While many elements are still unknown, the case could signal that an activist group has successfully influenced the way Alaska’s grand jury system works putting discretion of which allegations are investigated and the power of criminal prosecution in new hands.
The FEC owes Americans an explanation. In March, James O’Keefe knocked on the doors of a few older and unemployed Americans to ask them about their campaign donations.
The returns leave the city’s overriding political dynamic where it was before the election, with a left-of-center majority on the Assembly big enough to handily pass legislation and keep a check on a conservative mayor.