The social network has been under intense pressure for allowing misinformation and hate speech to spread on its site.Source: Facebook Said to Consider Banning Political Ads...
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?...
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...
Read Stateline coverage of the latest state action on coronavirus.Source: Election Experts Warn of November Disaster...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
This morning the Supreme Court unanimously rejected two challenges to the constitutionality of so-called “faithless elector” laws, which penalize or remove presidential electors who fail to vote for the candidate they have pledged to support.Source: Opinion analysis: Court upholds “faithless elector” laws...
