WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department will allow some nonprofit groups to provide less information about donors on their tax forms in a win for conservative organizations engaged in politics.Source: U.S. Treasury Restricts Donor Disclosure Requirement for Some Nonprofit Groups...
‘The Internal Revenue Service is cutting back on the amount of nonpublic information it collects and stockpiles about Americans who donate to nonprofit causes. The IRS will no longer pointlessly demand private contributor lists from whole categories of tax-exempt organizations.’ WASHINGTON, D.C.Source: IRS Announcement A Victory For Free Speech...
A Russian company accused of bankrolling a massive online operation to disrupt the 2016 presidential election argued Monday that it had broken no federal laws, that it was merely supporting free political speech and that the fraud charge against it should be thrown out.Source: Indicted Russian firm says it was backing free political speech, not disrupting 2016 election...
WASHINGTON (CN) – A campaign watchdog group is pressing the Federal Election Commission to investigate how the National Rifle Association spent money in relation to four past senatorial campaigns.Source: Campaign Watchdog Wants Investigation of NRA Senate Donations...
California has a reputation for progressive reforms in areas ranging from safeguarding its pristine coastline to protecting vulnerable undocumented immigrants. But some of the state’s reforms have yielded harmful consequences.Source: Opinion: Top-two primary election method is failing Californians...
With the GDPR just over one month old, the California legislature has now passed its own version of the European privacy law, ushering in the toughest rules on internet privacy in the country.Source: California Passes Toughest Online Privacy Law in the U.S....
Top legal thinkers weigh the record of Brett Kavanaugh, the likely replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy. In the end, President Donald Trump made the expected choice: Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative jurist who has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.Source: Trump Picked Kavanaugh. How Will He Change the Supreme Court?...
Mr. Berman is a journalist who specializes in voting rights.Source: Does Brett Kavanaugh Spell the End of Voting Rights?...
The Supreme Court has for decades avoided definitively resolving the question of how much political gerrymandering is too much for the Constitution to tolerate. And so, when many legal commentators read the Court’s recent opinion in Gill v.Source: Justice Kavanaugh can help fix gerrymandering...
