A reader writes:
What are the odds that Hans von Spakovsky will admit this was bad advice?
Abusing the Voting Rights Act
The lesson here is that Republican-controlled legislatures that have drawn up redistricting plans that Democrats don’t like would… Continue reading
Back in July I blogged about the problem with pollworker discretion when it comes to implementing Pennsylvania’s voter id law. Under the PA law, pollworkers are allowed to accept id’s which “substantially conform” to state requirements. I suggested this… Continue reading
BLT reports.
I’ve made the argument that a ban on lobbyist bundling is supported by the government’s interest in promoting economic welfare/minimizing rent seeking in this Stanford Law Review article.
You can read the opinion here (there was a partial dissent by Judge Griffith, who wrote most of the majority opinion as well). From the introduction:
The latest Census reports that since 2000 the population of Texas grew by over… Continue reading
Here is a guest post from Josh Douglas.
One aspect of the trial court’s decision in the Pennsylvania voter ID case that has gone mostly unexplored is the court’s ruling on the difference between facial and as-applied challenges. The… Continue reading
Isikoff: “The political conventions have always been open season for big money influence peddling. But this year, ever-creative Washington lobbyists have devised a nifty new technique to bypass pesky ethics rules that were supposed to bar them from throwing… Continue reading
Cleveland Plain Dealer: “When GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited an Ohio coal mine this month to promote jobs in the coal industry, workers who appeared with him at the rally lost pay because their mine was shut down. The… Continue reading