On November 11, a paid petitioning firm, Advanced Micro Targeting, filed a federal lawsuit to stop another organization that is playing dirty tricks to stop the Missouri referendum petition that AMT is circulating. Advanced Micro Targeting v Let the Voters … Continue reading
On December 8, a lawsuit was filed against a Georgia campaign finance law that lets the incumbent Governor and Lieutenant Governor receive more campaign contributions than other candidates for those same offices. Safe Affordable Georgia v Krayenbuhl, n.d., 1:25cv-6985. The … Continue reading
There appears to be no level to which the Republican Party won’t stoop to attack the Citizen Initiative & Referendum process in some states. Richard Winger has previously blogged about the effort in Missouri to place a referendum on the … Continue reading
Two New Jersey legislators will introduce a bill for ranked choice voting for federal and state office. They are Senator Andrew Zwicker (D-Hillsborough) and Assemblymember Joe Danielsen (D-Somerset). The text of the bill is not yet on the legislature’s website.
Last month, nine state Libertarian Parties filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving the constitutionality of civil assert forfeiture in certain situations. The case is Barton v Securities & Exchange Commission, 25-465. The … Continue reading
