Monthly Archives: March 2013
Minn. Democratic Governor May Not Support Democratic Legislature’s Election Law Bill If It Lacks Bipartisan Support
The City of LA Wants Joe Mathews, South Pasadena Resident, to Vote for LA Mayor. Or Maybe Not.
Hanlon’s razor hits L.A.
Maybe 5% of Section 2 Cases Include Preliminary Injunctions?
Hebert and Derfner follow up on a Shelby County question.
“Legal Journalist Andrew Cohen Joins Brennan Center as New Fellow”
Press release: “The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law is pleased to welcome as a new Fellow Andrew Cohen, a Murrow Award-winning journalist and one of the nation’s leading legal analysts. Today, Cohen wrote a column for… Continue reading
Overton, von Spakovsky Debate Future of Voting Rights Act on NPR’s “Tell Me More”
Listen.
Also looking forward to Spencer being the keynote speaker at this UC Berkeley voting rights event on Monday.
“The Demise of Section 5? It’s become a politicized weapon wielded by the Justice Department.”
John Fund at National Review.
“Justice Scalia’s Warped Political Process Theory: Not Much Democracy, A Lot of Distrust”
“The Supreme Court could strike down part of the Voting Rights Act. Here’s what that would mean”
“TRUE THE VOTE COMMENT ON CORRECTED VOTER SUPPRESSION REPORT”
Statement in response to this and this from FairVote:
“We stand by True the Vote’s report. Everything we said about the major conclusions in the report are correct. In a supplementary section, there was a methological error and it has… Continue reading
Audio Posted of Shelby County Oral Argument
You can listen (and read the tea leaves) here.
“Windsor Brief: DOMA Affects Campaign Finance Laws”
Press release via email:
Members of Caplin & Drysdale’s Political Law Group filed today a friend-of-the-court brief for a bipartisan group of former Federal Election Commission officials in U.S. v. Windsor, the high-profile U.S. Supreme Court case that challenges the… Continue reading
“What the Voting Rights Act Argument Was Really About”
Bryan Tyson, who worked for Rep. Lynn Westmoreland during the 2006 VRA reauthorization, penned this oped.
Rep. Westmoreland and I were strange bedfellows back in 2006, when he (a conservative Republican) pushed my proposal to have “proactive bailout” added… Continue reading
“The threat from within — the ironic challenge to the Voting Rights Act (opinion from U.S. Rep. Terri A. Sewell)”
Op-ed from Alabama member of Congress.