“Voter ID in Texas by way of North Carolina?”
Bobby Cervantes in the Houston Chronicle.
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Breaking: 7th Circuit Refuses En Banc in Both WI Voter ID Cases; No More Changes Unless #SCOTUS Intervenes
A unanimous 7th Circuit issued this order en banc refusing to place the affidavit requirement to soften voter id back into effect at this point, and rejecting the other cross appeals. This would leave only the Supreme Court as a… Continue reading
“New Sanders Group Illustrates Legal Compliance Challenges”
Eric Wang for Roll Call.
“Ann Coulter: Dems will ‘steal’ close election’
She’s as bad as Roger Stone.
But at least Stone hasn’t been accused of voter fraud personally as Coulter has.
“Steve Bannon moves Florida voter registration to home of Breitbart writer”
Guardian:
Donald Trump’s campaign chief has moved his voter registration to the home of one his website’s writers, after the Guardian disclosed that he was previously registered at an empty house in Florida where he did not live.
Stephen Bannon… Continue reading
“Sixth Circuit Upholds Kentucky’s Failure to Have a Procedure for an Unqualified Party to Become a Qualified Party in Advance of Any Particular Election”
BAN:
On August 26, the Sixth Circuit issued an opinion in Libertarian Party of Kentucky v Grimes, 16-6107. The opinion upholds Kentucky’s failure to have any procedure for a group to transform itself into a qualified party, in advance of… Continue reading
Read the Libertarian Party’s Reply Brief in Ohio #SCOTUS Party Label Case
With shoutouts to Elmendorf, Schleicher and Winger.
“NC GOP chairman Woodhouse asked Wake elections board to make his cousin chairman”
News & Observer:
The leader of the N.C. Republican Party urged a Wake County Board of Elections member to appoint his cousin as chairman of the board, according to emails released this week.
Records show Dallas Woodhouse, the state GOP’s… Continue reading
“New York Law Curbs Impact of Citizens United”
Bloomberg BNA:
The impact of legislation signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) to combat the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision will hurt nonprofit charities that were not intentionally targeted by the bill, according to… Continue reading
“Controversy vs. Corruption”
Eliza Newlin Carney:
All that helps explain why Clinton casts GOP attacks as purely partisan. Clinton is finding it harder to explain, however, why the line between the business and interests of the Clinton Foundation and its donors, and… Continue reading
“Millions From Maxed-Out Clinton Donors Flowed Through Loophole”
Bill Allison for Bloomberg.
Is it right to call it a “loophole” when the Supreme Court required these entities in McCutcheon?
“The Government Shouldn’t Get to Do Unconstitutional Things by Only Doing Them for Short Periods of Time”
Ilya Shapiro and Thomas Berry for Cato on a campaign finance PAC-related case with a cert. petition at SCOTUS.
Some Recent Election-Related Writing and Coverage
Rounded up by @UCILaw, and also including comments of my Dean, Erwin Chemerinsky.
“4 experts make the case that the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising was troubling”
Good piece at Vox. As I’ve said, there was nothing special about Clinton’s exchange of donations for access. That’s business as usual. And that’s the problem.