“The majority contends that its counterintuitive reading of ‘the Legislature’ is necessary to advance the ‘animating principle’ of popular sovereignty.Source: The Constitution Needed a Judicial Assist...
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an assault on the power of the people to institute an independent redistricting commission to draw congressional districts.Source: Independent Commissions Win in Court - But What's Next?...
You can read the 5-4 opinion here.Source: Breaking: #SCOTUS Upholds Independent AZ Redistricting Commission 5-4...
Monday’s big election law news came from the Supreme Court’s penultimate decision of the term upholding Arizona’s congressional districts. But before handing down its last three decisions, the court made voting-rights advocates happy by deciding not to review a different election case.Source: Voting-Rights Advocates Get Win at Supreme Court...
Election-reform advocates breathed a sigh of relief Monday when the Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved independent redistricting commission in Arizona.Source: Supreme Court's Redistricting Ruling Averts 2016 Chaos—But Will It End Gerrymandering?...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler again signaled his agency is not focusing on a Democratic push that would require some political ads to name the top donors behind them.Source: FCC again signals no plan to require political ads to name top donors...
WSJ Wash. Wire: Americans express far more alarm about the influence of money in politics than the fact that another Bush and Clinton are running for the White House, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.Source: “Influence of Money in Politics a Top Concern for Voters”...
OVER the past two years, election polling has had some spectacular disasters.Source: What’s the Matter With Polling?...
130 Lawmakers Call on President to Require Transparency in Political Spending Members of House and Senate Send Letters to White House Asking for an Executive Order Requiring Federal Contractors to Disclose Their Political Spending WASHINGTON, D.C.Source: Public Citizen Press Room...
Now available on CFI’s website are updated versions of tables covering historical statistics on campaign finance through 2014. These cover activity for full federal election cycles, in some cases dating back to 1974.Source: “CFI Announces Updated Historical Campaign Finance Statistics through 2014″...
