Monthly Archives: April 2018
“Supreme Court May Soon Decide When Campaign Check Becomes Bribe”
Bloomberg BNA:
Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers want the Supreme Court to tackle that question when the justices hold their weekly conference Friday. The court could reveal as soon as next week whether it will take the case.
Blagojevich’s former colleagues in… Continue reading
“Are Changing Ward Lines a Source of Chicago’s Violence?”
Chicago Magazine, with the subhead: “A University of Chicago sociologist is investigating the possibility that small areas, which have been shifted between wards over the years, are more prone to it—perhaps because they fall through the political cracks.”
“Pennsylvania Will Eliminate Paperless Voting Machines In Time For The 2020 Election”
“Member of Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Sued for Voter Intimidation”
Pema Levy for Mother Jones.
“An Antidote for Gobbledygook: Organizing the Judge’s Partisan Gerrymandering Toolkit into a Two-Part Framework”
Sam Wang at the Harvard Law Review blog.
Videos of Me Discussing My Book on Justice Scalia’s Legacy with Joan Biskupic, Adam Liptak & Sue Bloch, Adam Winkler, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Henry Weinstein (and National Constitution Center event)
In connection with the release of my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, I’ve given a number of talks. Some of these are now available on video:
Mar. 5 (Video)… Continue reading
“DOJ & FEC Complaints Filed Against President Trump, His Campaign & American Media Inc. for Illegal, Unreported $30K Coordinated Expenditure to Squelch Rumors of Candidate’s Illegitimate Child”
Plaintiffs Falsely Named by PILF and J. Christian Adams as Non-Citizen Voters Sue for Defamation And Violation of Federal Laws Barring Voter Intimidation
Read the complaint in LULAC v. PILF.
See this thread from Jessica Huseman.
“Was Facebook’s Work With the Trump Campaign Illegal?”
“The National Enquirer, a Trump Rumor, and Another Secret Payment to Buy Silence”
Ronan Farrow for the New Yorker:
Late in 2015, a former Trump Tower doorman named Dino Sajudin met with a reporter from American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. A few weeks… Continue reading
“A Way to Eliminate One Form of Russian Election Hacking”
John Porter and Rob Richie:
As revealed in February indictments by Robert Mueller, Russian operatives weaponized an antiquated rule of American democracy: the loophole that allows candidates to win all of a state’s electoral votes with less than 50 percent… Continue reading
Georgia: “Missing hyphens will make it hard for some people to vote in U.S. election”
Reuters:
The tiniest discrepancy on a registration form places them on a “pending” voter list. A Reuters analysis of Georgia’s pending voter list, obtained through a public records request, found that black voters landed on the list at a far… Continue reading
“Stormy Weather for Campaign-Finance Laws”
Brad Smith WSJ oped, with the subhead: “Hush money looks like a personal expense. Treating it as a political one would create a bad precedent.”