Category Archives: Supreme Court

#SCOTUS Sometimes Decides Even When It Doesn’t Decide: The Strange MI Voting Case

September 8, 2016, 8:37 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

[Friday morning update: read about the Court’s order denying MI’s stay request here.] It is almost midnight on the East Coast, and we still have no ruling from the Supreme Court on Michigan’s application to allow it to … Continue reading

Read OH Opposition to Dem’s “Golden Week” Emergency SCOTUS Motion

September 8, 2016, 5:41 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

It’s here.

Fred Wertheimer, Jan Baran Talk Campaign Finance After Scalia at SCOTUSBlog Symposium

September 8, 2016, 5:13 pmcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Wertheimer Baran

“Prosecutors will drop cases against former Va. governor Robert McDonnell, wife”

September 8, 2016, 5:06 pmbribery, chicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

WaPo: Federal prosecutors will not attempt to retry former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, on corruption charges, ending a years-long saga that rocked the commonwealth’s political class and cut short the rise of a Republican Party… Continue reading

Justice Kagan Reflects on Giving Her First Oral Argument Ever, In Citizens United

September 8, 2016, 8:35 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Watch, beginning at the 1:06 mark. Funny and interesting.

2 MI Republican Senators File SCOTUS Amicus Brief in Straight Ticket Voting Emergency Case

September 7, 2016, 3:22 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Read it here.

“A Broken Winged Pterodactyl Walks Into the Supreme Court: A Look at Next Term’s Redistricting Cases”

September 7, 2016, 8:43 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Nate Persily and I were interviewed for this Bloomberg BNA podcast.

“Without conservative Supreme Court majority, voter-law challengers make gains”

September 5, 2016, 5:38 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Bob Barnes for WaPo: With the Supreme Court at an ideological impasse and Senate Republicans refusing to allow hearings for President Obama’s nominee to the court, Merrick Garland, the final state rules for elections throughout the country are likely… Continue reading

“Aggregate Corruption”

September 5, 2016, 11:19 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Michael Gilbert and Emily Reeder have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Kentucky Law Journal). Here is the abstract: This symposium paper challenges the Supreme Court’s most recent campaign finance decision, McCutcheon v. FEC. True to recent form, the Court… Continue reading

“Schuette takes straight-party voting fight to Supreme Court”

September 4, 2016, 7:43 amcampaigns, election administration, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The Detroit Free Press reports. I’m sure Republicans would rather not have voters have the choice to reject the entire Republican ticket if they choose to reject Trump. I rate Michigan’s chances of getting emergency relief from the Supreme Court… Continue reading

“The spurious claims against voters’ Golden Week add up to GOP monkey business”

September 4, 2016, 7:32 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Thomas Suddes column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Now Senator Flake Supports Confirming J. Garland in Lame Duck

September 4, 2016, 7:26 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

More cracks in the wall.

“Michigan Begs Supreme Court to Reinstate Ban on ‘Straight-Ticket’ Voting”

September 2, 2016, 7:36 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Cristian Farias for HuffPo.

Michigan Asks for Emergency #SCOTUS Relief in Straight-Ticket Voting Case

September 2, 2016, 11:08 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Yesterday I reported that Michigan lost a bid for en banc review of a stay a trial court order stopping Michigan from getting rid of straight-ticket (party lever) voting, on grounds that doing so would be a Voting Rights Act… Continue reading