“Broadcasters Make Emergency Motion to Block Transparency Rule”
ProPublica reports.
Monthly Archives: July 2012
“Misleading Data on Outside Spending”
Jonathan Backer blogs.
“The ‘CBO Canon’ and the Debate Over Tax Credits on Federally Operated Health Insurance Exchanges”
The following is a guest post from Abbe Gluck [cross-posted from Balkinization]:
Abbe Gluck
The latest fracas over health reform—the challenge to subsidies for the federal exchanges—offers a long-overdue opportunity to think about how particular features of modern lawmaking… Continue reading
Politifact Rates as “Mostly True”: Eric Holder says recent studies show 25 percent of African Americans, 8 percent of whites lack government-issued photo IDs
Here.
Updated Book Tour Information for The Voting Wars
Here’s the latest version of the schedule (more about the imminent release of the book at thevotingwars.com):
The Voting Wars
front page
About the Author
About the Book
Book Tour
Endorsements
Media Coverage
Pre-Order the Book
Reviews
Book Tour… Continue reading
Marilyn Marks Oped on Her Battle With the City of Aspen
“Romney surging, but Obama well ahead in campaign cash”
Sunlight reports.
Is Eric Holder Right on Voter ID?
I’ve posted some thoughts over at Politico’s Arena.
“Snyder says no”
Metro Times on the voter id veto in Michigan.
Second Annual Supreme Court Term in Review Program at UC Irvine
Second Annual Supreme Court Term in Review Program
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
12:00 – 1:30 P.M.
University of California, Irvine School of Law (Map)
This exciting and entertaining program reviews the Supreme Court’s key cases decided in the Fall 2011… Continue reading
“Obama campaign shrugs off reports of Romney’s fundraising advantage”
A change of pace.
“Marc Morial, Cedric Richmond ask Justice to block effort to keep Bernette Johnson from becoming chief justice”
The latest from Louisiana.
Watch Out If Texas Loses on Voting Rights Act Claim in Voter ID Case
J. Christian Adams reports that it is looking a lot like Texas is not going to be able to prove an absence of discriminatory intent or effect as to its voter id law.
Sound like good news for voter id… Continue reading
AG Holder, Going Off Script at NAACP Convention, Calls Voter ID Laws “Poll Taxes”
See here.
It is a position courts have rejected, and analogous to Jim Crow language I believe is unhelpful in the voter id debate.
But it is becoming clearer, as I argue in The Voting Wars, that perhaps the… Continue reading