This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareSen. Elizabeth Warren worked on about 60 legal matters during her prior career as a law professor, advising people with asbestos disease, a corporation facing possible liability over ruptured breast implants and the former directors of Getty Oil as they monitored the Texaco bankruptcy in 1987.Warren’s presidential campaign released a list of on the Massachusetts Democrat’s website late Wednesday, a far higher number than she had previously disclosed. The Washington Post had requested a detailed accounting of her outside...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareSen. Elizabeth Warren worked on about 60 legal matters during her prior career as a law professor, advising people with asbestos disease, a corporation facing possible liability over ruptured breast implants and the former directors of Getty Oil as they monitored the Texaco bankruptcy in 1987.Warren’s presidential campaign released a list of on the Massachusetts Democrat’s website late Wednesday, a far higher number than she had previously disclosed. The Washington Post had requested a detailed accounting of her outside...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis story was featured in Drop Me The Link, our one-story election newsletter. The same week President Trump told the public that voting by mail is “” and “,” his own party was sending a very different message to Republican voters in Pennsylvania.“Voting by mail is an easy, convenient and secure way to cast your ballot,” read a mail piece the Republican National Committee distributed across the Keystone State. “Return the attached official Republican Party mail-in ballot application to avoid lines and protect yourself...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis story was featured in Drop Me The Link, our one-story election newsletter. The same week President Trump told the public that voting by mail is “” and “,” his own party was sending a very different message to Republican voters in Pennsylvania.“Voting by mail is an easy, convenient and secure way to cast your ballot,” read a mail piece the Republican National Committee distributed across the Keystone State. “Return the attached official Republican Party mail-in ballot application to avoid lines and protect yourself...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA bipartisan push to expand mail-in voting is underway across the country as election officials brace for a spike in demand from voters spooked by the coronavirus pandemic — despite Republican reluctance in Washington to help pay for it.House Democrats have asked for as much as $2 billion in emergency funding to distribute to election officials who are scrambling to expand absentee balloting and take other steps to avoid pandemic-related chaos on Election Day in November.Dozens of state and local election officials, both...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA bipartisan push to expand mail-in voting is underway across the country as election officials brace for a spike in demand from voters spooked by the coronavirus pandemic — despite Republican reluctance in Washington to help pay for it.House Democrats have asked for as much as $2 billion in emergency funding to distribute to election officials who are scrambling to expand absentee balloting and take other steps to avoid pandemic-related chaos on Election Day in November.Dozens of state and local election officials, both...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe daily drumbeat of legal losses for President Trump continued on Thursday as he and his allies once again hit roadblocks in court on cases seeking to have the election overturned.In Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the election results filed by Trump’s campaign, finding that under state law, the campaign should have gone first to a lower-level court.In Arizona, a judge dismissed a key part of a suit seeking to overturn the election filed by the state’s Republican Party chairwoman.And...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe daily drumbeat of legal losses for President Trump continued on Thursday as he and his allies once again hit roadblocks in court on cases seeking to have the election overturned.In Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the election results filed by Trump’s campaign, finding that under state law, the campaign should have gone first to a lower-level court.In Arizona, a judge dismissed a key part of a suit seeking to overturn the election filed by the state’s Republican Party chairwoman.And...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePlease note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for .The chaotic effort to upend the U.S. presidential election has moved from the courtroom to a series of traditionally mundane events in county seats and state capitals, deliberations now under enormous pressure as President Trump and his allies seek to block formal recognition of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in key battleground...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePlease note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for .The chaotic effort to upend the U.S. presidential election has moved from the courtroom to a series of traditionally mundane events in county seats and state capitals, deliberations now under enormous pressure as President Trump and his allies seek to block formal recognition of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in key battleground...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump’s campaign on Sunday challenging the election results in Pennsylvania.Trump’s attorneys filed a revised version of the lawsuit, removing allegations that election officials violated the Trump campaign’s constitutional rights by limiting the ability of their observers to watch votes being counted.Trump and Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal attorney, have said repeatedly that more than 600,000 votes in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh should be invalidated because of this issue.Trump’s pared-down lawsuit now...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump’s campaign on Sunday challenging the election results in Pennsylvania.Trump’s attorneys filed a revised version of the lawsuit, removing allegations that election officials violated the Trump campaign’s constitutional rights by limiting the ability of their observers to watch votes being counted.Trump and Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal attorney, have said repeatedly that more than 600,000 votes in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh should be invalidated because of this issue.Trump’s pared-down lawsuit now...WW…

ADPlease note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for .Republican appointees on a key board in Michigan’s most populous county Tuesday night reversed their initial refusal to certify the vote tallies in the Detroit area, striking a last-minute compromise with Democrats that defused a political fight over the process to formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state.The unexpected twist came after the four-member Wayne County Board of Canvassers...…ADPlease note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for .Republican appointees on a key board in Michigan’s most populous county Tuesday night reversed their initial refusal to certify the vote tallies in the Detroit area, striking a last-minute compromise with Democrats that defused a political fight over the process to formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state.The unexpected twist came after the four-member Wayne County Board of Canvassers...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePlease note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for .Legal jockeying in Pennsylvania intensified Friday as Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure county election officials were segregating mail ballots delivered after Election Day, the latest effort by the GOP to use the courts to intervene in the vote count as former vice president Joe Biden’s advantage grew.On Friday evening,...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePlease note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for .Legal jockeying in Pennsylvania intensified Friday as Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure county election officials were segregating mail ballots delivered after Election Day, the latest effort by the GOP to use the courts to intervene in the vote count as former vice president Joe Biden’s advantage grew.On Friday evening,...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Public health experts on Sunday debated the question of when to reopen portions of the U.S. “It is a target, and, obviously, we’re hopeful about that target, but I think it’s just too early to be able to tell that we see light at the end of the tunnel,” Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn said on ABC News’s “This Week.” “I think it’s just too early for us to...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Public health experts on Sunday debated the question of when to reopen portions of the U.S. “It is a target, and, obviously, we’re hopeful about that target, but I think it’s just too early to be able to tell that we see light at the end of the tunnel,” Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn said on ABC News’s “This Week.” “I think it’s just too early for us to...WW…

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