Via Richard Winger comes a link to this order of the trial court in the Washington State Grange case on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court and the 9th circuit. (More here.)
I don’t think Richard is correct (in… Continue reading
The Boston Globe offers this report, which begins: “A personal plea from Senator Edward M. Kennedy to grant the governor power to appoint an interim successor in the Senate drew little public support from Massachusetts lawmakers yesterday, with the… Continue reading
The NY Times reports that NY “Gov. David A. Paterson’s naming of Richard Ravitch last month to the vacant lieutenant governor’s post was ruled illegal on Thursday by a state appeals court panel that deemed Mr. Paterson had violated the… Continue reading
The lead strory in this week’s Electionline Weekly, which also links to this AP story on the indictment of former New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron.
Details here. The new edition includes all the major election law-related cases from NY and many federal cases since the first edition in 2007. It also has two new chapters — a comprehensive analysis of the NYC Campaign Finance… Continue reading
Seattle University’s law school has put together this interesting symposium for September 14. Justice O’Connor will be the featured speaker (giving a speech and serving on two panels). I’ll be on the first panel, with Bert Brandenberg, Kathleen Sullivan, and… Continue reading