The December 2003 issue of Legal Affairs offers a debate on the continued vitality of the Voting Rights Act. Edward Blum and Roger Clegg offer this criticism of the Act. Anita Earls offers this defense of the Act. (My working… Continue reading
Last Saturday, UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies held a conference on the recall. It was at this conference that Attorney General Bill Lockyer made the remarks about voting for Schwarzenegger on part 2 of the recall ballot. The conference’s… Continue reading
As readers of this blog know, the Supreme Court will be hearing a very important case soon raising the possibility that the Court will put some teeth into the now feeble partisan gerrymandering doctrine. (Don’t get me wrong, I like… Continue reading