Category: Federal
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U.S. Supreme Court affirms state court authority to overturn congressional district boundaries in Moore v. Harper
On June 27, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Moore v. Harper that the North Carolina Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning the state’s congressional district boundaries did not conflict with the Elections Clause in the U.S. Constitution. Although the state supreme court subsequently reversed its decision, SCOTUS upheld the state court’s authority to decide…
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Trump leads in 2024 Republican presidential primary RealClearPolitics polling average and PredictIt market
As of June 26, 2023, former President Donald Trump (R) holds a lead in both RealClearPolitics’ (RCP) Republican presidential primary polling average and PredictIt’s Republican presidential primary market. Trump’s polling average currently stands at 52%, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) at 22%. No other candidate has more than a 10% polling average. In…
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Number of special elections to each meeting of Congress has increased since 1993
The number of special elections to each meeting of Congress has steadily increased over the past twenty years, from an average of 7.6 special elections in the five meetings beginning in 1993, to 11.6 in the five meetings starting in 2003, and to 13.4 in the five meetings that began in 2013 and ended in…
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U.S. weekly unemployment insurance claims unchanged at 264,000
New applications for U.S. unemployment insurance benefits for the week ending June 17 were unchanged from the previous week’s revised number at 264,000. The four-week moving average as of June 17 increased 8,500 from the previous week’s revised number to 255,750. The average is the highest since November 13, 2021. The number of continuing unemployment…
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Ballotpedia identifies 17 noteworthy Supreme Court cases regarding redistricting from 1946 to 2023
Ballotpedia has identified 17 noteworthy redistricting cases that the Supreme Court has heard since 1946, with the most recent one being Allen v. Milligan. In a 5-4 decision on June 8, SCOTUS affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama that the state’s congressional redistricting plan adopted in…
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Federal Register weekly update: 300 significant documents issued so far in 2023
The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration’s regulatory activity, accounting for both regulatory and deregulatory actions. From June 19, 2023, through June 23, 2023, the Federal Register grew by 1,526 pages for…
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U.S. weekly unemployment insurance claims unchanged at 262,000
New applications for U.S. unemployment insurance benefits for the week ending June 10 were unchanged from the previous week’s revised number at 262,000. The four-week moving average as of June 10 increased 9,250 from the previous week’s revised number to 246,750. The average is the highest since November 20, 2021. The number of continuing unemployment…
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Biden administration has the highest number of Article III judicial nominees with well-qualified ABA ratings in the last 30 years
President Joe Biden’s (D) administration has had the highest number of Article III judicial nominees with Well Qualified ABA ratings in the last 30 years with 165. President Donald Trump (R) had the most Qualified judicial nominees with 79. He also had the most Not Qualified nominees with 6. Including renominations, the number of Well…
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Chief Justice John Roberts on track to write 2nd-fewest opinions in 2022-2023 term
United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has authored two of the 36 opinions for the 2022-2023 term as of June 16, 2023, which is the fewest authored opinions of all justices. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett have authored five, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan have…
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More U.S. House races now featuring major-party competition
Over the past decade, the percentage of U.S. House of Representatives elections with only a Democrat or a Republican on the ballot has dropped in a majority of the election cycles and below the past century’s average. Here is the recent breakdown: 2014: 17.5% (36 races without a Democratic candidate and 40 without a Republican)…