The Supreme Court issued two opinions with direct implications for redistricting this morning, on the last day of the October 2018 Term. In a consolidated opinion for Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v.Source: TheRepLawyer Blog...
The Special Election to fill the rest of the late-Senator John McCain's 6-year term will not be moved up from next November.Source: BREAKING: Judge Dismisses Effort To Accelerate Special Election For Arizona's U.S. Senate Seat (READ decision)...
The Supreme Court, delivering a political blow to the Trump administration and a victory for California, on Thursday refused to uphold an effort to ask all households about the citizenship of their residents as part of the 2020 census. They sent the matter back to a lower court for review.Source: Supreme Court refuses to approve citizenship question on 2020 census...
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the partisan gerrymandering that has allowed Republicans to control power in several closely divided states. A majority ruled that elected lawmakers, not judges, have right to draw the election maps for their states.Source: Partisan gerrymandering is upheld by Supreme Court...
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) introduced legislation on Tuesday aimed at preventing foreign nationals from purchasing political advertisements, the latest move by Senate Democrats pushing for election security legislation.Source: Klobuchar, Warner introduce bill to limit foreign involvement in US political ads...
Many Senate Republicans, and some Senate Democrats, appear to be taking a wait-and-see approach to the Missouri freshman’s controversial proposal. One week ago today, freshman senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.Source: Hawley’s Plan to Regulate Social-Media Giants Draws Muted Response on Capitol Hill...
Allegations that Paul Manafort schemed to funnel Ukrainian money to several Republican members of Congress have been dismissed because of the Federal Election Commission’s partisan gridlock.Source: Manafort Campaign-Finance Charges Dismissed by Deadlocked FEC...
Democrats running for president in 2020 are making a big show of turning away top-dollar donors. Most of these campaign finance pledges sound good, and they are certainly better than not making such a promise.Source: 2020 Democrats’ campaign finance promises, explained...
A typo in the state’s automatic voter registration bill would have forced non-citizens to register despite their ineligibility — but lawmakers vowed it would be fixed.Source: Single typo in state bill would have automatically registered non-citizens to vote...
California State Senator Tom Umberg, chair of the Senate Elections Committee, is about to amend one of his bills to make it illegal for any party to have the word “Independent” in its name.Source: California Bill to Forbid “Independent” as Part of a Party Name...
