Monthly Archives: July 2016
“DNC Host Committee Asks Court to Keep Donor List Under Wraps”
“In Texas, Fixing Voter ID Law Ruled to Be Discriminatory Will Be Tricky Task”
NYT:
Ever since Texas’ strict voter identification law was passed in 2011, Democratic lawmakers and minority groups had focused on how to get it struck down. This week, after a federal appeals court ruled that the law discriminated against… Continue reading
Why a Loss on NC Voter ID Would Look Like a Win in Texas
Just a short note to point out how the goalposts have moved.
Plaintiffs in the Texas voter id case yesterday were claiming victory after the Fifth Circuit en banc held that Texas’s strict voter id law violated Section 2 of… Continue reading
“Ciara Torres-Spelliscy: The strange legal marriage of the anti-choice movement and campaign finance”
In Guernica.
She also has this piece on Pence pay to play and the Trump campaign.
Update: Robbin Stewart replies.
Storify from @UCILaw on #UCILawSCOTUS 2016
FELN Files Amicus Brief on Purcell Timing Issue in Kansas EAC Appeal
You can read the brief at this link.
The article sounds some of the themes I put forth in Reining in the Purcell Principle, Florida State University Law Review(forthcoming 2015) (draft available) (this article has been forthcoming for… Continue reading
“Trump reverses his opposition to super PACs and is now willing to headline events for a big-money group”
WaPo. I’d do my usual pity the billionaire but I doubt Trump’s actually a billionaire.
“Plotting the End of Super PACs”
Justin Miller for TAP:
More than six years after the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, the free-spending super PACs that many progressives consider a blight on American democracy are the target of a multi-pronged campaign to put them out of… Continue reading
Breaking: Trial Court in Texas Voter ID Case Sets Forth Softening Parameters, Timing
Wasting no time, this scheduling order from the trial court also includes the contours of what a softening rule must look like:
It is further ORDERED that any plan for interim relief must include terms regarding the following:
All… Continue reading
How Will Texas Voter ID “Softening” Work?
“Judge blocks Michigan ban on straight-party voting”
Detroit News:
A federal judge in Detroit has issued four preliminary injunctions against state election officials, prohibiting Michigan from enforcing a new law that bans straight-ticket voting.
U.S. District Court Judge Gershwin A. Drain issued a 37-page opinion Thursday that… Continue reading
“What Texans Can Expect After Wednesdays’ Voter ID Ruling”
I talked with Texas Standard, part of Texas Public Radio.