The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a campaign finance case that could affect elections for years to come — including in Nevada. The question at hand in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission is whether limits on coordinated party expenditures — the money political parties spend in conjunction with their candidates, which is separate from what they give to them — violate the First Amendment.

An idea currently being litigated in Dane County Circuit Court would return Wisconsin voting to what it was when the state began, offering, its proponents claim, a political party for all voters. That promise is fusion voting, outlawed by 1897 Wis. Act 348.

As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, the tethers that bind it to the principles of democracy, enshrined in the Constitution by its founders, are being tested in unprecedented fashion. President Donald Trump, wielding power in a manner “like no one has ever seen” as the president likes to say, is riding roughshod over the tenets that have come to define the nation.

UNLV political science professor, Dr. Rebecca Gill talks with us on ARC Las Vegas about the developments to get the Epstein files released and the process to get something like this passed.

Friend of the ARC Las Vegas show, Dr. Rebecca Gill, a political science professor at UNLV joins us to talk about the next steps after the longest government shutdown ends.

UNLV political science professor Rebecca Gill breaks down the deal to end the government shutdown.