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2 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Under Quebec’s Election Act, only citizens, not legal entities such as companies or unions, can give to political parties. [read post]
7 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
But this year, a confluence of forces – including the census delays, pending federal legislation about redistricting, and major U.S. [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Gaetz’s Ex-Girlfriend Appears Before Grand Jury in Sex Trafficking Probe Seattle Times – Matt Zapotosky (Washington Post) | Published: 1/12/2022 The ex-girlfriend of U.S. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 9:04 am by John Elwood
Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 16-111, now on its unlucky 13th relist. [read post]
31 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The original impetus for Blaine Amendments came largely from anti-Catholicism; many citizens felt that schools funded by public monies should not be indoctrinating students in the Catholic faith. [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
EU Lobby Register Falls Short of Transparency Demands Politico – Cristina Gonzalez | Published: 12/8/2020 It was hailed as a victory when negotiators from the European Parliament, Commission, and the Council found compromise on establishing a joint mandatory lobby register, but the definition of “mandatory” remains to be seen. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Seven candidates and the Maine Citizens for Clean Elections sued LePage because he refused to release the funds, which would come from unspent money from the 2016 election cycle. [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Jonathan Spontarelli
The Supreme Court has never found a state’s redistricting map so infected with politics that it violates the Constitution. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 6:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
The Citizen Re-Organization Empowerment Grants will provide up to $100,000 to cover all or part of the costs of merger and dissolutions studies. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 6:43 am by Jim Sedor
The ban applies to members of the city’s Planning Commission and the Cultural Heritage Commission, as well as members of area planning commissions. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Aides Headline DNC Fundraisers with Lobbyists Politico – Theodoric Meyer | Published: 8/13/2020 When Barack Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, he barred the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from accepting contributions from lobbyists in an attempt to purge their influence from his future administration. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 5:23 pm by froomkin@law.tm
Supporters argue, much more convincingly, that too many localities are allowing too much development against the wishes of local citizens because developers are major campaign contributors. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Convention Jitters Grip Democrats Politico – Holly Otterbein | Published: 7/7/2020 First came the announcement of a downsized convention in Milwaukee that delegates were urged not to attend in person. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
How Democrats Are ‘Unilaterally Disarming’ in the Redistricting Wars Politico – Ally Mutnick | Published: 6/21/2021 In key states over the past decade, Democrats have gained control of Legislatures and governorships that have long been in charge of drawing new election maps, only to cede that authority, often to independent commissions tasked with drawing political boundaries free of partisan interference. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
The lawsuit does not involve provisional ballots, signature matches or counting delays—logistical aspects of modern elections that are increasingly subject to legal dispute—but instead attacks the basic substantive rules that Maine law uses to determine who wins Congressional elections.The crux of the legal challenge is the permissibility of Maine’s Ranked-Choice Voting system, which the state’s voters adopted via a citizen initiative in 2016 and reaffirmed as to… [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Supreme Court’s decision in the 2010 Citizens United case transformed the world of politics. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Campaigns Say They’ll Match Political Contributions. [read post]
8 Apr 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Democrats Unveil Bill to Impose Ethics, Recusal Standards on Supreme Court Yahoo News – Harper Neidig (The Hill) | Published: 4/6/2022 A group of Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation that would force the U.S. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But the schedules for the president and vice president are not posted online, the White House comment line is shut down, and there are no citizen petitions on the White House’s website. [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
It is one thing to find a Mississippi prosecutor’s peremptory challenges, or the Colorado Civil Rights commission’s enforcement decisions, to be based on prejudice; it is another to halt actions of a coordinate federal branch on the ground of an evil intent. [read post]