The NY Times offers this front-page report, which begins: “The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship… Continue reading

David Nather, writing for CQ Weekly, observes: “When he promised last week that as president he’d nominate only strict constructionists to the Supreme Court, there was one subject John McCain didn’t mention in his review of the court’s trends:… Continue reading

So suggests this AP report mentioning the Crawford case.

At Balkinization, Andrew Koppelman writes On Not Getting Over it, which begins: “A few days ago, Justice Antonin Scalia, asked again about the charge of partisanship in the Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore to hand the presidency… Continue reading

Jack Chin has this post at Prawfsblawg.

This interesting article appears in the NY Sun. I spoke to this reporter about this article, but told him I don’t know enough about the coordinated expenditure rules to comment on that aspect of it. It does seem to me… Continue reading

CQ Politics reports that FEC Commissioner Mason “said the White House personnel office called him ‘the day they withdrew the nomination to inform me about that. And that was a pretty routine process, just a courtesy call to me. And… Continue reading

The Times article is here. Trevor’s listserv comments were reposted on this blog here. And it started with the question I posed to Trevor at the beginning of that post.

See this press release and this AlterNet story.

There’s a nice summary paragraph in “Election Reform News This Week” in the new Electionline weekly. Note that the beginning of the newsletter provides details on how current and new subscribers can sign up under a new procedure to… Continue reading

The Politico offers this report.

This interesting report in U.S. News notes a provision in McCain-Feingold that will be very important if Sen. Clinton wishes to recoup her campaign loan. See also this Explainer column from Slate.

See here.

The Washington Post offers this report.