The LA Times offers this report, with the subhead: “Jury is deliberating charges that Harvey Silberman tried to bribe his opponent to drop out of 2008 Superior Court race. His two political consultants pleaded no contest to conspiracy charges.”… Continue reading
The NJ Office of the Attorney General issued this press release.
The defendants were charged in multiple indictments in connection with absentee ballots they collected and submitted as workers for Ruiz’s 2007 campaign for the New Jersey Senate. They… Continue reading
He’s only sidestepping DOJ on 5 of 81 election law changes: “changes to the time in which third party registration groups are required to submit voter registration cards, adjustments to petition signature verification, the discontinuation of changing your registration at… Continue reading
Roll Call reports.
No word yet on whether there will be a lawsuit, or an attempt to subject this plan to a referendum (and there’s some confusion over how that would work, if it happens).
See here. That’s not all that surprising, if it appears that Obama and the DNC will continue to do a good job fundraising within the confines of the party.
Roy Schotland has posted this 2009 article from the Missouri Law Review on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Legend has it that a long-ago Chief Justice of Texas said, “No judicial selection system is worth a damn.” This view has… Continue reading