Charlie Martel has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This article is an argument for a federal constitutional right to vote for president at a time when voting rights are under grave threat. The Supreme Court has… Continue reading
NYT:
Billions of people will vote in major elections this year — around half of the global population, by some estimates — in one of the largest and most consequential democratic exercises in living memory. The results will affect how… Continue reading
Voting Laws Roundup: October 2023, published by the Brennan Center, offers an overview of the trends in election law around the country. There is good news, including:
“Nearly half of all states enacted at least one expansive voting law… Continue reading
As soon as I read Justice Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion in Moore v. Harper, I thought of Leah Litman‘s scholarship on novelty and how Kavanaugh’s proposed rule, if it becomes law, would deter the growth of state constitutional law protecting… Continue reading
CBS News:
The state of Delaware is famously business-friendly. With more than 1.8 million entities registered in the First State, companies outnumber its human residents by nearly two-to-one.
One city is now moving to raise businesses’ influence in the state… Continue reading
N.Y. Times article bout a second, concerted wave of republican-sponsored legislative efforts to restrict voting, funded by “billionaire-backed advocacy groups” allied with Trump. The key point is that this new wave is based on a strategy of “radical incrementalism”–an effort… Continue reading
Returning to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story from last week: Georgia has passed a law that entitles workers up to two hours off to cast a ballot during early voting. The statute also establishes routine audits of primary, runoff, and special… Continue reading
The Census Bureau releasedvoting and registration toplines from the Current Population Survey today.
[Serious data nerd voice] I’ll confess to a longstanding pet peeve with the way that these results are inevitably reported, including by the Bureau itself in… Continue reading
The Association of American Law Schools has announced a virtual Conference on Defending Democracy, May 4 from 11am-4pm ET:
The Conference will consist of three panels focusing on the following topics: 1) the State of the Union three years… Continue reading