Monthly Archives: June 2014
“Casting a Cold Eye on Mandated Disclosures of Corporate Political Activity?”
Brian Galle:
With the SEC still sorta thinking about requiring U.S. public firms to disclose their political expenditures, a newly posted paper by Saumya Prabhat and David Primo (of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and University of… Continue reading
NYT Public Editor Weighs in on Times’ Coverage of IRS Mess
Sullivan:
My take:
The Times was somewhat late in beginning to cover the latest development about the lost emails. My office had begun to field several days’ worth of reader protests on the lack of attention when the first… Continue reading
“Can a president (with a little help from one senator of his party) circumvent most of the Court’s limitation on the recess appointments power?”
Interesting post from Tom Goldstein.
“McDaniel Supporters Pore Over Ballots”
Clarion-Ledger:
A tea party official said today that a preliminary examination of ballots cast in Tuesday’s U.S. Senate race between incumbent Thad Cochran and tea party backed challenger Chris McDaniel has found irregularities in at least 800 ballots.
Mississippi… Continue reading
“Bob Corker On Voting Rights Act: ‘Cannot Imagine’ Congress Restoring It “
HuffPo reports.
[UPDATE: Thanks to a reader for pointing out this article is one year old. Not sure why it came up on my news search. Then again, the way it reads it could have been new.]
“Sessions opposes update to Voting Rights Act”
Gannett:
Congress does not need to update the Voting Rights Act by restoring special federal oversight of elections in a handful of states, Sen. Jeff Sessions said today.
The Alabama Republican, who voted for the 2006 renewal of the… Continue reading
#SCOTUS Underlines that Level of Scrutiny is Up for Grabs in Campaign Contribution Cases
Via Brian Svoboda comes this catch from today’s Supreme Court abortion buffer zone case, McCullen v. Coakley:
The Court does sometimes assume, without deciding, that a law is subject to a less stringent level of scrutiny, aswe did earlier… Continue reading
“The Maddening Illogic of the IRS ‘Coverup’ Conspiracy Theory”
Brian Beutler writes for TNR.
Does McDaniel Think There are 35,000 Voters Who Voted in the Earlier #MSSEN Democratic Primary?
If McDaniel could prove that, he would have strong grounds for an election contest. Before the election, a joint Attorney General/SOS memo made clear that those who already voted in the Democratic primary could not vote again. But there’s n… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
“Hey, what did I just tell you about home-state politics? Sometimes, you step on your whatever.”
—Sen. Harry Reid, on his attempts to distinguish Koch money spent on elections from Adelson money.
Another Reason to Expect #SCOTUS To Take Same Sex Marriage Case Soon: A Circuit Split
Emily Bazelon writes over at Slate‘s Breakfast Table responding to a post of mine suggesting the 10th Circuit Utah marriage decision is heading to the Supreme Court as soon as next term:
Rick Hasen and plenty of other people think… Continue reading
“Judiciary Chairman In No Rush To Move On Voting Rights Act Restoration”
Kate Nocera reports for BuzzFeed.