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Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service: Without a national solution, Maryland Democrats squeezed into uncomfortable spot on redistricting
Common Cause’s Antoine said redistricting presents a bad look for the state.
“Voters have no reason to trust the redistricting process. The process is riddled with problems,” she said. “We continue to punt to this idea of a...
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Confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court a Victory for the American People
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The Guardian: Dark money: the quixotic quest to clean up US campaign financing
Super Pacs are obliged to...
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Reuters: Georgia Republicans pass bill empowering law enforcement to investigate elections
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CNBC: Inside the consulting firm run by Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
“Disclosure must be robust for it to be truly meaningful in this context so financial disclosures should include consulting contracts. As you have seen already, when justices complete their annual reports, they list information that does not give a complete view of their spouse’s...
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia Legislature passes bill empowering GBI to investigate elections
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Common Cause Urges House Members to Support Criminal Contempt Charges for Navarro & Scavino for Ignoring Congressional Subpoenas
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Kansas City Star/Yahoo! News: Kansas Senate drops effort to remove ethics watchdog as details of investigation emerge
“This ethics agency has a job to do for everyday Americans,” Rotman said. “They have a job to do for we the people who have these laws in place, and they have a job to do and if there has been any potential issue they need to investigate, they need to be able to start to do their jobs and go forward with this without potential...
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PolitiFact: Terrorism bulletin not attempt to criminalize free speech, despite claim
"It is abundantly clear that we live in a time of increased threats of violence against election officials and poll workers fueled by election disinformation and conspiracy theories and like a pile of dry kindling it only takes a spark to ignite real world violence," Littlewood wrote in an email.
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Miami Herald: Judge who worked with GOP on redistricting is asked to withdraw from suit over new maps
Winsor, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump, is one of three judges named by Chief Judge William Pryor to a panel to handle the case. Also on the panel is U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, a George W. Bush...
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Courthouse News Service: DeSantis rejects GOP-drawn Florida redistricting map
“Florida voters overwhelmingly adopted some of the...
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HuffPost: Clarence Thomas Has Recused Himself From Cases Involving His Son — But Not His Wife
Further investigation by Common Cause revealed that Clarence Thomas had failed to...