Lt. Governor Mark Hutchison (R) won't comment on the recall beyond saying he supports the voters "right to choose' but his law firm is serving a legal counsel to the recall committees.Source: Nevada: Lt. Governor's private law firm serving as legal counsel to recall groups...
Last year, Project Vote sued the Arizona Secretary of State over the high price for a member of the public to obtain the list of registered voters.Source: Arizona Project Vote Lawsuit Resulted in Making List of Registered Voters Far Cheaper...
A group of Utah citizens will try to qualify an initiative for the 2018 ballots that abolishes the caucus system for a candidate to get on a primary ballot. Instead the only way for candidates to get on a primary ballot will be by petition. See this story.Source: Future Utah Initiative to Abolish Party Endorsement Conventions as Route for Getting...
Before taking office in January, President Trump's incoming administration quietly threatened to remove some of the 72 nonpartisan, independent government watchdogs tasked with vetting out waste, fraud and abuse in federal agencies.Source: Months into office, Trump has yet to appoint key agency watchdogs...
Elections: American democracy has a problem — a voting problem. According to a new study of U.S. Census data, America has more registered voters than actual live voters. It's a troubling fact that puts our nation's future in peril. The data come from Judicial Watch's Election Integrity Project.Source: U.S. Has 3.5 Million More Registered Voters Than Live Adults — A...
Welcome back to The Monkey Cage’s weekly presentation of Founding Principles, a series of short videos designed to explain American government and how it works — in theory, and in practice. The first five episodes looked at the basic structure of the government created by the U.S.Source: Why did the Founders make U.S. elections so complicated and confusing? Get your...
With a law extending the election timeline now tied up in court, Senate Democrats’ best hope of a leg up in fighting the recall of Sen. Josh Newman may be California’s political ethics watchdog.Source: California poised to adopt campaign rule that would help Democratic senator...
Attorneys who advise state elected officials need no crystal ball to see what an affirmance in Gill v. Whitford would mean for their clients. … Speaker of the Utah House: A woman in her early 50s; a recovering lawyer.Source: Symposium: Gill v. Whitford as bad theater...
In March, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla appointed Brian Hatch to the Fair Political Practices Commission, the agency that interprets the Political Reform Act and enforces election law. For 40 years, Hatch was a Capitol lobbyist for firefighters’ unions.Source: Ethics commissioner’s blunder could turn watchdog into a partisan Democratic tool...
News that special counsel Robert Mueller has empaneled a second grand jury in Washington, D.C., and has hired 16 top attorneys to work on the investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the last U.S.Source: Gauging the bias of lawyers...
