Monthly Archives: January 2015
“Judge to take several weeks to rule on NC voter ID challenge”
Time to Start Enforcing Section 2 of the 14th Amendment?
“Groups With Liberal Ties Tapped To Re-Elect The GOP Establishment”
Fascinating Paul Blumental analysis.
Disqualification Clause Debate
Extensive debate in Quinnipiac Law Review:
Benjamin Cassady, “You’ve Got Your Crook, I’ve Got Mine”: Why the Disqualification Clause Doesn’t (Always) Disqualify, 32 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 209 (2014), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2447970
Mike Stern, Foreward, An Exchange on the Disqualification Clause, 33 Quinnipiac L. Rev. i (2014) (by invitation), available at http://tinyurl.com/ktftzqt
Peter C. Hoffer, The Pleasures and Perils of Presentism: A Meditation on History and Law, 33 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 1 (2014) (invited response to Cassady), available at http://tinyurl.com/ktftzqt
Brian C. Kalt, The Application of the Disqualification Clause to Congress: A Response to Benjamin Cassady, “You’ve Got Your Crook, I’ve Got Mine”: Why the Disqualification Clause Doesn’t (Always) Disqualify, 33 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 7 (2014) (invited response), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2490963
Buckner F. Melton, Jr., Let Me Be Blunt: In Blount, the Senate Never Said that Senators Aren’t Impeachable, 33 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 33 (2014) (invited response), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2509665
Seth Barrett Tillman, Originalism & The Scope of the Constitution’s Disqualification Clause, 33 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 59-111 (2014) (invited response), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2484377
“Deadbeat politicos outrun federal enforcers; Sharpton, Gingrich committees among dozens that owe taxpayers money”
“W.Va. GOP wants election changes in possible Manchin gov bid”
AP: “As U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin considers a 2016 return bid for governor, Republicans hope to block West Virginia’s most prominent Democrat from handpicking his Senate successor for two years.”
“Kobach pushing bills to limit ballot withdrawals and to allow straight-party voting”
“Want to Vote? Get Fingerprinted.”
“Critics of NC’s voter ID law to present their case in court Friday”
This is a state court case. The federal case goes to trial in July.
California Appellate Court Rejects Minor Party Challenge to Top-Two Primary
You can read the opinion in Rubin v. Padilla here. (More from BAN.) UPDATE: More criticism from BAN here.
“THE FEC Hears from Someone Besides the 1%”
“New Study Highlights Need for Expanded Voter Information in Judicial Races”
The biggest reason Ohioans say they don’t vote for judges is because they don’t know enough about the candidates. These and other results from a survey of 1,000 registered Ohio voters were discussed today at the annual Associated Press Legislative Preview by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor.
The survey, which was conducted in October last year by the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, focused on the drop off in votes cast in judicial races.
“The Koch Paradox”
Frank Wilkinson for Bloomberg View.