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10 Oct 2023, 12:06 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
"  That governor leads the state's Republican Party, and that party has prominently targeted both higher education and progressive social commitments, being especially nasty about situations where the two overlap. [read post]
16 Sep 2016, 2:49 am by Damon Kitchen
  In Elrod, a newly elected Democratic sheriff in Cook County, Illinois, discharged three of his Republican predecessor’s employees because they were not members of the Democratic Party, they had not worked for or contributed money to the Democratic Party, and they had not been sponsored by a local Democratic leader. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 9:03 am by Bill Otis
Mark Kirk of Illinois, one of the handful of Republicans to back "reform," was defeated, and will no longer have McConnell's ear.Mr. [read post]
21 Jun 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The missed markers mean the June 27 event will be solely between President Joe Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Lowell negotiated a plea bargain for Nickie Lum Davis, a Republican fundraiser who had engaged in illegal lobbying. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 7:43 pm
While I could be mistaken, I do not believe there are any Republican judges at the circuit level, in effect one person is judge-maker or de facto head of the Judicial Branch. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But he is only one of five Republican members that Trump has named to the board, most of whom have given generously to the party, who have taken a hands-on role in trying to defend the embattled agency against accusations that it is trying to help the president win a second term by sabotaging voting by mail. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
I explained how, fundamentally, this case raised questions of state law and was thus essentially immune from federal (Supreme) court review, insofar as state constitutions are free to have enforceable rights (in this case, the rights of the minority party in the state legislature) that go beyond rights that are recognized under the federal Constitution and enforceable in federal court.The reaction by some elected Republican (the party in control of the Pennsylvania… [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Above all that, it was clearly wrongly decided, and illustrates how some judges have bad interpretive instincts when it comes to navigating the tricky but ultra-important voting rights realm.The case, Texas Democratic Party v. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
I also discussed how Republicans in North Carolina (and now Pennsylvania too) are invoking the theory this week to challenge state court rulings that rejected (and replaced) congressional district lines drawn by the state legislature. [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Michael Schaps
After all, a major-party presidential nominee is more than an individual; she is the political leader of tens of millions of citizens, many of whom strongly identify with her. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
For example, the Complaint quotes Saul Anuzis, the former Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party as saying: “It’s a question of what is the right way to elect a president. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 11:10 pm
Still more bruises followed in the contest against Republican State Rep. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 3:30 am by Alexandra D. Lahav
The impetus for the bill is probably political (its sponsor is Republican Representative Goodlatte), but that does not answer the question: Is this a good bill? [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 10:53 am
"Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who once bragged about his ability to bring bacon to his home state of Kentucky, says that he worries less about the "content" of the budget than its overall size. [read post]