California Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman is calling for a boycott of In-N-Out burger because, horror of horrors, the company donates to Republicans. No discussion of whether In-N-Out burger is good or bad for the state.Source: Disclosure Laws Will Hurt Minority Views...
The longest-serving Democratic member of the Federal Election Commission, expected to take over as chair in four months, and her top staffer are behind an anti-Trump and anti-GOP crusade, according to a new report from a critic.Source: Report: Top FEC Dem, staff behind anti-Trump jihad, fairness questioned...
Republicans are calling for government action to correct ‘bias’ online. It wasn’t so long ago that the GOP rejected such arguments. Another day, another call for government intervention in free speech on the Internet.Source: The Internet Doesn’t Need a Fairness Doctrine...
President Trump is speaking forcefully about fixing a growing problem affecting our national discourse. He says we may need to regulate the giant tech companies that control vast swaths of our information landscape, due to their bias.Source: Hey, Google, Facebook, Twitter – Trump's got a point. You need to do a better job of self-regulating...
Elvis David Fullerton has voted in 16 elections in North Carolina dating back nearly two decades. The only problem, authorities say, is he’s not a citizen and never should have been on the voter rolls, much less allowed to step into a polling booth to cast a ballot.Source: Illegal immigrants who exploited Motor Voter to register in North Carolina still...
Though he will leave his post as White House counsel this fall, Don McGahn’s positive impact on this administration and country will last for decades to come. Indeed, Don McGahn will have been the most consequential White House counsel in history.Source: Don McGahn's successful White House tenure leaves a legacy that will endure for decades...
Thousands of dark ads ran on Facebook around the 2016 presidential election in the United States and the British referendum on leaving the European Union. Some ads delivered divisive messages aimed at specific audiences. Some ads circulated misinformation — or told people not to vote.Source: What’s wrong with Facebook, Google and Twitter’s measures to make political ads more transparent...
Got to give a lot of credit to these groups for making this conclusion, given the national stakes of fixing the partisan gerrymander in North Carolina’s congressional districts: The Court asked the parties to “file briefs addressing whether [it] should allow the State to conduct any future eleSource: Breaking : Common Cause, League of Women Voters, and NC Democratic Party...
[Y]ou have to wonder about the legal advice Cohen received when he pleaded guilty on the same day to two violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act – the law that governs the financing of federal elections campaigns.Source: Fox News: Michael Cohen and Trump did NOT violate campaign finance law – despite Cohen’s guilty plea (In the News)...
More than two thirds of individual contributions to 2018 House candidates came from donors outside of the candidates' districts, and Democrats are out-raising Republicans, according to an Axios analysis of Federal Elections Commission data.Source: Most campaign contributions come from outside candidates' districts...
