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CALIFORNIA -- Last week turned out to be a good one for California political reform and direct democracy.
A Pew Research study released on July 3 has found that Americans are sharply divided on what they see as the key to America's success -- and that divide falls roughly along racial and political demographics.
The presidential primary game is one of momentum, and
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is playing it surprisingly well.
On July 1, Kathryn Steinle was shot and killed on a popular pier in San Francisco. Her murderer, 45-year-old Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, had taken sleeping pills he found in a dumpster hours before the shooting. He claims he found a gun wrapped in a T-shirt on a bench and accidentally let off a shot, not realizing he had struck Steinle until he was apprehended an hour later.
said there is "o greater waste of a vote than to keep voting for the two political parties that keep throwing you under the bus." Stein argues that the current election system leaves voters with only one option, and that is to choose the lesser of two evils.
In a recent interview with Mint Press News, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein
This week, the
Supreme Court rejected a challenge by the Arizona legislature, which was seeking to invalidate an Independent Redistricting Commission established by Arizonans through the initiative and referendum process.
I have to confess, I'm somewhat of an aficionado of gallows humor, and watching a politician self-destruct in the spectacular implosion that Trump has done in the last two weeks has made me cackle on several occasions.
But then it dawned on me: Maybe this total implosion is actually the reason he would be the best candidate for the job in 2016.
If you are an enjoyer of weekends and you live in Wisconsin, man do I have bad news for you. Over the Fourth of July weekend, eventual presidential candidate Scott Walker and Wisconsin State Senate Republicans quietly passed a controversial state budget.
Introduction to the Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court
ISSUE: Whether a New Jersey statute mandating that otherwise qualified voters join one of two particular political parties as a condition of voting at an integral stage of the State’s election process violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
Filed: July 7, 2015