Category Archives: election law biz
Bloomberg: “About 50 miles west of Washington, in a newly developed zone between the roadside farm stands and the shops that line the Victorian Main Street of tiny Warrenton, Virginia, sits a brick office building that’s emerged as a nexus … Continue reading
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LA Times: “For most Americans, interest in the results of the 2012 presidential campaign ended somewhere around the first election night projections for President Obama and the brief, stunned concession speech delivered by a gobsmacked Mitt Romney. But for a … Continue reading
WSJ law blog reports. … Continue reading
Great news for the LDF. I was so impressed with Ifill’s moderation of a panel at the recent GW election law symposium. I think we’ll also end up seeing the LDF in lots of election-related litigation going forward. … Continue reading
This item appears in Crain’s New York Business. … Continue reading
The American Lawyer reports. … Continue reading
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This article presumably appears behind the National Law Journal paywall. … Continue reading
AP reports. Here’s a sentence which would be remarkable in most mature democracies but is glossed over here: “He is a Republican so the county Republican Party in the key presidential battleground state will recommend his successor.” … Continue reading
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This piece is much more temperate than then earlier attacks on Jim from Common Cause and others. It seems to raise some reasonable questions under the tax code, but it is far from my area of expertise so it is … Continue reading
Congratulations to all! … Continue reading
Detroit News: “Jocelyn Benson — expert on election law, former Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, marathoner, law professor, author — has always been driven by goals and the belief that she can meet them. She is also a military … Continue reading
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Columbus Dispatch: “William Consovoy, an attorney representing Secretary of State Jon Husted, noted, for example, that military members get their absentee ballots earlier than the rest of Ohioans.” Consovoy is an accomplished appellate practitioner at Wiley, Rein. I have not … Continue reading
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Press release: “Arthur G. Scotland, former Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, has joined Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP as ‘Of Counsel’ effective August 8, 2012. Scotland, who retired from the bench in 2010 … Continue reading
See this release. … Continue reading
Bruce Cain, of the UC Berkeley Political Science Department and the UCDC Center, is moving to Stanford in 2013. He is the director designate for the Bill Lane Center for the American West and in the political science department at … Continue reading
The second article in the Bloomberg series, on “Making Millionaires” in the 2012 election. … Continue reading
This item appears in the NY Law Journal. … Continue reading
Here’s my yearly roundup of election law academic hires, promotions moves, visits, accolades. Micah Altman joined MIT Libraries as Director of Research. Guy Charles (Duke) was named the Charles S. Rhyne Professor of Law. Chris Elmendorf decided to remain at … Continue reading
Who knew? … Continue reading
Nice shoutout about ELB from NCSL, which cautions that not everyone will agree with “Hasen’s slant.” As my inbox can attest! … Continue reading
Must be some happy people in the campaign finance reform world today. … Continue reading
Congratulations Nick! … Continue reading
WaPo offers this profile of Katie Biber Chen. See also this brief GQ profile in which I am quoted on the importance of Biber’s work for Romney. … Continue reading
A leading lawyer in the civil rights and voting rights world. … Continue reading
See here. … Continue reading
Congratulations, David! … Continue reading
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See the announcement here. Good luck! … Continue reading
This panel on which I will participate will be held on Jan. 5 from 1:30 to 2:45 pm in Madison A, mezzanine level. … Continue reading
Do read. … Continue reading
NYT reports on the Goldwater Institute, which has been active in Arizona campaign finance battles. … Continue reading
Josh is one of the winners of the SEALS paper competition for 2011-12, for his draft paper, Procedural Fairness in Election Contests. … Continue reading
With grading, family travel and holidays, expect less frequent updates from me through New Year’s. Updates to the listserv also will be intermittent. For those of you in DC attending the AALS annual conference, I’ll be speaking on January 5 … Continue reading
Doug Chapin blogs. … Continue reading
The former White House ethics czar had a recess appointment which was soon to expire. He had been blocked by Senator Grassley, but it looks like he got an assist from the National Review and was confirmed 70-16. (h/t Eric … Continue reading
This is the first Supreme Court term since 2003 (when I began blogging) in which there was no election law case on the Supreme Court’s docket. (For reasons on the decline of the Court’s election law docket, see here.) Now … Continue reading
The Chicago Sun-Times reports. … Continue reading
The WSJ Law Blog reports. … Continue reading
Via Mike Sacks comes this interesting news. If Adegbile does get a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I expect Senator Sessions and others to spend a lot of time discussing the constitutionality of section 5 of the Voting Rights … Continue reading
The following announcement arrived via email: The Pew Center on the States has named David Becker the new director of Election Initiatives, overseeing its entire portfolio of work on election administration. Since 2008, David has managed Pew’s efforts to upgrade … Continue reading