I have posted the following piece on SCOTUSBlog. It begins:
Scholarship highlight: End of the Supreme Court-Congress dialogue?
Political polarization in Congress seems to be affecting the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court, inadvertently strengthening the Court at the… Continue reading
News from Colorado: “An investigation into how Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler uses his discretionary fund, prompted by travel to political events, won’t move forward because lawmakers deadlocked Tuesday on whether to proceed.”
Vivian Hamilton: “This is the last in a series of posts on the voting age.” This last post links to the first four posts in this series at Concurring Opinions.
Must read, long read from Bob Moser in The American Prospect, with the subhead: “No matter the outcome, big money and voter suppression crippled the election. This is no way to run the world’s oldest democracy.”
Interesting column:
The problem is not, as the president implied, the opposition of an implacable few to the manifest general interest.
Rather, it is that Washington is besieged by mutually offsetting lobbies representing almost every conceivable segment of society.… Continue reading
Bloomberg Businessweek: “Last week campaign disclosure reports revealed that Hillary Clinton had finally retired the debt from her 2008 presidential campaign—with a little help from the guy who beat her, Barack Obama. Clinton’s debt once totaled more than $20… Continue reading