“Paralysis Grips U.S. Election Overseer While Complaints Pile Up”
Bloomberg (the press entity, not the candidate) reviews the FEC docket.
All posts by Justin Levitt
“A Century of Votes for Women”
Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder with
a new book on the 100th anniversary of the 19th
Amendment. The abstract:
How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular… Continue reading
Quantitative election administration studies: early voting and polling place location
Two studies newly published in the latest issue of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
series:
Ethan Kaplan and Haishan Yuan, Early Voting
Laws, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Vote Composition: Evidence from Ohio
We estimate effects of early voting on… Continue reading
“On Va. Democrats’ 2020 to-do list, voting rights seem to top campaign finance reform”
The Virginia Mercury looks at the legislative session ahead.
“In ancient Athens, ostracism did the job of impeachment”
The Economist seriously shifting the Overton window for impeachment, with a review of ancient Athenian exile.
Federal court issues preliminary injunction against 2018 NC voter ID law
The law, enacted over the Governor’s veto, usually requires
a qualifying photo ID to vote. As
compared to the previous ID law passed in the wake of Shelby County and invalidated in 2016, it expands the list of
acceptable IDs… Continue reading
Chief Justice Roberts’s year-end report on the judiciary
It starts with a tie between the Federalist Papers and the danger of fake news (which started a riot which earned John Jay a rock to the head), and includes a brief paean to the independence of the judiciary from… Continue reading
“We can’t assume Virginia Democrats will keep their promise on redistricting reform”
The Post’s editorial board laments the potential change of heart after the change in electoral fortunes.
“New York Dems Are Redrawing Congressional Districts and It Could Put Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Out of a Job”
The Daily
Wire ties the census, redistricting, and (perhaps) a bit of wish
fulfillment. They’re not wrong about legislative
leadership use of redistricting to enforce party discipline, though.
It’ll be interesting to see the extent to which New York’s new … Continue reading
“The Constitution in 2020″ in 2020”
Josh
Blackman, at the Volokh Conspiracy, offers a timely reminder of the 2009
ACS essay compilation — “The Constitution in 2020” – with a progressive vision
of future constitutional law. The
compilation included, among others, a piece
by Pam … Continue reading
“Cash, claims of illegality already flying in Michigan’s Senate race”
Here
come the allegations of unlawful coordination.
And with it, your reminder that,
as Dan Tokaji and Renata Strause explained
years ago, in assessing the legality of campaign coordination, there’s
often a “gap between the line the law draws… Continue reading
A Happy New Year to All
May your ’20s be even better than you allow yourself to imagine.
“John Lewis and the need to preserve history”
Brandon Tensley offers
thoughts on the occasion of Rep. John Lewis’s announcement
of his fight against pancreatic cancer – the most recent courageous fight of an
iconic career.
(We know that animal Twitter is heartwarming, sure. But if you’re… Continue reading
New apportionment estimates
Election
Data Services and Polidata have
their new apportionment calculations up, based on the latest year-end Census
estimates – they estimate the congressional seats apportioned to each state if
the Census count follows past trends … and if the count… Continue reading