Who Pays for the Parties? (Blog) 9/6/2012 Editorial Note: This piece was first published as part of the Huffington Post's Shadow Convention discussion on money in politics and on my Huffington Post blog.
Justice Department Clears New Hampshire Voter ID Law (News Clips) 9/5/2012 “The Justice Department has cleared New Hampshire's voter ID law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Unlike voter ID laws DOJ has challenged, voters who lack an acceptable form of photo…
Opponents of [WI] Voter ID Law Want Courts to Delay Ruling... (News Clips) 9/5/2012 “Three groups that convinced judges to throw out Wisconsin's voter ID requirement have asked the Supreme Court not to take over the cases and act on them before the November elections. The…
A Fight for Fair Courts (News Clips) 9/4/2012 "After recent Supreme Court rulings, are states foreclosed from using a public financing system just for judicial elections?"
South Carolina voter ID Trial Phase Closes with Questions... (News Clips) 9/4/2012 “How South Carolina election officials accommodate voters unable to get required photo identification before going to the polls is playing a key role in the legal fight over whether the state’s…
Routine Quest to Get ID Becomes an Ordeal (News Clips) 9/4/2012 "Eugene Sim is living a Catch 22. More than one month ago Sim, 62, applied to renew his Indiana identification card."
Justice for Voters in Texas and Florida (News Clips) 8/31/2012 “Fortunately, federal courts are seeing these efforts for what they are: a variation on the racist laws that disenfranchised millions before those tactics were outlawed by the Voting Rights Act. ……
THREE-JUDGE PANEL STRIKES DOWN VOTER PHOTO ID LAW IN TEXAS (Press Release) 8/30/2012 Court agrees with League of Women Voters and Department of Justice Voter Photo ID is discriminatory
Editorial: [MN] Court Ignores Amendment Flaws (News Clips) 8/29/2012 "Two dissenting justices, Alan Page and Paul Anderson, said the full text of amendments -- not summary descriptions written by lawmakers -- should be on the ballot. ... In his lengthy dissent,…
A Solution in Search of a Problem (News Clips) 8/28/2012 “If Wisconsin had a problem with voter fraud, the action taken by state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen last week would be more understandable. ...But the state doesn't have a problem... Van…