Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr Monday urging the Department of Justice to conduct a thorough antitrust investigation into Google’s monopolistic power over the internet after the tech giant’s recent attack on The Federalist.Source: Blackburn Pushes DOJ To Examine Google's Power Over Free Speech...
The current rules regulating free speech and the "monopoly social media” (Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Google/YouTube -- together, the MOSM) are a mess, but the basic principles should be obvious. They should be treated as the new public square, and subject to First Amendment requirements.Source: Big Tech Monopolies Are a Threat to First Amendment...
Early this month, the Legislature filed a writ petition — Legislature of the State of California v.Source: Supreme Court appears ready to quickly order redistricting delay...
After voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada went to the polls this month, some races hung in the balance for days as election officials waded through thousands of absentee ballots.Source: Barring a landslide, what’s probably not coming on Nov. 3? A result in the race for the White House....
A pair of faithless electors cases from 2016 have made their way to the Supreme Court. (Disclosure: I filed an amicus brief on behalf of myself in support of neither party here.) SCOTUSblog posts for Chiafalo v. Washington and Colorado Department of State v. Baca are here and here.Source: Oral argument analysis: Will the Tenth Amendment make a comeback in...
Too many states aren’t preparing for a potential vote-by-mail mess.Source: Beware the Fall Ballot Harvest...
The biggest super PAC focused on electing Joe Biden grew dramatically in recent weeks, as donors moved to help whittle the financial advantage that President Trump has held heading into their presidential contest.Source: Cash floods into pro-Biden super PAC...
UPDATED, 3:00pm: U.S. District Court Judge Dominic Lanza accepted the Settlement Agreement this afternoon and dismissed the case. Arizona and Democratic groups finalized the settlement of a lawsuit challenging the law that mail-in ballots must be *received* by 7pm on Election Day.Source: SETTLED: Arizona's Election Day Deadline For RECEIVING Mailed In Ballots Remains...
In this week’s episode, Catherine talks with Election Assistance Commissioners Christy McCormick and Don Palmer about their views on the torrent of election changes happening as a result of COVID.Source: Red,White, and True News Episode #2 – EAC Commissioners Christy McCormick and Don Palmer...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans who worked for U.S. Presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush have formed a Super PAC to support Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in November, the latest group launched by members of Trump’s own party who will work to see him defeated.Source: Republicans launch another pro-Biden Super PAC to help defeat Trump...
