“Letter from Seth Barrett Tillman to Professor Anonymous, The Quorum Clause (July 2, 2014)”
Tillman asks if it is constitutional for a legislative body to move forward with a minority of its members if no one makes a quorum call.
Category Archives: legislation and legislatures
“The Legislator-Lobbyist Privilege?”
Very interesting post at Point of Order.
“Congress Quietly Deletes a Key Disclosure of Free Trips Lawmakers Take”
National Journal: “It’s going to be a little more difficult to ferret out which members of Congress are lavished with all-expenses-paid trips around the world after the House has quietly stripped away the requirement that such privately sponsored travel be… Continue reading
“Can a president (with a little help from one senator of his party) circumvent most of the Court’s limitation on the recess appointments power?”
Interesting post from Tom Goldstein.
Justice Scalia Dissent in Aereo Case Says It is Lawyers’ Jobs to Exploit Statutory Loopholes, and Congress’s Job, Not the Court’s Job, To Fix Them
He writes:
It is not the role of this Court to identify and plug loopholes. It is the role of good lawyers to identify and exploit them, and the role of Congress to eliminate them if it wishes. Congress… Continue reading
65 Ways to Improve Our Democracy
Today the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on Political Reform rolled out its recommendations and report today on strengthening American democracy. Academics are usually on the outside looking in for such processes, but I was lucky enough to serve as one… Continue reading
“Governing in a Polarized America: A Bipartisan Blueprint to Strengthen our Democracy”
Release:
The Bipartisan Policy Center launched the Commission on Political Reform in 2013 to investigate the causes and consequences of America’s partisan political divide and to advocate for specific reforms that will improve the political process and that will… Continue reading
“Another Senate dispute puts spending bills in jeopardy”
Parliamentary maneuverings and election year politics.
“Identifying Congressional Overrides Should Not Be this Hard”
Very important Deborah Widiss piece (Texas Law Review See Also) on statutory overrides of the Supreme Court. Here is the abstract:
This paper is an invited response to Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr., and Mr. Matthew R. Christiansen’s recently-released study… Continue reading
Highlights from The New Soft Money
Dan Tokaji & Renata Strause
Thanks to Rick and Heather for their posts on The New Soft Money, the report on outside spending that we released this morning. We believe this report to be the first of its kind,… Continue reading
Election Law @ Moritz Report, “The New Soft Money,” Coming This Wed., June 18
I’m pleased to announce the release of a report on independent spending, co-authored by Renata Strause and me, on Wednesday, June 18. The report, entitled The New Soft Money: Outside Spending in Congressional Elections, will be released at the National … Continue reading
“How Democrats Are Accidentally Helping The Koch Brothers”
“Why It Matters That Politicians Have No Experience of Poverty”
Stephen Lurie writes for The Atlantic.
Democrats Unlikely to Have Supermajorities in Next CA Legislature
So reports the LA Times.