German Court Blocks Surveillance of Far-Right Party
A German court on Friday ordered a temporary halt to plans by the domestic intelligence agency to spy on the far-right AfD party for posing a threat to democracy.
Read moreA German court on Friday ordered a temporary halt to plans by the domestic intelligence agency to spy on the far-right AfD party for posing a threat to democracy.
Read moreGermany’s domestic intelligence agency has put the Alternative for Germany party under observation due to suspicions of extreme-right sympathies, German media reported Wednesday, a move against the biggest opposition party in parliament that comes only six months before a national election.
Read moreHungary’s governing party pulled out of its conservative group in the European Union’s legislature on Wednesday following years of conflict over the rule of law and European values.
Read moreItaly’s government crisis may be over for now after Mario Draghi, a former European Central Bank president, was appointed prime minister over the weekend. He is viewed by many as the best choice to lead Italy’s recovery from the pandemic.
Read moreNew York’s law overcame a challenge from a group that lost its political party status after declining to pick a presidential candidate for the 2020 election.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit dismissed the Common Sense Party’s challenge to the California election code requiring new political parties that wish to participate in a presidential election to obtain voter registrations equal to 0.33% of the number of registered voters in California.
Read moreWhile a state election law complaint proceeds in federal court, a New York political party asked a circuit panel to block new rules requiring it to pick a presidential candidate to gain ballot access.
Read moreThe Supreme Court was mostly unanimous Thursday in throwing out a challenge to Delaware’s system of keeping the state’s judicial seats split between the nation’s two major political parties.
Read moreA new survey conducted a week after the election found Trump supporters’ suspicions of voter fraud and election corruption have only strengthened since Joe Biden’s victory and most respondents think the presidential transition will be rocky.
Read moreThe Cook County clerk should not be bound by decades-old federal consent decrees meant to curb hiring and firing decisions based on political affiliations, her attorney argued before a Seventh Circuit panel Tuesday.
Read moreA Greek court sentenced the leadership of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party to 13 years in prison Wednesday, imposing the near-maximum penalty for running a criminal organization blamed for numerous violent hate crimes.
Read moreA Greek court ruled on Wednesday that the far-right Golden Dawn party was operating as a criminal organization, delivering landmark guilty verdicts following a politically charged five-year trial against dozens of defendants.
Read moreDespite 27 years of Democratic governors appointing the state’s judges, Delaware courts have remained balanced thanks to a law requiring judicial seats to be split between the two major political parties, a lawyer for the state argued Monday before the Supreme Court.
Read moreJaroslaw Kaczynski, the powerful leader of Poland’s dominant right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, will formally join the coalition government it leads, the prime minister said Wednesday.
Read moreAttorneys representing the two major political parties faced off in the Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday in a dispute over two state laws limiting Minnesotans’ ability to help others vote.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit upheld Florida’s ballot access law, which requires minor parties to have either an affiliation with a national party or a petition signed by 1% of the state population in order to appear on the ballot.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit granted Republicans a stay pending appeal of a federal judge’s order awarding Democrats a preliminary injunction to prevent Minnesota from enforcing a law governing the order in which candidates appear on the ballot.
Read moreA new Pew Research Center analysis of Facebook posts and tweets from members of Congress since 2015 shows that Democrats post more but Republicans have more audience engagement.
Read moreA federal judge denied a Green Party an injunction that would suspend signature requirements for placement on the presidential election ballot because restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic are applied equally to all political parties.
Read moreOn the heels of an estimate that up to 8% of all Americans have contracted Covid-19, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday that people are becoming more divided along party lines over their concerns about the pandemic and comfort in engaging in public activities again.
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