“Did Chief Justice Roberts Dissemble or did the Chief Justice Have no Idea What He Was Talking About?”
Wertheimer on McCutcheon.
My thoughts on this question at SCOTUSBlog.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
“Who’s driving North Carolina’s latest voter fraud hysteria?”
This item appears at Facing South. #Kobach
“AFJ Urges the IRS to Retract Erroneous Statement on Judicial & Executive Nominees”
Release:
In a March 27 letter to the IRS, Alliance for Justice called on the Service to issue an immediate clarification about the treatment of activities to influence executive and judicial appointments and nominations made in the recent… Continue reading
“Addressing Minority Vote Dilution Through State Voting Rights Acts”
Paige Epstein has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Passed largely to address the problem of vote dilution and racially polarized voting, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) bans racial discrimination in voting practices by federal,… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act. What Happened Next in These 8 States Will Not Shock You.”
Great headline on this Mother Jones piece.
“Mississippi Has the Worst Elections”
WonkWire on the Pew Report.
So now we’ll get a chance to see if those at the bottom try to improve on the measures set by Pew, as Heather Gerken postulated in her book, The Democracy Index.
I explained… Continue reading
Breaking: Democratic Nominees to EAC Clear Senate Rules Committee
Does this mean that Dems have lined up the votes on their side (no filibuster for these votes, remember) to get these nominations through?
Press release:
SCHUMER ANNOUNCES ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION NOMINEES THOMAS HICKS AND MYRNA PÉREZ CLEAR SENATE RULES… Continue reading
“Deja Vu: Ohio Fighting About Absentee Ballots – Again”
Two from Paul Blumenthal
“The Future of Campaign Finance Laws”
Erwin Chemerinsky guest blogs at Hamilton-Griffin.
“Justice Stevens’ Proposal to Amend the 1st Amendment”
Tom Edsall on McCutcheon
Important NYT opinion column.
Tom links to my SCOTUSBlog post, “Does the Chief Justice not Understand Politics, or Does He Understand it all too Well?“
It’s not every day I’m called more cynical than Richard Posner.
“Miss. preparing to use new voter ID law”
“Blacks and Early Voting, in Ohio and Wisconsin”
NYT letter to the editor from NAACP Ohio and Wisconsin leaders.