“Integrity or Intimidation?: Voter Challengers and Election Day Observers”
ACS has a great event in DC Sept 12. I’m sorry I couldn’t participate in it.
Monthly Archives: September 2016
NYT, Finally if Briefly, Discusses Bondi Story: More to Come?
There’s this in a story today, but I expect we will see much more in the days ahead:
Addressing an issue that has dogged the campaign, Mr. Clinton defended the Clinton Foundation. And he criticized Mr. Trump over his own… Continue reading
“Trump’s ‘rigged election’ rhetoric could inspire voter intimidation, say experts”
“Supreme Court blocks a last-ditch attempt to suppress votes in November”
“Tucson’s hybrid city elections upheld by full 9th Circuit”
Tuscon Sentinel:
A federal appeals court reaffirmed Tucson’s hybrid city election process Friday, rejecting Republican claims that it violates the one-person, one-vote principle.
The full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the system for municipal elections – in which… Continue reading
“Longtime Milwaukee federal judge Rudolph Randa dies”
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
Condolences to his family and friends.
Judge Randa decided a series of cases involving Wisconsin’s campaign finance laws, issuing a terrible series of rulings from the reform perspective (including a ruling in the John Doe… Continue reading
“The shameful spectacle of denying people their vote”
“Without conservative Supreme Court majority, voter-law challengers make gains”
Bob Barnes for WaPo:
With the Supreme Court at an ideological impasse and Senate Republicans refusing to allow hearings for President Obama’s nominee to the court, Merrick Garland, the final state rules for elections throughout the country are likely… Continue reading
“Trump, dismissing allegations of impropriety, says donation to Fla. attorney general came with no strings”
WaPo:
Marc Reichelderfer — who worked as a consultant on Bondi’s reelection effort — told the Associated Press in June that Bondi spoke with Trump and solicited the donation herself. Reichelderfer said that Bondi had not been aware of the… Continue reading
“Trump Surrogate Admits To Joy Reid: Trump Did ‘Pay-For-Play'”
Trump Denies Pay to Play in Bondi AG Donation While Trump U Investigated
Trump asked, on his plane, about Florida AG Pam Bondi/Trump Foundation donation: pic.twitter.com/Xjq4Wrs6km
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 5, 2016
“Aggregate Corruption”
Michael Gilbert and Emily Reeder have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Kentucky Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
This symposium paper challenges the Supreme Court’s most recent campaign finance decision, McCutcheon v. FEC. True to recent form, the Court… Continue reading
Krugman on Press Coverage of the Candidates Mentions Bondi AG Issue
NYT column:
True, there aren’t many efforts to pretend that Donald Trump is a paragon of honesty. But it’s hard to escape the impression that he’s being graded on a curve. If he manages to read from a TelePrompter without… Continue reading
“More early voting would ‘waste tax dollars,’ Wake County GOP says”
News & Observer:
The Wake County Republican Party is calling on its members to lobby against expanded early voting opportunities, arguing more sites and hours “only creates additional opportunity for chaos.”
Party leaders sent out the message in an email… Continue reading