Jim Sleeper writes at the Washington Monthly.
As a reader points out, the Alabama case is about state legislative districts, not congressional districts.
WSJ:
Since 2012, Mr. Adler has been investigating the Working Families Party’s relationship with Data & Field Services, a corporation formed by the left-leaning party to provide its candidates with get-out-the-vote staffing and expertise.
Investigators are looking at whether… Continue reading
“I served for a week on a jury trial, which basically told me I was a registered voter. I’m a disabled veteran, so it’s particularly frustrating. Why should I have to prove my citizenship when I served in the military?”… Continue reading
LAT: “Former Democratic state Sen. Roderick D. Wright showed up late Friday to begin serving a 90-day jail sentence but was released almost immediately due to jail crowding, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman said. A jury convicted… Continue reading
William Marks has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Why exactly must the states respect federal Bill of Rights protections that apply to corporations? In Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), the Supreme Court held… Continue reading
Alaska Dispatch:
A federal judge in Anchorage ruled Wednesday that the state Elections Division violated the U.S. Voting Rights Act by failing to provide ballot and candidate information in Native languages to Yup’ik and Gwich’in speakers in three rural… Continue reading
NYT:
A key ruling by the judge was on the definition of an “official action” taken by Mr. McDonnell during the period of the indictment. The judge defined bribery as trading something of value “for official actions by a… Continue reading
Russ Choma:
Neither Lori Pyeatt, Ron Paul’s granddaughter and the treasurer of his 2012 presidential campaign, nor Jesse Benton, who was Paul’s campaign manager (and is now manager of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign), had responded to… Continue reading
LA Daily News: “Attorneys for former Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcón and his wife, Flora Montes de Oca Alarcón, are seeking a new trial, arguing the verdicts handed down by a jury last month are ‘inconsistent.'”
One state judge appears to think he may have, according to this report:
Judge Julie Kocurek of the 390th District Court, a Democrat, said Perry’s Saturday statement, issued a day after the indictment, could be construed as a threat… Continue reading