National/Federal Court Orders FEC to Rule on Complaints Against NRA’s Alleged Campaign Coordination Scheme MSN – Soo Rin Kim (ABC News) | Published: 10/1/2021 A federal court ordered the FEC to rule on pending complaints that allege the National Rifle Association (NRA) used shell entities to illegally coordinate campaign spending with federal candidates, including with the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump. [read post]

The petitioners—a group of high school students in Rhode Island, which requires no high school civics—opted for a partial victory by negotiating a settlement with the state that included creation of a “Civic Readiness Task Force” rather than petitioning to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court (whose majority does not seem receptive to recognizing any right to education). [read post]