WSJ:
More large companies are disclosing how they spend to influence government, and company boards are taking on a more direct role in overseeing that spending, a new study finds.
Dan Froomkin:
The Justice Department’s recent about-face on a voting rights case was such a betrayal of long-standing DOJ policy that a group of former political appointees and career lawyers filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on Friday,… Continue reading
A pending Supreme Court case is often the impetus for exciting new scholarship. With the Court about to hear Gill v. Whitford, its first partisan gerrymandering case in more than a decade, it’s no surprise that a number of… Continue reading
Careful new study led by Ken Mayer:
A survey of registered voters in Dane and Milwaukee Counties who did not vote in the 2016 presidential election found that 11.2% of eligible nonvoting registrants were deterred by the Wisconsin’s voter ID… Continue reading
WaPo:
The batch of more than 3,000 Russian-bought ads that Facebook is preparing to turn over to Congress shows a deep understanding of social divides in American society, with some ads promoting African-American rights groups including Black Lives Matter and… Continue reading
Ron Klain:
That means, first, abolishing caucuses and using only primaries to pick convention delegates. (One exception can be made for the iconic Iowa caucuses.) The selection of a president should not be limited to those voters able to attend… Continue reading
Nick Stephanopoulos for Slate:
The underlying debate in Whitford, then, has a clear winner and a clear implication. Far from being tangential, party is currently the most important driver of voter and legislator behavior. This fact causes today’s gerrymandering to… Continue reading
WaPo:
Kobach claims that there are now “facts” and “proof” that show out-of-state voters took advantage of New Hampshire’s same-day registration provision to commit voter fraud. That is hardly the case.
Kobach says there were 5,313 fraudulent ballots cast by… Continue reading
Stephen Mortellaro has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Loyola Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Congress strikes at the core of state sovereignty when it disenfranchises voters. Yet demands for national disenfranchisement laws have become pervasive since the 2016… Continue reading