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27 Aug 2020, 11:01 am by Aviezer Tucker
On the night of Thatcher’s victory in 1979, at O’Sullivan’s instigation, Thatcher recited for the cameras the (apocryphal) prayer of St. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Abrupt Change to Census Deadline Could Result in an Undercount of Latino and Black Communities Philadelphia Inquirer – Jose Del Real and Fredrick Kunkle (Washington Post) | Published: 8/9/2020 Census experts and advocates warn the Trump administration’s decision to end the decennial count a month earlier than expected will result in a dramatic undercount of Black and Latino communities across the country, which could have grave effects on federal funding and… [read post]
8 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The Senate Rules and Administration Committee is expected to advance James Trainor to fill a GOP vacancy on the panel. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Despite the defense’s victory on that point, Craig is still set to face a jury trial on another false-statement charge relating to what prosecutors say was an attempt to deceive investigators about his role in promoting a report he prepared on behalf of the Ukrainian government in 2012 about its corruption prosecution of former President Yulia Tymoshenko. [read post]
5 Jul 2019, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal 2020 Census Will Not Include Citizenship Question, DOJ Confirms Philadelphia Inquirer – Ann Marimow, Matt Zapotosky, and Tara Bahrampour (Washington Post) | Published: 7/2/2019 In a defeat for President Trump, his administration ended its effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census, saying it will begin printing forms that do not include the contentious query. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Since 2011, Pugh has received $500,000 selling her illustrated books to the University of Maryland Medical System while she served on its board. [read post]
4 Jan 2019, 12:36 pm by Lyle Denniston
  The Maryland map for the Sixth District, dating from 2011, ended years of repeated victories for the GOP candidate and now regularly leads to a Democratic victory. [read post]
6 Dec 2018, 9:10 pm by Jonathan Spontarelli
National: Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan Push to Curb Power of Newly-Elected Democrats Washington Post – Mark Berman, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, and Dan Simmons | Published: 12/5/2018 Following losses in statewide elections, Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan have responded with pushes to limit the power of Democrats who won those offices, as advocacy groups threaten to block their efforts with legal action. [read post]
8 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
One year later, the #MeToo movement came into sharp contrast with the GOP-controlled Senate, which voted to elevate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court despite credible allegations of sexual misconduct. [read post]
23 May 2018, 8:00 am
This resulted in unusually large margins of victory for Democrats in all four districts. [read post]
22 May 2018, 7:57 am by Anthony Gaughan
Under the 2011 GOP legislative redistricting plan, Democratic voters in the Madison area have no trouble electing Democrats to the state legislature. [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 3:49 am by Lyle Denniston
  The GOP had repeatedly won 13 out of those 18 seats, leaving only five for Democrats – a pattern that had prevailed in every congressional election since 2011. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 5:07 pm by Lyle Denniston
Of course, observers outside the two sides in the case have noted how important this entire controversy is to the two major political parties, with Republicans clearly at an advantage this year if the state court’s map is struck down and elections go forward under a 2011 map that has meant victory for GOP candidates on 13 out of the 18 House seats, in three different elections, and with Democrats likely at an advantage if the state court’s map is used, probably… [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 5:06 pm by Lyle Denniston
While two GOP legislative leaders and eight current GOP members are trying to get the federal court to reinstate the 2011 map for this year’s elections, two other GOP leaders of the legislature have a request pending at the U.S. [read post]
23 Feb 2018, 4:25 am by Lyle Denniston
  They did so, they said, to protect the victory they had won in the state’s highest court. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 9:30 am by Lyle Denniston
Behind the answer that emerges from that constitutional question is a very real political reality in Pennsylvania: if the GOP lawmakers prevail, they are likely to preserve congressional districts that have given their party’s candidates victories in three elections in 13 of the 18 House districts, and if their challenge fails, the Democrats have a chance of capturing at least eight of the seats, and maybe nine or 10. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 12:30 pm by Lyle Denniston
  Over two Justices’ dissents, the Court refused to put on a fast track a case testing the constitutionality of a North Carolina congressional districting map that led in 2016 to victory for 10 Republicans and only three Democrats, despite only a slight GOP edge in voting totals statewide. [read post]
28 Jan 2018, 11:02 am by Anthony Gaughan
Sweeping Republican state house victories in 2010 gave the GOP control of a critical mass of legislatures during the crucial 2011 session, when every state conducted its decennial redrawing of legislative and congressional district lines following the U.S. [read post]
13 Nov 2016, 2:57 pm by Mathew O'Neill
  Documents recently leaked to The Guardian from the John Doe investigative files show GOP strategists discussing in 2011 whether they should “start messaging ‘widespread reports of election fraud’ so we are positively set up for the recount regardless of the final number. [read post]