“Happy birthday to the Voting Rights Act”

WaPo editorial.Source: “Happy birthday to the Voting Rights Act”...

Murphy’s Law

Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren once called Baker V. Carr, the 1962 case which led to the “one-man, one-vote” rule, the most important of his tenure. That was saying quite a lot considering his was the court that handed down the watershed Brown decision desegregating America’s schools.Source: Murphy’s Law...

Breitbart Staffers Believe Trump Has Given Money To Site For Favorable Coverage

As Donald Trump faces a growing backlash from conservative media over his recent attacks on a Fox News host, one prominent right-wing outlet remains firmly in his corner: Breitbart News, which has set itself apart by plastering its homepage with fawning headlines about the candidate,Source: Breitbart Staffers Believe Trump Has Given Money To Site For Favorable Coverage...

Vox Misinforms its Readers About Michigan’s Sore Loser Law

Vox has this story, saying that Donald Trump could not run in Michigan outside the major parties in November if he had first been on the Michigan presidential primary ballot. The story is incorrect.Source: Vox Misinforms its Readers About Michigan’s Sore Loser Law...

GOP Campaign Spending 2016 : Big Money is Nothing New

‘Fewer than 400 families are responsible for almost half the money raised in the 2016 presidential campaign, a concentration of political donors that is unprecedented in the modern era,” the New York Times breathlessly reported last Sunday.Source: GOP Campaign Spending 2016 : Big Money is Nothing New...

A Trump independent run got harder Thursday night

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's appearance in Thursday night's GOP debate in Cleveland just made it harder for him to run as an independent candidate for president. As expected, Thursday night’s Republican debates on Fox News featured plenty of fireworks from frontrunner Donald Trump.Source: A Trump independent run got harder Thursday night...

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Ohio Secretary of State Re-Defines “Declaration of Candidacy” so as to Say Donald Trump’s Remarks Mean He Cannot Appear on General Election Ballot

Ohio has had a sore loser law since before 1958. It says, “3513.Source: Ohio Secretary of State Re-Defines “Declaration of Candidacy” so as to Say Donald Trump’s Remarks Mean He Cannot Appear on General Election Ballot...

In Republican debate, little talk about big money

More stories about Politics, United States, Donald Trump, Trump family, Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee, Arkansas, Nationality, Republican Party presidential candidatesSource: In Republican debate, little talk about big money...

Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)

The following is a transcript of the Republican presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News at 9 p.m. on Aug. 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio. Transcript provided by Fox News. SPEAKERS: SEN. MARCO RUBIO, R-FLA.Source: Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)...