On March 5, the Arizona House passed HCR 2057. It requires initiatives to get signatures of 10% of the registered voters in each of the state’s fifteen counties. Currently the law has no distribution requirement. Here is the text. The … Continue reading
In 2001 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the part of the McCain-Feingold Law that limits how much money parties can spend on their own nominees, if the party coordinates with those nominees. That case was FEC v Colorado Republican Federal … Continue reading
On February 28, No Labels filed an amended Complaint in its lawsuit against a parody website that tried to make it appear that No Labels is a right-wing-leaning organization. The parody website was NoLabels.com. The actual No Labels website is … Continue reading
On March 7, the Kansas Senate passed SCR 1611. It would amend the State Constitution to say that voters elect Supreme Court Justices. If it passes the House, then the voters would vote on the idea in August 2026. Here … Continue reading
On March 7, Utah State Senator Daniel Thatcher changed his registration from Republican to Forward. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010. See this story explaining why he switched. Thatcher is the first state legislator who is a … Continue reading
