“No, overturning campaign contribution limits really would be a problem”
Bob Biersack responds to Ray LaRaja at The Monkey Cage.
Monthly Archives: October 2013
“Poll: Americans support fine-tuning election policy”
USA Today:
A nationwide USA TODAY/Bipartisan Policy Center poll finds a majority of Americans support a range of proposals aimed at easing hyper-partisanship and building confidence in elections. Some command the sort of broad bipartisan backing rare in national… Continue reading
“McCutchen v. FEC: Why It Matters”
Jerad Najvar and Dan Backer have written this oped for the Daily Caller.
North Carolina and Racial Redistricting
In addition to North Carolina’s package of changes to its voting laws, the same state legislature has been sued for unconstitutionally using race to gerrymander its state election districts. Though this racial gerrymandering issue has gotten less attention in the… Continue reading
The Real Argument for Liberal Originalism in the Campaign Finance Cases?
Is the concern that a Justice such as Justice Kagan would not want to say she or he is embracing the equality rationale while still doing it, a la Justice Marshall in Austin? In that case, dependence corruption works as… Continue reading
“The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election”
I’ve just received my copy in the mail and I can’t wait to read it. And check out John Sides and Lynn Vavreck: How We Wrote the Gamble, at The Monkey Cage.
“Navigating Debates About Redistricting”
“The Voting Wars Coming to Wisconsin”
WaPo.”As if Wisconsin needed another debate to divide its citizens, the voting wars are coming to Madison. The state Senate last week passed four measures, three almost exclusively on party-line votes, to make minor changes to election day procedures.”… Continue reading
How Aggregate Limits Prevent Quid Pro Quo Corruption
I discussed the U.S. Supreme Court’s McCutcheon case Saturday on Karen Finney’s MSNBC show Disrupt, and also last week in this HuffPo commentary.
“Aggregate limits” seem technical, but the issue is simple. Invalidating aggregate limits would allow an… Continue reading
“Lessig Explains His ‘Originalist’ Understanding of ‘Corruption'”
Josh Blackman blogs.
I guess the way I would think of it is similar to Josh’s: would the Framers have considered it to be an “abridgement” of “freedom of speech” to limit campaign spending (or contributions)? Maybe in CAC’s … Continue reading
Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Comments on How the Republican Party Can Appeal to Racists in the Party, and a Modern “Joe the Plumber” Analogue
Listen (via Political Wire).
And if you think this is just old news, my most retweeted Twitter post ever was a link the other day to “Joe the Plumber’s” website (which is a repost from another website):
And Jeffrey … Continue reading
Is the Roberts Court More Activist Than Other Courts?
Adam Liptak explains that by the numbers of overrulings, the Roberts Court is actually less activist. This is a point Jonathan Adler has been making for a while. (Check out also the NYT interactive graphic.)
But I’m not sure… Continue reading
Judge Posner’s Voter ID Flip-Flop Slammed by Attorney Talking to Indiana Law Blog
See here:
Finally, the ILB asked an attorney familiar with the case for a reaction:
For Judge Posner now to admit he was wrong but then blame the lawyers for not giving him enough information by which he could… Continue reading