“News Analysis: Elections administrators deal with legal decisions”
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.
Monthly Archives: September 2014
“Teaching Election Law”
Nick Stephanopoulos has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Election Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
In the last couple years, new editions of the two most prominent election law casebooks have been released, and one entirely new casebook has… Continue reading
“Supreme Court candidates square off in Missoula”
Lots of talk of campaign finance.
In #KSSEN, KS Attorney General Urges Court to Require Democrats to Name a U.S. Senate Candidate
You can read the brief here.
Interestingly, the brief does not mention the serious First Amendment issues with requiring Democrats to name a candidate, nor the virtual impossibility of the party holding a convention in time.
“Can political party super-PACS reduce polarization?”
Rick Pildes blogs at The Monkey Cage.
Citizens United Files Emergency 10th Circuit Motion to Stop Disclosure of Its Funders
You can read the motion here.
See also my coverage of the district court’s order.
“Remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Congressional Black Caucus Panel Discussion on Voting Rights”
A snippet:
As you’re discussing, through the unrelenting efforts of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division – under the leadership of Acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran, from whom you’ll be hearing this afternoon – my colleagues and I… Continue reading
Add the 4th Circuit North Carolina Case as One that May End Up at #SCOTUS Soon
When one of the judges on the panel asks “How come the state of North Carolina doesn’t want people to vote?” and the other judges raise serious questions, it is possible we will see North Carolina’s new voting rules put… Continue reading
In #KSSEN, Court Sets Up Hearing to Decide on Taylor Replacement Before Oct. 1 Kobach Deadline
You can read the case management order, which includes oral argument on Monday, Sept. 29.
Breaking: Justice Kagan Asks OH Early Voting Challengers to File SCOTUS Response by Tomorrow at 5
The order reads:
IT IS ORDERED that in light of impending deadlines and uncertainty about when the Sixth Circuit will act on the emergency petition for rehearing en banc filed by the Ohio Attorney General and Secretary of State, … Continue reading
Breaking: 7th Cir. Denies Rehearing En Banc in WI Voter ID Case on an Equally Divided Vote: Analysis
You can read the order here or below.
On September 12, 2014, a panel of this court stayed the injunction that the district court had issued. Plaintiffs have filed a motion for reconsideration, asking the court to vacate the stay… Continue reading
Context and Pretext: Why the Courts Were Right to Halt Ohio’s Latest Voting Restrictions
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the district court’s ruling in in NAACP v. Husted, which stopped new restrictions on early voting from taking effect. This decision is good news for Ohio voters. It faithfully applies existing… Continue reading
Breaking: Ohio Seeks #SCOTUS Emergency Stay in Early Voting Case
You can read the petition at this link. Given the controversial and expansive nature of the Sixth Circuit’s ruling, a stay from the Supreme Court is certainly possible but not guaranteed. The last time one of the emergency petitions went… Continue reading
Ohio Files Petition for En Banc Review in Early Voting Case
The petition challenges yesterday’s Sixth Circuit ruling and seeks and immediate stay of the court’s order regarding the period for same day registration and early voting, which is scheduled to begin on Tuesday of next week.