Category: Federal
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Cunningham wins Democratic primary for Senate in NC
Cal Cunningham defeated Erica Smith and three other candidates in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in North Carolina on Tuesday. Cunningham led with 57.6% of the vote, followed by Smith with 35.2%, as of 8:40 p.m. ET with 12.4% of precincts reporting. Cunningham, a member of the Army Reserves and a former state senator…
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Ballotpedia releases federal judicial vacancy count for February
In this month’s federal judicial vacancy count, Ballotpedia tracked nominations, confirmations, and vacancies from February 4, 2020, to March 2, 2020. Ballotpedia publishes the federal judicial vacancy count at the start of each month. HIGHLIGHTS • Vacancies: There has been one new judicial vacancy since the January 2020 report. There are 72 vacancies out of…
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Justice Thomas signals reconsideration of judicial deference doctrine
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote on February 24 that he would reconsider his 2005 Brand X opinion. He made his remarks while dissenting from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to hear Baldwin v. U.S., which challenged Brand X. Thomas argued that Brand X appears to be “inconsistent with the Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA),…
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U.S. Supreme Court allows DHS to enforce public charge rule in Illinois
The U.S. Supreme Court on February 21 voted 5-4 to allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enforce in Illinois a rule that allows the federal government to deny immigrants a visa or a green card if they rely on government assistance. The court let DHS enforce the same rule elsewhere in the…
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Rep. Ralph Abraham not seeking re-election; 2,598 major party candidates filed for 2020 Congress elections
Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-La.) announced last week he would not seek re-election this year. He was the 28th Republican member of the U.S. House to announce he would not seek re-election in 2020. Nine Democratic representatives have announced they will not run for re-election. Four senators (three Republicans and one Democrat) are not running for…
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Sanders tops 11,000 pageviews in a week
Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or…
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Trump remains leader in appeals court appointees and second in total judicial appointments since Carter
Donald Trump has appointed and the Senate confirmed 193 Article III federal judges through March 1, 2020, his fourth year in office. This is the second-most Article III judicial appointments through this point in a presidency of all presidents dating back to Jimmy Carter. Only Carter (207) had more. The average number of federal judges…
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President Trump endorses former White House physician Ronny Jackson in TX-13 Republican primary
President Donald Trump endorsed former White House physician Ronny Jackson ahead of the March 3 Republican primary for Texas’ 13th Congressional District. On Friday evening, Trump tweeted, “I hope we can get Admiral @RonnyJackson4TX of Texas, who served our Country so well, into the runoff election in #TX13! Ronny is strong on Crime and Borders,…
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Biden wins South Carolina Democratic primary
Former Vice President Joe Biden won the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary on Saturday night. With 50 percent of precincts reporting, Biden received 50% of the vote. Sen. Bernie Sanders was second with 19%. Former investor Tom Steyer was the only other candidate to pass the double-digit mark and was third at 12%. Fifty-four pledged…
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D.C. Circuit rules against HHS approval of Arkansas Medicaid work requirements
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against an attempt to allow Arkansas to institute work requirements for Medicaid recipients. On February 14, 2020, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit ruled in Gresham v. Azar that Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex…