The Cornell Law Review has just posted the final version of Chris Elmendorf’s Refining the Democracy Canon, 95 Cornell Law Review 1051 (2010). Chris’s article responds to my article, The Democracy Canon, 62 Stanford Law Review 69 (2009).… Continue reading

Douglas Hess and Steven Rosenfeld have written this oped in the Des Moines Register.

AP offers this report.

The Fair Elections Now Act will get at least a committee vote (and possibly more). This will be accompanied by a six-figure ad campaign.

Slate has just published a new Politics essay from me. It looks at what the losses by Mike Castle and Trey Grayson mean for the possibility of campaign finance reform and election reform legislation in the next Congress. It concludes:… Continue reading

The candidates for Chief Justice debate. Thanks to Michael Solimine for the pointer.

Robert Wechsler blogs.

The Money and Politics Report ($) offers California Set to Eye Proposed Rules For Disclosure of Internet Political Activity and Disclosure of Those Funding Political Ads Has Dropped Sharply Since ’04, Study Finds. The latter links to this study… Continue reading

Very interesting results here (here’s the CCP release), and not all results in line with CCP views. If I’m correct (and if I’m not, I’m sure I’ll be corrected), this seems to be one of those automated polls that… Continue reading

I’ve posted a revised version of Citizens United and the Illusion of Coherence (out in January in the Michigan Law Review) on SSRN. This draft benefitted from substantive comments of APSA participants, law review editors and others, and includes a… Continue reading

Roger Clegg reviews Abigail Thernstrom, Voting Rights and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections.

Students may get no kick from Champaign.

NYT reports.

The Washington Post offers this report.