Monthly Archives: June 2014
“Camp: Grassley Targeted By Lois Lerner at IRS”
“Where are the GOP Supporters of Voting Rights?”
Read Ari Berman. Now.
Whoa: Judge Posner Attacks Chief Justice Roberts Truthfulness in Campaign Finance Case
While I agree with the sentiment (as anyone who has read my writings on the Chief Justice’s views in the campaign finance and voting rights areas, and in fact I’ve made this exact same attack on the Chief Justice at … Continue reading
“Murdered Voting Advocate’s Brother Wants Protections Back”
Carrie Johnson for NPR:
One year ago, the Supreme Court threw out a key section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The law gave the federal government a kind of veto power over voting arrangements in states with a… Continue reading
About that #SCOTUS Unanimity…A Skeptical Note
Today’s unanimous opinion in the cell phone cases is the latest in an unusual term of unanimity on the Supreme Court.
I don’t want to downplay things, but I think the unanimity is likely an aberration. To begin with, the… Continue reading
Justice Scalia Dissent in Aereo Case Says It is Lawyers’ Jobs to Exploit Statutory Loopholes, and Congress’s Job, Not the Court’s Job, To Fix Them
He writes:
It is not the role of this Court to identify and plug loopholes. It is the role of good lawyers to identify and exploit them, and the role of Congress to eliminate them if it wishes. Congress… Continue reading
SCOTUS Likely To Take Up Same Sex Marriage as Soon as Next Term
With news of today’s Tenth Circuit 2-opinion holding Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, I think it useful to revisit the debate I had with Adam Liptak last term over timing. Here’s what I wrote in Court Due to … Continue reading
“Why McDaniel should not challenge GOP runoff results”
Sam Hall writes for the Clarion Ledger. He also notes that write in campaigns are very limited in Mississippi.
My earlier post on McDaniel’s legal options is here.
“Think we don’t need to update the Voting Rights Act? Check out yesterday’s primaries.”
Janai Nelson writes for Reuters Opinion.
“Democrats Are Trying to Rewrite the First Amendment”
Josh Blackman writes for The American Spectator.
“1 step forward, 2 back on early voting”
Mike Brickner writes from Ohio.
“Kasich, Husted, DeWine fighting federal court subpoenas”
News from Ohio: “Ohio’s governor, secretary of state and attorney general are all fighting subpoenas to testify at the federal trial of a northeast Ohio businessman accused of funneling illegal campaign contributions to two Republican politicians.”
“Instead of recount, Mary Helen Garcia asks for absentee ballot review”
News from New Mexico.