California voters created an independent redistricting commission to stop lawmakers and powerful interests from drawing gerrymandered congressional and legislative districts that consolidated their power at the expense of fair representation.Source: Redistricting commission accused of violating open-meetings law and other failures...
Since the founding of this great nation, anonymous speech has allowed even the most vulnerable of voices to participate in debate in the public square. Our Founding Fathers used pseudonyms to help ensure that readers focused on the arguments presented instead of the personality of the author.Source: Anonymous Speech Must Be Protected...
The small but growing number of candidates who have reported child care expenses during their campaigns represents a shift in the way candidates — especially women — with small children are treated on the trail, said Liuba Grechen Shirley, founder of the Vote Mama Foundation and a 2018 congressiSource: Campaign spending on child care growing steadily since FEC allowed it...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, reported an income of $1.7 million in 2019, a half-million more than the year before, with most coming from the governor’s wineries, restaurants, hotels and other hospitality businesses.Source: Newsom earned $1.7 million in 2019. His challengers may have to disclose their taxes too...
Republican state legislators see this year’s decennial redistricting process as a prime opportunity to gain House seats in next year’s midterms — with some believing those gains alone can help the GOP take back the majority.Source: Republicans eye new House majority through redistricting...
Republican state legislators see this year’s decennial redistricting process as a prime opportunity to gain House seats in next year’s midterms — with some believing those gains alone can help the GOP take back the majority.Source: Republicans eye new House majority through redistricting...
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell hammered the first nail into the coffin of the draconian S. 1 legislation on Wednesday, announcing that the Democrats’ 800-plus-page rewrite of voting, speech, and ethics laws would not pass the Senate.Source: The First Amendment Is Lucky to Have Mitch McConnell...
This article is the first in a series on interim statistics from the 2020-21 Supreme Court term.Source: On a new, conservative court, Kavanaugh sits at the center...
Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood's decision to run for chair of the South Carolina Republican Party has turned a typically sleepy race into a headache for the GOP.Source: Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood causes headache for GOP in key S.C. race...
One way out of our political dysfunction.Source: Ranked-choice voting works. Get used to it....
