A couple weeks have now passed since Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first day on the Supreme Court. After a tumultuous confirmation process, Kavanaugh was voted onto the Court by the Senate on Oct. 6, and he started his lifetime term on Oct. 9. During the weeks leading up to Oct.Source: Only a fraction of ‘dark money’ spending on Kavanaugh disclosed...
It’s cliche to say that “turnout will determine the outcome of the midterms”. Of course turnout “matters”.Source: Turnout in the 2018 midterm: high turnout could stress our nation’s election infrastructure...
Granting review in MCD v. Mangan could limit overregulation and protect free speech Alexandria, VA – The Institute for Free Speech and the Cato Institute yesterday filed a friend of the court brief asking the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to Montana campaign finance laws.Source: Supreme Court Should Hear Challenge to Montana Law, IFS Brief Says...
More than 68,000 people in Sacramento County have already voted by absentee ballot as of Tuesday and the patterns look typical of past election years.Source: Has mail-in voting changed how California’s early election returns look?...
An Idaho judge who was sworn in to serve as a judge on the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday will hear probably hear cases in Pasadena several times a year.Source: Idaho Judge Nominated by President Trump to Pasadena's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Sworn In, "Can't Wait to Get Started"...
Care about freedom of the press? Support independent investigative journalism.Source: How ActBlue is trying to turn small donations into a blue wave...
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is investing an additional $25 million in their midterms efforts, citing "an influx of contributions" from their supporters. Of that, they're giving $3.5 million each to the party's campaign arms that work on House and Senate races.Source: RNC invests additional $25M to boost GOP before midterms...
@monkeycageblog has become its namesake, a blog lacking vetting of the claims put forth. Quite sad, really, since it used to showcase peer-reviewed scholarship. Case in point: this post wildly inflates the number of persons affected by GA's exact match https://t.co/3HaiS3vDfISource: About Those 900,000 Voters Potentially Disenfranchised by Ga’s ‘Exact Match’ Law? Not So Much...
On August 7, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, a Republican, and two-term Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) coasted to easy primary victories in the race for McCaskill’s current Missouri Senate seat.Source: Can an Independent Movement Happen?...
It’s been eight years since Citizens United v. FEC, and America still doesn’t have transparency about the sources of money in politics. To wit, over $100 million in dark money has been spent as of October 17, 2018, with key weeks left in the midterms.Source: The 2018 Elections Have $100 million in Dark Money and Counting...
