The Volcanoes That Are Defining Today's Federalism
We’re used to thinking of it as a waterfall of policies and fights flowing down from Washington. But increasingly it’s about ideas and movements that are erupting from the states.
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We’re used to thinking of it as a waterfall of policies and fights flowing down from Washington. But increasingly it’s about ideas and movements that are erupting from the states.
So much. he says in the 2020 election, these voting rules had only minor affects on turn out and no effect at all on the democratic turnout in the presidential election. so what might that mean for 2022 when many new laws have only recently been put in place. joining me, alan abramowitz, he performed an analysis for crystal ball uva where he's a senior economist. professor, what did you do and with what result? >> well, what i did, essentially was to analyze the variation in election laws that existed in 2020. and look at the impact of that had on both voter turnout and on the outcome of the e...
>> alan abramowitz, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. i encourage people to read what you published at sabato's crystal ball. to everybody at home, i want to know what you think. go to my web website @smerconish.com. this is my survey question. which do you think is a greater threat to democracy, the way we cast our ballots or the way we count them? tweet my at my smerconish page. this comes from the world of twitter which says, why add fuel to the fire, michael? the wording implies there is a threat to our democracy. don't we have enough miss trust now? ck grammy waiting for spring, t...
A federal judge has held that Pennsylvania’s Rule 8.4(g),1 which subjects lawyers to professional discipline for engaging in discriminatory conduct, violates both the free speech...
MARCH 27 — In a test of his enduring influence over the Republican Party, former President Donald Trump returned to Georgia yesterday to stump for allies who support his ongoing false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him – starting with Georgia. At a rally in Commerce, a small city...