Ned Foley has posted this commentary [corrected link] at EL@M. It begins: The Supreme Court opened its term yesterday with an election law case, Washington State Grange v. Washington, and it will hear oral argument in another one tomorrow, New… Continue reading

Via email comes a press release which begins: “Lawyers for the James Madison Center today filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to consider an appeal of the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Flint v. Dennison,… Continue reading

See reports in the Seattle Times, CQ, Washington Post, and Slate (Dahlia Lithwick). See also my earlier post, Washington State Likely to Lose Top-Two Primary Case.

Following up on this post, BNA Money and Politics Report offers this report, which begins: “Differences over whether to require disclosure of the funding sources for political advertisements highlighted public comments submitted to the Federal Election Commission about… Continue reading

The Washington Times offers this editorial urging the Supreme Court to uphold the Indiana voter id law. A snippet: “Indiana’s voter ID law is no harsh regulation. It includes ample exceptions to the ID requirement, including waivers for those who… Continue reading

The NY Times offers this editorial on the Lopez-Torres case to be decided heard by the Supreme Court tomorrow. For more about the case, check out this page prepared by my student Scott Street for SCOTUSwiki, the new companion site… Continue reading

The SF Chronicle offers this report.

See here.

On the newly redesigned SCOTUSBlog, what’s up with Marty Lederman’s picture? He’s not here either. I’ve met him—even written a brief with him—and can confirm he does in fact exist.

Here.

See this post at “The Fix” (WaPo).

Following up on this post, see this item, at The Gate (National Journal). UPDATE: Bob Bauer weighs in.

You can find the opinion here. It begins: “Three officials of the Virginia State Board of Elections (collectively, ‘the Board’) appeal a district court order holding that Virginia’s open primary law, Va. Code Ann. s 24.2-530 (2006), is unconstitutional… Continue reading