ABA announces the publication of this book by John Hardin Young.

This item appears at the NY Times “Caucus” blog.

Heather Gerken has written this blog post [corrected link] linking to two (more) new essays of hers: Shortcuts to Reform (Minn. L. Rev) and Getting from Here to There in Election Reform: A Trio of Ideas.

This is not encouraging, though the question will ultimately fall to the new attorney general, and presumably to groups that support Prop. 14 that will attempt to intervene to defend the law in any litigation.

After a few false starts, as I expected the Court has issued an order blocking the provision of additional public financing “matching funds” in Arizona. As Lyle Denniston explains, the order will stay in effect until the Court… Continue reading

BNA offers this report.

Ciara Torres-Spellicsy has written this oped ($) for the NY Law Journal.

I did this interview with Oped News on CU and other topics.

Amy Coney Barrett has published this article in the Boston University Law Review. You can read the abstract here at SSRN.

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More proof that special purpose district elections are not like normal elections.… Continue reading

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Don’t miss this Mother Jones article (via Ben Smith).

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