After a recount conducted Tuesday, Democrat Shelly Simonds had 11,608 votes to Republican incumbent David Yancey's 11,607 votes in Virginia's 94th House District.Source: One-vote recount win gives Democrats tie in Virginia state House...
RNLA President Elliot Berke sent a letter today to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of current FEC Commissioner Matthew Petersen, who has been nominated to the U.S.Source: Matthew Petersen Qualified to Serve on D.C. District Court...
Matthew Petersen, President Trump’s most recent nominee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (“D.D.C.Source: On the Nomination of Matthew Petersen...
Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, proponents of stricter campaign finance regulation have increasingly prescribed “disclosure” as an antidote to “dark money” in politics.Source: Staring at the Sun: An Inquiry into Compulsory Campaign Finance Donor Disclosure Laws...
The Alabama Supreme Court stepped into Tuesday’s U.S.Source: Alabama Supreme Court Blocks Digital Ballot Preservation in Eleventh Hour...
The discovery that Russian-linked firms bought thousands of Facebook ads prompted the return of a common trope in America, namely, that foreigners are engineering our downfall by defiling our political purity. Russia, a familiar foe, now has a new tool: Facebook.Source: Facebook and the new Red Scare...
To the surprise of Supreme Court observers and election lawyers, on Friday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a second political gerrymandering case this term, this time out of Maryland: In October, the justices heard oral argument in a challenge to the redistricting plan passed by Wisconsin’s RepubSource: Supreme Court Grants Cert in Maryland Redistricting Case...
The Institute for Free Speech[1] writes in support of repeal of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Form 990, Schedule B requirement.Source: Letter in Support of Repeal of the Internal Revenue Service’s Form 990, Schedule B...
Since the creation in the 1970s of the modern, primary-election dominated process for nominating presidential candidates, there has been little scholarly or public commentary devoted to large-scale re-assessments of that system or consideration of major structural changes to it.Source: Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process...
NEW ORLEANS — State officials and the minority rights groups suing Texas over its strict voter identification restrictions are headed back to court. A three-judge panel of the U.S.Source: Texas heads back to federal appeals court in long-winding voter ID fight...
