This Article undertakes a systematic rebuttal to the arguments made by Supreme Court nominees and others that Court nominees are constrained, in their Senate hearings on possible confirmation, from expressing their specific views on legal issues and cases of the day. It argues that nominee ...
President Trump was acquitted on Wednesday by the Senate of the two articles of impeachment brought against him by the House. Here is how each of the 100 U.S. senators voted.
theSenate race is a toss-up, while the governor’s race ismore squarely in Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s column. Still, though, in a state that has changed so much in the past 20-odd years, a lot may come down to how many — and if — Black voting-age Georgians cast their ballo...
Electors are allocated based on how many representatives a state has in the House of Representatives, plus its two senators. The District of Columbia gets three, despite the fact that the home to Congress has no vote in Congress. Advertisement ...
The vice president would be selected by a simple majority in the Senate, and all senators would have a vote. As a result, it's possible that the president and vice president could be from different parties. Since the 12th Amendment was ratified in 1804, there have been contingent elections...
In how many ways can a commitee of 2 men and 2 women be formed from a group of 11 men and 10 women? Combinations: The total number of possible ways to choose r items out of n unique items where the order of choosing does not matter is called the tota...
The FiveThirtyEight Senate model tends to produce fairly stable forecasts. That can make things a bit dull from day to day; most of the time, the new polls and data we collect have little effect on the bottom line. But now and then almost all the polls on a particular day favor one ...
Democrats adopted this rule after the 2016 election in order to limit the power of unpledged delegates, formerly known as “superdelegates.” All Democratic governors, U.S. senators and representatives, current and former Democratic National Committee chairs, and former presidents serve as unpledged...
“While the trades cannot be declared illegal unless it can be proven that either Pelosi acted on non-public information — in which case it would be the felony of insider trading — the ethical stench is obvious. Just as was true when numerous Senators from both parties sold stocks in CO...
Voters will also elect new members of Congress, the legislative branch of the US government which is made up of two parts: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each state has two Senators and at least one Representative. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for elect...