A.P. offers this report, which begins: ” As legislation requiring a photo identification to vote lingers in the Senate, both supporters and opponents are pointing to recommendations from a commission co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter to justify their… Continue reading
USA Today offers this report, which begins: “Problems using voting machines in the Texas and Illinois primaries this month have reinforced fears that the 2006 elections may be beset with glitches.”
The Sacramento Bee offers this report, which begins: “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says its advertising campaign on behalf of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is an ‘independent issue advocacy program,’ not necessarily a Schwarzenegger re-election program. The Republican governor’s campaign… Continue reading
Commissioner Weintraub’s opening statement is here. A snippet: “If someone chooses to challenge this regulation in court again, and I hope they don’t, I think we have a common sense, well justified, and eminently defensible position.” Adam Bonin writes… Continue reading
A video has surfaced of a speech Justice Scalia gave in Switzerland (the Justice ordinarily does not allow video of his speeches), and according to Marty Lederman’s post on SCOTUSblog, the Justice had this to say about Bush v. Gore:… Continue reading
Today’s Roll Call has published my oped (free access, with permission of Roll Call). Here is the text:
Following the recent lobbying scandals involving Jack Abramoff and former Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.), Congressional Republicans saw a need to enact some… Continue reading
See the 8 posts on Skeptic’s Eye for March 25. UPDATE: Bob Bauer weighs in here on the reaction of the reform community thus far. I should note that, absent extraordinary circumstances, most newspapers finish their Sunday editorials by Thursday… Continue reading