“Why all of a sudden now with the statesmanship?”
—Dahlia Lithwick, in conversation with Linda Greenhouse and Walter Dellinger at Slate‘s “Breakfast Table,” referencing this ELB guest post on NAMUDNO.
Interesting comments here. It concludes: “So let’s take the Supreme Court opinion for what it says and what it does. Let’s see how bail-out works. If necessary, if the bail-out mechanism proves to be too stringent or too lenient,… Continue reading
Michael Kang sends along the following guest post:
Thanks to Rick Hasen for hosting this discussion of NAMUDNO, which I’m happy to join near its close. I’ve enjoyed surveying academic opinion about the Voting Rights Act and NAMUDNO, but I’m… Continue reading
Politico offers this report, which begins: “The anti-tax Club for Growth is preparing a campaign designed to drain cash from party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) campaign coffers, and is awaiting approval from the Federal Election Commission to follow through… Continue reading
WSJ editorial: “Civil rights groups and others on the political left want Americans to believe that the death of Section 5 would threaten the black franchise. But such scaremongering obscures their real agenda, which is preserving racially gerrymandered voting… Continue reading
Here is Stuart Taylor’s new column for National Journal. He quotes Rick Pildes as follows: “The justices’ decision ‘saved Congress from itself,’ says Richard Pildes, a professor at New York University Law School, by ‘aggressively contorting’ the language of the… Continue reading