Monthly Archives: May 2013

DOJ, Others Urges Affirmance in Texas Voter ID Case Before Supreme Court

May 10, 2013, 9:13 amDepartment of Justice, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Lawyers’ Committee has posted the Supreme Court documents: Supreme Court Documents: Click here for Texas’ Jurisdictional Statement. Click here for the Lawyers’ Committee’s Motion to Affirm. Click here for the Justice Department’s Motion to Affirm. Click here for another… Continue reading

“IRS Apologizes For Targeting Conservative Groups In 2012 Election”

May 10, 2013, 7:51 amcampaign finance, tax law and election lawRick Hasen

Wow, this is not the way for the IRS to maintain credibility in a very politically sensitive area: “Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words ‘tea party’ or ‘patriot’… Continue reading

“How We Register”

May 10, 2013, 7:37 amvoter registrationRick Hasen

Hotline on Call takes a look.

“A Bad Idea”

May 10, 2013, 7:32 amvotingRick Hasen

Josh Marshall doesn’t want non-citizen voting in NYC.

“A New Recipe for Election Reform”

May 10, 2013, 7:30 amcampaign finance, lobbyingRick Hasen

Bauer and Potter WaPo oped: Four decades after the campaign finance reforms that followed Watergate, arguments over the role of money in politics seem increasingly tired and unproductive. We ought to build on the experience of recent years and… Continue reading

“Bill would curb the power of lower court judges to block potentially unconstitutional legislation”

May 10, 2013, 7:24 amvoter idRick Hasen

News from Wisconsin: Three times over the past two years, signature portions of Republican-passed legislation have been blocked from immediately taking effect because a Dane County Circuit Court judge found the statutes to be unconstitutional. The rulings against statutes that… Continue reading

“The Geography of Discrimination in Voting: MRP Meets the VRA”

May 10, 2013, 7:22 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Chris Elmendorf and Doug Spencer have posted this draft on SSRN, and it is potentially relevant to the Shelby County Voting Rights Act case pending before the Supreme Court. Here is the abstract: The geography of voter discrimination—that is, the… Continue reading

“Exit, Voice and Disloyalty”

May 10, 2013, 7:20 amtheoryRick Hasen

Heather Gerken has posted this draft on SSRN (Duke Law Journal). Here is the abstract: Much of constitutional theory is preoccupied with a single question: What does a democracy owe its minorities? And most of the answers to this question… Continue reading