“Make the Guarantee Clause Great Again”
A clever title for a clever
piece about partisan gerrymandering, and the doctrine holding the Guarantee
Clause nonjusticiable. I’m inclined to
agree on the substance.
Category Archives: political equality
“Surge In Voters With Disabilities May Influence 2020 Election”
A
reminder of a significant population often overlooked when summary stats
are compiled.
In 2018, 14.3 million people with disabilities cast ballots, more than the 11.7 million Latino voters that year and nearly as many as the 15.2 million African-American… Continue reading
New volume of the Harvard Law & Policy Review is out
Chock
full of election-law goodies. Among
other pieces:
Elizabeth Warren, Foreword (on corruption and faith in government)Jeffrey Clements, “But It Will Happen”: A Constitutional Amendment to Secure Political Equality in Election Spending and RepresentationViki Harrison,… Continue reading
“Most Americans say no statehood for the District of Columbia, poll shows”
The
latest polling numbers in the fight for representation for DC residents. That’s consistent with past polls … which
have also showed a majority favoring full voting rights for DC.
“How white supremacy shaped the original census — centuries before the citizenship debate”
The WaPo sees
a through-line in debates about race and the census. Janai Nelson has a deeper look in the Columbia Law
Review.
“Oklahoma City artist visiting 36 states for 19th amendment tribute flag”
Four
states down, 32 to go.
“How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All”
The Smithsonian lifts
up African-American suffragettes.
“Putting Political Equality Before The Courts In Campaign Finance Cases”
Ron Fein:
Why do we want to limit the influence of money in politics and what do we tell the courts? For 40 years, since the Supreme Court’s 1976 Buckley v. Valeodecision, the legal arguments for limiting big… Continue reading
“Delegate Hunt Fuels Tussle on Little-Known Republican Committee”
WSJ:
Donald Trump’s first attempt to seize some control over the Republican National Committee and the course of the GOP convention is creating a showdown over a little-noticed election for a powerful internal post that helps determine who… Continue reading
Justice Kennedy Channels John Hart Ely: Windsor’s Effort to Clear the Channels of Political Change
For the last few days, I’ve been blogging about a new paper of mine on Windsor v. United States over on Balkinization (here, here, and here). I offer a new spin on it, one that invokes… Continue reading
“What an ‘Originalist’ Would Understand ‘Corruption’ to Mean: The 2013 Jorde Lecture”
Larry Lessig has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming California Law Review). Here is the abstract:
How we understand the “corruption” of Congress goes a long way to showing why, and how that “corruption” can be remedied. In this paper,… Continue reading
“Stacked Deck: How the Dominance of Politics by the Affluent & Business Undermines Economic Mobility in America”
Demos has released a new report. The takeaway, according the Center for Public Integrity, is that “The U.S. political system is increasingly gamed against Americans of modest means — a situation exacerbated in recent years by major changes… Continue reading