Congratulations to Donald Tobin
The tax law/election law scholar and teacher from OSU’s Moritz College of Law is the new dean at the University of Maryland Law School.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
“Public Trust Act – A Public Financing Trial and Tribulation”
Jisha Dymond on the new NYS public financing law.
“New Proposal: 15 Executive Actions to Overcome Government Dysfunction”
Press release: “Following the Obama administration’s vow to use strong executive action in the face of a paralyzed Congress, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law released a new policy proposal today outlining 15 steps the administration… Continue reading
“TurboTax Maker Linked to ‘Grassroots’ Campaign Against Free, Simple Tax Filing”
Must-read ProPublica:
Over the last year, a rabbi, a state NAACP official, a small town mayor and other community leaders wrote op-eds and letters to Congress with remarkably similar language on a remarkably obscure topic.
Each railed against a… Continue reading
“How Democrats Work To Restrict Voting and Disenfranchise People in a Purple State”
RNLA blog post on Virginia.
CPI Documents How Some Political Consultants Reward Themselves Handsomely via Super PACs
Here.
“Can You Lie in Politics? Supreme Court Will Decide”
Roll Call reports. Despite the headline, I don’t expect that the Supreme Court will reach the merits of the question in the upcoming Susan B. Anthony case.
“Commentaries: The Congressional Response to Shelby County”
The Harvard Law Review Forum has posted
Dismissing Deterrence
The VRAA’s proposed preclearance regime would still be vulnerable to attack
By Ellen D. Katz
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Voting Rights Law and Policy in Transition
Activists ought not settle for the valiant… Continue reading
” Top-two primary might be bad for small-party candidates”
LA Times:
When California voters decided to change the way the state’s primary elections work, the move was cast as an effort to moderate a state Capitol gripped by polarization.
If the top two vote-getters in a primary faced… Continue reading
“Obama on Voter Suppression: The Right Speech in the Wrong Place”
Andrew Cohen:
He’s got to engage with the woman who says blithely: “If I need to show ID to get cold medicine why shouldn’t I have to show an ID to vote?” He’s got to engage with the man… Continue reading
Updated/Final Versions of Some of My Articles on Campaign Finance, Voting Rights
I’ve posted an updated version, including a short discussion of McCutcheon, of Super PAC Contributions, Corruption, and the Proxy War over Coordination, forthcoming in the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy.
I have posted the final version… Continue reading
About that WSJ Article on VRA Section 3 and Travis Crum…
Reader Paul Wiley writes:
The Wall Street Journal’s profile of Travis Crum and his influential Note about the VRA’s Section 3 sheds light on one of the Justice Department’s most important tools in the ongoing voting rights battles. But it… Continue reading
“If the IRS Was Targeting Karl Rove’s Shadowy Group, It Was Doing Its Job”
Alec MacGillis for TNR.