Law Professor Derek T. Muller has published a scholarly paper about presidential tax returns and various laws and proposals to force presidential candidates to reveal them. Here is a link to the summary. The summary page has a link to the paper itself.Source: Scholarly Paper on Presidential Tax Returns and Ballot Access Restrictions...
Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, right, talks with Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The Assembly on Thursday approved putting McCarty's state constitutional amendment on the November 2020 ballot.Source: Assembly approves sending parolee voting measure to ballot...
A great article in Salon by the always insightful Steven Rosenfeld illustrates the difficulties of implementing national party mandates for a fully inclusive primary system while retaining the unique in-person and face to face features of the Iowa caucus.Source: Early Voting and the Iowa Caucus: Can They Coexist?...
Federal law enforcement officials huddled with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter on Wednesday to discuss election security ahead of the 2020 presidential race, according to several U.S.Source: U.S. officials huddle with Facebook, Google and other tech giants to talk about the 2020 election...
Since the 2016 election, some Democrats have raged against the Electoral College as an anti-democratic institution that does not reflect the will of the people. Some Republicans have defended the institution as protecting the power of small states and preserving the federal system.Source: The Coming Reckoning Over the Electoral College...
Heading into their state convention this weekend, California Republicans are staring down an October 1 deadline under RNC rules to finalize delegate selection plans for the 2020 cycle.Source: California Republicans Face Decision on 2020 Delegate Selection...
Forty-seven years ago, California’s voters opened the state’s presidential primaries to all nationally recognized candidates.Source: How California’s voters may have saved Trump from releasing his taxes...
By Staff Writer Aug. 28, 2019 2:55 PM New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the 2020 race for president on Wednesday after failing to qualify for the next Democratic debate.“I know this isn’t the result that we wanted,” Gillibrand said in a video she posted on Twitter.Source: Now there are 20: Kirsten Gillibrand drops out of the Democratic...
Martha McDevitt-Pugh may vote in Oakland, but for the past 19 years she’s been filling out her ballot from her home in the Netherlands, one of a growing number of overseas Americans who are part of the Democratic Party.Source: How Democrats get out the vote — from overseas...
When the Supreme Court reopens a new session in October, awaiting the Justices in the pile of work that built up over their summer recess will be a major constitutional case over how America elects its President.Source: Can states control how presidential electors vote?...
