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9 Nov 2011, 6:33 am
To give just one example, “clean elections” laws, under which candidates receive government subsidies in exchange for forgoing private contributions, did not meaningfully change politics in states like Maine and Arizona, and earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled the most popular version of these laws to be unconstitutional. [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
Maine: Ethics Commission to Delay Clean Elections Funding Until Court RulingLewiston Sun Journal – Colin Ellis | Published: 7/25/2018 The Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices delayed action on Clean Elections in the hope that a court ruling on the matter might be issued soon but did not rule out the possibility of calling a special meeting should the money continue to be held back. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 5:46 pm
Readers of this blog might know that the Obamacare saga was one of the main topics that I covered here when I first started blogging back in 2009. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 12:01 am
The subtitle of this book on Lincoln, “Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War,” is much more descriptive of its content than the main title. [read post]
13 Sep 2013, 6:46 am
The Citizens Clean Elections Commission contends the statute violates constitutional restrictions on changing voter-approved laws. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 9:16 am
One of the government’s highest obligations is to protect citizens when they cannot protect themselves. [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 3:06 pm
As part of the settlement, Doe Run will pay a civil penalty of $7 million for violating a series of environmental laws, including the federal Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Emergency Planning and Right-to-Know Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (known as Superfund), and the Missouri Air Conservation Law, Clean Water Law and Hazardous Waste Management Law. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 6:29 am
” “The reason I think it is worth explaining my dissent,” he says, “is that the cases implicate the major problem that many citizens have with the Federal Government these days: that they are governed not so much by their elected representatives as by an unelected bureaucracy operating under vague statutory standards. [read post]
10 Jun 2018, 2:23 pm
Vladimir Puti also gloated with an odd critical assessment of the value of unity that was the main object of the meetig from which this quite was extracted. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 6:14 am
Maine – Maine Backs Post-Citizens United Campaign Finance InitiativeHuffington Post – Paul Blumenthal | Published: 11/3/2015 Maine voters approved a proposal to expand the state’s public campaign financing system. [read post]
8 Jan 2016, 6:12 am
Maine – Clinton Donors Use Maine Democrats to Skirt Campaign Cash LimitsEllsworth American – Naomi Schalit (Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting) | Published: 1/7/2016 Fourteen out-of-state donors gave $93,552 to the Maine Democratic Party since mid-September 2015. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 10:43 am
Most of the discussion of cyber deterrence focuses on preventing a single catastrophic or cascading cyberattack that would threaten lives (like disruptions to electricity transmission or clean water)—or our way of life—altering election outcomes or grinding global finance to a halt. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 5:30 am
She is one of the main plaintiffs, who are representative of hundreds of thousands more, who simply cannot obtain adequate photo identification under the law. [read post]
2 Jul 2021, 4:00 am
These falsehoods are now seeping into civic life, spurring citizens in multiple states to demand local officials review the vote. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 3:00 am
Unions influence elections in three main ways: members’ votes, manpower, and money. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 10:21 am
This upcoming election is about picking a team. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 11:09 pm
But the sad reality is that increasingly Main Justice in Washington has been dominated by zealots intent on winning no matter what the costs. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 3:00 am
His was the last conviction secured by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 7:57 am
He most likely will win re-election in 2012. [read post]
15 Apr 2021, 11:17 am
They range, as you would expect, from election interference to assassinations. [read post]
