Former Governor Rick Perry of Texas has been cleared of charges in yet another partisan witch hunt by Democrats.Source: Another Attempt to Criminalize Politics Fails as Charges Against Rick Perry Dismissed...
No. The answer to your question is no. There is nothing President Obama or Senate Democrats or a small army of attorneys can do to force Chuck Grassley and the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee to hold hearings for an Obama nominee to the Supreme Court.Source: Democrats Should Hold Hearings for Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee...
Mormons are the most heavily Republican-leaning religious group in the U.S.Source: U.S. religious groups and their political leanings...
Harvard law professor and political activist Lawrence Lessig declared his unlikely candidacy for president, last summer, on a single-issue platform: campaign-finance reform.Source: Campaign-Finance Crusader Lawrence Lessig Thinks We Have a Lot to Learn from Donald Trump...
Should Hillary Clinton succeed in beating back the Bernie Sanders challenge, don't look for her — or any of the remaining 2016 Republican White House candidates, for that matter — to provide a coattail ride for any congressional hopefuls.Source: Dems on their own? Republicans claim Clinton coattails 'fraying'...
Marco Rubio's addition of Marc Short, a top political adviser to the Koch Brothers, to his campaign signals the start of ramped up efforts to attack front-runner Donald Trump. | AP PhotoSource: Koch brothers’ D.C. guru joins Marco Rubio team...
Establishment Republicans are reckoning with something they thought would never happen: That it might soon be too late to stop Donald Trump.Source: GOP wakes up to Trump nightmare...
Jeb Bush’s decision to drop out of the presidential race after a dismal fourth-place finish in South Carolina sped up a process that Republican elites have long been praying for: a winnowing of the field that could thwart the candidacy of Donald Trump.Source: Four Problems With the 'Winnowing' Theory of Trump's Downfall...
Recognizing that political speech is at the core of what the First Amendment protects, the Supreme Court has applied constitutional scrutiny and established the two-track system under which government may regulate political speech.Source: The Constitutionality of State Law Triggering Political Committee(-Like) Burdens and the Current Circuit Splits...
UCI Law Professor Rick Hasen and Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative D.C. think tank, will offer perspectives on the Supreme Court and the 2016 elections. The event will be moderated by UCI Law professor Henry Weinstein. The panelists will discuss questSource: UCILAW: The Supreme Court and the 2016 Elections...
