2025 Court Expands Executive Control Over Agencies
Key 2025 rulings significantly curtailed independent agency protections and expanded presidential removal powers.
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Key 2025 rulings significantly curtailed independent agency protections and expanded presidential removal powers.
Rep. Jared Golden marks the third anniversary of the Lewiston shooting by honoring the 18 killed and 13 injured while urging action on high home...
Two rulings highlight judicial resistance to federal demands for voter information.
Massachusetts voters have the right to cast ballots freely and safely amid interference concerns.
The voter guide frames health freedom as a down-ballot issue decided by state legislators and school boards elected November 3.
State leaders with freedom to self-govern deliver local solutions that create transformational change, highlighting why federalism matters.
Paige Walston Minshew's encounters with first-time voters in former Soviet states—facing intimidation yet voting with pride—highlight that free...
Rep. Gillen's bipartisan legislation would deliver $10 billion over five years in federal funding for water contaminant remediation, including PFAS.
Justice Kagan argues the Court's decisions on voting rights, gerrymandering, and campaign finance have blinded the majority to their harmful effects...
Judges aren't supposed to please presidents—a principle settled when the Senate acquitted Justice Samuel Chase in 1804 after Thomas Jefferson sought...
Congresswoman Shontel Brown's Securing Elections from AI Deception Act would prohibit AI use that deprives or defrauds people of voting rights and...
Democratic 5th District candidate Tom Perriello joined Virginia Right to Vote advocates to promote Question 3, a November ballot measure that would...
Voters in Idaho, Nevada, and Virginia will consider measures to expand abortion protections, while Missouri seeks to repeal its 2024 rights...
Reported federal monitoring of Colorado's June primary is cast by Democratic Secretary of State candidate Amanda Gonzalez as a political stunt to...
Justice Kagan's public rebuke of rulings weakening the Voting Rights Act, enabling partisan gerrymandering, and loosening campaign finance limits...
Trump announced two district court nominations just before the November 3 midterms, with Senate hearings set for November 10 and 18—placing potential...
Kentucky’s new election law is already reshaping the November vote in three key areas.
Voter fraud claims lack supporting evidence yet have been repeatedly invoked to justify ID laws, citizenship proofs, and roll purges. Kobach and...