On January 13, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Puerto Rico v Valle, 15-108. Although this is a criminal law case, it requires the Court to determine if Puerto Rico is sovereign or is simply a dependency of the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2015
The Ohio Secretary of State has rejected Martin O’Malley’s petition to be placed on the Democratic presidential primary ballot. See this story. He needed 1,000 signatures and submitted 1,175. He has been told that only 772 signatures are valid. Ohio … Continue reading
Newsweek has this sympathetic article about John McAfee and his campaign for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. … Continue reading
The Sioux City Journal has this article about the Centrist Project. In 2014 it backed a few strong independent candidates for U.S. Senate, including Larry Pressler in South Dakota. It plans to do that again in 2016. The article quotes … Continue reading
The Donald Trump campaign is threatening to sue the Virginia Republican Party over the party’s recent decision to change procedures at the polls at the March 1 presidential primary. Virginia does not have registration by party. But the state party … Continue reading
On December 30 The Atlantic posted this article by Christopher Caen (son of famous San Francisco writer Herb Caen) about top-two systems. The article is balanced. However, it has factual errors. It says that before used the top-two system, independents … Continue reading