After more than three decades, Republicans are free of a federal court consent decree that sharply limited the Republican National Committee's ability to challenge voters' qualifications and target the kind of fraud President Donald Trump has alleged affected the 2016 presidential race.Source: Judge ends consent decree limiting RNC 'ballot security' activities...
There is little over the Atlantic that bears much of a resemblance to the First Amendment, an absence (envied, sadly, by quite a few over here) that has often been exploited by a European political establishment that shows every sign of willingness to exploit the often deSource: Fake News, Real Censorship...
Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the Golden Globes this Sunday sparked speculation over whether the billionaire celebrity might run for president in 2020.Source: Candidate Oprah? Campaign Finance Laws Would Give Her a Leg Up...
RICHMOND — A Virginia elections official reached into an artsy stoneware bowl, pulled out a name and declared Republican David Yancey the winner of a House of Delegates race that could determine which political party controls the chamber.Source: A random drawing out of a bowl helped Republicans win a tied Virginia election....
The president noted in remarks to reporters that former strategist Steve Bannon called him a 'great man' in a radio interview.Source: As Trump fumes, White House staff spread blame on Wolff book...
The name of David Yancey was pulled out of a film canister, a wild end to an election that could determine the fate of Medicaid expansion in the state.Source: Republican wins drawing to decide control of Virginia statehouse...
President Donald Trump is dumping a controversial commission that was charged with investigating his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud during the 2016 election, the White House said Wednesday. Trump asked the Department of Homeland Security to look into the issue instead.Source: Trump disbands voter fraud commission...
The former Republican nominee is poised to become the president's chief GOP foil if he's elected to the Senate, as many now expect. Donald Trump had just returned from Utah last month when the president placed a call to his longtime nemesis Mitt Romney.Source: Trump-Romney rivalry set to take center stage again...
The First Amendment makes it very difficult to regulate "fake news," and it raises dangers that those who would regulate would do so not to stop the spread of misinformation but to protect their own political position. I have a paper coming out in the First Amendment Law Review on this very question, including the issue of foreign interference: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3017598 We may...
Bloomberg BNA: FEC commissioners are feuding over when a nonprofit group spending to influence elections can be regulated as a political action committee.Source: “FEC Commissioners Feud Over PAC Designation”...
