Roll Call offers this editorial (paid subscription required).

The Monterey Herald offers this report on yesterday’s en banc Ninth Circuit opinion in Padilla v. Lever, and what it means for the two Monterey ballot measures that got caught up in the Padilla controversy. The county apparently wants to… Continue reading

The NY Times offers this report. My earlier coverage, including a link to the opinion, is here.

The Oregonian offers this report.

Dan Tokaji has this weekly comment at Moritz. I too have praised pre-election–as opposed to post-election–judicial review of election law issues.

Here is the petition. Here are the questions presented: After the events that gave rise to Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), States, with federal encouragement, purchased new voting mechanisms to overcome problems associated with the older equipment. In… Continue reading

John Nichols has this post at The Nation‘s Blog.

I have not seen the order yet. Details to come. UPDATE: You can find the judge’s opinion here.

See this report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Link via Political Wire.

You can find the opinion by Judge Canby (the dissenter when the case was heard initially by a three-judge panel) here. Judge Reinhardt concurred, based on the plain meaning of section 203. Judge Pregerson (who wrote the original majority… Continue reading

The NY Times offers this editorial.

The Houston Chronicle offers this report.

See Adam Bonin’s plea.

See this AP report.