Monthly Archives: February 2017
We’re So Busy Talking About Trump Judge Tweets, We Ignore Oil and Gas Rules Killed at Request of Koch Bros.
Fascinating A1 NYT story by Eric Lipton.
Or this piece on killing net neutrality.
Or this on FDA safeguards for consumers taking medicines.
Or this on consumer protection and killing Dodd-Frank.
There’s so much disrupting going on, people just lack… Continue reading
Is President Trump Backing Away from False Claim of 3 Million Illegal Votes? VP Pence to Head Commission
WaPo on the fuller Bill O’Reilly interview:
“It has to do with the registration,” he continued. “And when you look at the registration, and you see dead people that have voted, when you see people that are registered in two… Continue reading
“McConnell: No federal money should be spent on Trump’s voter fraud investigation”
CNN:
McConnell told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” he wants to leave the task of wiping voters who have died or moved away off their rolls to state governments.
“This sort of thing is handled at the… Continue reading
“Neil Gorsuch Understands Campaign Finance – And That’s The Problem”
Bill O’Reilly (!) Goes After Pres. Trump on Lack of Any Evidence of 3 Million Illegal Voters
See this preview. Sad!
“Trump executive order on voter fraud quietly stalled”
AP:
An executive action commissioning the probe is still planned but could be several weeks away, two senior administration officials said Friday. Although Trump instructed staff to jump on the project last week, he has not discussed the issue in… Continue reading
“As White House backs down on voter fraud, debate far from over”
Ohio Seeks Supreme Court Review of 6th Circuit Ruling on Voter Purge Procedures Under Motor-Voter
This could be an important case.
House Administration Committee to Mark Up Bill to Eliminate Election Assistance Commission, Presidential Public Financing
Here’s the notice.
We’ve seen these moves on the House side before. Presumably, this would be subject to a filibuster by Senate Democrats, but we’ll see.
“Electoral Vulnerabilities in the United States: Past, Present, and Future”
Charles Stewart has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to put the issues of election integrity that arose in 2016 in context, and to suggest along the way how it is… Continue reading
“Trump wants to force you — the taxpayer — to pay for campaigning from the pulpit”
Ellen Aprill for WaPo:
At Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump renewed his campaign pledge to repeal — in his words, “totally destroy” — the Johnson Amendment, a provision of our tax code that prohibits charitable entities, including… Continue reading
Judge Gorsuch Likely to Join SCOTUS in April, Hearing Full Cases in October, Barring Filibuster/Nuclear Option
So reports Roll Call.
More on the Morass of North Carolina Law on Who Can Represent the State in NC Voting Litigation Before SCOTUS
Yesterday I wrote this piece at Slate suggesting that NC Governor Cooper withdraw the pending Supreme Court cert. petition in the case considering North Carolina’s strict voting law. I pointed to this statute giving the governor and AG, now both… Continue reading