New York State Senator James Skoufis and Assemblymember Landon Dais have introduced bills to move New York presidential primaries from April to early March. The bills don’t have numbers yet. The bills would have no effect on the congressional/state office … Continue reading
Richard Winger
CALIFORNIA TOP-TWO SYSTEM MAY DISTORT 2026 GUBERNATORIAL RACE Since 2011, California has had a top-two system in which all candidates for partisan state office and Congress run on a single primary ballot. Then only the top two candidates run in … Continue reading
On December 5, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear the two birthright citizenship cases that President Trump had lost in the lower courts. The two cases, which are now combined, are Trump v Barbara, and Trump v State … Continue reading
Politics commentator Joe Mathews here writes that California ought to restore write-in space in general elections for Congress and partisan state office. California already has write-in space in all its other elections. … Continue reading
Late on December 4, the U.S. Supreme Court let Texas use its new U.S. House district maps. The vote was 6-3. See the order here. … Continue reading