“FreedomWorks Chief Says GOP Senators Are Killing His Group’s Funding”
TPM pulls out this nugget from NYT’s Chastened G.O.P. Tries to Foil Insurgents at Primary Level.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
“D.C. Needs a Grassroots Fix That Will Come When Left and Right Find Common Ground”
Lessig in the Daily Beast.
“Holder v. Roberts: The Attorney General Makes Voting Rights the Test Case of His Tenure”
Jeffrey Toobin writes for The New Yorker. The full extensive piece is behind the paywall. Toobin’s take is similar to mine about the North Carolina and Texas cases (which Holder predicts the U.S. will win):
The Parties Fight Back Against Political Fragmentation
In my Washington Post essay I blogged about recently here, I argued that political fragmentation of the political parties is the danger to focus on if we are worried about the capacity of our political institutions to govern effectively. … Continue reading
“Republican Party Wing Creates 18 Fake Websites for Democrats”
When Worlds Collide: Election Administration Edition
As previously noted, the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration is going to hear from Mr. Bauer and Mr. Ginsberg on Feb. 12 at 10 am about the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.
But now on… Continue reading
RNLA Praises One Aspect of Bauer-Ginsberg Report, While Bashing “the Radical Left and Many in the Democrat Party”
“High Court at a Crossroads: ‘Nonpartisans’ are trying to reverse Citizens United one investigation at a time”
Steve Hoersting writes for NRO.
NPR Story Suggests Macon Ga. Move of Election Day to Summer Not Challenged Because of Cost
I’m skeptical it is (just) cost. The tougher standard of winning a Voting Rights Act lawsuit under section 2 has a lot to do with it.
100 Democratic Co-Sponsors, One Republican Co-Sponsor for H.R. 20, the New Campaign Finance Bill
But I expect the Sarbanes bill will be called “bipartisan.”
“Larry Lessig: Off the Grid”
TNR:
In 2007, when Lessig formally announced his new cause to a room full of surprised tech acolytes at something called the iCommons iSummit, he called it a ten-year project, just as his copyright fight had been. As we… Continue reading