Monthly Archives: March 2009
“Illinois Scandal Spawns a Debate: Amendment Would End Appointments”
The Washington Post offers this article. Near the end, it includes the following: “Freshman Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) offered a compromise — a measure that would change the law, not amend the constitution, by requiring states to hold an… Continue reading
“New ACLU Report Highlights Florida’s Failure to Address Continued Voter Disfranchisement Problems; Provides Solutions”
Read the Important Testimony in Today’s Senate Rules Hearing on Voter Registration
Ansolabehere, Gans, Persily, Nelson, Clarke, and Goldman. Read it all on the Rules Committee’s beautiful new website.
“$1M withheld from candidates”
Joe Trippi and Larry Lessig have written this Politico ideas piece.
“Port Chester Attorneys See Link in Supreme Court Voting Rights Case”
Will the Port Chester case be influenced by the Bartlett decision? The post talks about important dicta in Justice Kennedy’s opinion on the third Gingles criterion, racial bloc voting.
“Dan Walters: Court ruling may shrink ranks of black politicians”
When Prop. 11 meets Bartlett v. Strickland.
“Coleman warns donors after purported data breach”
AP offers this report.
“Leaders Strategize on How to Pass D.C. Vote Bill”
The Washington Post offers this report.
“Hurdles to Voting Persisted in 2008”
The NY Times offers this report, which begins: “Four million to five million voters did not cast a ballot in the 2008 presidential election because they encountered registration problems or failed to receive absentee ballots, which is roughly the… Continue reading
“Narrowing the Voting Rights Act”
The NY Times offers this editorial.
You Don’t See This Every Day
A bill in Iowa that would prohibit independent expenditure material that “disparages” a candidate from being distributed without the permission of the candidate who “might” benefit from the spending. Besides the fact that this is blatantly unconstitutional, it would turn… Continue reading
“Franken, in D.C., says he sees ‘a light at the end of the tunnel'”
The Star-Tribune offers this report.
Advice to Congress from Justice Ginsburg in Bartlett
In yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Bartlett v. Strickland., Justice Ginsburg wrote: “I join JUSTICE SOUTER’s powerfully persuasive dissenting opinion, and would make concrete what is implicit in his exposition. The plurality’s interpretation of s 2 of the Voting Rights… Continue reading