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Congress Effectively Legalizes Medical Marijuana at the Federal Level
Last week, Congress avoided a government shutdown by agreeing to a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded for another week.Then over the weekend, US lawmakers agreed to a deal tha...
SCOTUS Sets Conference Date for Hawaii, Montana Open Primary Cases
The Supreme Court of the United States will consider whether or not to take up two open primary cases in Montana and Hawaii at its May 11 conference. The cases were brought by the majority party in bo...
Debriefing Democracy: 5 Takeaways in Nonpartisan News This Week
From the ongoing legal battle against the Commission on Presidential Debates to taking nonpartisan election reform to the nation's largest battleground state, here are 5 key stories on election and po...
Independents, Green Candidate Make Final Appeal for Ballot Access in Montana Special Election
On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Green Party candidate Thomas Breck's emergency motion requesting injunctive relief to be on the ballot in the special election to fill Montana's on...
Judge: Ballot Access Barrier in Montana Special Election is Unconstitutional
Independent and minor party candidates in Montana were handed a bittersweet victory in their bids to replace former Congressman Ryan Zinke.On April 8, Federal Judge Brian Morris ru...
Montana Blocks Out Competition For State's Only Congressional Seat
The special election process to replace Congressman Ryan Zinke as Montana’s sole representative in the U.S. House is being challenged in court.Three plaintiffs are suing Montana Secretary of State Cor...
12 States Where Both Parties Are Suppressing the Right to Vote
At no time in history has the issue of “open v. closed primaries” been so prominent in the national discussion as it is today. This is, in large part, because Bernie Sanders made it a plank of his pre...
SCOTUS Hints Partisan Open Primaries May Be Unconstitutional
The U.S. Supreme Court might be headed toward a major decision regarding partisan open primary elections. In two court cases, the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively, have challenged the c...
A Bipartisan Effort to Gain Control and Disenfranchise Voters?
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 Part...
Supreme Court To Consider Hearing Bipartisan Lawsuits Challenging Open Primaries
Legal efforts to shut out voters from publicly-funded primary elections in Hawaii and Montana may be heard by the Supreme Court next week.The lawsuits challenging open primaries were brought by Republ...