We’ll stipulate that President Trump’s problems with the Federal Election Commission don’t rise to the highest tier of his concerns these days, not by a long shot.Source: It’s not over: The FEC is on the job with messy 2016 reporting by Trump campaign and JFCs...
White House officials are seeking to stop the federal government’s top ethics officer from getting details about waivers granted to lobbyists and other appointees working in the administration, intensifying a power struggle between President Trump and the ethics agency. Walter M. Shaub Jr.Source: Power struggle intensifies between White House and ethics office...
WASHINGTON A bipartisan bill introduced on Thursday would prohibit members of the U.S. Congress from ever working as lobbyists after they leave the Senate or House of Representatives.Source: U.S. senators seek lifetime ban on ex-Congress members lobbying...
President Trump has hung a map of the 2016 election results on a wall in the White House and hands out copies to visitors. But the map greatly exaggerates the extent of his win. Here's a closer look at the map that he should be promoting insteadSource: Time.com...
In two weeks the Georgia Republican Party will have a new chairman. Who that will be is a somewhat less pressing question than what a state party is anymore.Source: Opinion: For the Georgia GOP, what is a state party anyway?...
As California Democrats wrap up their weekend convention, progressive activists have said loudly and clearly that they want big money out of politics — a position that’s been in the state party’s official platform for years.Source: Political Road Map: Democrats not only dominate California elections, the party is king of campaign cash...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kris Kobach, the author of contentious policies on immigration and voter identification, enters his new role as a leader of President Donald Trump’s commission on election fraud by touting evidence of illegal voting he says he uncovered as Kansas’ secretary of state.Source: Kobach says he won’t pre-judge voter fraud panel’s findings...
Two people who worked as election clerks during the May 2016 primary runoff have pleaded guilty to unlawfully casting a ballot for another person, Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart announced Monday.Source: Two poll workers plead guilty to illegal voting...
On May 15, the Supreme Court let stand a decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruling that North Carolina’s sweeping voting restrictions targeted African-American voters “with almost surgical precision.Source: North Carolina Is Once Again Found Guilty of Discriminating Against Black Voters...
WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Republican challenge to a federal campaign finance restriction that prevents political parties from raising unlimited amounts of cash to spend on supporting candidates.Source: U.S. Supreme Court leaves key campaign finance restriction in place...
