Monthly Archives: October 2015
Bauer on Kang on Party Campaign Financing
“Historic Voting-Rights Win in Alaska”
Indian Country Today:
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) and Alaska have jointly announced an agreement that requires the state to provide translation of election materials and ballots into Gwich’in and several Yup’ik dialects. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon… Continue reading
“Secretary of State Dianna Duran resigns, chief of staff confirms”
Santa Fe New Mexican:
New Mexico’s embattled Secretary of State Dianna Duran, who in late August was indicted on dozens of criminal charges, has resigned, her chief of staff confirmed Friday morning.
Ken Ortiz said Duran submitted a letter… Continue reading
“One Ron Paul staffer convicted, another acquitted”
Des Moines Register:
The high-profile trial of two former Ron Paul presidential campaign staffers accused of buying an Iowa senator’s endorsement and then lying about it ended Thursday with a muddled verdict from a jury stuck at an impasse.
The… Continue reading
“Va. House map constitutional, federal judges rule”
WaPo:
A panel of three federal judges ruled Thursday that the 12 House of Delegates districts that Democrats challenged in federal court are constitutional, giving Republicans a win for now in Virginia’s fraught political map-making battle.
The 2-to-1 ruling comes… Continue reading
“Which States Could Adopt Automatic Voter Registration Next?”
Sam Issacharoff: Can Judges Stabilize Fragile Democracies?
The following is the third of three guest posts by NYU’s Sam Issacharoff about his new book, Fragile Democracies:
Recent American forays into the toppling of non-democratic regimes have stressed elections as the immediate goal, and often the only… Continue reading
“Pro-Trump super PAC shutting down amid questions about ties to Trump campaign”
WaPo reports:
A super PAC with ties to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is shutting down in an effort to put an end to building questions about the closeness of the two operations, the group’s lead consultant said Thursday.
After… Continue reading
Stat of the Day
“Jeb raised only three times as much from small donors as did Lawrence Lessig, the semi-obscure Harvard professor, running as a Democrat, who was too fringey to be invited to a debate that featured Lincoln Chaffee, who had only 29… Continue reading
“Attorney General Paxton Asks SCOTUS to Declare Redistricting Attorneys’ Fees Award Unconstitutional Under Shelby County v. Holder”
Press release:
The Texas Attorney General’s Office today petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in State of Texas v. Wendy Davis, et al. to review and hold unconstitutional an award of attorneys’ fees to parties who challenged Texas’s redistricting maps. The… Continue reading
“Off the campaign trail, Scott Walker is changing the way Wisconsin holds elections”
“Civil Rights Legal Group Picks New President”
BLT:
Kristen Clarke, a civil rights lawyer for the New York Attorney General’s office, will become the new president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the organization said Thursday.
“This is an incredibly… Continue reading
“Equal Representation” Should Include Non-Citizens
From the Washington Post’s new In Theory section, here is a snippet from my contribution today to the Symposium on Evenwel:
[A]s a matter of constitutional principle, states should have the discretion, at the least, to continue to decide that… Continue reading