Interesting Memos from Michael Waldman and Others on Clinton Admin. Approach to Limiting Soft money
Via Ken Vogel, start reading at page 48 of these newly released documents.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Quote of the Day: Nazi Edition
“Rick Hasen and his cohorts truly seem to be digital brownshirts. I will not be civil with fascists.”
A “top rated” comment at PJ Media’s post on my blog and the listserv.
UPDATE: A new comment threatening violence, and… Continue reading
“Despite ruling, Iowa to bar all felons from voting”
AP: “Iowa elections officials will continue to bar convicted felons from voting despite a landmark state Supreme Court ruling that suggests not all of them lost their voting rights, a spokesman said Wednesday.”
IRS’s Lois Lerner Was Skeptical of Criminal Prosecution of 501c(4)s
Politico Morning Tax:
LATEST IRS DRAMA, PER A NEW BATCH OF EMAILS —
DOJ CONTACTED LERNER ABOUT PROSECUTING SOCIAL WELFARE GROUPS. Two days before Lois Lerner broke the IRS scandal news at a tax law conference, the Department of… Continue reading
Free Car Raffle for US. Senate Candidate Web Signup
Interesting question whether this is getting too close to illegal vote buying. I think it is probably ok because there’s no payment for turnout or voting.
Great IGS Event/Lineup on Top-Two Primary in California
Christian Adams Apparently Does Not Understand the Difference Between My Blog and the Election Law Listserv
See here (following up on this post, which he does not link to).
And with that, I think I’m done feeding the trolls for a while (here’s the last time I gave up on engaging with Adams).
And now… Continue reading
“Carl P. Leubsdorf commentary: Voting Rights Act will get new attention”
Column: “Voting issues will get a more extensive airing next year when the LBJ Library marks the Voting Rights Act’s 50th anniversary. But the topic has come up often this year because, unlike the 1964 Civil Rights Act that… Continue reading
“McAuliffe to speed rights restoration”
Times Dispatch: “Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced today that he will shrink the time violent felons must wait to seek reinstatement of their voting rights and will remove some offenses from that list.”
Views of Some Conservatives and Libertarians of the Election Law Listserv
I have run the Election Law Listserv with Dan Lowenstein of UCLA since 1995. It began on the servers at Chicago-Kent, moved with me to Loyola Law School, and is now housed with me at the University of California, Irvine. … Continue reading
“Democrats: Husted must enforce election spending rule”
This is interesting:
Secretary of State Jon Husted should enforce a controversial rule that limits election spending by companies, nonprofits and unions, Democrats said Thursday.
The regulation requires companies, unions and nonprofits to disclose when they pay for election ads.… Continue reading
For Campaign Strategists, Accentuating the Positive or Raffling Off Guns
“Clinton Backer Pleads Guilty in a Straw Donor Scheme”
“More Right-Wing Media Lies About Voting Rights As Another Election Approaches”
This item appears at Media Matters.