On March 17, the Libertarian National Committee filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia against the part of the McCain-Feingold law that limits how much money a political party may receive in any one calendar … Continue reading
On March 21, U.S. District Court Judge Otis D. Wright heard Chamness v Bowen, 2:11-cv-1479, in Los Angeles. This is the federal lawsuit that challenges the part of California’s top-two system that doesn’t permit members of unqualified parties to list … Continue reading
Jack Davis, a former Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in New York, is running in the May 24 special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 26th district. He has just filed an independent candidate petition, with the … Continue reading
Solomon Kleinsmith has this article about how top-two systems disadvantage candidates who are not backed by established figures in the two major parties. Kleinsmith is the founder of the blog “Rise of the Center”. … Continue reading
The Indiana legislature is unable to pass bills this session, because all the Democrats in the House have boycotted the session for the last month. A similar Democratic boycott in Wisconsin got much more national publicity, and is now over. … Continue reading
