Is OK OK with Electoral College Reform?
Oklahoma Senate votes in favor of National Popular Vote plan to circumvent electoral college.
This is the first red state legislative body to vote in favor. We’ll see if it actually passes in Oklahoma.
Category Archives: Elections Clause
Election Assistance Commission Issues Controversial Decision Without Commissioners and Approaching Midnight Deadline
In an ongoing dispute between the federal government and the states of Arizona and Kansas over voter registration (which already earlier made it to the Supreme Court), the U.S. Election Assistance Commission issued a decision only minutes before a court-imposed… Continue reading
Voting Rights Disclosure
In my Harvard Law Review Forum piece Voting Rights Disclosure, I articulate my differences with NYU Professor Sam Issacharoff’s “non-civil rights” approach to voting rights (abstract below), and I propose detailed disclosure of voting changes for federal, state, and… Continue reading
“Brennan Center Challenges Kansas and Arizona Voter Registration Restrictions”
Press release: “The League of Women Voters of the United States and the organization’s Kansas and Arizona affiliates today joined a lawsuit arguing the new laws requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in these states violate federal… Continue reading
“ACLU Challenges Kansas’ Two-Tiered Voter Registration System”
Figured this would be coming, but interesting choice of state court:
The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit challenging Kansas’ two-tiered voter registration system. The petition charges that eligible voters are being divided into separate and unequal classes,… Continue reading
Election Law in the New Issue of Harvard Law Review
The November issue includes three items discussing Shelby, Inter-Tribal, or both:
FOREWORD
Equality Divided
Reva B. Siegel
COMMENTS
Beyond the Discrimination Model On Voting
Samuel Issacharoff
LEADING CASES
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Elections Clause — Federal Preemption of State Law — Federal … Continue reading
“Groups Oppose Arizona and Kansas Laws Regarding Proof-of-Citizenship for Voter Registration”
Press release:
A council of 21 Indian tribes in Arizona, two Arizona citizen groups, and an Arizona state senator filed a motion today in federal court in Kansas to intervene in Kobach v. U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), to… Continue reading
“From Two-Track to the Fast Track? Kansas, Arizona to Get Expedited Hearing on Proof of Citizenship”
“GOP State Officials Blame Republican Obstructionism For Blocking Voting Restrictions”
“Plan B for Voting Rights”
Jesse Wegman has written this NYT Editorial Notebook column on the Elections Clause.
“Accepting Scalia’s Offer, Arizona Sues Obama Administration On Voting Rights”
TPM: “Arizona and Kansas have taken Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s suggestion and sued the Obama administration in a continuing effort by both states to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.”
This is an outgrowth of… Continue reading
“Let the Voter Clampdown Begin”
Tyler Batten of the Charlotte Observer editorial board posts this item.
Musical selection via The Clash.
“Beyond the Discrimination Model on Voting”
Sam Issacharoff has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Harvard L. Rev.). Here is the abstract:
The Supreme Court’s contentious decision in Shelby County v. Holder closes the chapter on the most important and most successful of the civil rights… Continue reading