The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to testify before the panel in mid-February, according to Reuters. The subpoena comes a day after Cohen said he planned to postpone an appearance next week before Congress, saying Trump and lawyer Giuliani had threatened his family. News of … [Read more...]
New Jersey Democrats Withdraw Gerrymandering Plan After Outraged Response
The national conversation over gerrymandering usually focuses on Republicans, especially in states like Wisconsin and North Carolina, where the state Republican Parties used a fortuitously timed 2010 wave to entrench their power in what are actually very competitive states. Obviously, this is not because Democratic politicians are so virtuous … [Read more...]
Michael Cohen Says He Was Ordered By Trump To Rig Polls
President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, revealed that he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data “at the direction of and for the sole benefit of” Trump. Cohen paid the data firm RedFinch Solutions to manipulate two public opinion polls in favor of Trump before the 2016 presidential campaign. The news was first … [Read more...]
Rare Case of Actual Election Fraud Appears Likely in North Carolina Congressional Race
North Carolina's 9th Congressional District was home to arguably the only competitive election in the state during the recent midterms. Democrat Dan McReady, a Marine veteran, waged a strong campaign against Republican Mark Harris in the district, located in the southern part of the state. But while McReady raised a large amount of money and … [Read more...]
Wisconsin Republicans Pass Bill To Curb Incoming Democrats’ Power
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin legislature passed a bill to weaken the powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, voting around dawn on Wednesday after debates that lasted through the night, according to Reuters. Both the state Senate and Assembly passed the bill, and current Republican Governor Scott Walker has … [Read more...]
Gerrymandering In the Courts and On the Ballot
Gerrymandering – broadly defined as drawing voting district boundaries in such a way as to maximize the political advantage for one party or demographic group – is almost as old as America itself. In fact, a gerrymandering episode in Virginia immediately after ratification of the Constitution involved Patrick Henry, James Madison and James Monroe. … [Read more...]
Trump Says Manafort Pardon Not ‘Off the Table’
According to CNN, President Donald Trump declined in a new interview to rule out the possibility that he could pardon Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman. In an interview, Trump told the New York Post, that "It was never discussed, but I wouldn't take it off the table. Why would I take it off the table?" The President's comments come … [Read more...]
Roe v. Wade and The Mid-Term Elections
One week after the 2018 elections proved to be a referendum on Justice Brett Kavanagh’s fitness to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and on the future of U.S. abortion rights, the nation lies in wait for the ill-fated case that will afford Kavanagh the opportunity to cast the decisive 5th vote overturning Roe v. Wade that could be heard as early as … [Read more...]
Split Decision: Democrats Take House, Republicans Expand Senate Majority
Driven by big gains in wealthy suburbs and in districts won by Hillary Clinton in 2016, Democrats lived up to pre-election expectations and won back the House of Representatives on Tuesday, winning a net of 26 House seats as of the publication of this post. However, Republicans took advantage of an extremely favorable Senate map and expanded … [Read more...]
Justice Department Sending Fewer Civil Rights Monitors to Polls
The Department of Justice announced in a press release Monday that they will be sending fewer civil rights monitors to polling places than in 2016. Business Insider reports DOJ personnel will be deployed to 35 jurisdictions in 19 states. In 2016, DOJ personnel were present in 67 jurisdictions in 28 states. Stories of voter intimidation and … [Read more...]
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