“Hedge Funds Launch New Lobbying Effort To Protect Their Power”
Paul Blumenthal reports for HuffPo.
Monthly Archives: May 2016
“Sting of Myself; Amateurish Spies Like James O’Keefe III Attempt to Sway the 2016 Election”
Must-read Jane Mayer in the New Yorker.
“Republican Voters Challenging Maryland’s Partisan Gerrymander Deserve Their Day in Court”
Journalism Works Dept: LA Times Story on American Independent Party Gets Results
LAT:
A new analysis finds nearly 32,000 voters in California’s American Independent Party changed their official registration and left the party in the two weeks after a Los Angeles Times investigation identified widespread confusion among the party’s members.
The change… Continue reading
“Voters’ clashing options: speed executions or abolish them”
Bob Egelko for the SF Chronicle:
Prosecutors, law enforcement groups and victims’-rights advocates turned in 593,000 signatures for the initiative, which would attempt to fix a system plagued by delays and high costs by tightening legal deadlines and requiring more… Continue reading
“In federal court, Wisconsin DMV administrator outlines challenges in issuing free voter IDs”
The Cap Times:
People who die waiting for a state-issued voter ID are recorded as a “customer-initiated cancellation” by the state Department of Motor Vehicles, a DMV official testified Thursday.
On the fourth day of a trial challenging a series … Continue reading
“Univision draws 100,000 to voter registration drives in move to increase its political clout”
“Eyeing Senate, Clinton directing money to 2016 battlegrounds”
“G.O.P. Donors Shift Focus From Top of Ticket to Senate Races”
“Do preregistration laws improve voter turnout among young adults ?”
Journalist’s Resource:
But how well do preregistration programs work? Do teens who register to vote actually participate in elections once they turn 18? Two scholars from Duke University, John B. Holbein and D. Sunshine Hillygus, looked into the… Continue reading
“Eskridge’s Interpreting Law: A Primer on How to Read Statutes and the Constitution”
Here’s a new treatise every Legislation scholar will need.
“Here’s how a wealthy Trump supporter could give $783,400 to support his campaign and the RNC”
Not Sure NYT OpEd Correction on Corporate Political Spending is Correct
On May 11 I wrote:
Yesterday I flagged this NYT oped by Kathleen Donovan-Maher and Steven Groopman, “Why Dark Money is Bad Business.”
The second sentence reads: “So far two-thirds of election dollars have largely come from anonymous corporate donations,… Continue reading