More parlour games: I’ve taken a look at the most recent SCOTUSWiki Statpack, and updated it with figures since its publication on 6/9. For the March sitting (which included Citizens United, and was the shortest calendar of the year),… Continue reading

The Court has released 4 opinions today, leaving only Citizens United, Ricci (the much-watched New Haven firefighters’ case), and the Cuomo case to be decided. Though the delay may simply be because one Justice is not ready with a concurring… Continue reading

Following up on this post, noted Democratic campaign lawyer Joe Sandler offers these interesting thoughts on the election law listserv (linked with permission), defending the commissioners.

Edward Blum has written this commentary for The American. A snippet from one of the driving forces behind NAMUDNO: “It took only eight days after President George W. Bush signed the 2006 reauthorization of Section 5 before a jurisdiction challenged… Continue reading

See this press release.

as this article suggests,then how about using it coupled with universal voter registration (or VRM,if you prefer)?

See here.

The Center for Governmental Studies has issued this report. A brief description from the web page: Public Campaign Financing in North Carolina Judiciary: Balancing The Scales analyzes North Carolina’s judicial public campaign financing law, and concludes that North Carolina’s… Continue reading

If the Court was going to go the constitutional avoidance route in the Citizens United case, avoiding the constitutional question whether to overrule Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce in favor of a narrow statutory holding stating that video-on-demand is… Continue reading

Some unexpected words from one of the greatest Supreme Court analysts of our time: Now, briefly, to Caperton. This was, indeed, a very odd exercise. The case was latched onto by a whole bunch of well-meaning folks who thought they… Continue reading

Back on June 10, I blogged about an extraordinary statement of reasons from Commissioners Weintraub and Bauerly in which they called the Republican Commissioners’ actions in an enforcement case “inexplicable.” The statement later caught the attention of the Washington Post… Continue reading