The issue of abortion will be before voters in at least four states this year, and possibly more. Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S.
“The United States of America is the greatest idea humanity ever devised,” Harris said. “In seven days, we have the power, each of you has the power, to turn the page, and start writing the next chapter in the most extraordinary story...
bricks," Mark Fielding said Friday, pointing to two driving factors. "Two big factors: firstly a return to mandated targets for house building supporting 1.5 million new homes over the next five years, which would be a big positive, and secondly hopes on planning reforms, targeting ...
Elections also happened in 2024 for some seats in the Rajya Sabha (“Council of States”), the upper house of parliament, as part of the two-year cycle in which roughly one-third of Rajya Sabha members are replaced by newly elected members. The Lok Sabha is considered the more powerful ...
and the States to adopt even limited measures to protect against corporate domination of the electoral process. Americans may be forgiven if they do not feel the Court has advanced the cause of self-government today.” Stevens’s opinion (whichconcurredwith the majority’s ruling on the disclosur...
A lot of states are beyond the reach of one party or the other. Going into those as an ego boost or as some kind of psychological warfare would be folly, given that time and money are limited. Republicans already have a money problem. It would only be an in-kind...
Surprisingly, the S&P 500 took all the political chaos of 1968 mostly in stride. The index rallied 15% during the period between Johnson's announcement through the end of the year, which concluded with the election of Republican Richard Nixon. At the end of 1968, the S&P 500 had gained 7....
He observed that profiting from election denial goes back to the 2000 Bush v. Gore election but noted that in that case, election lawyers were making all the money. Today's denialists are notably different, he said. "Now it's not the attorneys," Schwab said. "Now, it's people who can...
Republican Kelly Ayotte will win New Hampshire governor’s race in political comeback, CNN projects 7 states vote to protect abortion rights, while efforts to expand access in Florida and South Dakota fail 8 states will vote to bar noncitizen voting, CNN projects, something already illegal in ...
Holder, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that the formula for determining which states and locations must preclear voting law changes was based on data from 1964, 1968 and 1972. “Our country has changed,” he wrote, arguing that Congress should come up with a new formula. It never did ...