Freedom Watch is an on-line daily television show hosted by Andrew Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Fox News, and a former New Jersey state court judge. The May 4 show features this 9-minute interview with Christina Tobin, about California’s Proposition 14, the “top-two” election law measure.
On May 3, U.S. House member Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to expedite the lawsuit Republican National Committee v Federal Election Commission, 09-1287. The three-page response is here. The case concerns the contribution limit to national committees of political parties. The Republican Party had filed this lawsuit in 2008 in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and lost in that court on March 26, 2010. The party has been hoping that its direct appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court could be heard in time to affect this year’s election, assuming that the party wins the case.
Representative Van Hollen, a Democrat, had intervened in the case, on the side of the FEC. In this recent filing, he asks that the U.S. Supreme Court not expedite the case.
Virgil Goode, a former member of the U.S. House from Virginia, has joined the Constitution Party. See the exclusive report at www.independentpolitical report. Use this link. Thanks to Trent Hill for alerting me to IPR’s exclusive story.
Molly Milligan has this balanced look at Proposition 14, at Fox and Hounds blog. Milligan is the author of the Center for Governmental Studies’ recent report about Proposition 14.
One of the three U.S. House candidates in Florida for the ballot-qualified Tea Party is a Polk County Commissioner. He is Randy Wilkinson, running in the 12th district. See this story about him. As the story points out, because Wilkinson changed his registration from “Republican” to “Tea Party”, he is probably the first elected official anywhere to be a member of the political party named “Tea Party.” Thanks to Austin Cassidy for the link.
