This order makes sense given the Purcell Principle. Still pending are requests in the district court and 5th Circuit to allow Texas to continue to enforce its voter id law pending appeal (which could well take a year or more).Source: Federal Court Which Struck Down Texas Voter ID Law Allows Its Use in Sept. 9 Local Elections...
There’s almost zero chance Congress will this year seriously consider a single bill aimed at reforming the nation’s weakened money-in-politics laws.Source: Statehouses, Not Congress, Hosting Biggest Political Money Fights...
Law360, New York (August 29, 2017, 9:07 PM EDT) -- Allowing voters to take selfies with their marked ballots could allow groups to put pressure on members to reveal their votes, a political science professor testified Tuesday in the New York federal bench trial of a suit by voters who claim the seSource: Ballot Selfies Could Lead To Voter Pressure,...
By Courthouse News Service By , Courthouse News SACRAMENTO (CN) – AB 249, a bill aimed at illuminating dark money in political campaigns, landed in a key California Senate committee Tuesday, and its author said the legislation is “long overdue.Source: Campaign-Finance ‘Dark Money’ Bill Clears Key California Senate Committee...
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 groups, such as super PACs and their more secretive brethren politically active nonprofits, spent more money during the first eight months of the 2018 election cycle than over the same period in any previous cycle.Source: Dark money, super PAC spending surges ahead of 2018 midterms...
The chief opponents of this unobjectionable idea are politicians and patrons who want to keep voters in the dark.Source: Editorial: California lawmakers’ choice between voters, donors...
There was a sparse amount of voters at the Brook Hollow Branch of...
Care about freedom of the press? Support independent investigative journalism.Source: Members of Congress scoring personal loans from political supporters...
Lost emails, destroyed hard drives, foot dragging, stonewalling, and a smirking, sneering IRS commissioner doing his best to obscure the truth -- this has largely been the response by the Internal Revenue Service to investigations by Congress and FOIA requests from conservative groups trying to disSource: Is the IRS Scandal About to Break Wide Open?...
