All posts by Dan Tokaji
“California just proved how cracking down on gerrymandering isn’t all it’s cracked up to be”
The Fix: “For the fourth time in 12 years, not a single one of the state’s 50-plus congressional districts switched parties. Just as in 2010, 2008 and 2004, every single seat returned to the party that previously controlled it.”
Bauer: “Are There Genuine Issue Ads or Just ‘Sheep’s Wool?”
MSMHL: “Progressives thinking about the experience with reform have to grapple with its implications for mobilization, for effective political speech and action…. [O]ne traditional reform objective – – regulating issue advertising – – bears reconsideration.”
Fordham Law Review Forum
Featuring papers by Ned Foley, Anthony Gaughan, Jerry Goldfeder, Gene Mazo, Michael Morley, Derek Muller, Richard Winger, and Sean Wright.
Gans on Next Week’s Racial Gerrymandering Cases
David Gans at Balkinization, on the cases from North Carolina and Virginia to be argued Monday.
VP Biden to Speak at Next Week’s NYU Forum “A New American Political System”
Just announced: Vice-President Joe Biden will deliver remarks at next Thursday’s Sidley Austin Forum at the NYU Global Academic Center in Washington, DC.
“There Have Been Just 4 Documented Cases of Voter Fraud in the 2016 Election”
Strict Voter ID May Be Coming To Michigan
MLive: “Most Michigan voters would have to present an ID card for their votes to count under legislation that popped up suddenly during Michigan’s lame-duck session…. Under the bills a voter without ID would fill out a provisional ballot.… Continue reading
House Dems Claim Trump’s DC Hotel Creates a Conflict of Interest
“What do Trump’s latest Cabinet nominees have in common? They all represent big money that backed him.”
Matea Gold in WaPo.
Gerken on Wisconsin Gerrymandering Case
At Vox:
Democrats have reason to be frustrated these days. They won the presidential popular vote and the Senate popular vote, and they were just shy of winning the House popular vote. And yet they are entirely… Continue reading
FSU Law of Democracy Symposium Now in Print
Available here and featuring:
The Law of Democracy At a Crossroads: Reflecting on Fifty Years of Voting Rights and the Judicial Regulation of the Political Thicket, by Franita Tolson
A “Checklist Manifesto” for Election Day: How to Prevent Mistakes at… Continue reading
“Statewide Election Recounts, 2000-2015”
From FairVote, on 27 statewide recounts during this period.
“Congressional Research Service Issues Revised Guidance on the Foreign Emoluments Clause”
Seth Tillman blogs.