Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is joining a lawsuit against the Trump administration's Department of Commerce to try to stop seismic testing for offshore drilling for oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean.
The lawsuit, filed by Maryland's attorney general, is also joined by the attorneys general of Connecticut, Maine, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina. All are Democrats.
The Portland Press Herald (PPH) reports that the Socialist Party of Maine (SPM) has received authorization from the Maine Secretary of State's (SOS) office to begin enlisting voters to join its party ranks. The SPM must now register 5000 voters by 2020, and then get 10,000 voters in the 2022 general election to vote as socialists, before it will be granted official party status by the SOS.
Currently only the Republican, Democratic, and Green parties hold official status in Maine, the PPH reports. The Libertarian Party lost its status when it failed to meet the state's minimum requirements in last November's election.
