“Supreme Court Case Seeks Source Of Alabama Gerrymandering”
Nina Totenberg reports for NPR.
More from Bloomberg News and Governing.
See also my earlier SCOTUSBlog preview and my Slate piece. I will have more analysis after oral argument.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
“Undo Citizens United? We’d Only Scratch the Surface”
Jedediah Purdy for the Daily Beast.
“At Last, a Chance to Get to the Bottom of the IRS Mess”
“Top Campaign-Finance Cases to Watch”
Read the Full Text of FEC Commissioner Ravel’s Letter on New Media Regulation to WSJ
“Opinion: Christie provokes serious debate on campaign finance”
Carl Golden at NJ.com.
“Colorado Ousts Pro-Gun Republicans, Showing Effect of Turnout”
NYT:
After two Colorado lawmakers who supported strict new gun-control laws were voted out of office in a special recall election last year, the National Rifle Association and its allies celebrated their huge win in the battle over gun… Continue reading
Interesting Ed Blum WSJ Oped on Alabama Redistricting Case at SCOTUS
In my Slate piece and SCOTUSBlog preview of the Alabama redistricting case the Supreme Court hears Wednesday morning, I described the interesting position conservative Justices are put in by this case: it is not clear to me how the conservatives… Continue reading
“Barber-McSally vote total likely to trigger recount”
“(should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?)”
Poor Gabor.
and poorer proofreading.
“Allegations of voter fraud surface in Illinois Treasurer’s race”
“How many voters were disenfranchised by Texas’ ID law?”
Zack Roth for MSNBC:
Both sides are already making claims and counterclaims about the impact of Texas’ strict voter ID law in last week’s election.
There’s no question that some legitimate voters were disenfranchised by the law. But how… Continue reading
“Supreme Court to consider political segregation”
“No, Voting Laws Didn’t Doom Democrats”
Francis Barry for Bloomberg View:
A day after the election, Wendy Weiser at the Brennan Center for Justice argued that “in several key races, the margin of victory came very close to the likely margin of disenfranchisement.” She cited the… Continue reading