Ohio has had a sore loser law since before 1958. It says, “3513.Source: Ohio Secretary of State Re-Defines “Declaration of Candidacy” so as to Say Donald Trump’s Remarks Mean He Cannot Appear on General Election Ballot...
During Thursday night's GOP debate, Donald Trump bragged about how he deliberately gave money to politicians so that he could later get favors from them. He even said that he used donations to get Hillary Clinton to go to his wedding — that his giving left her with "no choice."Source: Donald Trump made one shockingly insightful comment during the first...
A panel of one of the nation's most notoriously conservative appeals courts in the country delivered a victory to voting rights activists. While the 5th U.S.Source: What Comes Next For Texas’ Voter ID Case...
Several rival campaigns say they’re expecting Donald Trump to be on his best behavior. But they have contingency plans just in case he’s not.Source: The GOP debate: 5 things to watch...
The modern presidential campaign is now seemingly endless. Surprisingly, we have lived with this infinite campaign for longer than many people realize.Source: How campaign finance laws spawned permanent presidential campaigns...
For some wealthy donors, it doesn’t matter who takes the White House in 2016—as long as the president’s name is Clinton or Bush.Source: Hillary Clinton’s Mega-Donors Are Also Funding Jeb Bush...
Acting one day before the fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s most important voting rights law, a federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that Texas will be barred from enforcing at least part of its four-year-old law that requires a photo ID before a voter can go to the polls.Source: Texas voter ID law ruled invalid — in part...
1) Donald Trump, obviously. 2) So far, immigration is playing a bigger role than I would have anticipated in the Republican primary, and the economy and particularly the deficit are playing a smaller role. 3) Rand Paul has seriously underperformed relative to my expectations.Source: What's surprised me so far in the 2016 election...
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Texas' voter ID law has a "discriminatory" effect on minorities in a victory for President Barack Obama, whose administration took the unusual step of bringing the weight of the U.S.Source: Federal Court Says Texas Voter ID Violates Voting Rights Act...
This story was originally posted at 12:45 p.m. Jesse Benton, a longtime ally of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.Source: Rand Paul super PAC head indicted over alleged 2012 campaign finance violations...
