SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, confirmed Thursday he may step down before the end of his term, sending state officials scrambling to get a process in place for a potential special election to fill his 3rd District seat in Congress.Source: State plans for special election after Chaffetz confirms he may step down before his term ends...
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is expected to take executive action on Thursday to effectively lift a ban on political activity by churches and other tax-exempt institutions, a senior White House official said on Wednesday.Source: Trump to sign order lifting ban on political activity by churches...
Two nonpartisan campaign finance groups filed a complaint Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission alleging that President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee violated federal law by failing to collect basic donor information.Source: Nonprofit Groups File FEC Complaint Over Trump's Inaugural Donors...
Imagine you are a Republican. Would you agree to let the rules of political campaigns be written by a partisan committee selected by Barack Obama? Or if you’re a Democrat, do you think Donald Trump should be able to appoint a partisan majority to determine the rules? Of course not.Source: Brad Smith: Prevent the reckless restructuring of the FEC...
It’s no secret that the state of the nation’s economy and party identification matter in most American presidential elections. Candidates know it, consultants know it, political scientists know it, and voters seem aware of the relationship, too.Source: The Ways That the 2016 Election Was Perfectly Normal...
The University of California at Berkeley's inhospitality to conservative speakers, the subject of a federal lawsuit filed on Monday, prompted a Twitter rebuke from President Trump a few months ago.Source: The Bipartisan Urge to Suppress Dissent...
Student groups have filed a lawsuit against the University of California at Berkeley, saying school officials violated their right to free speech when they canceled a talk by a controversial speaker last week over security concerns.Source: Lawsuit filed against UC Berkeley for canceling Ann Coulter speech...
Welcome to Teen Vogue's Woke List, a roundup of today's top headlines you have to know. The U.S. is "deeply concerned" about bombings in Syria and Iraq by Turkey. Turkey opened strikes on northern Syria and northern Iraq, resulting in the death of 70 "terrorists," according to Turkey.Source: Trump's Election Inspired Women to Run for Political Office...
The Supreme Court has long recognized that a group facing a realistic threat of harassment for revealing its donors or vendors has a First Amendment right to exemption from generally applicable campaign finance laws. The case establishing this principle, Brown v.Source: On Party Line Vote, FEC Rejects Continued Exemption from Disclosure for Socialist Workers Party...
The views expressed are the author's own and not necessarily those of the Brennan Center for Justice. Donald Trump races toward the 100-day mark — so beloved by pundits and Napoleonic scholars — with a legislative record as parched as the Dust Bowl.Source: Legislating In the Super Pac Era...
