So reads the headline over at the News & Observer. The basis, as early reports have it, is that Congress’s decision to enact the Amnesty Act of 1872 effectively prevents application of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment… Continue reading

Tennessee is considering SB 2616, a bill that would require candidates for congressional partisan primaries meet existing state constitutional residency requirements. This week, the bill advanced out of committee by a 5-1 vote (with 1 abstention). The sponsor read from… Continue reading

I have this piece over at the Wall Street Journal today. It begins: The U.S. Constitution doesn’t allow states to invent qualifications for serving in Congress and exclude candidates from the ballot for failing to meet them. Yet that is… Continue reading

The Hill: Senate Democrats are escalating pressure on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to get behind using the “nuclear option” to change the filibuster and break a months-long stalemate on voting rights legislation.The flurry of talks — including dedicating a closed-door… Continue reading

Carolyn Shapiro at Slogblog: The ISLD is problematic for numerous reasons, but one that Judge Sutton might appreciate is that the doctrine, at least in its most extreme forms, is deeply contemptuous, even destructive, of a legal and political culture… Continue reading

Earlier this year, the Vermont legislature overrode the governor’s veto and enacted statutes authorizing the cities of Montpelier and Winooski to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections. (For more background, see National Review.) The Republican National Committee is… Continue reading