14 Jan

Last April, with the race for president still far away, President Obama used his speech at the annual White House Correspondents Assn. dinner to poke fun at some likely Republican contenders, needling Jeb Bush’s efforts to court Latinos and Ted Cruz’s denial of climate change.Source: Trump inspires unease in both parties, as State of the Union and its response make...

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14 Jan

On January 14, a lawsuit was filed against some Pennsylvania ballot access restrictions that pertain to primary election petitions. The lawsuit challenges the ban on out-of-state circulators for primary petitions. It also challenges the requirement that each sheet of a primary petition be notarized.Source: Lawsuit Filed Against Pennsylvania Ballot Access Restrictions for Primary Candidates...

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14 Jan

It is easy to dismiss as overblown the concern about the outsize role of ultra-rich donors in the American political scene. Exhibit 1: Jeb Bush.Source: Money can’t buy Jeb Bush the White House, but it still skews politicsThen there is this:“People are upset about the Citizens United decision; people are upset about all this money flowing into politics, but at...

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05 Jan

The Federal Election Commission was formed by Congress in 1975 to regulate federal campaign spending limits. As Supreme Court decisions have loosened limits on campaign spending over the past decade, the role of the agency in regulating political speech has become an increasingly contentious issue.Source: Commissioner: FEC power grabs are the real 'dysfunction'...

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