Reuters:
More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is “rigged” and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.… Continue reading
Brian Russ has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The question is straightforward: does California’s ban on campaign contributions from lobbyists violate the First Amendment? The answer is not straightforward. The purpose of this Comment is to… Continue reading
Jamie, who is quite a mensch, is poised to go to Congress, replacing Chris van Hollen, who has gone on to win the Democratic Senate nomination for Maryland.
WaPo:
Four polling places in Baltimore are staying open an extra hour, until 9 p.m., due to delays in opening, a judge ruled Tuesday evening.
The Senate campaign of Rep. Donna Edwards filed an emergency complaint against the Board of… Continue reading
Brendan Fischer:
It is a common refrain that cases like Citizens United allow for “legalized bribery.”
But few argue that the U.S. Supreme Court has literally legalized pay–to-play politics; such descriptions are usually shorthand for the systemic ways that big… Continue reading
News Service of Florida:
On Monday, the 12-term congresswoman appealed to the nation’s highest court in an effort to unwind a plan to rotate her district from a north-south orientation that includes her power bases of Jacksonville and Orlando to… Continue reading
Alan Blinder for the NYT:
The protracted battle over North Carolina’s voting rules moved to a federal appeals court on Tuesday, one day after a judge upheld the Republican-backed overhaul and increased the likelihood that the changes would be in… Continue reading
AP:
Voting rolls in Kansas are in “chaos” because of the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirements, the American Civil Liberties Union has argued in a court document, noting that about two-thirds of new voter registration applications submitted during a three-week period in… Continue reading