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Should Americans Have The Right To Vote? A New Book Makes The Case For Amending The Constitution To Affirm It
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For as many rights as The Constitution lays out, like the… Continue reading
Release:
Public Rights Project (PRP)—the civil rights legal advocacy nonprofit founded by Jill Habig, former special counsel to Kamala Harris in the California Attorney General’s Office—announces the launch of its Election Protection Hub to support and defend 200+ local elections… Continue reading
NBC News:
After the 2020 presidential election took days to call, many states reworked how they process mail ballots with the goal of delivering results faster — and cutting off oxygen for conspiracy theories that flourished as the country… Continue reading
Quinn Yeargain has written this article for the Cardozo Law Review. Here is the abstract:
Redistricting disputes—for congressional, state legislative, and local districts—have proven all-consuming in politics. Litigation over the legality of districts, under both federal and state law, is… Continue reading
I thought this exchange in the transcript of the Moody case was particularly telling (I’ve bolded the response that I think shows an interest in imposing an equality floor):
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH: Can I — can I ask you about a… Continue reading
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical on Monday of laws in Florida and Texas that bar major social media companies from making editorial judgments about which messages to allow.
The laws were enacted in an effort… Continue reading
NYT:
Representative Andy Kim, a Democrat running for Senate in New Jersey against the state’s first lady, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday that seeks to redesign the ballot before June’s contentious primary election, arguing the current layout unfairly benefits… Continue reading
CNN:
Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in… Continue reading
Years ago at an APSA conference, Fred Schauer corrected me as pronouncing this with a Spanish pronunciation (“Torniyyo”) but the plaintiff was Italian and the “L’s” should be pronounced.
Arguments are just beginning, and at some point I’ll have to leave for class.
At this early point, it appears that Roberts, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Kagan have all expressed great skepticism of these rules.
Justice Jackson pointed to some of… Continue reading