“Freedom Summer, 2015”
Read Jeff Toobin in the New Yorker on the recent SCOTUS WI and TX voting case orders.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
“Voting Restrictions: From Statehouses to Courts”
Jerry Goldfeder and Myrna Perez write in the NY Law Journal.
“Is Your Judge for Sale?”
Andy Kroll for Mother Jones.
Single Donor Contribute $1 Million to Influence CA SD-26 Race [Corrected]
“Midterms Prediction: Billionaires to Retain Control of Government”
“Club for Growth to Petition Supreme Court To Rule on Wisconsin Campaign Coordination”
Bloomberg BNA: “Following rejection of petition for an en banc review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Wisconsin Club for Growth will ask the Supreme Court to overturn an appellate panel decision reaffirming the… Continue reading
“Early voting put on hold on St. Croix”
The latest from the Virgin Islands (but no signs of a SCOTUS appeal from Hansen).
Politifact Rates as “Mostly False” Rick Scott’s Claim that Charlie Crist favors violent felons immediately getting their right to vote restored
“US court hears oral arguments on motion to sequester Article XII ballots”
The latest from the CNMI.
“Republicans Join Attacks on Big Money | Rules of the Game”
George Will on WI John Doe Probe
“McCutcheon Calls for a National Referendum on Campaign Finance (Literally)”
Andrew Tutt has posted this draft on SSRN (Columbia Law Review Sidebar). Here is the abstract:
In McCutcheon v. FEC, the Supreme Court tightened First Amendment limits on Congress’s authority to regulate campaign financing. McCutcheon ostensibly left in place the… Continue reading
“Report: Florida leads nation in disenfranchising offenders released from prison”
Miami Herald on this report from the Sentencing Project.
“A Modest Election Finance Reform Proposal (That Might Actually Work)”
On the Media talks with Heather Gerken.