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...
Support open, nonprofit journalism you can trust. Please donate. #MyCALmatters By | Sept. 1, 2018Source: Last stop: On these 2018 California bills, it’s the governor’s call...
On August 31, the Colorado Republican Party filed this amicus curiae brief in the Tenth Circuit in Baca v Williams, 18-1173.Source: Colorado Republican Party Files Amicus in “Faithless Electors” Case...
The general election campaign season starts in earnest after Labor Day. For the next two months, state legislators who are running for re-election should be found speaking in public, or holding public meetings.Source: Now is the Time for Contacting State Legislators About 2019 Bills...
