In the four years since the Supreme Court gutted part of a landmark civil-rights law, state-level legislation has undercut the justices’ rationale for doing so. In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts made a sweeping declaration about the state of voting rights in America.Source: The Entirely Preventable Battles Raging Over Voting Rights...
My grandmother Sylvia moved from Brooklyn to Iowa when she was 89 years old. It was a culture shock, to say the least. When my mom took her to vote, she complained of the candidates, “there isn’t anybody who’s Jewish!”Source: Iowa’s New Voter-ID Law Would Have Disenfranchised My Grandmother...
For human and socio-economic development, just as we need professional teachers, doctors, engineers and economists, we need professional politicians as well, to have specialised, measurable input.Source: Professional politicians...
Via Bloomberg BNA, comes news of this motion to dismiss or affirm a challenge brought by the Republican Party of Louisiana to the soft money limits in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (the McCain-Feingold law). The Court upheld those limits in McConnell v.Source: In Surprise Move, Trump DOJ Defends McCain-Feingold’s Soft Money Limits at #SCOTUS...
Election Day, 2016? Now an ancient memory from a distant time. But the intervening months have allowed us to do some math and determine, finally, the price tag for the whole shebang. We can now report that the total cost of the election was nearly $6.Source: Election 2016: Trump’s free media helped keep cost down, but fewer donors provided more of...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has announced his first known prosecution of a non-citizen voting illegally since lawmakers in 2015 gave him the authority to prosecute voter fraud.Source: Man pleads guilty in Kansas voter fraud case...
Perhaps it is time to stop bemoaning the weakness of political parties in financing federal elections. The prevailing opinion is that since the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v.Source: “Political Parties and Candidates Dominated the 2016 House Elections While Holding Their Own in the Senate”...
The Iowa Senate gave final approval Thursday to contentious legislation that will require voters to show government-issued identification at the polls and will reduce the time period for early voting. "This change goes hand in hand with a voter suppression bill," Bisignano said. The legislation makes sweeping changes to Iowa's elections laws that Republicans say are needed to ensure the...
In January, less than a week into his presidency, Trump told lawmakers that between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused him to lose the popular vote — though not the election itself — to Democrat Hillary Clinton. He told senators a tale about ineligible voters being bussed into New Hampshire from Massachusetts. Trump then tapped Vice President Mike...
WASHINGTON — At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump told those gathered that he supported the “right to worship according to our own beliefs.” For many Catholics there Feb.Source: Pulpit Politics: Will Trump’s plan for religious freedom make churches the next SuperPACs?...
