Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper (D.) may have violated campaign finance laws by coordinating an advertisement with an outside super PAC backing his Senate campaign, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission.Source: FEC Complaint Alleges Hickenlooper Violated Campaign Finance Laws...
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) will investigate “false or fictitious” filings for Kanye West’s presidential campaign after the rapper announced his presidential bid on Saturday.Source: FEC to investigate 'false or fictitious' filings for Kanye West presidential campaign...
Ever since the pandemic struck, state and local election officials across the country have made it clear: To avoid an election disaster in November, they need more money now.Source: After Pleas From Officials, Republicans Signal Openness To More Election Funding...
Kanye West will face considerable hurdles getting on the ballot should he decide to go through with his presidential bid.Source: Can Kanye West actually make it on the 2020 presidential ballot?...
Read Stateline coverage of the latest state action on coronavirus.Source: Election Experts Warn of November Disaster...
While some progressives are bullish about the outlook for the November election, Tatenda Musapatike surveys the political landscape and sees masses of unregistered voters who were supposed to be on the rolls by now, but for the pandemic. It is making her increasingly anxious, and she is not alone.Source: As voting rolls plunge amid pandemic, progressives try to reinvent the...
On July 2, two Democrats running in the New Jersey July 7 primary for U.S. House filed a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit attacks the state law that restricts political slogans that candidates can place next to their names on primary ballots. Mazo v Way, 2:20cv-8174. Here is the Complaint.Source: Federal Lawsuit Filed Over New Jersey Limits to Political Slogans on...
On Monday, in a fractured set of opinions, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of an association of political consultants challenging the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. That statute bans robocalls to cellphones.Source: Opinion analysis : Fractured court rules in favor of political consultants in First Amendment challenge to federal robocall law but keeps robocall ban in place...
A 1991 federal statute generally banned robocalls to cell phones (among other things), but a 2015 amendment exempted calls "made solely to collect a debt owed to or guaranteed by the United States." In today's Barr v. Am.Source: S. Ct. Strikes Down Content-Based Exception from Robocall Ban,...
The party is starting to think bigger than just beating Trump. Donald Trump’s collapsing poll numbers have Democrats thinking bigger than just winning the White House and seizing the Senate — they’re imagining a rout that extends all the way down the ballot.Source: Democrats smell a rout — and the chance to control redistricting in 2021...
