The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case on voter registration list maintenance, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute.  At issue is Ohio's procedure for removing voters from the voter registration list:

Last spring, the RNLA was thrilled to have Federal Election Commissioner (FEC) Lee Goodman speak on a panel at the 2017 National Policy Conference at the National Press Club.  The panel, titled, "Election Law Update: Vote Fraud Commission and Campaign Finance"featured Commissioner Goodman, Don Palmer, formerly of the Virginia Board of Elections, and Hans von Spakovsky, of the Heritage foundation.

Ed Whelan writes about President Trump's superb judicial nominees during his first year in office in the January issue of National Review:

After 35 years, the consent decree that prohibited the Republican National Committee (RNC) from engaging in ballot security activities wasterminated by a federal judge.  RNLA Chair John Ryder, former General Counsel to the RNC, stated:

The @alt_fec Twitter account is run by self-proclaimed FEC employees who are experts in campaign finance law.  But they managed to mis-state First Amendment law three times in one Tweet attacking the Institute for Free Speech and requesting IFS' "views on the First Amendment implications of a letter from a private attorney to a private publisher concerning Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."  IFS accepted the invitation to analyze the letter under relevant First Amendment law (footnotes omitted):

On Wednesday, President Trump ended the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PACEI), which had been plagued by lawsuits from liberal organizations and even one of the Commission's own Democratic members.  Liberals are touting their victory in "resisting" an initiative started by President Trump, but conservatives have also responded.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released its annual report on speech codes on college campuses:

Despite the critical importance of free speech on campus, too many universities — in policy and in practice — chill, censor, and punish students’ and faculty members’ expressive activity. One way that universities do this is through the use of speech codes: policies prohibiting speech that, outside the bounds of campus, would be protected by the First Amendment.

After Virginia's state and local elections on November 7, there were four extremely close House of Delegates' races.  Here is what happened and the status of each of them:

Today, Senator Orrin Hatch announced his retirement at the end of this term. 

RNLA Executive Director Michael Thielen said: “Orrin Hatch has long has been a great friend of the RNLA since our founding in 1985.  It was Senator Hatch who first said: ‘If you are a lawyer and you are a Republican, you should be a member of the Republican National Lawyers Association.’  Thank you Senator Hatch.” 

Last Friday, we had the top posts of the year, numbers 10-6.  Today, it is the top 5 posts that unfortunately have a common theme:  Democrats' hyper-partisan obstruction of the Trump Administration.  This is so over the top it would be funny if it was not hurting the governing of our country.   The number one post shows the complete hypocrisy of the Democrats opposition to the Trump Administration.  They are hurting good people for the sake of appeasing their far-left base.