Tag: 2022 Midterm Elections

Alan Dershowitz Asks Judge to Be Excused From Sanctions Linked to Kari Lake Lawsuit

Retired Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz said he wasn’t part of the legal team that represented Kari Lake and Mark Finchem in connection to a lawsuit that was filed in early 2022 and later rejected. In 2022, U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi tossed filings by Lake and fellow Republican Mark Finchem. Months later,…


150,000 Votes in the 2020 Election Not Tied to a Valid Address in Wisconsin: Election Watchdog

Election Watch (EW), a Wisconsin election integrity watchdog organization, has discovered that more than 150,000 votes cast in the 2020 presidential election cannot be connected with a valid address. EW computer analyst Peter Bernegger said the group’s study of Wisconsin’s voter rolls found 45,000 such occurrences involving people who were living out of state in…


150,000 Votes in the 2020 Election Not Tied to a Valid Address in Wisconsin

Election Watch (EW), a Wisconsin election integrity watchdog organization, has discovered that more than 150,000 votes cast in the 2020 presidential election cannot be connected with a valid address. EW computer analyst Peter Bernegger said the group’s study of Wisconsin’s voter rolls found 45,000 such occurrences involving people who were living out of state in…


Rep. Donalds Explains Switching Vote From McCarthy in Speaker Election

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) flipped his vote against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for House speakership during the third round of voting on Jan. 3, despite voting for the Republican leader on the first and second ballots. “These continuous votes aren’t working for anyone,” Donalds said in a Twitter thread following the flip. “When the dust…


Pennsylvania House Majority Still Unclear as New Speaker Named

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives will be led by a Democrat who vows to become an independent, was nominated by Republicans, and has ties to Democrat Governor-Elect Josh Shapiro. In a tense nomination process on Tuesday, Rep. Mark Rozzi of Berks County was named Speaker of the House, with 115 members voting for Rozzi and 85…


Buckle Up: 45 State Legislatures Convene 2023 Sessions by Jan. 18

Forty-five state legislatures will convene 2023 sessions by Jan. 18, with 35 doing so on or before Jan. 11—including 18 this week. By the time deliberations conclude in December, the nation’s 7,383 state lawmakers will introduce on average a collective 110,000 bills—250,000 across two-year biennium sessions—and adopt more than 30,000 new laws and regulations. While…


Kari Lake Files Petition to Transfer Election Lawsuit to Arizona Supreme Court

Arizona GOP candidate Kari Lake filed a petition to transfer her election case from Maricopa County to the Arizona Supreme Court over the past weekend, coming as Democrat Katie Hobbs was sworn in as governor of Arizona in a ceremony. Lake’s petition claims that “evidence put forward in this case, including the changing and conflicting…


Joe Biden to Promote Infrastructure With McConnell in Kentucky

President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) will make a rare joint appearance in Kentucky on Jan. 4 to highlight the president’s $1.2 trillion spending plan, the White House announced Sunday. Joined by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, and Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, the two are to…


The 22 Most Significant Stories of 2022

In the last episode of the year, I review 22 significant things that happened in 2022. From athletes who were barred from playing their sport, to political bias at the federal level, to the year of Musk, these 22 events were timestamps on a year that saw record inflation, a border crisis, and the redefinition…


Democrat House Representative Resigns Early From Congress

Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) announced Friday he resigned early from Congress, just days before his term would have come to an end on Tuesday. A member of the House since 2004, Butterfield did not run for reelection during the 2022 midterms. He told local media Friday that he’s beginning his employment at a Washington law…