As new members of Congress start the business of legislating, many of the freshmen have started to look to advance their careers with the creation of leadership PACs, including liberal rock starsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).Source: Ocasio-Cortez, Romney, Omar among prominent freshmen to launch leadership PACs...
Earlier this week, the Republican political strategist Juleanna Glover wrote on The New York Times op-ed page that disaffected Republicans are wondering “at think-tank conference tables, over coffee at the Senate Chef and at the incessant book parties on the Washington social circuit” if they caSource: Why America Is Stuck With Only Two Parties...
The solicitations piled into voters’ email accounts — sometimes multiple times a day. And they carried alarming messages, often in blaring capital letters.Source: How a little-known Democratic firm cashed in on the wave of midterm money...
Once upon a time, there was a fringe news outlet with a loud and dissenting opinion. A fatal shooting, it claimed, was not at all what it seemed to be: It was a hoax, orchestrated by some shadowy force—probably Communists—bent on replacing freedom with dictatorship.Source: Win or Lose, the Alex Jones Lawsuit Will Redefine Free Speech...
In a 50-page opinion and order issued today, a Maryland federal court ruled in favor of a coalition of Maryland and Washington, D.C.-based news organizations on their challenge to a Maryland law that would have placed significant burdens on publishers of online political advertisements.Source: Ballard Spahr: MD and DC News Organizations Win Challenge To Online Political Ad Law...
A consent decree that limited Republican Party’s use of controversial poll-watching and ballot security efforts for more than three decades appears consigned to the scrap heap of history after a federal appeals court rebuffed a move by Democrats that could have led to restoration of the long-runniSource: DNC loses appeal on Republican election tactics...
The 2020 presidential race has begun. Super PACs and party committees are raising and spending gobs of cash. The threat of foreigners infiltrating U.S. political campaigns looms.Source: Federal Election Commission chairwoman: government shutdown is ‘incredibly wasteful and unproductive’...
NEWBURYPORT — Methuen Mayor James Jajuga's defamation lawsuit against Valley Patriot publisher Thomas Duggan will move forward, at least in part.Source: Judge advances portion of Jajuga's defamation lawsuit...
It isn't your usual bill, the "For The People Act" introduced Friday by House Democrats. Also known as H.R. 1, symbolically their first legislation, it is a 571-page compendium of existing problems and proposed solutions in four political hot zones: voting, political money, redistricting and ethics.Source: House Democrats Introduce Anti-Corruption Bill As Symbolic First Act...
Much attention has focused on H.R. 1, the comprehensive package of democracy reforms introduced on Thursday by Representative John Sarbanes (D-Md.) on behalf of the new Democratic House majority. The unprecedented legislation is perhaps the most important domestic initiative of the new Congress.Source: How to Fix America’s Broken Political System...
