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 Record On Free Speech...
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...
The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a decision on when partisan gerrymandering goes too far, ruling against the challengers of a Republican-drawn map in Wisconsin and a Democratic redistricting in Maryland.Source: Supreme Court sidesteps decision on partisan gerrymandering in rulings on Wisconsin, Maryland cases...
The Democratic National Committee is moving ahead with its controversial plan to rein in the role of “superdelegates” at the 2020 Democratic convention, despite a lobbying effort by Democratic lawmakers to scale back the proposal.Source: DNC plows ahead with plan to dilute superdelegates...
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday a broad state ban on wearing “political apparel” at the polls violates the free speech rights of voters.Source: Supreme Court strikes down Minnesota law prohibiting voters from wearing political apparel to polls...
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 for the Nov.Source: Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November...
WASHINGTON -- Failing to vote can lead to getting knocked off voter registration rolls, a divided Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision that likely will help Republicans and harm Democrats.Source: Supreme Court: States can purge voters who don't vote or respond to warnings...
As mid-term elections get underway and lawmakers in Washington contemplate new rules to regulate political advertising online, the digital advertising industry is attempting to beat them to the punch.Source: Ad Group Announces Rules for Transparency in Political Advertising...
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 registration forms: Errors reported in rollout of California's 'motor voter' system...
