The former Republican nominee is poised to become the president's chief GOP foil if he's elected to the Senate, as many now expect. Donald Trump had just returned from Utah last month when the president placed a call to his longtime nemesis Mitt Romney.Source: Trump-Romney rivalry set to take center stage again...
The First Amendment makes it very difficult to regulate "fake news," and it raises dangers that those who would regulate would do so not to stop the spread of misinformation but to protect their own political position. I have a paper coming out in the First Amendment Law Review on this very question, including the issue of foreign interference: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3017598 We may...
Bloomberg BNA: FEC commissioners are feuding over when a nonprofit group spending to influence elections can be regulated as a political action committee.Source: “FEC Commissioners Feud Over PAC Designation”...
WASHINGTON — A request by the Justice Department to ask people about their citizenship status in the 2020 census is stirring a broad backlash from census experts and others who say the move could wreck chances for an accurateSource: Critics Say Questions About Citizenship Could Wreck Chances for an Accurate Census...
Fake news evolved from seedy internet sideshow to serious electoral threat so quickly that behavioral scientists had little time to answer basic questions about it, like who was reading what, how much real news they also consumed and whether targeted fact-checking efforts ever hit a target.Source: ‘Fake News’: Wide Reach but Little Impact, Study Suggests...
If you aren't sure whether you are registered to vote in Ohio, there are a couple places you can check. The Enquirer/Jessie BalmertSource: Voter purges: U.S. Supreme Court to decide if Ohio illegally purged voters...
With two competitive top-of-the-ticket races and a national spotlight on the state’s congressional districts — to say nothing about the Legislature’s busy agenda coupled with a growing sexual harassment scandal in the state Capitol — 2018 will be a blockbuster year for California politics.Source: The biggest California political questions of 2018...
WASHINGTON — Major cases await the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court when they return to the bench in January, including a test of how states purge their databases of unqualified voters and a challenge likely to deal a serious blow to the nation's public sector unions.Source: Major cases on voter purging, union power await Supreme Court in 2018...
The election in the 94th House of Delegates District is now a tie, after a three-judge panel ruled that a ballot that was rejected in Tuesday’s recount should be counted as a vote for Del. David Yancey, R-Newport News.Source: After 94th District recount, judges rule it's a tie...
By now you’ve likely seen the viral video of a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where Matthew Petersen, a judicial nominee for the D.C.Source: Don’t let our broken politics contaminate our courtrooms...
