“Hearings on Troubled FEC Urged by Reform Groups”
See this press release.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Cain Responds to Quinn on California Redistricting Commission
In response to Tony Quinn’s comments in this post, Bruce Cain emails to me for posting the following comments:
Tony is indeed a friend, but he has been seriously misled as to the facts. First Karin is a registered… Continue reading
“Health Care Challenge Could Trigger Recusal Debate”
Zachary Roth blogs at “The Lookout.”
“Avoiding an Electoral Lost Decade: What Lessons Will We Learn in the 2011 Redistricting Cycle?”
Andrew Thomas has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
With the decennial redistricting cycle starting anew in 2011, there is an opportunity to learn from the lessons of the past cycle as legislators draw their own boundaries… Continue reading
“The Story of Citizens United v. FEC”
Movie trailer.
California Appellate Court Holds that Party Suing to Protect Party First Amendment Associational Rights Has Right to Attorneys Fees
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen Will Run in Special Congressional Election to Replace Rep. Jane Harman
See here. This likely will be one of the first races under the top two primary in which the top two vote getters will almost certainly be from the same political party. (The other prominent candidate announced so far… Continue reading
I Thought It Was Republicans (along with Good Government Types) Who Supported the Prop. 11 Redistricting Plan in California
Now Tony Quinn predicts Republicans “will be screwed” by the new maps. If I’m remembering the arcana of the citizen commission, I believe any plan would have to be approved by a majority of Republicans (and a majority of Democrats,… Continue reading
Federal District Court in City of Irving Case Rejects Argument that the Constitution’s One Person, One Vote Principle Requires the Use of Citizen Voting Age Population rather than Total Population to Draw District Lines
You can find the ruling here.
Are Conservative Justices Undermining the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court?
That’s Katrina vanden Heuvel’s claim in a WaPo online column. All the evidence I’ve seen is that Bush v. Gore had no lasting effect on the public’s views of the Court’s legitimacy. Whether a Court that strikes down the Obama… Continue reading
“Reformers Call on Representatives to Oppose Amendments to Kill Presidential Public Financing System in Spending Bill”
See this press release.
“The Debate Over Voter Identification at the Polls: Expanding Our Vision”
Rob Richie of Fairvote (see their latest newsletter) has written this post for the Huffington Post.
Read the FEC Brief Opposing Cert in the Cao Case
See here (via Richard Winger). I think this one is fairly likely to be granted, given (1) the Court majority’s continued interest in the deregulatory project; (2) the divide among the judges on the en banc panel of the… Continue reading
“Between the Lines: States With 2011 Races Get Early Redistricting”
Roll Call offers this report.