Rob Kelner:
Over the last decade, operatives in both political parties have quietly agitated to change state laws in order to permit early voting. These efforts gained traction, and many states now allow citizens to cast their vote days or… Continue reading
LAT:
Independent expenditures already have cracked $24 million in the run-up to the June 7 primary, with millions more likely to come in over the next week. The spending has set a record and is a hefty increase from $16.7… Continue reading
Washington Examiner:
The notice came when Paul Manafort, Trump’s senior advisor, met with a group of Senate Republican chiefs of staff for lunch last week, sources familiar with the meeting told the Washington Examiner. The admission suggests that Trump will… Continue reading
As we await word from Gov. Brown as to whether he will sign to put this on the ballot, there’s a slight difference in language this time around:
Now the question to the voters reads, “Shall California’s elected officials… Continue reading
LAT:
Lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a November ballot measure asking voters about the growing role of undisclosed donors in political campaigns, a non-binding anti-Citizens United measure that now needs the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown….But Republicans… Continue reading
Pema Levy for Mother Jones:
It’s the job of the Department of Justice to defend the laws of the United States to the best of its ability. But earlier this month, that job led the Obama administration’s top lawyers to… Continue reading
Patrick Marley for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit a former aide to Gov. Scott Walker brought against prosecutors, and said that a wealth of evidence seized by investigators about Walker’s campaign and conservative… Continue reading
Release:
“Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s statement that the ACLU supported the elimination of Golden Week could not be further from the truth,” said ACLU of Ohio Senior Policy Director Mike Brickner. “The ACLU has always strongly opposed… Continue reading
News and Observer:
Democracy North Carolina, a voting-rights advocacy organization, recorded the experiences of more than 1,400 North Carolina residents whose votes in the March primary election did not count and shared them with a federal appeals court on… Continue reading
Dan Balz in WaPo:
It’s been called a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, but there’s little that has happened since Donald Trump became the GOP’s presumptive nominee to suggest he wants anything to do with the party. He’s borrowing… Continue reading
NYT:
The C-suite leans right.
Republican candidates have drawn overwhelming support from the highest-paid chief executives in the country this election cycle, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politicsconducted for The New York Times.
That may… Continue reading