In a sign of how modest expectations have become of Californians actually casting ballots, elections officials and advocates alike found relief Monday in the final tally showing 37% of voters cast ballots in June — small compared with total registration but the highest for a...
Last night, President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Judge Kavanaugh has served for twelve years on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to that, he worked as an attorney in the Bush administration.Source: Judge Kavanaugh's Principled...
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...
California's elections officials have found themselves with an unexpected headache ahead of the June 5 primary: potentially thousands of cases where two voter registration forms were created for one person, errors caused by the state's "motor voter" program that launched last month.Source: One voter, two...
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...
The chief of California's campaign watchdog agency abruptly quit Tuesday -- just a week before the state's June 5 primaries. The departure of Jodi Remke, who in 2014 was appointed by Democratic Gov.Source: California's top campaign watchdog quits week before primary elections...
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...
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...
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...
