Category Archives: campaigns
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Involving Minnesota’s Ban on All Political Apparel in the Polling Place
The case is Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, Here’s the question presented from the cert. petition:
Minnesota election law forbids voters from wearing political badges, political buttons, or other political insignia at the polling place. See Minn. Stat. §… Continue reading
“Here’s What Could Happen With Roy Moore And The Alabama Senate Ballot”
Paul Blumenthal for HuffPost:
Allegations that Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, sexually assaulted a 14-year-old and sought or maintained relationships with other teenage girls when he was in his early 30s has prompted calls from his fellow… Continue reading
“Russia Twitter trolls rushed to deflect Trump bad news”
AP:
Disguised Russian agents on Twitter rushed to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump just before last year’s presidential electionwhile straining to refocus criticism on the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to an Associated Press analysis of… Continue reading
“Virginia voter suppression tweets went undetected by Twitter for hours”
CNN:
A Twitter account misleading Democratic voters in Virginia by telling them they could cast their ballot by text message was active for almost three hours on Tuesday morning before Twitter suspended the account.
The account, “MAGA Mike King,” was… Continue reading
“Trump Jr. Hinted at Review of Anti-Russia Law, Moscow Lawyer Says”
Bloomberg:
A Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trump’s oldest son last year says he indicated that a law targeting Russia could be re-examined if his father won the election and asked her for written evidence that… Continue reading
“Russia tried to corrupt the 2016 election. Could it do the same Tuesday?”
WaPo:
There’s no evidence that Russians were able to change any votes after they were cast, but at the very least, they succeeded in raising questions about the U.S. voting process — questions that James Norton, a homeland security expert… Continue reading
“At least nine people in Trump’s orbit had contact with Russians during campaign and transition”
WaPo:
While Trump has sought to dismiss these Russia ties as insignificant, or characterized the people involved in them as peripheral figures, it has now become clear that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III views at least some of them… Continue reading
“Facebook, Twitter: Russian actors sought to undermine Trump after election”
Politico:
Top lawyers from Facebook and Twitter said Tuesday that Russian-linked posts and advertisements placed on the social networks after Election Day sought to sow doubt about President Donald Trump’s victory.
Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch told a Senate Judiciary… Continue reading
“Conservative megadonors fund populist ads”
Weigel:
The new ad from Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, a hub of the Koch donor network, comes at Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) from a surprising angle — attacking her as a foe of the little guy. In the spot,… Continue reading
“Trump Campaign Got Early Word Russia Had Democrats’ Emails”
NYT:
The guilty plea of a 30-year-old campaign aide — so green that he listed Model United Nations in his qualifications — shifted the narrative on Monday of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russia: Court documents revealed that Russian officials… Continue reading
“Facebook estimates 126 million people were served content from Russia-linked pages”
CNN:
Facebook will inform lawmakers this week that roughly 126 million Americans may have been exposed to content generated on its platform by the Russian government-linked troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency between June 2015 and August 2017,… Continue reading
What Did Trump Know and When Did He Know About Russian Offer to Campaign Official of “Dirt” via Clinton Emails?
NYT:
A professor with close ties to the Russian government told an adviser to Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign in April 2016 that Moscow had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails,” according to court documents … Continue reading
“Clinton lawyer kept Russian dossier project closely held”
WaPo:
When Marc Elias, general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, hired a private research firm in the spring of 2016 to investigate Donald Trump, he drew from funds he was authorized to spend without oversight by campaign officials, according… Continue reading