From the WTF File: Deprive Disabled of Bathrooms While Voting in Name of Uniformity
New Rule Prohibits Voters In Miami-Dade County From Using The Restroom, No Matter How Long The Line
Paging Sam Bagenstos or Michael Waterstone.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
“Iowa finds 12 votes were wrongly rejected in 2012”
Lithwick on the Disappearing Political Outrage over SCOTUS’s Campaign Finance Decisions, and Disappearing Colbert
Dahlia:
It’s clear that at least some proportion of Americans are even more likely than they were before to give up the fight; to become further disaffected and disenfranchised in the wake of a decision by the court to… Continue reading
RNLA Issues Response to Bauer-Ginsberg; Praises Some Parts But Not Push for Early Voting
The report and the press release. From the executive summary:
While RNLA agrees with a majority of PCEA’s recommendations, we caution against the Commission’s recommendation that states embrace expanded early voting as a solution to the systemic election administration problems… Continue reading
“What kinds of Supreme Court cases interest Americans? Not campaign finance”
“Congressional Overrides of Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation Decisions, 1967–2011”
Matthew Christiansen and Bill Eskridge have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Texas Law Review). Here is the abstract:
In 1991, one of us published a groundbreaking study demonstrating that Congress frequently overrides Supreme Court statutory interpretation decisions. The intervening… Continue reading
A Tale of Two Campaign Finance Appeals at SCOTUS: Why No Push to Allow Corporate Contributions to Candidates?
Pardon the inside-baseball post, but I think it reveals a little bit more about how the Court is going about dismantling what’s left of campaign finance limits.
After the Supreme Court decided McCutcheon v. FEC, striking down the aggregate… Continue reading
“GOP creates new fundraising group after McCutcheon ruling”
Byron Tau reports:
In the wake of a major campaign finance ruling from the Supreme Court last week, the three major Republican Party committees have formed a new joint fundraising effort that will allow them to collect big checks from… Continue reading
“Conservative Firepower Has Senate Democrats Playing Defense”
Nick Confessore reports for NYT.
“In Chevron Case, FEC Brings Clarity to the Federal Contractor Ban and Super PACs”
Covington‘s Inside Political Law:
The rules on corporate contributions to Super PACs were made clearer today when the Federal Election Commission (FEC) released its finding that Chevron Corporation’s $2.5 million contribution in 2012 to the Congressional Leadership Fund (a… Continue reading