In the late spring of 2011, Dale Schultz walked the short block in Madison from his State Senate office in the Wisconsin Capitol to the glass-paneled building of Michael Best & Friedrich, a law firm with deep ties to his Republican Party.Source: The New Front in the Gerrymandering Wars: Democracy vs. Math...
Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. In June, the Supreme Court agreed to hear its first partisan gerrymandering case in more than a decade. This case, Gill v.Source: The research that convinced SCOTUS to take the Wisconsin gerrymandering case, explained...
The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is granted, and it is ordered that the order of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, case Nos.Source: Breaking: Supreme Court, with Two Dissents, Stays Order to Redraw Congressional Districts After Lower Court Finding of a Partisan Gerrymander...
The FBI is investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, two sources familiar with the matter have told McClatchy.Source: FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump...
When he shut down his controversial voter integrity commission, President Trump went to Twitter, as he is wont to do, and argued the need for voter identification. He’s right, we should have a voter ID system.Source: I agree with Donald Trump, we should have voter ID. Here's how and why....
President Trump has shown little interest in fighting the threat of Russians hacking U.S. elections. He's shown a lot of interest in fighting voter fraud, something he insists — without evidence — is widespread. Parts of his administration are doing just the opposite.Source: Trump Official On Russian Hacking: 'A National Security Issue'...
(CNN)Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake came to the Senate floor Wednesday with a simple message for Donald Trump: Stop attacking the media.Source: Jeff Flake's 20 most damning lines about Donald Trump's assault on the press...
State voter registration data collected by President Trump’s abandoned election fraud commission will be destroyed and not shared with the Department of Homeland Security or any other agency, a White House aide told a federal judge.Source: White House says it will destroy Trump voter panel data, send no records to DHS...
There has been so much action on partisan gerrymandering recently, I thought it is worth gaming out what is likely to happen over the next few months in relation to a number of cases at, or heading, to SCOTUS. Back in 2004 the Supreme Court in Vieth v.Source: The State of Play on Partisan Gerrymandering Cases at the Supreme Court...
