The NY Times offers this report, which explains that for the Florida governor to grant blanket clemency to all felons who have finished their sentences he will have to find a second Republican official on the state board of… Continue reading

The News and Observer (North Carolina) offers this editorial. For a link to the ruling and opinion, see this Brennan Center press release.

The Washington Post offers this report, which begins: “If Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ever took a break from fundraising to bone up on psychology, they might realize the need to talk up…John Edwards.”

BNA Money and Politics Report offers this report ($), which begins: “A federal district court ruled March 29 that a North Carolina law requiring an anti-abortion organization to register as a political action committee and obey contribution limits violates the… Continue reading

Dan Lowenstein has posted The Meaning of Bush v. Gore on SSRN (forthcoming Ohio State Law Journal). Here is the abstract: The first section of this paper comments on a paper by Edward N. Foley, in which Professor Foley proposes… Continue reading

Running for Judge (Matthew Streb ed., NYU Press 2007). You can find chapter 1 here and an earlier draft of my chapter on First Amendment limits on regulating judicial campaigns here. Keith Ewing The Cost of Democracy: Party Funding … Continue reading

I recently linked to a Brad Blog post noting that the American Center for Voting Rights appeared to have disappeared. This organization, supported by Republicans, had been the most prominent non-governmental group pushing for stricter voter identification laws in… Continue reading

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette offers this editorial, which begins: “Though two federal appeals court judges upheld Indiana’s Draconian voter ID law, the legal fight continues — and a recent academic paper shows why the court’s ruling should be… Continue reading

Aspen Publishers is taking orders for my new Remedies book Remedies: Examples & Explanations. If all goes well, it should ship from the warehouse around 4/20, to arrive just in time to help students study for their final exams.

Political Wire has the roundup. See also this Washington Post report.

The Oakland Tribune offers this report, which begins: “Assemblyman Lloyd Levine has a plan to transform California’s apathetic masses into avid political consumers, or at least better informed ones. Levine, D-Van Nuys, is pushing a bill that would require… Continue reading

Bill McCollum, Florida’s Attorney General, has written this oped, which begins: “The campaign to automatically restore civil rights to nearly all felons upon release from prison, with no waiting period and no hearing to determine if those felons will… Continue reading

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Jeffrey Lax and Mat McCubbins have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues). Here is the abstract: Before the “reapportionment revolution,” decades of precedent held that the legislative district boundaries were not justiciable, no matter how… Continue reading