See here for an amicus brief arguing for the court to uphold the FPPC’s newly enacted regulations imposing contribution limits on candidate-controlled ballot measure committees in California.
Guy Charles has posted Judging the Law of Politics on SSRN, forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review’s annual book issue. Here is the abstract:
In this Review Essay I explore the rights-structure debate that has captivated the attention of election… Continue reading
Stuart Rothenberg offers this fascinating Roll Call column (paid subscription required) on a recent comment by Tom DeLay on CNN’s Inside Politics. Here is the beginning of the column:
It is an unusual week when two election law scholars (including me) get mentioned in everyone’s favorite law school gossip column, The Leiter Report. See here and here.
Steven Hill writes Schwarzenegger v. Gerrymander, an oped for the New York Times. A snippet: “It may well be that California’s electoral system, like the rest of America’s, has reached its endgame. Our current politics are as good as… Continue reading
Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required), which begins: “House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has spoken with several Democratic governors in recent weeks about the possibility of revisiting their states