Election administraton news
Last week, the United States Election Assistance Commission released its biennial report on the National Voter Registration Act. It contains a treasure trove of voting statistics. It is available...
View ArticleBREAKING: Supreme Court issues stay in Ohio voting case
From the Court this afternoon:14A336 HUSTED, OH SEC. OF STATE, ET AL. V. NAACP, ET AL. The application for stay presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is granted, and the district...
View ArticleBREAKING: Kansas Dems need not name replacement (updated with case analysis)
A panel of judges in Kansas ruled earlier today that the Sunflower State's Democrats need not replace Chad Taylor as their Senatorial candidate.A copy of this opinion is here. Nothing really...
View ArticleYeee-haww! Ruling voids TX Voter ID law (now updated with case analysis!)
They say everything is bigger in Texas. From there, tonight, a 147-page opinion in Veasey v. Perry striking down an expansion of their voter ID law. The Court holds that SB 14 creates an...
View ArticleWhere does the Texas voter ID case go from here?
After the ruling of the District Court in Veasey v. Perry, the defendants in the case (basically, the State of Texas and various officials), on Friday, October 10, filed appeal papers in the Fifth...
View ArticleBREAKING: Veasey (TX voter ID case) order stayed by appeals court (with update)
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but as I predicted here, a panel of the Fifth Circuit has stayed the order in Veasey v. Perry, the Texas voter ID case, in an order issued earlier this...
View ArticleTrump's most recent outrage
Under federal immigration law the president is permitted to suspend or impose conditions on the entry of ”any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States” on a finding that it “would be...
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