CREW Responds to Eric Wang About IRS Suit
Here.
Monthly Archives: March 2013
“Obama Rallies Supporters and Donors to Keep His Campaign Agenda Alive”
NYT / OFA.
“Club for Growth Leads Conservative Charge, Sometimes at Republicans”
What Do Barnes, Biskupic, Chemerinsky, Estrada, Liptak, and NeJaime Have in Common?
They are the panelists at the 3rd Annual UCI Law Supreme Court Term in Review event, July 19. RSVPs will open in May and the event wlll be webcast. I’ll be moderating.
Should be a well informed and entertaining… Continue reading
“New court filing: Documents were deleted from GOP redistricting computers”
JS Online:
Documents were deleted from state redistricting computers last year even after a lawyer for the Legislature told lawmakers’ aides to preserve all records on the computers, according to documents filed Wednesday in federal court.
Nine hard drives… Continue reading
CCP’s Joe Trotter Considers OFA and Reform
Here, in the Washington Times.
“Adam Liptak on Equality of States: The Implications for Shelby County”
“The Congressman, the Safari King, and the Woman Who Tried to Look Like a Cat”
Mother Jones report, with the subhead: “How did the chair of the House ethics committee end up on a corporate-backed African safari? Meet the shadowy nonprofit that throws some of DC’s finest junkets.”
Richard Epstein on Shelby County
The Mirage of Racism: “Under the VRA as it currently stands, we have too much federal intervention too soon, for too long, and for too little cause. The Supreme Court should strike the VRA down and let Congress return… Continue reading
Did IG Conclude Obama DOJ a “Far Better Steward” of Voting Rights Section than Bush DOJ?
That’s Adam Serwer’s reading of the report, but not mine. (The issue is not whether Obama DOJ in fact was a better steward, but rather what did the IG conclude.)
Update: Adam Serwer clarifies that this is his opinion… Continue reading
“Internal Report Blasts DOJ Civil Rights Unit”
Josh Gerstein does a great job describing key points in the IG report.
“Financing Elections and ‘Appearance of Corruption’: Citizen Attitudes and Behavior in 2012”
Molly Walker Wilson has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
As political spending reaches new highs in the 2012 election cycle, and as the controversy surrounding wealthy donors and interest groups grows, polls demonstrate a surge of… Continue reading
“OFA is Not a Partisan Organization”
John Carson of OFA has this response to a USA Today editorial, “Pro-Obama Group Follows GOP’s Sleazy Path.”
“Study finds voter ID laws hurt young minorities”
Politico: “As a handful of state legislatures around the country consider enacting stricter voter ID laws, a new study finds that young people – and especially young minorities – are disproportionately affected by those laws when they go into… Continue reading