Jocelyn Benson has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Fordham Urban Law Journal. Here is the abstract: In November 2006, Michigan voters endorsed a ballot initiative that would amend the State Constitution to eliminate the use of affirmative action in… Continue reading

BNA’s Money and Politics Report ($) quotes Howard Gantman, staff director of the Senate Rules Committee, as follows “”With the 2008 Presidential election fast approaching it is was critical that these two positions be filled without the continued partisan standoff… Continue reading

You can listen to the podcast from the AALS Section on Legislation meeting here. Participants included Richard Briffault, Kareem Crayton, Heather Gerken, Rick Pildes, and me.

As I have been predicting, the Supreme Court has granted cert (pdf at 37) in this case involving the constitutionality of New York’s procedures for party nomination of judges. You can find the parties’ briefs linked here. A… Continue reading

Electionline has posted the relevant page from the Congressional Record. Electionline reports in an email alert: “The U.S. Election Assistance Commission is back to full strength this morning following last night’s unanimous consent in the Senate to confirm nominees Caroline… Continue reading

See here. I earlier linked to Sen. Feinstein’s letter here.

The SF Chronicle offers this report.

The LA Times offers this report.

Here.

Electionline has issued this report.

See this post at Governing.com’s 13th Floor.

Luke McLoughlin has written “Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and City of Boerne: The Continuity, Proximity and Trajectory of Vote-Dilution Standards,” 31 Vermont Law Review 39 (2006) John Lott has written, “Campaign Finance Reform and Electoral Competition, 129… Continue reading

The latest from the Fremont County, Wy. voting rights trial.

See this report (pdf at 3, 5) and this report on complaints when the City of Beverly Hills, CA provided translations of materials beyond what which is required by the language provisions of the Voting Rights Act. UPDATE: The report… Continue reading