The NY Times offers this report.

This post appears at SCOTUSBlog.

Via Richard Winger comes a link to this petition for writ of mandate seeking to change the ballot label and description for the top two primary measure in CA.

Earlier this week I linked to this CFI report on campaign financing in Connecticut. Now comes word of a competing study from the Center for Competitive Politics.

I’ve blogged here and here about Simmons v. Galvin, a First Circuit felon disenfranchisement case. After the losing plaintiffs filed a petition for cert., the state waived its right to respond. On February 26, however, the Supreme Court asked Mass. … Continue reading

John Samples blogs at CATO.

The Arizona Capitol Times offers this report.

Howard’s got it (who else?).

I am delighted to report that Justin Levitt has accepted a tenure-track position at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles beginning in the fall. Justin has that rare combination of academic smarts with real world litigation experience, especially in the… Continue reading

Both Bowen and The Clash want you to “Know Your Rights.” In Bowen’s case, she refers to the right not to sign one of the eighty ballot measures in circulation currently in California.

Here, at “State of Elections.”

There’s been a lot of media coverage this morning over this Politico story concerning a confidential 72 page powerpoint presentation of the RNC at a recent meeting. The lead has been about how to motivate small donors to give: “The… Continue reading

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Politico reports. More on the nomination of Dean Matheson, a very well qualified judicial candidate, here.