First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.Source: First Read: The First GOP Debate is the New Ames Straw Poll...
Twenty-one House Republicans on Monday called for the firing of IRS Commissioner John A. Koskinen after they said he failed to cooperate with their inquiry into the targeting of conservative groups by tax investigators.Source: House Republicans want IRS commissioner fired...
The federal government has all but surrendered to the powerful, rich donors whose anonymous contributions threaten to undermine the 2016 elections.Source: The I.R.S. Gives Up on ‘Dark Money’...
Editor’s note: This post examines two cases the Supreme Court will review at its next Term: Evenwel v. Abbott, and Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. This post will be followed this week by a symposium on Evenwel.Source: The new look at “one person, one vote,” made simple...
On November 7, 2000, Willie Steen, a Navy vet who had served in the Persian Gulf during Desert Storm, went to cast his ballot for president at the St. Francis Episcopal Church in Tampa, Florida. He brought his 10-year-old son, Willie Jr., to the polls for the first time.Source: How the 2000 Election in Florida Led to a New Wave...
The Florida senator grilled Obama officials on Iran last week, but he's been playing hooky more than the rest of the 2016 class. At last week’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Marco Rubio attacked the Obama administration for failing to secure the release of American hostages in Iran.Source: Marco Rubio 2016 candidate, absentee senator...
Passions have clearly been stirred by the recent 4-2 decision by the Wisconsin state supreme court to shut down a state “John Doe” investigation into potentially illegal coordination between the 2012 recall campaign of Gov.Source: Judicial Oblivion: How the Wisconsin Supreme Court Ignored Legal Precedent to End the John Doe Investigation...
On July 8, 2015, Campaign Legal Center President Trevor Potter addressed The Public Policy Forum of Crested Butte in Colorado. His speech “The Money in Politics Disaster: Where Do We Go from Here”, follows below.Source: The Money in Politics Disaster: Where Do We Go from Here...
Despite all the hype about tools like Snapchat and Meerkat, the 2016 campaign will be dominated by a technology that's been around for decades: TV. This was supposed to be the presidential campaign that ends the dominance of TV ads — the Snapchat election, the live streaming election.Source: The television election...
The dashcam footage of Sandra Bland’s arrest is disturbing for a number of reasons—including trooper Brian Encinia’s apparent use of excessive force in subduing Bland. But for civil liberties advocates, a less dramatic moment of the footage is nearly as disquieting.Source: Did Sandra Bland Have a Right to Film Her Arrest?...
