“Election Security: The Fight to Secure the Vote”
William Roberts has this article in Washington Lawyer.
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Michigan: “GOP pressure shaped state’s district maps, court records show”
Detroit News:
Republican mapmakers who drew Michigan’s current political districts were pressured to appease lawmakers and made changes to help gain legislative approval, according to documents and depositions in a federal lawsuit.
The documents show mapmakers in 2011 gave top… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania Ruling Affirms that Campaign Finance Prohibitions Must be Justified”
Federal District Court in California Voting Rights Act Case Denies Attempt to Stop City of Poway District Elections
Read the order.
Along the way, the court finds that the plaintiff challenging the constitutionality of the CVRA is unlikely to succeed on the merits, It also finds it is too close to the election to make a change now… Continue reading
Big: More States Have Major Problems with Overseas Voters Reaching State Websites to Access Absentee Ballots
Jonathan Lai for the Philly Inquirer:
Thousands of registered Pennsylvania voters who live outside the United States are being blocked from accessing absentee ballots on the state’s website in a move intended to beef up election security.
Several other states,… Continue reading
“Corporations Are Striking Back On Ballot Initiatives”
HuffPost:
Ballot measures have produced a wave of ambitious progressive reforms in recent years, from legalizing marijuana to expanding voting rights to granting paid family leave. This year, corporations have become equally ambitious in fighting them ― and experts say… Continue reading
“Commissioner Gail Heriot Statement and Rebuttal in the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States”
New on SSRN:
On September 12, 2018, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report entitled “An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States.” This Statement was part of that report. It argues, among other things,… Continue reading
“Citizenship and the Census”
Justin Levitt has posted this timely draft on SSRN (forthcoming Columbia Law Review). Here is the abstract:
On March 26, 2018, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross determined that the federal government would use the 2020 decennial Census to ask every… Continue reading
“Don’t forget about Kavanaugh’s troubling legal philosophy”
George Thomas WaPo oped:
As the FBI conducts its investigations into the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, just about everyone has been distracted from questions about his legal philosophy. But let’s not forget, as Justice… Continue reading
“Trump Directed Legal Action to Enforce Stormy Daniels’s Hush Agreement”
WSJ:
President Trump personally directed an effort in February to stop Stormy Daniels from publicly describing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, people familiar with the events say….
Mr. Trump told Mr. Cohen to coordinate the legal response… Continue reading
“Despite Strong Headwinds, 2018 CPA-Zicklin Index Finds Company Political Disclosure Holds Steady”
Release:
Public corporations embracing disclosure and accountability of their political spending are holding fast despite countervailing pressures from Washington.
That’s the chief finding to emerge from a non-partisan study released today by the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) and the… Continue reading
“Bipartisan Task Force Unveils Proposals to Strengthen Government Ethics, Rule of Law”
Brennan Center:
The National Task Force on Rule of Law and Democracy – a group of former public servants and policy experts housed at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law – today laid out a vision for… Continue reading
Today’s Must Watch: Gerrymander Jewelry Ad
CA Requires Disclosure By Backers of Bots Intended to Influence Elections
NBC News:
California Gov. Jerry Brown drew plenty of headlines on Sunday when he signed the state’s net neutrality bill into a law, a move that was immediately met with a lawsuit from the Department of Justice.
On Friday, he… Continue reading