Mr. Amar is a professor at Yale Law School. The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next Supreme Court justice is President Trump’s finest hour, his classiest move.Source: A Liberal’s Case for Brett Kavanaugh...
California’s 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent’s edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year — as a controversial plan to split the Golden State into three new jurisdictions qualified Tuesday for the Nov.Source: Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November...
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert is taking to texts to get her message out in her bid for re-election in June. Schubert for two months has sought the support of potential voters via messages that pop up on cell phones.Source: Get a text ad from a candidate? Invasive, maybe, but it works, say experts....
California voters went for Hillary Clinton by a whopping 30 percentage points in 2016, the largest defeat for Donald Trump in any state on the U.S. mainland.Source: A Simple Guide to How California’s “Jungle” Primary Could Cost Democrats the House...
Predictions of a Democratic washout are premature, an increasingly confident group of House Republican incumbents say. IRVINE, Calif. — Democrats boasted as recently as a few months ago that GOP Rep. Mimi Walters was as good as gone.Source: A GOP surprise: House midterm hopes rise in blue California...
California's "jungle" primary system has Democrats worried that Republicans could win some of the Golden State's congressional seats in midterm elections, a top House Democrat said Friday. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md.Source: Dems fear GOP wins in California because of state's primary system, Hoyer says: report...
In the vast majority of elections, it's the simplest rule of all: You can only vote for one candidate. Make a mark beside the name of more than one person, and that vote doesn't count. Such mistakes are usually rare, which is what made California's U.S. Senate primary in 2016 so worrisome.Source: Tens of thousands of votes are in danger...
About 20 minutes before last Thursday’s deadline for candidates to withdraw from this year’s elections in Tennessee, state Republican Party chairman Scott Golden sent Secretary of State Tre Hargett a letter disqualifying Franklin’s Raeshawn Sanchez from the August 2nd primary.Source: Roy Exum: GOP's "Bad Business"...
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the leading Republican super PAC focused on the House, is booking $48 million in ad reservations ahead of the November midterm elections — giving its first indications of where it intends to focus its considerable resources this year.Source: Top GOP super PAC books $48 million in ads for House races...
John Cox is doing something remarkable for a Republican. A recent survey indicates he is now within striking distance of being elected governor of the infamously liberal state in November.Source: Newt Gingrich: California may elect a Republican governor -- Incredible as that sounds...
