On September 8, the plaintiffs in Wilding v Democratic National Committee Services filed an appeal to the Eleventh Circuit. This is the lawsuit in which Bernie Sanders supporters in 2016 who had contributed to the national Democratic Party had filed … Continue reading
Peter Baker, the New York Times White House correspondent, writes here that President Donald J. Trump is “in many ways, the first independent president” since the Civil War. He says this because Trump does not appear to act as a … Continue reading
The Los Angeles Times has this story about Thomas Palzer’s initiative to repeal California’s top-two system. The article is valuable but at the same time deeply flawed. It says that before top-two passed, independent voters were not allowed to vote … Continue reading
There are 31 amici curiae briefs (on the side opposed to the government of Wisconsin) to the U.S. Supreme Court in Gill v Whitford, the partisan gerrymandering lawsuit that will be argued next month. Probably the one amicus brief that … Continue reading
On September 7, Androscoggin County Commissioner (Maine) Zachery Maher switched his party registration from Republican to Libertarian. The office is partisan and was last up in November 2016. He is up for re-election again in 2020. He represents district 7 … Continue reading
