Reuters:
President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order as soon as Wednesday that will slap sanctions on any foreign companies or people who interfere in U.S. elections, based on intelligence agency findings, two sources familiar with the matter… Continue reading
Reid Wilson:
Nonpartisan redistricting proponents are turning to midterm election referendums in key states where legislative leaders have signaled no desire to give up their authority on drawing political boundaries.
Voters in four states — Michigan, Missouri, Colorado and Utah… Continue reading
Jonathan Macey and Leo Strine have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In this Article we show that Citizens United v. FEC, arguably the most important First Amendment case of the new millennium, is predicated on a… Continue reading
A Ninth Circuit panel today unanimously reversed a lower court decision barring California’s collection of IRS Form 990 Schedule B, which lists the top contributors to 501c3 organizations. This was an as-applied claim by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation and… Continue reading
The Sixth Circuit reversed a denial of a motion to dismiss, tossing an incitement claim based on then-Candidate Trump’s exhortation at a rally to “Get ’em out of here.”
Thanks to Doug Chapin for calling attention to this Concord Monitor piece on the nuts-and-bolts of getting polling sites ready for an election. The URL for the piece offers a nice insight not in the piece itself: “If you build… Continue reading
Calling Michael McDonald: looks like another redistricting precinct error, but this time it may force a new vote. (The article discusses a bunch of issues beyond the precinct error, few of which seem related to the race in question.)