Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was on the ballot Tuesday, as voters enshrined it into the state constitution in battleground Michigan as well as blue California and Vermont and dealt a defeat to an anti-abortion measure in deep-red Kentucky. In all, it was a dramatic...
Arizona GOP Passes Election Bill Opposed by Business Leaders
PHOENIX — Arizona Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to make it easier to purge thousands of people from a list of voters who automatically get a ballot each election, ignoring protests from Democrats and prominent business leaders who said the measure would suppress the votes of people of color. The party-line...
Walters: Changing Election Rules Alters Outcomes
Periodically, owners of major league sports teams change game rules and in doing so they inevitably affect the games’ outcomes, purposely or not. Politics are no different. Changing the rules of campaigning, voting and other political procedures affects election results. We saw an example of that adage this year. Loosening...
Trump Administration Plans 2nd Execution in as Many Days
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head against a truck’s windows and dashboard. Lawyers...
How Clovis Unified Trustees Are Elected Is Under the Microscope
Community activist Chris Milton says Clovis Unified School District is breaking state law and failing to provide true representation to residents by continuing to elect trustees at large instead of by area. A more diverse board, Milton said in a recent open letter to the district posted on Facebook, would...
Face-Off: Treisman vs. Egan for Fresno County Judge
Former Fresno County District Attorney Elizabeth Egan is squaring off against Douglas Treisman, a senior deputy district attorney, in the lone contested judicial race on the March 3 ballot. Egan served as DA from 2002 through 2014 before Lisa Smittcamp upended her in a contentious election. Treisman has worked in several...
Here's How America's Allies Are Viewing U.S. Politics Right Now
For American politics, it’s been a week for the ages: a bungled start to the 2020 presidential primary season, a State of the Union speech with partisanship on full display and a conclusion to the most contentious chapter of all — the nation’s third-ever impeachment trial. Watching all this from...
Little and No Choice in Many Californian Legislative Races
SACRAMENTO — Millions of Californians have little or no choice when it comes to choosing a state legislator. In 24 of the 100 districts on the ballot, only candidates from one party are running. And in 15 of those districts, the incumbent lawmaker is unopposed and all but assured of...
Face-Off: Treisman vs. Egan for Fresno County Judge
Former Fresno County District Attorney Elizabeth Egan is squaring off against Douglas Treisman, a senior deputy district attorney, in the lone contested judicial race on the March 3 ballot. Egan served as DA from 2002 through 2014 before Lisa Smittcamp upended her in a contentious election. Treisman has worked in several...
AP-NORC Poll: GOP More Fired up for 2020, Democrats Anxious
When it comes to the 2020 presidential election, Democrats are nervous wrecks and Republican excitement has grown. That's according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research as Americans look ahead to a high-stakes election that is 10 months away but still very much top...