Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that he has nominated sixteen individuals to the following Federal judgeships. If confirmed, Ryan Wesley Bounds of Oregon will serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.Source: President Donald J. Trump Announces Seventh Wave of Judicial Candidates...
Online attackers may be able to purchase - for as little as a few thousand dollars - enough personal information to potentially alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new Harvard study.Source: Voting vulnerability: Study points to potential fraud in online voting registration systems...
WASHINGTON — Breaking ranks with many of their fellow Republicans, a group of prominent politicians filed briefs on Tuesday urging the Supreme Court to rule that extreme political gerrymandering — the drawing of voting distrSource: Prominent Republicans Urge Supreme Court to End Gerrymandering...
Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. It’s December 2020, and President Donald Trump has still refused to concede that he lost the tumultuous presidential election.Source: We need political parties. But their rabid partisanship could destroy American democracy....
Democrats have been throttled by Republicans in the all-important battle for state legislative chambers the past decade. Now they're trying to turn the tide with the launch of a new super PAC.Source: Democrats launch super PAC to win back statehouses...
WASHINGTON — Aides to Senator Kamala Harris of California say that her fund-raisers in Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons this summer have been all about helping Democrats in 2018. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.Source: Long List of Top Democrats Have 2020, and Money, on Their Minds...
During the past year appearances by controversial speakers on college campuses have led to a string of tense, sometimes violent, incidents.Source: A Free-Speech To-Do List for College Administrators...
With big aid from Congress unlikely, state election managers search for money to replace voting equipment, protect databases and train workers in cybersecurity — as threats loom in 2018 and 2020. The U.S.Source: Cash-strapped states brace for Russian hacking fight...
The calls started flooding in from hundreds of irate North Carolina voters just after 7 a.m. on Election Day last November. Dozens were told they were ineligible to vote and were turned away at the polls, even when they displayed current registration cards.Source: Russian Election Hacking Efforts, Wider Than Previously Known, Draw Little Scrutiny...
The Democratic-leaning nonprofit is focusing on a mix of gubernatorial, legislative and secretary of state races in Iowa, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Georgia and Nevada.Source: Voting Rights Group Will Target More Politicians Who Block Ballot Access...
