“Yassky’s Candidacy Threatens to Undermine Minority Voting Rights Protections”
Hardbeat news offers this oped.
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Law and Politics Book Review Reviews Second Edition of Slabach Campaign Finance Anthology
Here.
Hasen: VRA Renewal: The Spirit of Compromise?
Yesterday I suggested that the civil rights community should be ready to compromise on some aspects of VRA renewal in order to get a bill passed this session. In this post, I want to suggest that if those members in… Continue reading
“Nonprofits in Federal Elections: 527s, 501(c)s, and the Debate over Federal Campaign Finance and Tax Policies”
The Campaign Finance Institute and the Urban Institute are putting on this event on July 19. (Click on the link for rsvp information.) This looks like a terrific event that I’m sorry I will have to miss. Here is the… Continue reading
A new way of getting voters to vote on ballot measures?
Those of us in the election law field know that when Congress passed BCRA (the McCain-Feingold law), it included not only a provision defining the term “electioneering communications.” It also provided a “backup definition” in case courts held that the… Continue reading
Audio of Padilla v. Lever Oral Argument Now Available
Click here.
Debo Adegbile’s Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee on VRA Renewal
You can find it here. Again, I’m happy to post (or link) to other Senate VRA testimony if it is sent to me.
Horowitz on VRA Renewal
Donald Horowitz, professor of law and political science at Duke, has sent this letter on VRA renewal to Senator Specter.
Opponents of H.R. 9 VRA Renewal as “Hijack[ers]” and “Saboteurs”
This press release from the “Renew the VRA” project doesn’t seem to me to be a productive way to move forward.
Judge McConnell on Justice Breyer on Campaign Finance
Writing this review of Justice Breyer’s book, Active Liberty, in the Harvard Law Review, Judge Michael McConnell opines (p. 25 of the pdf):
Perhaps Justice Breyer means only that courts should be more attentive to empirical evidence of consequences, as… Continue reading
No Opinions in Texas or Vermont Cases Today
See here. Lyle reports: “Ten more rulings are expected, with the next announcement of opinions due on Monday.”
Coverage of Oral Argument in Padilla v. Lever Today
Hasen: Two Ways to Improve Proactive Bailout
From discussions with a number of people, both on and off the election law listserv (see especially here), I would now suggest amending my earlier proactive bailout proposal in two ways:
1. The DOJ should be able to request… Continue reading
Hasen: The Civil Rights Community’s Double Gamble on VRA Renewal
Those members of the civil rights community who have been leading the push for VRA renewal made a decision some time ago (or at least it appears to an outside observer) to push for VRA renewal (1) as quickly as… Continue reading