On May 5, the plaintiff in Koller v Brown, n.d., 5:16cv-7069, filed this 29-page brief in their lawsuit to overturn the California law that tells presidential electors they must vote for the presidential candidate who carried their state.Source: California Democratic “Disobedient” Elector Files Brief...
On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court revealed that at its May 11 conference, it had refused to hear all four election law cases that were before it.Source: U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear All Four Election Law Cases that had Been on Conference Last Week...
Gov. Jerry Brown’s committee for the tax measure Proposition 30 in 2012 has agreed to pay $1,500 in fines to the state’s campaign watchdog committee for not properly reporting all contributions.Source: Gov. Brown's ballot measure committee agrees to pay $1,500 fine for campaign finance violations...
Open data is about more than releasing data for outside use. For Tempe, it’s about creating a data-driven culture by changing the ways that we think about and use data inside of government.Source: Open data by default: Challenging but worth it...
Hillary Clinton on Monday announced the launch of Onward Together, a new political group aimed at advancing progressive causes by harnessing grass-roots opposition to President Trump’s policies. Mrs.Source: Hillary Clinton Starts Onward Together, a New Political Group...
Democrats got a victory in a voting rights case at the Supreme Court today — but don’t get used to that headline. There are dark days ahead for voting rights. In today’s decision, the Court didn’t actually judge the case on its merits.Source: Despite today’s Supreme Court ruling, the future looks grim for voting rights...
The Supreme Court will not consider reinstating the 2013 North Carolina voting law that a lower court ruled discriminated against African American voters, the justices said Monday. A unanimous panel of the U.S.Source: Supreme Court won’t review decision that found N.C. voting law discriminates against African Americans...
Not every group that spends money on campaigns or candidate-related speech is a political committee. If that were so, only politicians, parties, and PACs would have a voice in election campaigns.Source: Putting “Dark Money” In Context: Total Campaign Spending by Political Committees and Nonprofits per Election Cycle...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that sets up a commission to review his controversial allegations of widespread voter fraud, along with reports of voter suppression.Source: White House launches a commission to study voter fraud and suppression...
A graying man — once the baby-faced press wrangler for Sen. Barack Obama’s nascent presidential campaign — nursed an absinthe cocktail as he mingled near a former spokesman for President George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection bid. Nearby, one of Sen.Source: Silicon Valley is 'officially a retirement community for D.C. political vets' starting fresh outside the nation's capital...
