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Weekly Brew: March 5, 2021
  Each week, we bring you a collection of the most viewed stories from The Daily Brew, condensed. Here are the top stories from the week of March 1 - March 5. 
Election law case heard before SCOTUSIn 2016, several arms of the Democratic Party sued Arizona for its out-of-precinct policy and its ballot-collection law. The 9th Circuit held the out-of-precinct policy violated the Voting Rights Act, and that the ballot-collection law violated the VRA and the 15th Amendment. What happened in St. Louis' first-ever approval voting electionTishaura Jones and Cara Spencer advanced from St. Louis’ mayoral primary, which used approval voting. Voters cast 69,607 total votes across 44,538 ballots meaning some voters selected multiple candidates. That's an average of 1.56 votes per ballot. Federal Register update: Biden administration’s highest weekly page total to dateFrom Feb. 22 through Feb. 26—the sixth week of the Biden administration—the Federal Register grew by 1,408 pages for a year-to-date total of 11,846 pages. The Federal Register hit an all-time high of 95,894 pages in 2016.  Federal judge blocks Maine’s ban on out-of-state initiative petition circulatorsThe lawsuit is related to a 2022 ballot initiative that would amend the state's voter qualification statute to say that a person must be a citizen to vote. The ruling allows the initiative campaign to use signatures collected by out-of-state circulators. Biden withdraws Tanden nominationNeera Tanden requested that the Biden administration withdraw her nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget after several senators said they would vote against confirming her.
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