“BOB PHILLIPS: Has North Carolina become democracy’s twilight zone?”
Op-ed at WRAL.
Monthly Archives: September 2018
“Trump Officials Prepared For Supreme Court Fight Over Census Question”
Hansi Lo Wang, who has been the go-to reporter on Censusgate, with this NPR report.
California: “Supreme Court permanently bars split-California initiative”
NYT Reviews of Carol Anderson and Allan Lichtman Books on the Voting Wars
“Or to the People: Popular Sovereignty and the Power to Choose a Government”
Elizabeth Reese has posted this draft on SSRN (Cardozo Law Review). Here is the abstract:
To protect state sovereignty, contemporary textualism has reinvigorated the Tenth Amendment as a judicially enforceable limit on federal powers. However, in casting the Tenth Amendment… Continue reading
Divided Ninth Circuit Panel Rejects Voting Rights Challenge to Arizona Law on Absentee Ballot “Harvesting” and Counting Ballots Cast in Wrong Precincts
This is a major case, that could go en banc.
3-Judge Court Stays Its Own Order, with Conditions, in North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case, and It Excoriates the North Carolina Legislators’ Briefing
You can find the order here.
Neither Legislative Defendants’ Motion nor their supporting brief explicitly addresses any of the well-established factors set forth in Hilton. Normally, that failure alone would be fatal to Legislative Defendants’ Motion. See, e.g., Hickman-Bey… Continue reading
8th Circuit Rejects as Moot Challenge to Faithful Presidential Electors Law
Howard with the details.
“New Scorecard Charts Pro-Democracy Positions for Members of the 115th Congress”
New Jersey: “Top 25 Special Interest Groups Spent More than $74 Million in 2017”
Release:
The top 25 special interest groups in 2017 spent more than $74 million trying to influence elections and government policy in New Jersey, according to a new analysis by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). The analysis… Continue reading
“Susan Collins Complains of ‘Bribery’ After Nonbillionaires Try to Influence Her Kavanaugh Vote”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
On Monday, Sen. Susan Collins accused political opponents of Judge Brett Kavanaugh of attempted “bribery.” The charge itself is without any legal merit whatsoever. That complaints about the campaign finance effort… Continue reading
“Dark Money Illuminated Issue One shines a light on the top 15 secretive groups spending millions of dollars to sway voters and malign candidates”
Release:
Just 15 dark money groups in the post-Citizens United era accounted for over 75 percent of the more than $800 million in political dark money spent between January 2010 and December 2016, according to Issue One’s new year-long investigation, … Continue reading
“U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Releases Report: An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States”
Release:
Today, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released its report, An
Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States. Based on extensive
research and expert and public testimony, the report assesses minority voter access
around the country,… Continue reading