Justices to Decide Judicial Affiliation Case Out of Delaware
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of Delaware’s system of making political party affiliation requirements when it hires new judges.
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Merkel’s Coalition Government Faces New Strains
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partners, the struggling center-left Social Democrats, picked a pair of left-leaning politicians to lead the party, a surprise move that will seriously test the so-called grand coalition with Merkel’s conservatives.
Read moreTexas Election Code
A federal court in Texas declined to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the state’s election code places unconstitutional burdens on minor political parties but also declined to block changes to the code passed by state lawmakers this year that require minor parties to meet the same requirements as major parties for getting candidates onto a ballot.
Read moreFar-Right Surge Pushes Spain’s Left to Come Together
Faced with a surge in support in Sunday elections for the far-right nationalist Vox party, Spain’s Socialist party will try to form a coalition government with a smaller far-left party it had previously rejected as a partner.
Read moreFar-Right Parties Make Gains in German, Italian Elections
Two elections in two distant, and very different, parts of Europe saw the emergence of two similar storylines: Far-right political forces remain strong and pose problems to the ruling coalitions in Germany and Italy.
Read moreGreen Parties Make Big Gains in Swiss Parliament
The Swiss went to the polls for parliamentary elections Sunday and while turnout was down, change was up as environmentalist parties made historic gains.
Read morePoland’s Nationalist Party Wins Big in Elections
Poland’s ruling conservative nationalist party won parliamentary elections on Sunday, a result that likely will lead it to seek to exert even more control over the country’s judiciary and deepen a showdown with the European Union.
Read morePoll Shows Partisan Animosity Has Deepened Since 2016
Americans are showing more animosity toward members of the opposing political party, with the majority of both Republicans and Democrats saying those on the other side of the aisle are too close-minded, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday.
Read moreMinor-Party Petition Rules Roil Minnesota Libertarians
Minnesota Libertarians brought a federal complaint Wednesday over a state law that bans voters who sign their party petitions from voting in primary elections.
Read moreNewcomer Parties Balk at Magnifying-Glass Voting in NY
Happier to team up in court than on the ballot, two New York political parties have sued to overturn an election law that consolidates political endorsements.
Read morePartisan Gap Drives Split Views of American Economy
Most Americans view the state of their personal finances positively, but their opinions on the economy as a whole and President Donald Trump’s effect on it are deeply divided by political affiliations, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday.
Read moreNY ‘Public Financing’ Commission Called Threat to Fusion Voting
Taking aim at a new commission promised to make New York elections fairer, dozens of voters, candidates and political organizations claim in court that the resulting hit to fusion voting will ultimately hurt equality.
Read morePolitical Eruption in Italy: Government Veers Toward Collapse
Any day now Italy’s coalition government — molded from an unlikely alliance of two populist parties drawn from the left and the right — could fall and plunge Europe into a new crisis.
Read moreNorth Carolina Judges Probe Partisan Bias in Gerrymandering Trial
The first day of a trial on partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina kicked off Monday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal in June to wade into the dispute.
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Third Parties Challenge Hurdles to Ballot Access in Texas
Complaining that it costs over $600,000 to collect signatures to get on a general election ballot in Texas, the Libertarian Party and others sued the state in federal court Thursday alleging its election laws favor Republicans and Democrats in races for statewide office.
Read moreMoscow Accused of Funding Salvini’s Right-Wing Party
Opposition lawmakers in Italy on Thursday demanded that Interior Minister Matteo Salvini appear in Parliament about allegations that a covert Russian oil sale scheme was devised to fund his pro-Moscow League party.
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Marine Veteran Will Challenge Mitch McConnell for Senate Seat
Amy McGrath, a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky, has set her sights on an even more formidable target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Read morePoll Shows Capitalism Still More Popular Than Socialism
Socialism was once used as a euphemism for Communism in the 20th century and has long carried negative connotations. A new survey shows that while the concept has gained traction in modern public discourse, it still lags well behind the popularity of capitalism in America.
Read moreDC Circuit OKs Payment-Plan Rules for Campaign Donors
The en banc D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that it will keep in place an installment plan for nearly $250,000 bequeathed to the Libertarian Party.
Read moreUS Museum Condemns Use of Its Art by German Far-Right Party
An American art museum is demanding that a German far-right party stop using one of its paintings, portraying a 19th-century slave auction, in a campaign poster for the European elections.
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