The voters of the District of Columbia approved an initiative to use ranked choice voting in future primaries and general elections. But voters in Oregon defeated a similar measure. In Missouri, the voters approved a ballot measure put on the … Continue reading →
This is tentatively welcome news. I mean, it can’t result in anything worse than the original decision the Fourth Circuit handed down in the Chatrie case, which said there’s nothing constitutionally wrong with searching every Google user’s location info in hopes of finding the suspect law enforcement is actually looking for. (via FourthAmendment.com)
The Appeals Court took the Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision that created a warrant requirement for obtaining cell site location info over a long period of time and took that to mean that the location info law enforcement eventually obtained in the Chatrie case wasn’t worthy of Fourth Amendment protections.[W]e find that the government did not conduct a Fourth Amendment search when it obtained two…
Maryland now has four qualified parties, one fewer than before the election. The Green Party and the No Labels Party continue to be qualified, but the Libertarian Party went off the ballot for failing to poll 1% for President.
The Green Party and the No Labels Party each petitioned in 2024, and when a party petitions in Maryland, it gets the next two elections. The Green Party polled over 1% of the vote for president this year anyway, so it qualified two ways. But when a party polls 1% for President or Governor, it only gets one more election, so the Green Party’s accomplishment of getting over 1% for Jill Stein didn’t actually make a difference.
Under Maryland…