“Supreme Court is shorthanded but could play role in election”
Richard Wolf reports for USA Today.
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Your Two Must-Reads About Justice Ginsburg’s Life as a Justice: Nina Totenberg and Joan Biskupic
Nina Totenberg: A 5-Decade-Long Friendship That Began With A Phone Call
Joan Biskupic: 20 years of closed-door conversations with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Vote-by-mail meltdowns in 2020?”
Andrew Appel blogs.
Probable election meltdown statesWhat would be really dysfunctional would be to encourage vote-by-mail, but then to wait until November 3 (or November 2) to start processing those envelopes. That’s a recipe for election meltdown. The states that… Continue reading
“Mail-in ballot law in Pennsylvania has driven out nearly a quarter of state’s top election officials”
Very worrying story:
More than a dozen counties in Pennsylvania have seen election directors or deputy directors leave in the last year since a new law was passed to accommodate no-excuse mail-in voting across the state, three county officials familiar… Continue reading
“Best practices for journalists covering the 2020 election: A report from the Poynter Institute”
This from Politifact is very important and well done.
“Swing State Hurdle: Returning Absentee Ballots to Election Day Polls”
Steven Rosenfeld:
Across the country, the past week has seen the Democratic Party and voting rights groups win legal victories to make it easier to vote in the presidential election. But no victory addresses what some experienced election officials… Continue reading
“Postal Service says voter registration, vote-by-mail materials permitted in Houston post offices”
Houston Chronicle:
There’s been a breakthrough in the weeks-long standoff over the availability of voter registration materials in Houston post offices with just weeks to go before the election.Word came in a letter Friday to two Houston Democrats from… Continue reading
“‘The Most Important Woman Lawyer in the History of the Republic’”
Politico:
Politico Magazine asked more than a dozen legal thinkers — law professors, litigators and constitutional scholars — to tell us how RBG’s life and work reshaped America. Many pointed to her work as a champion of women and… Continue reading
Breaking: “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87”
NPR:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural, and feminist icon has died. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from cancer.Architect of the legal fight for women’s… Continue reading
“Mississippi justices: No broad absentee voting amid COVID-19”
AP:
Mississippi law does not allow absentee voting by all people who have health conditions that might make them vulnerable to COVID-19, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.A majority of justices reversed a Sept. 2 decision by Hinds County… Continue reading
“Long lines and hand sanitizer on the first day of early voting for general election”
WaPo:
Early voting for the November election kicked off Friday in four states as voters showed up in person to cast their ballots, driven by a sense of urgency about the divisive presidential election, growing unease over the timely… Continue reading
“New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Only 22% of Americans think the 2020 presidential election will be ‘free and fair'”
Yahoo:
Just 22 percent of Americans believe this year’s presidential election will be “free and fair,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a disturbing loss of confidence in the democratic process that could foreshadow a catastrophic post-election… Continue reading
Texas Appeals Court Says Harris County Can Send Out Absentee Ballot Applications to Voters (But There’s A Stay in Place as This Works Its Way to State Supreme Court)
“Alabama Senate Candidate Tommy Tuberville Struggles To Discuss Voting Rights Act”
HuffPost:
“You know, the thing about the Voting Rights Act it’s, you know ― there’s a lot of different things you can look at it as, you know, who’s it going to help? What direction do we need to… Continue reading