Congratulations to Election Law Prof Nate Persily
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
So well deserved.
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Post-Kobach Kansas Making It Easier for Some Voters to Register to Vote
Wichita Eagle:
Sedgwick County residents will now have the option to vote at any polling place on Election Day.Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly this week signed into law Senate Bill 130, which gives counties the option to let voters cast… Continue reading
Susquehanna County, Pa Again Leaves Candidate Off the Ballot, This Time Republican Running in Congressional Election
Here is the ballot, for the PA 12th congressional district special election, leaving off the name of Republican Fred Keller.
Flashback to 2016, same county:
I’ve just received what I’ve been told is a copy of the overseas… Continue reading
“House Republicans Are Upset Democrats Are Investigating Voter Suppression Allegations”
HuffPost:
House Democrats overstepped their authority by asking state officials for information as part of an inquiry into allegations of voter suppression, top Republicans on the U.S. House’s investigatory committee said Monday. The Republicans on the House Oversight and… Continue reading
“Wall Street critic Waters rakes in corporate campaign money”
Politico:
Rep. Maxine Waters is embracing corporate campaign contributions as the new chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, even as some progressive Democrats have sworn off fundraising from businesses.The California Democrat’s campaign received about $210,329 in contributions during… Continue reading
“Trump and Sanders Campaigns Lead 2020 Fund-Raising Race”
NYT:
The two presidential candidates who entered 2019 with the largest bases of supporters — President Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont — led the 2020 field in fund-raising in the first quarter of the year.Presidential candidates were under… Continue reading
“Trump’s 2020 plan: Target seniors on Facebook”
Axios:
The Trump campaign is spending nearly half (44%) of its Facebook ad budget to target users who are over 65 years old, as opposed to Democratic candidates who are only spending 27% of their budget on that demographic, according… Continue reading
“PolitiFact Florida: Have more Florida felons registered as Republicans since Amendment 4 took effect?”
“The Texas AG Says Voter Fraud Is A Big Problem. His Cases Suggest Otherwise.”
HuffPost:
The letter, which came as House Democrats investigate allegations of voter suppression in Texas, trumpeted one of Paxton’s favorite statistics. All told, the letter said, the Election Fraud Unit had “prosecuted 33 defendants for a total of 97… Continue reading
“The Seven Things to Look for When Reading the Redacted Mueller Report”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
Attorney General William Barr has indicated that a redacted version of the Mueller report is likely to be sent to Congress this week and made public. It could come any day… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
““The Titanic was launched with less hubris and more preparation.”
Justin Levitt, in his forthcoming Columbia Law Review article, Citizenship and the Census, as quoted in Adam Liptak’s NYT Sidebar preview of the upcoming oral argument in the census… Continue reading
“How Albany is going after Trump’s taxes; A state bill that could force Trump to release his tax returns is not the first effort”
“Balkinization Symposium on Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum, The Company They Keep– Collected Posts”
Balkinization:
Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum’s new book, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 2019).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to … Continue reading
“What It Takes to Pull Off India’s Gargantuan Election”
NYT reports, with the subhead: “More than 900 million people — over 10 percent of the world’s population — could head to the polls over several weeks. The government is committed to polling every voter, no matter how isolated.”