“How Trump could lose by 5 million votes and still win in 2020”
David Wasserman does some Electoral
College math.
Monthly Archives: July 2019
“After Publishing Strong Evidence of Trump’s Campaign Finance Crimes, DOJ Closes Case Without Explanation”
Paul Ryan in
Just Security on the announced end of the Stormy Daniels campaign finance case.
“Prosecutors weighed DOJ policy blocking indictment of a sitting president in closing Trump hush-money probe”
And maybe there’s an
explanation after all.
“John Paul Stevens Was Right: Citizens United Opened the Door to Foreign Money in U.S. Elections”
The Intercept traces
funding from foreign nationals through American corporations to super PACs.
The latest Citizens United constitutional amendment proposal
Relatedly, the latest proposed amendment to overturn Citizens United was filed yesterday. It would ban private funding of support for or opposition to candidates if the funding isn’t a donation to a candidate’s campaign. I’m not a fan.
“GAO again warns of risks in 2020 census”
Specifically,
“untested innovations,” IT implementation, and cybersecurity. The report is here.
“Census citizenship question is dropped, but challenges linger”
Science magazine digs in on the likelihood
that non-response follow up, administrative records, and (legally permissible) imputation
will be able to compensate for a large-scale chilled response.
And local
outreach efforts by Census officials continue to try to narrow that… Continue reading
“The Way the Census Counts Prison Populations Seriously Distorts Redistricting”
Mekela Panditharatne talks prison
gerrymandering in Slate.
“America’s Historic Fight Over Who Deserves Representation”
Michael Li, in
Slate, on the census, citizenship, and representation.
Related: the Council on
Foreign Relations gets in on the discussion too.
The long arm of Gill
Mississippi
cites Gill v. Whitford in contesting
challengers’ standing to contest the requirement that statewide
candidates win both a majority of the state and a majority of state house
districts.
And the Court’s refusal to recognize that redistricting
problems are … Continue reading
“Drawing new congressional lines won’t be easy for Democrats”
Nathan Gonzales in Roll Call counting an awful lot of chickens:
Democrats’ potential challenge in the next round of redistricting will be drawing new lines at the apex of electoral performance.
“Can a racially gerrymandered legislature amend the N.C. constitution?”
Facing South on the lawsuits
challenging the validity of amendments to the state constitution because they
were passed by a legislature elected via unlawful district lines.
“Would ending fusion voting hurt GOP and help suburban Dems?”
An interesting
commentary on the debate over fusion voting in New York.
“Rensselaer County Board of Elections to give ICE voter registration information”
Specifically, Rensselaer
apparently indicates that they’re going to share the list of people registering
through the DMV, ostensibly to combat illegal immigration (the only
relevant list ICE would have, I believe, pertains to individuals overstaying visas).
I’m not sure… Continue reading