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The members of the Libertarian Party of Ohio (LPO) challenged the law, claiming that it made them “ineligible” for the OEC and violated their constitutional right to association. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 9:10 am by JB
 There are any number of small parties (e.g., the Libertarian Party and the Green Party) that regularly field candidates, but because of the way our electoral system is designed, they tend not to win very many elections.In the past, influential third parties have been one-person affairs (George Wallace's American Party, Ross Perot's independent candidacy) that fade as soon as their leader's political power fades. [read post]
6 Feb 2021, 4:30 am by Guest Blogger
I found instead that for the better part of a decade after the decision, the political parties’ positions on abortion were fluid. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 7:48 pm by Ilya Somin
He opposed such plans on both principled and pragmatic grounds, fearing that court-packing would damage the institution of judicial review, and also potentially damage the Democratic Party politically. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 10:08 am by David Bernstein
" For example, only 50% of Republicans and 41% of Democrats were sure it would not upset them if their child married someone of the other political party. [read post]
18 Jan 2021, 8:15 am by Steve Gottlieb
People stick to rumors of election rigging despite repeated counting and recounting of votes, repeated failure to produce evidence of wrongdoing and numerous decisions in which judges of both parties made clear that they saw nothing more serious than trivial mistakes. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 12:43 pm by Ilya Somin
Perhaps most importantly, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is reported to be supportive of impeachment, believing that it might serve the longterm interests of his party. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 10:46 am by Ilya Somin
Recent history, including dubious power grabs by presidents of both parties, have persuaded most constitutional experts across the political spectrum that the current system concentrates too much power in the hands of a single person. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 5:07 pm by Tom Smith
Yes I know, “private companies, their own AUP, blah blah blah” – I’m a libertarian and a tech company CEO, so I know all this. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 3:28 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The Trump era, with its normalization of incendiary rhetoric, only saw a handful of lawmakers switch their affiliations out of contempt for the president; one notable example is former Michigan House Representative Justin Amash, who abandoned the Republican party to become an Independent in 2019 and then switched again to Libertarian last year. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 2:48 pm by Frank Pasquale
 Extremist beliefs can easily become a touchstone of electability, given the relatively small number of persons needed to win party primaries, and the ease with which parties can manipulate voting rules to keep themselves in power near-permanently. [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 11:27 am by Irina Manta
How the Republican party came to be dominated by populist demagogues is a complex question, but I don't think that what conservative, libertarian, or simply idiosyncratic thinkers encountered in their classrooms throughout lower and higher education has been helpful at times. [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 7:10 am by Florian Mueller
That scandal now has a far higher profile, with two of the three parties in Merkel's governing coalition already having voiced criticism in public. [read post]
3 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Nine of the last thirteen Vice Presidents went on to receive their party’s nomination for the presidency, and the exceptions were idiosyncratic. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 11:58 am by Josh Blackman
Before the Supreme Court's Roman Catholic Diocese decision, all parties to this litigation were focused primarily on the Order's fixed capacity limits. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 11:35 am by Ilya Somin
We will also still badly need reforms putting an end to permanent presidentially declared "national emergencies," along the lines recently proposed by Libertarian Rep. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 1:53 pm by Schachtman
In 2016, third party candidates, from the Green Party and the Libertarian Party, attracted more votes than they did in 2020. [read post]