Here are some items of interest that popped up during the last week when I was not blogging.
Peter Overby had this Christmas morning NPR “Morning Edition” story on campaign finance reform over the last decade.
“The Caucus” blog at… Continue reading
I’m going to be doing some traveling, including to some places where the Internet connection is iffy. I hope to post from time to time, though between family, travel, grading, and finishing up some writing assignments, I do not expect… Continue reading
Don’t miss Linda’s latest NYT online column, which concludes:
Now it appears that the chief justice and his allies may have overreached. With 37 cases argued so far this term, the court left town having decided a scant four.… Continue reading
SCOTUSBlog reports on the decision of the attorney general not to file a cert. petition in the Emily’s List case. AG Holder’s letter to House Speaker Pelosi notes that similar issues are before the D.C. Circuit en banc in the… Continue reading
I had been thinking about writing something about the idea that the House would just acquiesce in voting for the Senate version of the health care bill, thereby avoiding a conference (and avoiding the chance that the House-Senate conference could… Continue reading
The Washington Post offers this report, which begins: “A coalition of African American leaders concerned about minorities being undercounted in the 2010 Census called Wednesday for inmates at federal and state prisons to be tallied in their home communities… Continue reading