“Murkowski doubts vote certification this week”
AP offers this report.
Monthly Archives: December 2010
“D.C. Voting Rights Advocates Search for Partner State”
Roll Call offers this report.
Senator Specter Discusses CU in Valedictory Address on Senate Floor
Roll Call: “Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito repudiated their confirmation testimony and provided the key votes to permit corporations and unions to secretly pay for political advertising — effectively undermining the basic democratic principle of the power of… Continue reading
“State Lawmakers Need to Assess Impact of Citizens United”
Maryland legislator Jon Cardin has written this oped.
The McCain-Feingold/Net Neutrality Connection?
John Fund’s provocative new column, raising the old debate about foundation funding for campaign finance reform.
Judge Issues Opinion in Kinston Voting Rights Case, With Discussion of Standing that Could Be Relevant to Prop 8 Appeal
You can read the 53-page opinion in this challenge to section 5 of the Voting Rights Act here. The Constitutional Accountability Center offers District Court Issues Opinion Dismissing Private Parties’ Challenge to the Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act… Continue reading
“Reform Groups Urge Speaker-designee Boehner to Support and Continue Ethics Rules Adopted in 2007”
Democracy 21 has issued this release, which begins: “In a letter sent today, reform groups strongly urged Speaker-designee Boehner, ‘to support, without any weakening changes, the gift, travel and other ethics rules adopted by the House in 2007 in… Continue reading
Census Data Release and Reapportionment
NYT: “By that new count, Texas will gain four new seats, Florida will gain two, while New York and Ohio each lose two. Fourteen other states gained or lost one seat. The gainers included Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah… Continue reading
“Keeping Congress Competent: Staff Pay, Turnover, And What It Means for Democracy”
Daniel Schuman has this interesting post at the Sunlight Foundation blog.
“The Fix’s Reapportionment Primer”
In advance of the release of the Census numbers Tuesday morning, see here.
Lots of Election Law in Tuesday’s NYT
Tuesday’s newspaper includes F.E.C. Rejected Counsel With Its Vote on Senator (about the decision to close the Ensign matter), Justice Dept. Is Criticized as Corruption Cases Close, Ex-Lobbyist in Alabama Pleads Guilty in Bribery, and Ruling Means Republicans … Continue reading
“Federal Election Commission files suit over Buchanan campaign contributions”
The Florida Independent offers this report. More from BNA.
Election Law Journal 9:4, the Lowenstein Festschrift Issue, Now Available; Preview of ELJ 10:1
You can now view the Table of Contents for ELJ 9:4, which includes the Lowenstein festschrift issue, at this link. This is the last issue that Dan Lowenstein and I have co-edited. We have many people to thank, and… Continue reading
“Special interests still find backers; SACRAMENTO: Probe shows state leaders are flush with sponsored bills”
The Mercury News offers this report.