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14 Feb 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Business Groups Try to Avoid Partisan Crossfire The Hill – Alex Gangitano | Published: 2/11/2020 Business groups are facing a new challenge as they look to advance their agendas in an increasingly polarized Washington and ahead of a contentious presidential election. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The plan represents a sea change for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, a former backwater in Democratic politics that has transformed as the party grappled with the importance of redistricting. [read post]
6 Dec 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Mysterious ‘-1’ and Other Call Records Show How Giuliani Pressured Ukraine MSN – Sharon LaFraniere and Julian Barnes (New York Times) | Published: 12/3/2019 In the two days before President Trump forced out the American ambassador to Ukraine in April, his personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani was on the phone with the White House more than a dozen times. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But Livingston said he made the calls as a “concerned American citizen,” not as a lobbyist. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Redistricting Fights Rage with Future of Congress at Stake The Hill – Reid Wilson | Published: 9/6/2019 Strategists and observers who track state legislative races say tensions are already running at election-year levels, a reflection of the unusually high stakes in contests that immediately precede the decennial redistricting cycle. [read post]
30 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The redistricting process, which takes just once per decade, is expected to be a brutal brawl for partisan advantage. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Campaigns Say They’ll Match Political Contributions. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 2:00 am by DONALD SCARINCI
He also noted that several states have implemented independent redistricting commissions and that Congress could also intervene. [read post]
5 Jul 2019, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The justices accelerated the race between the two parties to tilt the system to their advantage by electing as many governors and legislators as possible or, in some states, getting voters to support ballot measures to take the redistricting process out of politicians’ hands by 2021. [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]
29 Jun 2019, 7:36 am by Sandy Levinson
  In a truly scandalous (and, fortunately, only dissenting) opinion, Roberts would have held that the desire by Arizona voters to place redistricting in the hands of a (relatively) non-partisan commission instead of leaving it up to rabidly self-interested partisan legislatures was itself unconstitutional, because the word "legislature" has a very specific meaning. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 10:17 am by Amy Howe
” But just because courts can’t review partisan-gerrymandering claims, he continued, does not mean that there are no other checks on the problem: Both the states and Congress can take action – for example, by establishing independent redistricting commissions to draw maps. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had acted within its authority. [read post]
30 May 2019, 9:05 pm by Alana Bevan
” Wynn Resorts paid a $35 million fine to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission for failing to disclose allegations of sexual assault against founder Steve Wynn when the company applied for its state gambling license in 2013. [read post]
14 May 2019, 2:21 pm by Alysha Stein-Manes
  In California, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (the “Commission”), a non-partisan commission comprised of democratic, republican and independent (decline-to-state or no party preference) voters, is responsible for re-drawing California State Assembly and Senate, U.S. [read post]
14 May 2019, 2:21 pm by Alysha Stein-Manes
  In California, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (the “Commission”), a non-partisan commission comprised of democratic, republican and independent (decline-to-state or no party preference) voters, is responsible for re-drawing California State Assembly and Senate, U.S. [read post]
6 May 2019, 6:30 am by David Pozen
Assisted by this ruling, grassroots activists have made significant strides since 2015 in promoting anti-gerrymandering redistricting commission initiatives.Other ways in which the Constitution of Settlement is becoming unsettled are somewhat more direct. [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 7:37 am by Nathan Matias
Citizen Science Solutions to the Bad Data Problem in Redistricting Accountability These many tools have opened new capacities for citizens to have an informed voice on redistricting conversations. [read post]
9 Mar 2019, 8:56 am by Walter Olson
”) Tags: ACLU, campaign regulation, First Amendment, redistricting reform [read post]