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On May 20, Fox News announced the rules on who will be invited into the August 6, 2015 Republican presidential debate. Also on May 20, CNN announced the rules for the September 16 debate. The Republican National Committee had earlier decided not to set any rules, and to let the networks sponsoring the debates make the rules.
The August 6 Fox debate will invite the top ten candidates, as measured by polls. The CNN September 16 debates will be in two parts. One will be for the top ten candidates, as shown by polls. The other …read more

On May 17, the Minnesota legislature passed an omnibus election law bill, SF 455. Among other things, it says the party petition can only be circulated for one year. The old law lets a group take as long as it wishes to complete the petition. The bill provides that the group would choose its own one-year period. …read more

Congress is being asked to vote without reading #TPP #fasttrack Please re-tweet.

President Obama is finalizing the 12-nation, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. He wants a “fast track” bill to prevent Congress from amending the TPP before voting on it.

There are two problems…
YOU aren’t allowed to even know what’s in the TPP!
Congress is being actively discouraged from reading it
That’s why I told Congress to pass the “Read the Bills Act” through DownsizeDC.org.

Please do the same. You may borrow from or copy this letter…
The TPP proves why we need Downsize DC’s Read the Bills Act. …read more

Los Angeles, California – This week, it was reported that the U.S. Supreme Court will allow a lawsuit against the LAPD for covering up evidence that would have prevented a man from sitting in jail for 27 months prior to his trial. Lawyers for the LAPD recently filed an appeal, arguing that since the man had not stood trial yet, that it was OK for them to conceal the evidence during his detainment. However, the Supreme court has now struck down the appeal, allowing the lawsuit to continue.
The lawsuit was initially filed by Michael Walker, a man who is now …read more

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Ricky Jackson, who spent 39 years in jail for a murder he did not commit, is suing the police officers who allegedly helped frame him. Jackson was convicted on the testimony of a 12-year-old boy who didn’t see the crime and later retracted his statement.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday against the city of Cleveland, alleges that eight officers, including detectives and their superiors, were involved in framing Jackson and brothers Wiley and Ronnie Bridgeman for the killing of salesman Harold Franks, which occurred in the Cleveland area in 1975. Three of the officers involved in the case have …read more

Ralph Nader has this op-ed in The Morning Call, daily newspaper published in Allentown, Pennsylvania. …read more

You can see the bills Congress has passed so far this year. We will continue to update throughout the year…

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On May 18, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear O’Keefe v Chisholm, 14-872. Wisconsin state courts will now continue to determine whether the Wisconsin Club for Growth illegally coordinated campaign spending strategy with Governor Scott Walker during the campaign to recall him.
See this story, which gives background for the case. Individuals and groups who are the target of the investigation had asked the federal courts to protect them from the methods used in the investigation. The lead plaintiff in the federal case, Eric O’Keefe, is a former national director of the Libertarian Party. …read more

A video uploaded to Facebook Sunday captured a Georgia sheriff’s deputy’s unlawful disregard for the First Amendment.
A trucker driving through Georgia was stopped by WCSO deputy J. Rozier. In an effort to hold his detaining officer accountable, Carl Eastman, decided to film his traffic stop.
Eastman is cordial as he approaches the back of his tractor-trailer to speak with deputy Rozier. After the two greet each other, Rozier realizes that he is being held accountable by Eastman’s camera; he did not like this.
As Rozier asks for Eastman’s bill of lading and ID, he then asks him if he’d mind putting down …read more

Albuquerque, NM — Dale Lusian was no saint, he was allegedly caught breaking into vehicles and stealing parts in an auto junkyard. When the police K-9 found him hiding in a car, Lusian shot the dog three times.
Whether or not Lusian is a good person is irrelevant in this incident as it’s what police did to his dead body that is making waves in the Albuquerque Police Department and the New Mexico State Police.
After the death of Lusian, police were mum on the details of what happened on March 21, 2014. Local News team, KRQE sued the department for the …read more