Monthly Archives: October 2017
“Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin”
NYT:
Natalia V. Veselnitskaya arrived at a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 hoping to interest top Trump campaign officials in the contents of a memo she believed contained information damaging to the Democratic Party and, by extension, Hillary… Continue reading
Trump DOJ Brief, Supporting Texas in 5th Circuit Voter ID Appeal, Supports Voter ID Generally as Legitimate Policy Choice
“Candidate Disclosure and Ballot Access Bills: Novel Questions on Voting and Disclosure”
Danielle Lang has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, UCLA Law Review). Here is the abstract:
For nearly a half century prior to the current administration, U.S. presidents and most serious candidates for the presidency have released their tax returns… Continue reading
38 Ideas for Fixing American Democracy
Ohio Voter Purge Case Switched to January Calendar
NEW: Supreme Court has taken Ohio voting purge case off its November calendar because petitioners had to switch lawyers
— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) October 27, 2017
Texas Files Supreme Court Brief in State Redistricting Case
“How corporations are still playing politics more than a century after President Theodore Roosevelt and the Tillman Act”
Michael Beckel for Issue One:
For instance, last year in Nevada, the app-based ride-sharing company Uber sponsored campaign mailers and e-mail messages to its riders and drivers urging the reelection of Republican Assemblyman Derek Armstrong, as veteran journalist Jon Ralston… Continue reading
“Justice Department Settles With Tea Party Groups After I.R.S. Scrutiny”
NYT:
The Justice Department settled two lawsuits with conservative groups that claimed the Internal Revenue Service had unfairly scrutinized them during applications for tax-exempt status, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Thursday.
The government agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement to… Continue reading
“Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Russia probe, thinks Americans are too ‘savvy’ for Russian ads to work”
“‘Nothing Going On’ With Trump Voter Fraud Commission Due To Multiple Lawsuits”
Pam Fessler:
The work of President Trump’s commission studying voter fraud and other voting problems has been stalled by the eight lawsuits filed against it, according to one commission member.
Indiana’s Republican Secretary of State Connie Lawson says the suits,… Continue reading
“Kobach transcript: Changes to US election law discussed”
AP:
The vice chairman of President Donald Trump’s election fraud commission says he wants to change U.S. election law so states have an incentive to require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, according to a deposition unsealed Thursday.… Continue reading
“Will Politics Tarnish the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy?”
Linda Greenhouse on CJ Roberts, Gill, and the voter id cases, making points similar to those I made after the oral argument in Gill.
Congressional Accountability Office, At Sen. Bennet’s Request, Will Investigate Pence-Kobach Commission
But don’t expect anything soon.