A new report from Issue One called “The Price of Power” details how the chairs and ranking members of the most influential committees in the U.S.Source: The Price of Power: How Political Parties Squeeze Influential Lawmakers to Boost their Campaign Coffers...
An upstate New York developer pleaded guilty Thursday for his role in a voter-fraud scheme designed to elect public officials who would support his real-estate project. Kenneth Nakdimen is scheduled to be sentenced in September in the U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y.Source: New York Developer Pleaded Guilty in Voter-Fraud Conspiracy...
Bozeman, Montana (CNN)Republican candidate Greg Gianforte was considered the favorite heading into Montana's special election Thursday night to replace Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, but that was before the Republican allegedly "body slammed" a reporter during his final campaign event in Bozeman WSource: In Montana's special, it's time to count the votes...
Mark Zuckerberg insists he's not running for president. But just like your finely tuned privacy settings, things in Facebook Land are never quite what they seem. Specifically, the group wants the Zuck to run for president in 2020. Like, really badly.Source: Oh great, a super PAC is trying to convince Mark Zuckerberg to run for president...
For years, consumers have warred with telemarketers for ringing their landline phones at all hours of the day. Pretty soon, though, they might find their mobile voicemail under the same sort of assault — that is, if the Republican Party and others have their way.Source: Republicans want to leave you more voicemail — without ever ringing your cellphone...
While it’s been obvious for years that election law — the rules by which votes are counted, district lines are drawn and campaigns are paid for — represents a front in the culture wars, we don’t usually think of it that way.Source: Election Wars at the Supreme Court...
Prosecutors said Mr. Nakdimen and his associates falsely registered voters to overcome local opposition to their 396-unit townhouse project in the tiny Catskills village of Bloomingburg. The developers anticipated making hundreds of millions of dollars from the development, according to prosecutors.Source: “New York Developer Pleaded Guilty in Voter-Fraud Conspiracy”...
I am still playing around with it, but it looks pretty good so far. Source: Federal Election Commission Home Page...
Say what you will about Justice Samuel Alito, but the man always thinks ahead. On Monday, Alito dissented in Cooper v. Harris, the landmark 5–3 ruling that united Justice Clarence Thomas and the Supreme Court’s liberals to strike down North Carolina’s racial gerrymander.Source: Is Anthony Kennedy Ready to Put an End to Partisan Gerrymandering?...
Since the Supreme Court handed down Citizens United, which expanded the ways corporations can spend money to influence elections, there has been an accelerating drumbeat of calls for heightened disclosure requirements.Source: Guess who's addressing money-in-politics? It's not the government...
