“Appeals Court Rejects Nader Lawsuit”
AP offers this report.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
“Top court won’t hear Ga. voter ID issue”
AP offers this report.
Caperton v. Massey Roundup
NY Times (and this editorial)
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal (and see this editorial
LA Times
National Law Journal
USA Today
Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
Guy Charles (responding to Rick Pildes)
BNA ($)
My thoughts on the case are… Continue reading
“Senate Rules Committee Set June 10 To Consider Sullivan’s FEC Nomination”
BNA reports.
Thernstrom on NAMUDNO
Abigail Thernstrom has written Integration Now: The Supreme Court should scrap an antiquated and unconstitutional rule for National Review (subscription required). A snippet: “Today, therefore,[section 5] may serve as a brake on black political aspirations and a barrier to greater… Continue reading
Federal District Court Rules that Under Some Circumstances Conduit Contributions Not Illegal
See this AP report. If someone has access to Judge Ortero’s 11 page order, please send it along and I will post it.
UPDATE: I have now posted the order at this link. The statutory interpretation question is… Continue reading
“2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FINANCIAL ACTIVITY SUMMARIZED: RECEIPTS NEARLY DOUBLE 2004 TOTAL”
The FEC has issued this press release.
“In Defense of Judicial Elections”
With perfect timing comes word of the publication of In Defense of Judicial Elections by Chris Bonneau and Melinda Gann Hall (the latest in the impressive Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation series at Routledge edited by Matt Streb).
I… Continue reading
“One Lobbying Battle Ends, But A War Remains”
Eliza’s latest.
Group Reactions to Caperton
“Lobbyists unlimited in honoring lawmakers”
USA Today offers this must-read report.
Pildes on Caperton
Don’t miss Rick Pildes’s important post at Balkinization on the Caperton case. A snippet:
The signal to these differences is Justice Kennedy’s emphasis throughout that Caperton presented “extreme facts,” “an extraordinary situation” — and his candid admission that extreme cases… Continue reading
Judge Sotomayor and the Ricci Case: An Unusual Leak to the New York Times
There’s been so much coverage of Judge Sotomayor in the NY Times (and of course elsewhere), it is hard to keep track of it. But I was struck in reading this Times piece Saturday about the controversial Ricci case, involving… Continue reading
Initial Thoughts on Caperton v. Massey: First Meaningful Constitutional Limits on Excesses of Judicial Elections
As judicial elections in recent years have become, in the words of Roy Schotland, “noisier, nastier, and costlier,” litigants have consistently sought to limit some of the excesses sometimes seen in judicial elections, which 39 states use for at least… Continue reading