Monthly Archives: December 2013
NC Voting with MSNBC’s Karen Finney & Penda Hair
The Advancement Project’s Penda Hair (who is representing the NC NAACP) and I were on Karen Finney’s most recent show to talk about NC’s new law (ID, cuts to early voting and same day registration, and more). Last week a… Continue reading
“No sign Rep. Bobby Rush paid rent for South Side office; contributions helped bankroll his church, wife”
“Judge sends Arizona, Kansas voter citizenship suit back to US Election Assistance Commission”
AP:
A federal judge has sent back to federal elections officials a request by Kansas and Arizona to force modifications in a national voter registration form so the states can fully enforce proof-of-citizenship requirements.
U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren… Continue reading
“Protests Aim at One Man Who Moved North Carolina to the Right”
NYT on Art Pope protests.
“Florida Supreme Court rules lawmakers can be forced to testify in redistricting court fight”
Orlando Sentinel:
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Friday that state lawmakers can be forced to testify and turn over documents related to whether they intentionally redrew political maps for partisan gain last year.
The fight between voting-rights groups such… Continue reading
Final Version Now Posted of “The 2012 Voting Wars, Judicial Backstops, and the Resurrection of Bush v. Gore”
You can download it here. The entire George Washington Law Review symposium issue in which this article will appear should post in the next few days.
Here is the abstract for my piece:
In 2000, some scholars predicted the… Continue reading
“Texas Wouldn’t Let This Afghanistan Vet Vote in the Last Presidential Election”
Audio Now Available of this Week’s Joint CA Legislative Hearing on the Federal Voting Rights Act
Here.
“Subsidizing Democracy: How Public Funding Changes Elections and How It Can Work in the Future”
Michael Miller has published this book with Cornell University Press.
In the wake of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the case that allowed corporate and union spending in elections, many Americans despaired over the corrosive influence that private… Continue reading
“Political Activity, Lobbying Laws and Gift Rules Guide, 3d, 2013-2014 ed.”
“Politics to the Extreme: American Political Institutions in the Twenty-First Century”
Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly are editors of this new volume. Here is the table of contents:
Foreword; Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein
Introduction; Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly
PART I: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF… Continue reading
“Americans for Responsible Leadership Wholly Funded by Koch-Linked Group”
More great reporting from Open Secrets.