Articles by Juan Hernandez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLBklg_fE18 Video Credit: CBS News US Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) announced his retirement from Congress Wednesday, making him yet another Republican lawmaker who will not seek re-election in the 2018 midterms. Gowdy is returning home to practice law, and is reportedly leaving because he isn't happy with the divisive political environment in Washington. “Whatever skills I may have are better utilized in a courtroom than in Congress, and I enjoy our justice system mo...

In a report from the New York Times, Donald Trump's son met with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. Citing advisers briefed on the meeting, the Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. attended the meeting in June 2016 after being promised "damaging information" about his father's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Trump's eldest son was reportedly joined in the meeting by the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The younger Tr...

In 2014 and 2015, Level the Playing Field (LPF) filed two complaints against the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Simply put, LPF argued that (1) the CPD was not a nonpartisan organization, as its tax-deductible nonprofit status requires, and (2) the CPD's rule requiring candidates to get 15% in the polls in order to qualify for the presidential debates was unfair. The FEC dismissed both complaints without any real consideration. In January, ...

A new bill has worked its way into the Maine legislature. Presented and co-sponsored by Republican and Democratic state lawmakers, it seeks to “require candidates to be listed as unenrolled if not registered with a recognized party.” That’s right, it seems that for these legislators, “independent” is now too strong of a word for those who decide to run with no party affiliation. But it’s not only independents who would be affected by this law. The only recognized parties in the state of Maine ...

The Arizona State Legislature passed HB 2302 by a vote of 34-24 in February. The bill adds two statutes to the Arizona constitution making it illegal for presidential electors to vote against their party’s candidate. An elector would be automatically ineligible to serve should they choose to put conscience above party loyalty. Once the elector's intentions are revealed, the state party chair would appoint a person to replace him or her, who would then cast the electoral vote. For those followi...

Much has been said about whether Democrats should pay the Republicans back for their arbitrary blocking of President Obama’s SCOTUS nominee. Or if they should just pay the GOP back for 8 years of obstructionism across the board, which they had to suffer under President Obama. In the four years following the signing of Obamacare, House Republicans voted 54 times to repeal, defund or cripple Obamacare, when they had no replacement or alternative ready to go. They continue to display a lack of a c...

Milo Yiannopoulos, the flamboyant, former Breitbart editor and spokesperson for the Alt-Right, was confronted with an attack coming from the social conservatives on his own "right" side of the political isle. Of course, as the news hit -- the left piled on. Milo was scheduled to speak at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee), the annual political conference attended by conservative activists, when comments he made regarding pedophilia were promoted heavily by groups associated with #Ne...

President Donald Trump’s first weeks as president seem to be centered around one strategy: Prove to the American people that he’s a man of his word and that unlike most politicians, he will actually keep his campaign promises. Despite the rocky start, he has mostly been successful in this endeavor. Travel ban? Executive order signed. Border wall? In the works. Restrictions on lobbying? Done. Trump has shown voters he is indeed a man of his word with the stroke of a pen. In fact, according to Ga...

As reported on IVN this week, the Supreme Court will be considering two legal efforts to shut out voters from publicly-funded primaries: Ravalli County Republican Party v McCulloch and Democratic Party of Hawaii v Nago. McCulloch and Nago are the respective secretaries of state for their particular states, but the lawsuits might as well be called the Two Major Parties v The People.Hawaii and Montana are by all means two very different states. Hawaii is basically a one-party state, where the Demo...