Patrick Marley for the Journal-Sentinel:
A federal judge signaled Wednesday he would allow Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm to hang onto some of the material seized in a probe of Gov. Scott Walker’s associates so Chisholm can defend himself… Continue reading
I have posted this draft in progress (forthcoming, in Japanese translation, in America-ho (Biannual journal of the Japanese American Society for Legal Studies) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This Essay, based on a keynote address prepared for delivery at… Continue reading
Brad Smith blogs:
New rules going forward are one matter, punishing people after the fact for a reasonable interpretation of the law that happens to diverge from the thinking of some on the Commission is quite another.
It is… Continue reading
AP:
Nebraska’s Republican lawmakers were thwarted Tuesday in their attempts to reinstate a winner-take-all system for presidential electors, a move that would have increased the GOP nominee’s chances of winning all five of the state’s votes in November.
The… Continue reading
The Onion offers a list of pro’s (including “Less time-consuming form of discrimination than literacy test”) and cons (“Doesn’t completely eliminate possibility of undesirable populations from voting”).
Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein are out with a new version of their book, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks (on the cover “Looks” is crossed out and the word “Was” is written in). It has a new afterward, which… Continue reading
Bloomberg BNA:
A new fundraising obstacle has emerged this election year—potential individual and corporate donors to the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia have hesitated to contribute because of a possible nomination of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), said Ed Rendell,… Continue reading
Mike Moffett in the Concord Monitor:
I can personally attest that every vote matters in a close election, as my own 2014 state representative contest ended in a tie. I lost by one vote in the recount.
The integrity of… Continue reading
NYT on Trump’s trumped up charges:
Donald J. Trump and his allies are engaged in an aggressive effort to undermine the Republican nominating process by framing it as rigged and corrupt, hoping to compensate for organizational deficiencies that have left… Continue reading
As expected, a unanimous 7th Circuit panel, in an opinion by Judge Easterbrook, has reversed a lower court and ordered that court to consider whether Wisconsin’s voter id law unconstitutionally burdens the right to vote or those voters who… Continue reading