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17 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal No Rest Between Censuses for Congressional Mapmakers DNyuz – Reid Epstein (New York Times) | Published: 3/10/2023 For just about all of the nation’s history, politicians would fight over redistricting for a short period after each once-a-decade census, then forget about congressional maps until the next reapportionment. [read post]
23 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Government Ethics Office Refused to Approve Kanye West’s Financial Disclosures from His Failed Presidential Campaign MSN – Grace Panetta (Business Insider) | Published: 4/19/2021 The Office of Government Ethics refused to sign off on Kanye West’s financial disclosure forms from his failed 2020 presidential campaign. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 6:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal From Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing liars to pay or apologize Las Vegas Sun – Elizabeth Williamson (New York Times) | Published: 4/2/2024 Michael Gottlieb, a partner at the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and a former associate counsel in the Obama White House, is at the forefront of a small but growing cadre of lawyers deploying defamation, one of the oldest areas of the law, as a weapon against a tide of political disinformation. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Nikki Haley Suspends Her Campaign and Leaves Donald Trump as the Last Major Republican Candidate Associated Press News – Steve Peoples and Meg Kinnard | Published: 3/6/2024 Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Signs Executive Order Raising Federal Contractors’ Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour MSN – Dartunorro Clark (NBC News) | Published: 4/28/2021 President Biden signed an executive order that raises the minimum wage for federal contractors and tipped employees working on government contracts to $15 an hour. [read post]
14 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal ‘A Perpetual Motion Machine’: How disinformation drives voting laws New York Times – Maggie Astor | Published: 5/13/2021 Former President Trump’s months-long campaign to delegitimize the 2020 election did not overturn the results. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Democrats Set Ambitious Spending Plan for State Legislative Races DNyuz – Nick Corasaniti (New York Times) | Published: 1/10/2024 The Democratic Party’s organization that focuses on state legislative races is planning its largest campaign budget ever as it seeks to flip five chambers in three critical swing states, as well as defend three recently earned majorities. [read post]
20 May 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the GOP Hartford Courant – Nicholas Confessore and Karen Yourish (New York Times) | Published: 5/16/2022 At the extremes of American life, replacement theory – the notion that Western elites, sometimes manipulated by Jews, want to “replace” and disempower white Americans – has become an engine of racist terror, helping inspire a wave of mass shootings in recent years. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Government Watchdog Says White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Spent Campaign Funds on Personal Expenditures Business Insider – Yelena Dzhanova | Published: 10/31/2020 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is calling for an investigation into White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after accusing him of misusing thousands of dollars in campaign funds. [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Frustrated Trump Redoubles Efforts to Challenge Election Result MSN – Felicia Sonmez, Josh Dawsey, Dan Lamothe, and Matt Zapotosky (Washington Post) | Published: 12/20/2020 President Trump has intensified efforts to overturn the election, raising a series of radical measures in recent days, including military intervention, seizing voting machines, and a 13th-hour appeal to the U.S. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Beau Biden Foundation to Deny Lobbyist Donations, Make Major Donors Public The Hill – Alex Gangitano | Published: 1/21/2021 The Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children, which works to combat child abuse and was named after President Biden’s late son, told donors it will make changes to increase transparency. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 4:26 am
Source: Crime and Justice News (March 9, 2009) -- Is Pennsylvania Spending Wisely On Prisons? [read post]
4 Feb 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal An Emboldened Extremist Wing Flexes Its Power in a Leaderless G.O.P. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 4:30 am by Jim Dedman
First entering the public consciousness in 1994, the Stella Liebeck trial, known as the McDonald's hot coffee case, has become such a fixture of litigation lore that many are unaware of the basic facts of the case, or even where and when it was tried. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Supreme Court to Decide Landmark Texas, Florida Social Media Cases and More MSN – Ann Marimow and Cat Zakrzewski (Washington Post) | Published: 9/29/2023 The Supreme Court said it would wade into the future of free speech online and decide whether laws passed in Texas and Florida can restrict social media companies from removing certain political posts or accounts. [read post]
20 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal As Population Grows, So Does Debate on How to Reach Latino Voters in ’22 Midterms MSN – Stephanie Akin and Suzanne Monyak (Roll Call) | Published: 8/18/2021 Democrats know that, overall, the party does better with Latino voters than Republicans, but there is more recognition that the Hispanic electorate is far from monolithic, and outreach needs to start much earlier. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Conspiracy of Hunches: Roger Stone trial set to start this week San Francisco Chronicle – Devlin Barrett, Spencer Hsu, and Manuel Roig-Franzia (Washington Post) | Published: 11/4/2019 Roger Stone is on trial in federal court, where prosecutors plan to dive back into an episode of political chicanery, alleged lies, and conspiratorial texts that parallels the nascent impeachment inquiry into his longtime friend President Trump. [read post]