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Joshua Spivak has written this article for the National Law Journal on the judicial nominations issue (paid subscription required). A snippet: While most of the current debates are focused on the lower courts, the Supreme Court is where much of… Continue reading

FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub has posted this commentary on C|NET News.

I have just written this commentary for the Personal Democracy Forum. It begins: The predictable blogstorm that erupted following Federal Election Commission Commissioner Bradley Smith

The Los Angeles Times offers this editorial, with the subhead: ” Where did the center of California government go? Who left the empty hole where the moderates used to reside?”

Bob Bauer weighs in on the issue here, beginning with the pithy: “If FEC Commissioner Brad Smith did not exist, members of the reform community would work hard to invent him.” My own thoughts on this controversy should be… Continue reading

A.P. offers this report on the violence in March 1965 against civil rights marchers that helped insure the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The article notes: “Certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act, such as the use of federal… Continue reading

Jeffrey Birnbaum offers this Washington Post column, which begins: President Bush wants to mount a frontal assault on Washington’s biggest money issues: retiree benefits, trial lawyer verdicts and the federal income tax. There isn’t anyone or any organization that… Continue reading

The DNC has issued this press release.

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Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required).

The Miami Herald offers this editorial.

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A.P. offers this report.