Monthly Archives: July 2019
“Japan to test online voting for overseas citizens”
I’d be most interested in knowing whether this
system contemplates a secret ballot or not.
“Judiciary chair demands Hope Hicks clarify closed-door testimony”
On whether she had direct knowledge of payments to Stormy Daniels, or whether she was “present” when Trump discussed Daniels.
The documents unsealed in the Cohen warrant today seem to suggest there may be more to the story.
“Does the Fourteenth Amendment Require Collecting Citizenship Data?”
Thomas Berry makes the case that it does, in Yale’s Notice & Comment administrative law blog.
He’s promised more on enforcing that reading tomorrow, with a hint of a note of caution.
One note: whether the basic argument is… Continue reading
Justice Kagan speaks at Georgetown Law event
Some enlightening answers on interesting questions. She’s spot-on on partisan gerrymandering. And on Spider-Man.
“Voter Fraud Activist Will Apologize To Citizens He Accused Of Being Illegal Voters”
“Senate passes bill making hacking voting systems a federal crime”
The legislation passed
the Senate yesterday, and now heads
over to the House.
“States don’t have enough money to secure the 2020 election, new report warns”
A WaPo
article on a new
Brennan Center report diving into how six states (Alabama, Arizona,
Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania) used 2018 federal election
security grants … and the need each has for much more.
2020 Presidential fundraising hits a new record
The Campaign Finance Institute parses
the 2Q returns.
“A ‘Train Wreck’ Was Averted at the Supreme Court, but for How Long?”
Linda Greenhouse on the rule
of law’s near-miss in the census case, and its aftermath.
“The Citizenship Question Is Dead But The Fight Isn’t Over”
The Citizenship Question Is Dead But The Fight Isn’t Over, Part II
HuffPost on complete
count advocacy in hard-to-count communities
And a piece
from Minnesota on a complete count, but not an over-complete count, of
snowbirds.
“Why Have Democrats Suddenly Become The Anti-Citizenship Party?”
Auguste
Meyrat, in The Federalist, with a slightly different take on the census
controversy.
“After census debacle, White House to knock out senior Commerce official”
Earl
Comstock, top policy director over at Commerce, features heavily in the motion
for sanctions over conduct in the litigation over the citizenship question
on the census.