Monthly Archives: May 2013
“Justice O’Connor Regrets”
“Arizona Secretary Of State On Payroll Of FreedomWorks Bankroller”
TPM: “Ken Bennett, the Secretary of State of Arizona, receives a $70,000 annual salary. But he also, it turns out, receives $2,000 a month for his work as a board member of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a… Continue reading
“Shadow Lobbyists and the Revolving Door, or what Anthony Weiner and Newt Gingrich Have in Common”
This item appears at The Monkey Cage.
“In D.C. Circuit, Lobbyists Fight Obama Lobbying Ban”
“Justice Department to monitor South Carolina congressional election”
“The DIG Rule and the Rule of Four Reconsidered’
Mike Dorf blogs.
I wrote about this issue last week.
Bill Yeomans on DOJ, Voting Rights, and the IG Report
Here.
“The Incompatible Treatment of Majorities in Election Law and Deliberative Democracy”
Jim Gardner has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract [update: it appears that only an abstract appears right now with no paper to download]:
Deliberative democracy offers a distinctive and appealing conception of political life, but is… Continue reading
“Vote fraud alleged in Mount Vernon; Group calls on state and feds to intervene”
Gannett:
A group calling itself Concerned Citizens of Mount Vernon is claiming the 2012 school vote was rife with fraud and has sent letters to the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorney general requesting monitors for this year’s… Continue reading
“How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself”
“Coordination Reconsidered”
Must-read Richard Briffault at Columbia Law Review‘s Sidebar:
The Supreme Court’s insistence that independent spending does not pose dangers of corruption or the appearance of corruption has been doubtful from the start, as candidates are surely aware of and gratified… Continue reading
Revised Version of My Latest Response to Larry @Lessig
I have posted here an updated version of Is ‘Dependence Corruption’ Distinct from a Political Equality Argument for Campaign Finance Laws? A Reply to Professor Lessig, which is now forthcoming in the Election Law Journal. Among other things, the updated… Continue reading
“It’s Still About the Broken GOP”
Jonathan Bernstein:
I have to commend Ezra Klein for push, push, pushing everyone to understand the place of the presidency in the US political system. As he says, that system “is centered around Congress rather than the White House,”… Continue reading