FEC losing quorum again after Caroline Hunter resigns
The federal government's elections watchdog just reestablished a quorum last month.Source: FEC losing quorum again after Caroline Hunter resigns...
The federal government's elections watchdog just reestablished a quorum last month.Source: FEC losing quorum again after Caroline Hunter resigns...
The Associated Press was also yet to declare the winner in the Democratic primary between Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L. Engel and former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman in New York’s 16th District. Bowman declared victory Wednesday. Tallies by the AP last updated shortly before 3 a.m.Source: Wait weeks for November results? Ex-official says that ‘could be generous’...
Despite warnings from prominent liberals that Tuesday's election in Kentucky would be a disaster, the state largely had success with the adjustments it made to its voting procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic.Source: KY Primary Success Pushes Back Against Unfounded Accusations...
The current rules regulating free speech and the "monopoly social media” (Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Google/YouTube -- together, the MOSM) are a mess, but the basic principles should be obvious. They should be treated as the new public square, and subject to First Amendment requirements.Source: Big Tech Monopolies Are a Threat to First Amendment...
Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr Monday urging the Department of Justice to conduct a thorough antitrust investigation into Google’s monopolistic power over the internet after the tech giant’s recent attack on The Federalist.Source: Blackburn Pushes DOJ To Examine Google's Power Over Free Speech...
Cowboys for Trump rode on Otero County Sunday, March 22, 2020. Alamogordo Daily News Cowboys For Trump claimed New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver "unfairly weaponized complaints" in order to force the organization to name its financial donors.Source: Cowboys for Trump sue Secretary of State in federal court...
After voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada went to the polls this month, some races hung in the balance for days as election officials waded through thousands of absentee ballots.Source: Barring a landslide, what’s probably not coming on Nov. 3? A result in the race for the White House....
Early this month, the Legislature filed a writ petition — Legislature of the State of California v.Source: Supreme Court appears ready to quickly order redistricting delay...
A pair of faithless electors cases from 2016 have made their way to the Supreme Court. (Disclosure: I filed an amicus brief on behalf of myself in support of neither party here.) SCOTUSblog posts for Chiafalo v. Washington and Colorado Department of State v. Baca are here and here.Source: Oral argument analysis: Will the Tenth Amendment make a comeback in...
“One of the things the elections in Georgia last week showed is the difficulty of dramatically changing the way you conduct an election,” Blunt told reporters. “And that’s one of my concerns.Source: Congress must act now to help states with vote-by-mail in November, experts say...