For the second time this year, a three-judge panel of Federal Judges has struck down North Carolina’s Congressional District map. The immediate question is what impact, if any, this will have on November’s election.
It’s not obvious that two more felons in the Trump inner circle will have any immediate impact.
The latest reports about the circumstances surrounding the payoff to Stormy Daniels could pose big problems for Michael Cohen and his client.
A Federal Appeals Court has reversed a lower court ruling that struck down Texas’s Voter ID law as discriminatory against minority voters.
President Trump isn’t reacting well to the raid on his attorney’s office.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a lawsuit against the President, handing the already beleaguered White House yet another headache.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case pitting the First Amendment against the right of states to regulate elections.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has redrawn the state’s Congressional Districts based on its recent ruling finding the current map to be unconstitutional partisan Gerrymandering. It makes a lot more sense than the map the state is currently using.
The Supreme Court has declined to stay a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling requiring the legislature to redraw the state’s Congressional District map.
A Federal Court in North Carolina has issued a stinging ruling against the partisan gerrymandering undertaken by the Republican legislature in that state.
Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a second case dealing with political Gerrymandering.
Texas suffers another legal setback in its effort to pass a Voter ID law.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear its first case on partisan gerrymandering in more than ten years, but opponents of the practice shouldn’t start celebrating just yet.
Puerto Rican voters voted overwhelmingly for statehood yesterday in a referendum whose legitimacy is being questioned due to boycotts by opposition parties.
An important redistricting decision was handed down by the Supreme Court today.
Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!
In a ruling that could have a real impact on the 2016 election, the Supreme Court has declined to grant a stay to a lower court ruling striking down a North Carolina law that tightened Voter ID laws and restricted early voting.
Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.
Marco Rubio is ruling out a return to politics, at least for now.
Ohio’s Secretary of State is already precluding the possibility that Donald Trump could get on the ballot as an independent in the Buckeye State.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in a case that could have big implications for redistricting, and the make-up of state legislatures and the House of Representatives.
I am having a hard time seeing a system of districts based on eligible voters and not simply population.
Two months after seemingly promising to remain loyal to the Republican Party, Donald Trump is again refusing to rule out an independent run for the White House next year.
The Supreme Court has accepted for appeal a Virginia case that deal with the issue of using race and politics as a basis for drawing district lines.
Forget about Congress, the real story going forward is likely to be Republican dominance of state legislatures nationwide.
Today, many states and municipalities are having elections that will mostly attract Democrats.
Thanks to $500,000, Rand Paul bought himself a caucus so he can run for two offices at once.
A Federal Appeals Court has dealt a setback to Texas in the battle over its Voter ID Law.
Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.
The Supreme Court accepted a case that will require the Justices to decide just what it meant when it established the “one person, one vote” rule for drawing legislative districts.
In a marked departure from recent cases, the Supreme Court rules that states can impose significant restriction on solicitation of campaign contributions in judicial elections.
President Obama thinks that it would be a good idea if everyone were forced to vote. He’s wrong, and his idea is most likely unconstitutional.
Another pre-election stay ruling from the Supreme Court.
After a setback, Texas will be allowed to enforce its Voter ID law. At least for now.
An unsurprising decision from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Supreme Court has issued a stay that will allow changes to Ohio’s early voting law to remain in effect for this year’s election. That was the correct decision.
The Kansas Supreme Court may have just upended the battle for control of the U.S. Senate
A Federal Judge in Ohio has issued a very troubling ruling on that state’s early voting law.
A major voting rights ruling out of North Carolina.
Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.
A Silicon Valley businessman says he has enough signatures to get it on the ballot, but the plan to break California up into six states is most assuredly going nowhere.
Thad Cochran has been officially certified as the winner of the Mississippi GOP Primary Runoff Election, but it’s not over yet.
Chris McDaniel and his Tea Party supporters are being very sore losers.
One of the longest serving Members of Congress just got his political career saved.
Voter ID supporters are pointing to a report from the North Carolina Board of Elections as proof of ongoing Voter Fraud. But, while long on facts, the report has yet to reach any such conclusions.
