One of the terrific administrative changes made by the Supreme Court this term is the availability of oral argument transcripts the same day as the actual argument. I’ve had a chance to read quickly through this transcript in today’s Washington… Continue reading

I have posted the following draft on SSRN (forthcoming Albany Government Law Review). Here is the abstract: This Essay, written for the inaugural issue of the Albany Government Law Review, explores the campaign finance jurisprudence of Justice Souter. Justice Souter… Continue reading

The San Jose Mercury New offers this report, which begins: “It’s little wonder that most Republicans embraced the proposed ballot measure that would allocate California’s 55 electoral votes to the winner of each congressional district. After all, an extra… Continue reading

See here. Meanwhile, Christian conservatives, not happy with a possible Giuliani Republican presidential nomination, threaten a third party run.

Former presidential candidate John Anderson has written this oped in the Christian Science Monitor.

Though the Court just granted cert. last week, the Indiana voter id case has become one of the most talked-about cases on the new October docket. Writing in the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse notes the danger of the cert… Continue reading

Via this blog post comes word that Bob Bauer and the CLC have filed these comments taking the position that the WRTL rulemaking creating an as applied exemption should not extend to disclosure rules. It follows comments Richard Briffault and… Continue reading

Tony Mauro has written this article for the First Amendment Center, focusing on the Washington Primary case. See also this Roll Call report ($) on the case , which quotes, among others, Joe Birkenstock, whose preview of the case (uncorrected… Continue reading