Monthly Archives: March 2015
“Power to the Partisans; The Supreme Court’s conservatives think democracy is overrated.”
Mark Joseph Stern at Slate on yesterday’s Arizona argument.
Jonathan Adler Responds to the Textualist Brief by Eskridge et al. in the Obamacare Case
“50 Years of the Voting Rights Act”
Release:
Today the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released 50 Years of the Voting Rights Act: The State of Race in Politics.
The report examines minority voter turnout, racially polarized voting, policy outcomes by race, and… Continue reading
“Does Candidate Race Impact Who Turns Out to Vote?”
AJPS:
The forthcoming article “Candidates or Districts? Reevaluating the Role of Race in Voter Turnout” byBernard L. Fraga is summarized by the author here:
The recent film “Selma” highlighted the struggle by African-Americans to win voting rights. Yet… Continue reading
“Revealed: Democratic Super PAC Architect Moonlights for Walmart, Cable Lobby”
“Man Convicted for Attempted Illegal Voting; Mail-in ballots that were supposed to be cancelled were turned in instead”
“Obamacare case: All eyes on 2 justices; The keys to the case are expected to be John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy”
“Where black voters stand 50 years after the Voting Rights Act was passed”
WaPo:
African Americans have come a long way politically over the past half-century, but disparities remain.
In the five decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act, blacks have made significant strides in registering and turning out to vote,… Continue reading
“Founders Would Approve of Arizona’s Meddling”
Noah Feldman for Bloomberg View.
“McDonnell launches effort to have corruption conviction thrown out”
WaPo:
Former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell on Monday fired the opening salvo in a bid to get his public corruption conviction thrown out, arguing in a filing that the case against him was “built on a boundless definition… Continue reading
“Backers of Prop. 8 marriage initiative lose disclosure case”
Bob Egelko reports for the SF Chronicle.
“‘Plain meaning,’ absurdity, and the (almost forgotten) Gregory/Bond federalism canon, in King v. Burwell”
“Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules”
NYT:
Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.… Continue reading