Category Archives: Supreme Court

“Modern Elections Are Corruption, Sen. Al Franken Argues”

June 10, 2016, 7:27 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

HuffPo: “Well, I’m in the Senate. And it appears like there’s corruption to me,” said Franken. Without naming names, Franken pointed to the case of Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), who briefly broke with his party to support holding hearings… Continue reading

“NCSL/SLLC Supreme Court Redistricting Cases Webinar”

June 9, 2016, 1:09 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Announcement: It is a banner year in the Supreme Court for redistricting cases! Aside from Evenwel v. Abbott, holding that states may redraw legislative districts based on total population, the Court decided three other redistricting cases that will be important… Continue reading

“Conservatives Say They Want Another Antonin Scalia. They Really Want Another Sam Alito”

June 7, 2016, 1:25 pmcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Great Stephane Mencimer piece in Mother Jones.

“Campaign-Finance Law, the State of Nature, and the Nirvana Fallacy”

June 7, 2016, 7:44 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I have written this response to Derek Muller at the Library of Law and Liberty. It begins: One cannot fault Professor Derek Muller, whose work I admire and respect, for taking a hard libertarian line against campaign-finance regulation in his… Continue reading

“Supreme Court takes case claiming racial gerrymandering in Virginia”

June 6, 2016, 9:50 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Josh Gerstein reports for Politico.

#SCOTUS Will Hear Another Racial Gerrymandering Case

June 6, 2016, 6:39 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Supreme Court this morning noted probable jurisdiction in the Bethune-Hill case, raising racial gerrymandering claims in state legislative elections in Va. The SCOTUSBlog page is here. Just a few weeks ago, the Court dismissed on standing grounds a… Continue reading

“Partisan Balance in Three-Judge District Courts under BCRA”

June 3, 2016, 8:30 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The following is a guest post by Prof. Michael Solimine, the country’s leading expert on the use of three-judge courts to decide a small set of (mostly election) cases, which go on direct appeal to the Supreme Court: The… Continue reading

“As altered Supreme Court term comes to end, signs point to a muted finale”

June 2, 2016, 9:37 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Bob Barnes: With important decisions on abortion, affirmative action and immigration looming, the Supreme Court’s two most consistent liberals spoke out this week — about food. At a Smithsonian event Wednesday night, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a sharp… Continue reading

“Voter Welfare: An Emerging Rule of Reason in Voting Rights Law”

June 2, 2016, 5:53 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Sam Issacharoff has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Indiana Law Journal). Here is the abstract: For the first time in at least a generation, the central focus of voting rights law has returned to the issue of eligibility to… Continue reading

Registration Now Open: 6th Annual UCI Law Supreme Court Term in Review

June 1, 2016, 7:46 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Event: Thursday, July 14, 2016 12:00–1:30 p.m. UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom (Directions) *Registration and doors will open at 11:15 a.m. Register online now This has been an extraordinary year in the Supreme Court, especially because of… Continue reading

“‘Soft Money’ Is Back, and Republicans Want to Make It Official”

June 1, 2016, 10:40 amcampaign finance, campaigns, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Justin Miller for TAP.

“Supreme Court Won’t Touch This Legal Challenge to Ted Cruz’s ‘Natural Born’ Status”

June 1, 2016, 7:12 amcampaigns, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Cristian Farias for HuffPo.

“Inventing Equal Sovereignty”

May 31, 2016, 12:49 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The lead article in the new issue of the Michigan Law Review comes from my new colleague Leah Litman. You will want to read this: The Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder relied on the “fundamental principle”… Continue reading