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International Law Prof Blog
United Nations Support Mission in Libya
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Tarek Mitri of Lebanon as his new Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), according to…
International Law Prof Blog
UN Security Council Extends Presence in Sierra Leone
The Security Council today extended until the end of March 2013 the United Nations mission assisting Sierra Leone with peacebuilding and long-term development, and called on all actors to ensure…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Orders FEC to Reconsider Ruling on Access to Debates
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Judge Rudolph Contreras (D.D.C.) ruled in La Botz v. FEC that the Commission's decision upholding a private organization's standards that kept the plaintiff out of the organization-sponsored U.S. Senate debates in Ohio…
The Right Coast
Obama s Enthusiasm Deficit Could Soon Haunt Him – NationalJournal.com
In short, Obama has to fear that his good margins among young and Latino voters will be offset by their low volumes and that those groups simply won t matter…
Food Safety News
Letter From The Editor: Predictions Anyone?
By Dan Flynn
Twenty-nine men and one woman have served as Secretary of Agriculture since the office was created when the U.S. Department of Agriculture achieved cabinet-level status in 1889. With the especially…
Don't Mess With Taxes
We all built it, together with our taxes Wednesday, August
We all built it, together with our taxes Wednesday, August 29, 2012 It's a presidential election year, so we're being bombarded with pointed phrases to catch our attention and inflame…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ohio Federal District Judge Enjoins Portions of State Provisional Voting Scheme
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
A federal district judge has enjoined specificprovisions of Ohio’s election code that disqualify provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinctor cast with deficiencies in the ballot envelope form, when the…
The Right Coast
Aug. 26: Little Momentum in Polls in Advance of Conventions – NYTimes.com
The FiveThirtyEight forecast for Sunday gives Barack Obama a 69.4 percent chance of winning the Electoral College on Nov. 6. That s essentially unchanged from Saturday although there have been…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Questioning Why Any Women Vote Republican
TheNew York Times – Campaign Stops blog: Allthe Single Ladies, by Charles M. Blow:Thenoxious “legitimate rape” comment by Todd Akin, Missouri congressman and Senatecandidate, has me once again pondering a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Mitt Romney’s birther “joke”
Yesterday, Mitt Romney on the campaign trail in Michigan joked that, unlike the President, nobody ever asked to see his birth cetificate. Was it just a joke to lighten the…