“Let the majority rule: California’s Legislature needs to change the system that allows bills to be stymied without a floor vote.”
Thad Kousser has written this LA Times oped
Monthly Archives: November 2010
“Will Stealth Spending Decide the 2012 GOP Presidential Primaries?”
Walter Shapiro writes at Politics Daily.
“The Winning Strategy in Oakland: Concentrate on Being 2nd or 3rd Choice”
See this report from “The Bay Citizen” (as reprinted in the NY Times Bay area edition). More on the Oakland race from Fairvote (and here).
“Murkowski: No Merit to Miller’s Vote Fraud Claims”
The latest from AP. It is hard from the article to understand exactly what the “vote fraud” claim is.Meanwhile, Nate Silver does the math.
Not Everyone Loved the Matt Bai Story on Alaska and Primaries Yesterday
See this Jonathan Bernstein item at Salon.
Department of Alternative Universes
A thought experiment: The Miller-Murkowski battle is exactly the same, raising exactly the same legal issues as it does now. But one of the two candidates is a Democrat, the other is a Republican, and control of the Senate rests… Continue reading
Do the Judicial Canons Against Fundraisers Apply to Supreme Court Justices?
Following up on this post a reader points me to page 2 of The Guide to Judiciary Policy, which lists the judicial canons. It explains that the canons apply to “United States circuit judges, district judges, Court of International… Continue reading
“Merkowski” Yes, “Morkowski” No
Alaska Divison of Election’s phonetic approach to voter intent. Fortunately for those who want finality, it now appears that Murkowski will have enough ballots even not counting the reasonable challenges to misspellings to be declared the winner.
More on the… Continue reading
“Alaska’s Big Spelling Test: How strong is Joe Miller’s argument against the Leeza Markovsky vote?”
Slate has just published my latest Jurisprudence column. It begins:
Since the 2000 Florida debacle of Bush v. Gore, in which the United States Supreme Court decided the fate of the presidency after a razor-thin vote difference between George… Continue reading
Could Joe Miller Win in the U.S. Senate if He Loses in Alaska and the Courts?
Mike Stern explores.
“Worried DFLers exploring options if GOP tries stalling after governor’s recount: Then what?”
Jay Weiner games it out.
“Beyond Citizens United: Campaign Finance Law and the Roberts Court”
I’ll be speaking to the Los Angeles Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society on this topic on Wednesday Nov. 17 at noon. The link above takes you to information if you’d like to RSVP.,
“Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment”
Todd Zywicki has written this piece for the National Review.
“Alito and Ethics”
This post on the Constitutional Law Prof Blog raises the question: “Is it legal for a Justice of the United States Supreme Court to attend political fundraisers?” I suppose a more accurate question is whether it is ethical for a… Continue reading