Preventing a January Primary
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 20th, 2010 5:40 am by HL
Preventing a January Primary
Politico: “As 2012 nears, the political class is united with one holiday wish: Please don’t make us spend New Year’s Eve in Iowa like we did in 2008. The leadership in both parties is listening. In the hopes of stopping the madness of ever-earlier presidential primaries, Democrats and Republicans have tried to set forth a primary that doesn’t get under way until February 2012, remains competitive through March and finishes cleanly. But while they are optimistic, it remains to be seen whether they’ve truly succeeded in preventing rogue states from pushing the primary calendar into January or even earlier.”
Amendment Would Allow States to Repeal Federal Law
“The same people driving the lawsuits that seek to dismantle the Obama administration’s health care overhaul have set their sights on an even bigger target: a constitutional amendment that would allow a vote of the states to overturn any act of Congress,” the New York Times reports.
“Under the proposed ‘repeal amendment,’ any federal law or regulation could be repealed if the legislatures of two-thirds of the states voted to do so.”
