in 25 of Utah’s 29 Counties...
The already meager ranks of female House Republicans had just been further decimated in the midterms when Rep. Ann Wagner was readying a play to head the party’s campaign arm — in the hopes of leading a recovery.Source: ‘I wasn’t asking for permission’: GOP women put leaders on notice...
$6.4 billion. That’s how much candidates, political parties, and interest groups spent on federal elections in 2016, according to the Open Secrets project at the Center for Responsive Politics.Source: Most Campaign Outreach Has Zero Effect on Voters...
