#SCOTUS Could Kill What Remains of McCain-Feingold in New Soft Money Case
My new oped at The NLJ.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
“Influence of wealthy donors becoming an issue in GOP primaries”
Benjy Sarlin reports for MSNBC.
Study Aid for Election Law, Legislation, Leg/Reg Students
With the new law school year starting up, here’s a reminder about my Examples and Explanations book. It is designed to work in all of these courses, with all of the major casebooks. I’ve gotten very good feedback so far.… Continue reading
“Out of the dark: Attorney challenges Disclose Act, Commissioner Motl”
Missoula Independent:
James Bopp, the Indiana attorney who won the landmark Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission case, interrogated Montana’s top political cop for nearly seven hours last week, comparing Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl to a racist… Continue reading
“Taking control: Montana elections getting new disclosure rules”
“Professor Lessig’s Conception of the ‘Referendum Presidency'”
“Presidential Candidates, Each Sold Separately”
“The McCain-Feingold Act May Doom Itself”
I have written this oped for the National Law Journal. It begins:
Did the congressional drafters of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law build within it the seeds for its own destruction?
Tucked within the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (the formal… Continue reading
L.A.’s Experience Shows the Importance of the Ban on Direct Corporate Contributions to Candidates
The LAT has a great story, Follow the Money: It’s Not So Easy. It talks about the difficulty of preventing corruption, providing information to voters, and enforcing the individual contribution limits when entities are also allowed to directly contribute… Continue reading
“Election Law Federalism”
Justin Weinstein-Tull has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Michigan Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This Article provides the first comprehensive account of non-Voting Rights Act federal voting laws. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — long the… Continue reading
“Pro-Bush super PAC spending $10M-plus on initial TV campaign”
Very Interesting Amicus Brief in Evenwel Case from City of Yakima, WA
You can read the brief here.
The brief shows the complex interaction of the one person, one vote rule and the requirements to redistrict under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when there is a large non-citizen population.
Julian Bond: A Remembrance from Anthony Michael Kreis
Julian Bond passed away at age 75. The following is a remembrance from Anthony Michael Kreis. Kreis is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia. While in law school, he served as a research assistant to Julian Bond… Continue reading
“Editorial: Voter ID laws, already bogus, ruled racist and discriminatory.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial, which after correction still gets Justin Levitt‘s affiliation wrong.