The 2016 presidential contest was awash with charges that the fix was in: Republican Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was rigged against him, while Democrats have accused the Russians of stacking the odds in Trump's favor.Source: Analysis indicates partisan gerrymandering has benefited GOP...
Democratic lawmakers, who run our state Capitol in concert with Gov. Jerry Brown, are abusing their supermajority status. But we’ve heard not a peep from Fresno area residents.Source: California Democrats have no sense of shame...
WASHINGTON (CNN) - On Super Bowl Sunday this year, President Donald Trump told Fox News that Vice President Mike Pence would head a commission into voter fraud allegations -- ones that he made, claiming that between three to five million people voted illegally in the 2016 election.Source: Little movement on White House probe into voter fraud...
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook (FB.O) said it would not disclose information about political campaign advertising or related data such as how many users click on ads and if advertising messages are consistent across demographics, despite arguments from political scientists who want the data for research.Source: Facebook to keep wraps on political ads data despite researchers' demands...
In their new book “Revolving Door Lobbying,” Timothy LaPira and Herschel Thomas look at the connections between federal government service and lucrative lobbyist careers. (Courtesy University Press of Kansas)Source: Book Explores How Lobbyists Fill a Void in Congress...
On Dec. 12, 2000, the Supreme Court ended the recount of Florida’s votes in that year’s presidential election, effectively awarding 25 electoral votes to Republican George W. Bush and making him president.Source: Do we really want the Supreme Court to decide how partisan is too partisan?...
Americans of all political stripes are increasingly disgusted by our country’s broken campaign finance system.Source: Tax credits for small donors in politics should be part of tax reform...
As expected, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear Gill v. Whitford next term, with a decision expected by a year from June. (Technically the Court “postponed jurisdiction” pending a hearing on the merits, but this has to do with the nature of this coming up on appeal, rather than a cert.Source: Breaking: Supreme Court to Hear WI Gerrymandering Case,...
The change was part of a budget bill. The changes have had a good deal of opposition.Source: California: Democrats pass bill changing recall law, opposed by numerous editorials...
When politicians face a problem, their first instinct is often to spend your tax dollars. Those who see our politics itself as a problem are no exception. Figures like Sen.Source: Paying politicians to run for office...
