And really, if you read the NY Times article, the MOVE Act is apparently being blamed for the date change, which is being blamed for 5% turnout on Tuesday — less than the 7% turnout for New York’s presidential… Continue reading
Beyond Affordable Care, beyond Stolen Valor, the Supreme Court took a third very important action today. The Ninth Circuit — first as a panel, then en banc — decided that Arizona’s refusal to accept federal voter registration forms without… Continue reading
It’s been an active day in the courts even beyond the health care rulings. In the Danielczyk case, the Fourth Circuit has reversed the Virginia district court opinion striking down the federal ban on corporate contributions to candidates in the… Continue reading
In a decision released this morning, a federal court declined to issue a temporary restraining order in the DOJ’s NVRA challenge to Florida’s purported purge of noncitizens.
Part of the reason was that the Florida Secretary of State Detzner apparently… Continue reading
1. I am less surprised by the outcome of this case (I switched my expectations after reading Orin Kerr’s dissection of Justice Ginsburg’s recent speech at the American Constitution Society convention) than I am by the vote: I expected that… Continue reading
We will know, of course, in a couple of hours. But in all the commentary on the health-care cases, I do not recall seeing the following possibility explored (though surely someone else must have had this thought). So I wanted… Continue reading
See this Anchorage Daily News report. State legislative districts in Alabama and Mississippi, and congressional districts in New Hampshire (and, of course, Texas districts beyond the 2012 interim plan) still need preclearance, but most statewide plans are done at this… Continue reading
Yesterday, the NH legislature overrode Governor Lynch’s veto of a new voter ID bill. The bill — now law — asks voters to show a photo ID. But crucially, those who do not have a photo ID can vote a… Continue reading
The Hartford Courant reports on the intersection of the WWE and the FEC. And it somehow resists asking the question at the heart of it all: When is a tag-team not coordination?
This time, judicial elections. The Missoulian reports on a federal court decision, denying a preliminary injunction against a Montana law that prohibits political parties from endorsing judicial candidates. Watch for more as the litigation continues — this could be… Continue reading
BNA ($) has the story. A snippet: “More than a dozen conservative groups that do not disclose their funding sources for election spending joined a brief filed June 27 in a key federal court case testing disclosure requirements for groups… Continue reading
In the newest addition to the Harvard Law Review Forum, Nick Stephanopoulos updates his very interesting examination of “Spatial Diversity” and its role in the redistricting process. His latest uses census data to analyze the new congressional districts… Continue reading