Monthly Archives: May 2016
“Trump Unveils Stable of Republican Donors”
“These States Are Stepping Up To Reform Money In Politics In 2016”
Paul Blumenthal for HuffPo.
“Taxpayer-funded campaigns have been a disaster in New York”
Paul Jossey oped in the NY Post.
“Court upholds former California senator’s voter fraud conviction”
SacBee:
A Los Angeles County appeals court on Tuesday upheld former state Sen. Rod Wright’s conviction on charges of perjury and voter fraud.
In 2014, a jury found Wright guilty of eight felonies for registering to vote at a home… Continue reading
“Meet the expert witnesses testifying in Wisconsin’s federal voter ID trial”
Listen to the Recording of the En Banc 5th Circuit Hearing in Texas Voter ID Case
Ohio Will Appeal Voting Rights Ruling
So reports the Colmbus Dispatch.
See my earlier analysis of the case.
“The Revival of the Three-Fifths Clause in a Rhode Island Prison Gerrymandering Case”
Derek the Muller:
A federal district court handed down a memorandum and order for summary judgment in Davidson v. City of Cranston, a case concerning “prison gerrymandering” in Rhode Island. The court concluded that the city improperly drew districts… Continue reading
“CBS2 Investigation Uncovers Votes Being Cast From Grave Year After Year”
This story from CBS2’s David Goldstein is sure to make a lot of waves in CA.
CBS2 compared millions of voting records from the California Secretary of State’s office with death records from the Social Security Administration and found hundreds… Continue reading
“Federal court questions whether Texas voter ID law can offer accommodations”
WaPo:
With the U.S. Supreme Court watching, judges on a federal appeals court here Tuesday questioned whether accommodations could be made to protect minority voters and still save Texas’s strictest-in-the-nation voter ID law in time for the presidential contest… Continue reading
“Bernie Sanders asks for recanvass of Kentucky primary vote”
Major New Edition of “The Law of Democracy,” (Issacharoff, Karlan, Pildes, Persily) Available for Fall
The significantly revised new edition of The Law of Democracy, which now includes Professor Nate Persily as our new co-author, is available from us in page proofs and will be published over the summer. The new edition will also feature… Continue reading
“Shareholder Proposal Settlements and the Private Ordering of Public Elections”
Sarah Haan has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Yale Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
Reform of campaign finance disclosure has stalled in Congress and at various federal agencies, but it is steadily unfolding in a firm-by-firm program of… Continue reading