Monthly Archives: October 2014
“The New World of Voter Suppression”
Judge Kopf Continues to Make Inappropriate Remarks; Time for Him to Retire
Federal judge Richard Kopf, who told the Supreme Court to shut the fuck up, commented favorably on the ample chest of a lawyer in his courtroom, and attacked Professor Bainbridge and Dahlia Lithwick with intemperate remarks, now says I’m… Continue reading
“Profs Bumble Into Big Legal Trouble After Election Experiment Goes Way Wrong”
Those Stanford/Dartmouth researchers messing with a Montana judicial election may be in real trouble.
My earlier coverage.
“Entry Points for a Conversation about Campaign Finance”
“A Call to Expose the Unnecessary Secrets of the Supreme Court; One justice publicly announced an error in her dissent, but such candor is rare.”
I have written this oped for the National Law Journal. It begins:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court made news twice with her six-page dissent to a court order allowing Texas to implement a restrictive voter identification… Continue reading
#SCOTUS Could Well Decide Another Emergency Election Case Soon, This One With a Unanimous Reversal
Derek Muller explains some amazing doings out of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Must-Read Article on Potential Impersonation Voter Fraud and More in Kiryas Joel
Just wow (via Failed Messiah).
My earlier coverage.
This merits further investigation, if not by the state of New York than by the federal government. I have not seen any credible allegations of impersonation fraud schemes anywhere else in… Continue reading
About That Monkey Cage Item on Non-Citizen Voting, Calm Down
On Friday I linked to an item on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog by Jesse Richman and David Earnest with some provocative findings on the extent of non-citizen voting. The post was based on this forthcoming article in… Continue reading
Role of Lobbyists Issue in AZ Governor’s Race
“New Jersey e-vote experiment after Sandy declared a disaster”
“Squadrons form for voter ID fight”
Judge Kopf Calls Dahlia Lithwick a “Tiresome Scold”
CNMI Battle Continues Over Non-Indigenous Residents Voting in Ballot Measure Elections
As the case awaits a Ninth Circuit appeal, the parties are fighting over what happens in the interim.