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4 May 2010, 12:59 am
The woman behind the story – Anne Redston, a Visiting Professor in tax law at King’s College London – has written the following blogpost exclusively for Big Brother Watch…… [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 1:04 pm
Thai was a clerk for Justice Stevens during the 2000 October Term, and is now a professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 11:39 am
.) * The Twelfth Amendment deals with the functioning of the electoral college. * The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery. * The Fifteenth Amendment extends the right to vote to all citizens. * The Sixteenth Amendment allows for income tax to be imposed. * The Seventeenth Amendment deals with the number of senators for each state and how vacancies in a senate seat are filled. * The Eighteenth Amendment enacts prohibition [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 6:42 am
For example, a graphologically sensitive reading of the provisions relating to the Electoral College suggests that electors are constitutionally bound to the will of the people as expressed in the national popular vote count. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 10:00 am
’ Seemingly quite fortuitously, just announced research findings at University College Dublin would appear to support Smith’s contention. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 11:55 am
States have political protections (equal representation in the Senate, state by state election of the President via the Electoral College and so on). [read post]
27 Feb 2010, 8:40 pm
., Dept. of Mathematics) argued in last week's National Law Journal that the best way to avoid an electoral college winner beating a popular vote winner (as in the... [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 9:35 am
Ellis (West Virginia University - College of Law) has posted The Cost of the Vote: Poll Taxes, Voter Identification Laws, and the Price of Democracy (Denver University Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 3, 2009) on SSRN. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 8:55 am
At the federal constitutional level, they are used to decide how many seats each state gets in the House (and thus also how many Electors in the Electoral College). [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 3:02 pm
This is, incidentally, why I am not an enthusiastic supporter of the Fair Vote initiative, though I heartily support Fair Vote in its attack on the electoral college itself. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 9:52 am
It takes little imagination to see a deadlocked electoral college, which would the ultimate choice to the House, on its one-state/one-vote basis. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 12:47 pm
As I've tried to demonstrate repeatedly (many of you would no doubt say excessively), the established punditry, including Nobel Prize winners, have proved unable to connect the dots, save for, say, Rick Hertzberg's valuable commentary in the New Yorker over the past several years about the need to get rid of the electoral college. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 12:40 am
(Among his accomplishments was reforming the Papal electoral system.) [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 4:01 pm
... and figures Obama would lose if the election were held today. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 5:40 am
The Electoral College is a periodic institution, the Roman dictatorship an episodic one. [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 5:14 pm
A retired Family Court judge, a prominent magistrate with a keen interest in child abuse and family violence a renowned legal academic and a woman who has devoted herself to the protection of children have been made Members of the Order of Australia in today's Australia Day list.The judge is Justice Lloyd Waddy, who until his retirement last year sat as a Family Court judge at Parramatta.The magistrate is Karen Fryer from Canberra.The academic is US expatriate Professor Patricia… [read post]
13 Jan 2010, 5:34 pm
Bysiewicz’s biography on the Secretary of State’s Website reads about her time at White and Case in New York City: A graduate of Yale College and Duke University School of Law, she practiced corporate and international law at White and Case in New York City. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 7:52 am
Editor's Note: Stanley Keller is partner of Edwards Angell Palmer Dodge LLP. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 4:47 pm
As it stands, basic civics is not enough, because the amount of misinformation coming from both the electorate and the government is, honestly, astounding. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 1:28 pm
Richard Bellamy (University College London - Department of Political Science) has posted The Republic of Reasons: Public Reasoning, Depoliticization and Non-Domination on SSRN. [read post]
