Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required), which begins: “After weeks without progress on finishing a lobbying reform bill, Senate Republican leaders are trying to break an impasse by scrapping controversial language added by the House that curbs 527… Continue reading
This morning, a group of Republican election lawyers met with the Republican conference in the House, apparently to get everyone’s ducks in a row before the scheduled vote on the VRA on Thursday. But it appears things did not go… Continue reading
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s July 10th hearing on the federal observer provisions was a paper hearing only. Here is written testimony on the “Continuing Need for Federal Examiners and Observers to Ensure Electoral Integrity:”
Constance Slaughter-HarveyJames Thomas TuckerAlfred … Continue reading
Roll Call has published my guest commentary (FREE access, reprinted with permission), which begins:
This week the House considers H.R. 9, a bill that renews expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act. The Senate is expected to take up parallel… Continue reading
So concludes Charles Kuffner of the Houston Chronicle, who notes: “According to the Texas Constitution, ‘No law passed by the Legislature, except the general appropriation act, shall take effect or go into force until ninety days after the adjournment of… Continue reading
Paul Edelman has published “Getting the Math Right: Why California Has Too Many Seats in the House of Representatives,” 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 297 (2006).