A political watchdog group filed a complaint with the IRS claiming a nonprofit charity headed by the wife of Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore broke the law by using its contributions to advocate for her husband’s campaign.
Read moreIn Alabama’s runoff election for the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat, Luther Strange may have the crowning endorsement of President Donald Trump, but Roy Moore seemed to have support from beyond the grave.
Read moreOn Sept. 26, Republican voters in Alabama will head to voting booths to decide a runoff election between Roy Moore and Luther Strange that’s more than just picking another U.S. senator. The Alabama runoff has become a fight over the style – not substance – of the candidates and could signal how the GOP base thinks of Congress.
Read moreUnsubstantiated claims of voter fraud met with quick reproach Tuesday at a much-anticipated meeting of an advisory committee convened by the White House.
Read moreVeteran Republicans are bailing on Congress in growing numbers, as GOP control of Washington fails to produce the unity or legislative successes party leaders wish for. With President Donald Trump willing, if not eager, to buck fellow Republicans and even directly attack them, a number of lawmakers no longer wish to be involved.
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With the Supreme Court set to hear a potentially landmark-setting case on partisan gerrymandering next month, a poll released Monday shows that most Americans want the judicial branch’s input.
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Tensions within France’s far-right National Front party, on the rise since leader Marine Le Pen’s resounding loss in the country’s May presidential race, are hitting a crescendo as Le Pen prepares to reset party priorities.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights on Thursday tossed a challenge to a Greek ban on political polling 15 days before an election, finding voters aren’t harmed by the law.
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A divided Fifth Circuit gave Texas a boost this week in its quest to enforce its voter ID law, staying an order that struck down the law as discriminatory.
Read moreThe New York Post faces a libel suit after quoting an anonymous source as calling Judge Doris Ling-Cohan with the Manhattan Supreme Court “lazy.”
Read moreA federal judge ordered the Trump administration Wednesday to show more evidence that its new commission tasked with investigating election fraud is complying with public-disclosure laws.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling dismissing a complaint former minor party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein brought challenging their exclusions from the 2012 presidential and vice presidential debates.
Read moreLike a poison pill in the corporate world, a Florida Republican introduced a legislative amendment to sink Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
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The California Supreme Court on Monday made it much easier for municipalities to collect special taxes: Let citizens propose and pass them through the initiative process – and a simple majority vote.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union says California election officials may have discarded over 45,000 ballots during the November 2016 election without notifying the affected voters.
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A former Michigan state senator accused of shooting at his ex-wife’s car cannot be barred from seeking public office, a divided state appeals court ruled, clearing the way for him to run for a seat on the Detroit City Council this fall.
Read moreTexas’ new voter ID law was struck down Wednesday by a federal judge who said it perpetuated voting rules designed to disenfranchise minorities.
Read moreThe NAACP and League of Women Voters sued Wednesday to challenge a new Indiana law that immediately strikes a voter from the rolls if a computer program matches their name to a voter in another state.
Read moreA conservative firebrand promoting President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud oversees a Kansas election system that threw out at least three times as many ballots as any similarly sized state did, fueling concerns about massive voter suppression should its practices become the national standard.
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