“SC legislators working on election law fix”
AP: “Both the House and Senate have passed a bill designed to prevent a lawsuit from throwing South Carolina’s elections into chaos again.”
Monthly Archives: May 2014
“Arkansas voter ID law again found unconstitutional”
“Moderate Candidates’ Campaigns are Expensive–Very Expensive”
Anne Kim writes for the Washington Monthly.
“Battleground Texas: Inside the fight to turn the state blue”
Zack Roth on the voting wars in Texas over registration and id.
“Two federal employees disciplined for bashing Obama and Romney at work”
WaPo: “A former Federal Elections Commission employee and an Air Force civilian admitted to engaging in prohibited political activities on the job, including criticizing the 2012 presidential nominees, according to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.”
More:
The FEC… Continue reading
“ACLU sues Ohio over early voting”
The latest from Ohio.
RNLA Responds to My Post Yesterday About Impersonation Fraud
You can read it here (responding to this post).
I don’t have time now to write write a full response (though I hope to do so soon or maybe Justin will chime in). I would just point out at… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania’s Undemocratic Democracy; Candidates frequently get tossed from the ballot before voters have a say. There’s got to be a better way.”
“Voter Fraud That Isn’t”
Editorial from NC.
Justice Ginsburg Comments on Number of Bush v. Gore Dissents
In this must-read Jess Bravin piece, there’s this:
The importance of “one dissent instead of four” was driven home by Bush v. Gore, she said, when the court moved quickly in December 2000 to accept, hear and decide… Continue reading
EJ Dionne Connects the Dots from Donald Sterling to Voter Suppression
Fisher, Lithwick, Rein, Sherman to Join UCI’s Chacon, Chemerinsky for SCOTUS Term in Review Event: Save the Date
I’m delighted to announce the line up for the 4th annual UCI Law Supreme Court Term in Review event to be held on July 10, 2014 at noon at UCI law (with live webcast). We’ve got an unbelievable lineup of… Continue reading
“Governor tried to stop ad critical of her”
Santa Fe New Mexican:
Gov. Susana Martinez and her lawyers wanted to stop an ad critical of her from airing in the Albuquerque television market.
The ad features a young Hispanic woman (attorney Oriana Sandoval), who says: “Behind closed… Continue reading
“Judicial Independence as as Organizing Principle”
Charles Geyh has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Annual Review of Law and Social Science). Here is the abstract:
Judicial independence is a sprawling topic. For some scholars, that is its problem: it is an amoeba, a formless thing… Continue reading