Vik Amar has written this Findlaw piece. Key quote: “It doesn’t take a genius to see that relegating plaintiffs to ‘as applied’ challenges in these kinds of cases doesn’t really leave them with much.” Tokaji on Elmendorf on Crawford… Continue reading

See here.

Ed Still has the details.

Jeanne Cummings has written this article for The Politico.… Continue reading

Alrene Ash and John Lamperti have written this article for Chance, a statistics magazine. The pdf includes responses by Joseph Hall and Walter Mebane.

Laura MacCleery and Andrew Stengel have written this post at The Huffington Post.

AP offers this report.

The Politico: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), said he would not allow Democrats a separate vote on each nominee and instead wanted the FEC nominees voted on as a package, which would ensure approval of the most controversial… Continue reading

See here. So Bob Bauer, Fred Wertheimer, Gerry Hebert, and I all agree. What about Trevor Potter, Sen. McCain’s lawyer, and Brad Smith? I’d be interested to know. UPDATE: Trevor Potter responded to my query on the… Continue reading

Via Jonathan Adler comes this Washington Post blog posting suggesting that the Indiana voter ID law did not cause many problems (nuns and students aside) at the polling places. That may be true, but it doesn’t prove much about the… Continue reading

This post appears at a Miami Herald blog. Thanks to Dan Smith for the pointer.

So reports NPR. See also Today’s Must Read column at Talking Points Memo.

Norm Ornstein has written this Roll Call oped (free access). Norm concludes: I do not think, in principle, that requiring a photo ID is evil or onerous. An official photo ID can protect voters against charges that they are ineligible… Continue reading

Eric Wang has written this column for The Hill.