The Wall Street Journal offers this preview (free access) of the Davenport union dues case the Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday. You can also this video from ACS of a press briefing on the case with Larry Gold, Jim… Continue reading

The NY Times offers this lead editorial on electronic voting machine software and testing.

The Supreme Court today refused to hear one of the Ralph Nader ballot access cases or the Wexler case from the Eleventh Circuit on electronic voting without paper trails. I had expected both cert denials (see here and here).… Continue reading

See here. Thanks to Luke McLoughlin for the pointer.

There has already been some very thoughtful commentary, particularly on the election law listserv, regarding this new 7th Circuit opinion by Judge Posner upholding Indiana’s voter identification law over Judge Evans’ dissent. I just want to throw out a… Continue reading

Lyle Denniston reports at SCOTUSBlog: “Attorneys involved in a significant test case at the Supreme Court on campaign ads during election season said Friday they were told that the case would be considered at the Jan. 19 Conference of the… Continue reading

While I was travelling yesterday, the Seventh Circuit issued this opinion, with a must-read majority opinion by Judge Posner and a must-read dissent by Judge Evans. I hope to write more about this case later today. In the meantime,… Continue reading

Via this SCOTUSBlog post, we have access to the Solicitor General’s response to WRTL’s motion to expedite the case to be heard this term. As soon as later today we will know if the Court will agree to the… Continue reading

You can read their Roll Call commentary without a subscription here.

FEC Commissioner Hans Von Spakovsky’s dissenting opinion in the Shelmerdine matter is here. Allison Hayward weighs in here, and Brad Smith goes to FOX to talk more about the case.

Yesterday’s panel at AALS on the Roberts Court and the Future of Court Regulation of Politics was a great success. Richard Briffault, Heather Gerken and Rick Pildes presented interesting papers, and Kareem Crayton and I provided commentary. It was a… Continue reading

SSRN has posted a draft of this chapter that I’ve written in a forthcoming NYU Press book, Running for Judge (Matthew Streb ed., forthcoming April 2007). Here is the abstract: In 2002, the United States Supreme Court held that a… Continue reading

See here.

The Sarasota Herald Tribune offers Buchanan’s Swearing-in Day Arrives and this column by Tom Lyons.