Monthly Archives: September 2013
“Leading New York State Constitutional Scholars to Explore Critical November Ballot Issues and the Proposed 2017 Constitutional Convention at “The New New York” Conference October 8”
“One Path, Two Forks: Election Overhauls in Colorado and North Carolina”
Lead story in NCSL’s The Canvass.
Bob Bauer on FEC Email Disclosures and FEC Reform Given Partisan/Ideological Divide
“Krist Novoselic: How to save money and reduce rancor in campaigns”
IRV.
“Liberal Group to Fight Dark Money…By Raising $40 Million of It’
Supreme Court Partially to Blame for U.S. Polarizaton?
Garrett Epps makes the case.
“The Court Case That Pivots on What ‘Corrupt’ Really Means”
“U.S. Court May Rule Quickly on PAC Bid To Waive N.Y. Limit Before Mayoral Election”
Bloomberg BNA: A “federal judge has set a streamlined schedule to hear a challenge to New York state contribution limits, which could lead to a prompt ruling on whether the limits apply to a political action committee (PAC) backing… Continue reading
“Citizens United II? Background Memo: Supreme Court Challenge to Aggregate Contribution Limits Could Radically Reshape the Financing of Federal Elections”
CLC.
“A Brief History of the Supreme Court and Contribution Limits on Individuals”
“Misreading Like a Lawyer: Cognitive Bias in Statutory Interpretation”
Jill Anderson has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Harvard Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Statutory interpretation dilemmas arise in all areas of law, where we often script them as scenes of conflict between a statute’s literal text and… Continue reading
“The John Kasich Re-election Protection Act”?
Controversy over a bill regulating minor parties in Ohio.