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Registration Form Changes Target Student Voters
Common Cause is challenging a federal official's approval of changes to voter registration forms used in three states.
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Washington’s Wisdom: Advice to the Senate on the Supreme Court Vacancy from a Real Originalist
This afternoon, the United States Senate will observe one of its most hallowed traditions: the annual reading of President George Washington's farewell address, penned in 1796. Every year, a senator is assigned to read the address into the Congressional Record, and then adding his or her signature to a leather-bound book that is kept by the secretary of the Senate for posterity. This observance began during the Civil War.
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Gerrymander Gazette – February 2016
In this monthly newsletter, Common Cause will provide periodic updates on the goofy politics that allow this anachronism to survive and the grassroots campaigns, legislative efforts, and litigation that are allowing citizens to fight back and make their voices heard.
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Gerrymander Gazette – March 2016
In this monthly newsletter, Common Cause will provide periodic updates on the goofy politics that allow this anachronism to survive and the grassroots campaigns, legislative efforts, and litigation that are allowing citizens to fight back and make their voices heard.
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Dissecting the Call for a New Constitutional Convention
Common Cause warns editors and reporters about the dangers of a proposed constitutional convention
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Tuesday, March 8
PLUTOCRACY, ITS CONSEQUENCES, AND THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY
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BREAKING: Ford Leaves ALEC!
ALEC, Ford, climate change
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Democracy reform is becoming the defining issue of the 2016 race
Campaign finance, money in politics, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, John Kasich, 2016 election, New Hampshire, redistricting, Citizens United, disclosure, Ted Cruz
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Federal Court Orders Redrawing of North Carolina Congressional Districts
A three-judge federal district court panel has ruled that North Carolina’s 1st and 12th Congressional Districts constitute an unlawful racial gerrymander and have ordered the state’s congressional map to be redrawn by February 19.
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The Scariest Cable Merger Nobody In Washington Is Talking About
When Comcast tried to merge with Time Warner Cable last year, reaction was swift and negative. Not many people liked the idea of America’s largest and least loved cable company getting any bigger; the deal collapsed after hundreds of thousands of Americans spoke out and federal regulators signaled that they would not let it go forward
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Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission to Debate Congressional Gerrymandering
A committee of Ohio’s Constitutional Modernization Commission will vote tomorrow on whether to recommend that the General Assembly pass reforms to stop the gerrymandering of the state’s congressional districts.
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Maryland Redistricting Bill Seeks Reversal of State’s Cynical History of Gerrymandering
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has introduced legislation that would end the process of elected leaders drawing General Assembly districts and congressional districts for political and partisan advantage.
