“I wonder if RBG is Having Second Thoughts About Retiring?”
Josh Blackman asks the question that was first on my mind when I woke up to the red wave.
Category Archives: political parties
Oregon Top Two Primary Initiative Loses Badly
“The Supreme Court Will Be a Disaster If a Justice Dies During a Republican Congress”
“Campaigning to Extend, Or End, One Party Rule”
“Substantial Majority of Small Business Owners Favor a Multi-Party System for the U.S.”
Garrett Epps on Racial and Partisan Discrimination in Texas Voter ID Case
Well worth the read.
Would Stronger Parties Mean Less Polarization?
GOP Lawsuit Over CT Dems Use of Federal Funds in Governor’s Race
Republicans have filed a lawsuit over the expenditures at issue in this request for an FEC advisory opinion, when the Democrats sent the mailer in question before getting an answer from the FEC. Here’s the complaint.
We’ve Got a Supreme Court Ruling On a Temporary Pause…
… but not on the Texas ID case.
Here, the Court denies an emergency injunction in French v. McLean, the case about Montana’s ban on partisan judicial endorsements.
The Impact of Top-Two
KQED spends an hour on the consequences of California’s top-two primary.
“California Republican Sends ‘Confederate Flag’ Mailer to Democrats”
Breitbart reports on one way that California politicians are “reaching across the aisle,” attacking fellow party members in a top-two general election.
More on the FEC’s Party Convention AO
Fred Wertheimer, on the blogpath, about last week’s FEC advisory opinion deeming national party fundraising for the upcoming conventions subject to separate limits, over and above limits on giving to the parties generally.
CT “Elections Commission Slams Democrats over Campaign Finance Plan”
The Connecticut Mirror and Hartford Courant cover the Connecticut regulatory agency’s sharply worded comment asking the FEC to deny the Democratic party’s request to pay for mailings on behalf of Governor Malloy with funds meeting federal regulations rather than funds… Continue reading
“Renewal of the Establishment, Fueled by Money”
Heath Brown, in The Hill, looks at fundraising and spending since Citizens United, and the impact on the party establishment.