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Opposing Democratic and Republican Party Agendas
The United States has long functioned largely as a two-party nation with smaller and less influential secondary parties.
While the Democratic and Republican parties have existed as the two major parties for much of U.S. history – with changing perspectives and political philosophies over time – other parties or blocs have organized under the banner of the Whigs, Federalists, Free Soil, American or Know Nothings, Unionists, Libertarians, Green, Socialist Workers, People’s Party, Progressive or Bull Moose, and Youth International.
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The “real” leadership election in the Utah GOP
While the main event at next week’s GOP convention is the race for party chair, there’s some intrigue boiling under the surface as members of the party’s State Central Committee are up for election, too.
In practical terms, the SCC is the real power behind the party. They’re the governing body for the state party and determine the direction of the Utah GOP. All of the county party leaders are members. The rest of the 180+ seats are filled through elections at the county and state level.
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On April 20, a U.S. District Court issued an opinion in Arsenault v Way, 3:16cv-1854, striking down the New Jersey residence requirement for petitioners who wish to circulate petitions for candidates running in primaries. Here is the 21-page decision. The case had been filed in 2016 when Rocky De La Fuente was running in Democratic presidential primaries. He needed 1,000 signatures of registered Democrats in order to get on the New Jersey Democratic presidential primary. He did not get on that ballot; the only candidates who appeared on that ballot were Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Originally the U.S. District Court had upheld the restriction, but then the Third Circuit had remanded it and said the lower court should have used the strict scrutiny test. Under that test, the law cannot survive unless the state can show that it has a compelling need for the restriction. The state tried to argue that the Democratic and Republican Parties would be harmed witho
Kemp has become an outcast within the GOP after resisting Trump’s demands to reverse his loss in the 2020 presidential election. Kemp had hoped that signing an expansive elections bill into law last month would help rehabilitate his once-strong standing among conservatives.
So far, however, it has done little to smooth over tensions with the Trump wing of the party.
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The former president has continued to criticize Kemp, arguing that the recently signed election law, S.B. 202, does not do enough to address his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Last week, several county Republican parties in Georgia voted to censure Kemp. And on Friday, Vernon Jones, a staunchly pro-Trump Republican, launched a primary challenge against the first-term governor, who’s up for reelection next year.
Though it arrived several days late, the 2021 New York State budget was a remarkable document, the most far-reaching effort of its kind in modern history.