“A Counterattack on Voting Rights”
David Leonardt for NYT Opinion.
Monthly Archives: June 2018
“‘It takes five minutes or less.’ Court ruling means new Kansas voters sign up easily”
KC Star:
Four days after a federal judge threw out a Kansas voting restriction, 72 newly naturalized Americans became registered voters in the same courthouse where the landmark voting rights trial took place.
“That’s the reason why I became a… Continue reading
Unanimous Sixth Circuit Upholds Six Ohio Judicial Candidate Speech/Conduct Rules Against First Amendment Challenge [corrected title]
Today’s opinion in Platt v. Board of Commissioners continues the trend since the Supreme Court’s Williams-Yulee case upholding a number of judicial speech and conduct rules (more about that coming in the 2018 Election Law casebook supplement).
The provisions… Continue reading
“NAACP v. Alabama after 60 Years: Should Associational Privacy Still Be Protected by the Constitution?”
This event at Cato on June 28 should be good:
Featuring Bradley Smith, Chairman and Founder, Institute for Free Speech and Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law at Capital University Law School, Capital University; Lawrence Noble, former… Continue reading
Listen to New Books in Political Science Podcast, with Me Talking to Heath Brown About My Scalia book
Funny, rude & innovative, Antonin Scalia was a disrupter on the court. @rickhasen's THE JUSTICE OF CONTRADICTIONS (@yalepress) wrestles w/Scalia’s favored ways of interpreting the law, textualism & originalism. He joins @heathbrown for this #podcast. https://t.co/gzK2tSsWLo… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court Decides Texas Redistricting Case on 5-4 Vote, Along Ideological Lines, Reversing in All/Part
Opinion here.
[This post will be updated.]
“California’s Supreme Court can kill Cal-3 quickly and save us all a lot of trouble”
I have written this oped for the LA Times. It begins:
The Cal-3 ballot measure set to be voted on in November needs a mercy killing from the California Supreme Court, and if it comes fast enough, it could… Continue reading
BREAKING: SCOTUS Sends Back North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case Rather Than Setting It for Argument.
The Supreme Court has vacated and remanded the North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case, rather than setting it for argument. This is another sign Justice Kennedy is not ready to weigh back in so fast. I discussed what that remand order… Continue reading
Dahlia Lithwick Talks to Paul Smith About the Partisan Gerrymandering and Voter Purge Cases He Argued and Lost
Listen at Slate’s Amicus.
“Is the right to vote a use-it-or-lose-it proposition?”
Patt Morrison talks to Dan Tokaji about the Husted voter purge case.
Five Years After Shelby County, A Look Back
Almost exactly five years ago I wrote a NY Times oped about the Supreme Court’s unfortunate decision striking down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County: The Chief Justice’s Long Game.
This part held up pretty… Continue reading
“Candidate Coordination With Outside Groups Eased by Rulings”
Bloomberg BNA:
Congressional campaigns may find it easier to coordinate their messages with super political action committees and other outside groups as a result of Federal Election Commission decisions.
The commission dismissed complaints that messages posted on the campaign websites… Continue reading
Ninth Circuit Sees No Constitutional Problem with Allowing California All Vote by Mail Elections in Some Counties but Not Others
The opinion here is no surprise and seems right given that any California voter can vote by mail if she wishes. (On when lack of uniformity across counties or voters creates constitutional problems, see my University of Chicago Legal Forum … Continue reading
Five Years After John Roberts Says Federal Supervision of Voting Rules No Longer Necessary in South, and 2 Years After 4th Circuit Said North Carolina Targeted African Americans “with Almost Surgical Precision”, NC Suppression is Back
Thwarted before, N.C. GOP wants photo ID mandate:
North Carolina legislative Republicans on Thursday advanced their goal of permanently requiring voters to show photo identification — a proposal previously thwarted this decade by veto and federal judges who declared a… Continue reading