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
On November 17, a Maryland state trial court dismissed the lawsuit Bryson v Moore, Anne Arundel Circuit Court C02cv25001586. This is the lawsuit filed by some independent voters, who argued that the State Constitution requires that they be allowed to … Continue reading
