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Voting
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The Right Coast
Chris Wallace Relentlessly Grills Ted Cruz on Flipped Crop Insurance Vote: Senator, Isn t That Exactly the Kind of Game That the Washington Cartel Plays? | Video | TheBlaze.com
Cruz said that he thought he was voting on another issue because the Senate had flipped the order of votes. I went up initially voting one way, believing we were…
PrawfsBlawg
The Changing Face of Federal Supremacy
Main Thursday, June 11, 2015The Changing Face of Federal SupremacyBy now, the observation's familiar, maybe banal: How law's enforced matters. It matters as much, maybe more, than what the law…
The Faculty Lounge
AALS Call For Papers: Election Law At The Local Level
This just in: The AALS Section on Election Law is is seeking abstracts or drafts of papers to be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting in New York, NY. This…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“A Price Too High: Efficiencies, Voter Suppression, and the Redefining of Citizenship”
The title of this post comes from this paper by Professor Atiba Ellis, the abstract of which states: This essay argues that the efficiency assumption in election law coupled with…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The Racist Origins of Felon Disenfranchisement”
Main November 20, 2014"The Racist Origins of Felon Disenfranchisement"The title of this post is the headline of this recent New York Times commentary by Brent Staples. Here are excerpts: The…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
ProPublica reviews voting rights controversies since SCOTUS’s 2013 Shelby Co. decision
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The Faculty Lounge
Dear Voter
Goodness, voting mail shenanigans are in the news. I hope to find time to blog about this experiment that has got political scientists at Dartmouth and Stanford in hot water.…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“The precarious position of voting rights”
Advancement Project co-director Penda Hair's article at MSNBC.com, which begins: Voting is the cornerstone of democracy – at least, it should be. But American democracy shifted dramatically on June 25,…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
SCOTUS “decision…to allow Texas’ restrictive voter identification law to go into effect is deeply disturbing and simply wrong…”
...according to Professor Erwin Chemerinksy, dean of UC-Irvine School of Law. In this op-ed for The Orange Co. Register, Chemerinsky writes: The Texas law, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted Saturday,…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Justifying a Revised Voting Rights Act: The Guarantee Clause and the Problem of Minority Rule”
The title of this post comes from this paper by Professor Gabriel Chin, the abstract of which states: In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of…