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17 Feb 2017, 4:32 am
” At the Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen notes that North Carolina has filed its reply brief in its request that the Supreme Court review an appeals court decision striking down the state’s strict voting law, and that the court will consider the request at its conference on March 3; he observes that by “the time the Court would hear the case, we likely will have a Fifth conservative Justice and this important opinion could be reversed. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 4:25 am
At the Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen calls Gorsuch’s comments “a smart political move” that was likely “strategized and vetted with the team seeking to secure his nomination,” and predicts that at “the hearings, I expect regardless of how many ways and how many times Democrats ask, Judge Gorsuch will not go much beyond ‘disheartening’ and ‘demoralizing. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 4:24 am
” Briefly: At Slate, Rick Hasen argues that “in the short term, there’s one simple action that could make voting rights a bit more secure: Roy Cooper, the new Democratic governor of North Carolina, and the state’s new Attorney General Josh Stein should withdrawa petition for writ of certiorari pending at the Supreme Court to review the 4th Circuit’s decision striking down North Carolina’s strict voting law. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 4:48 am
Christian Adams at The Hill; Gina Chon at Reuters; Richard Primus in Politico; and Rick Hasen in the Election Law Blog; the editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal; Kevin Drum in Mother Jones; and Ed Whelan in The National Review. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 4:06 am
Lawprof Rick Hasen at Election Prof Blog is all on board with Abrams taking on this cause. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 4:00 pm
[Washington Post] * Rick Hasen on how a voter fraud investigation should really go. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 3:32 am
” Commentary comes from Rick Hasen at the Election Law Blog. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 4:25 am
At his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen discusses the court’s “surprising” action, speculating that “maybe it was Justice Breyer and the conservatives who are ready to pull back here” and noting that it “is possible this order will be short-lived, as the Court will consider whether to take up the underlying appeal in the case at a conference in just 9 days. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 3:53 am
” At his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen notes that North Carolina has filed a cert petition asking the Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision striking down the state’s “’monster’ voting law” as “motivated by racially discriminatory intent”; he wonders “what happens to this litigation now that the governor is a Democrat who has opposed this law. [read post]
8 Jan 2017, 5:40 pm
" Rick Hasen has this post at his "Election Law Blog" about this petition for writ of certiorari. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 3:16 am
” In his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen notes that North Carolina officials have asked the Supreme Court for emergency relief from a three-judge federal-court ruling requiring the state to hold special elections in 2017 to correct unconstitutional racial gerrymandering in several legislative districts, concluding that the “petition, with Paul Clement as counsel of record, seems unlikely to succeed. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
As UC Irvine law professor Rick Hasen has noted, by watering down protections for minority voters, SB 4 could run afoul of the federal Voting Rights Act.Meanwhile, Article IX, Section 4 of the North Carolina Constitution expressly authorizes the governor to appoint the members of the State Board of Education, while Article IX, Section 5 broadly empowers the Board. [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 8:54 am
Election law expert Rick Hasen has called this the “Goldilocks” principle, because states need to get the balance just right. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 4:38 am
” Briefly: At Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen notes that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “sported her dissent jabot,” on the bench at oral argument on Wednesday, “in a subtle critique of Trump,” but calls the gesture “too little and too late,” opining that Ginsburg “badly miscalculated in not resigning early in Obama’s second term to give him a chance to fill that seat with someone younger. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 11:44 am
"'Notorious' Justice Ginsburg Wears Her 'Dissent Jabot' While Rome Burns": Rick Hasen has this post today at his "Election Law Blog. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 4:16 am
In advance of the election, Rick Hasen wrote an op-ed for the New York Daily News, which means you probably weren’t among the twelve who read it. [read post]
8 Nov 2016, 4:09 am
” In a New York Daily News op-ed, Rick Hasen argues that the election constitutes “an all-out ideological war over the future of the Supreme Court. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 5:11 pm
" Law professor Rick Hasen -- author of the "Election Law Blog" -- has this essay online at The New York Daily News. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 4:14 am
Commentary comes from Rick Hasen at Election Law Blog, who wonders whether Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will express her views on the request, which, he says, might expose her to criticism “for failing to recuse in a case involving Trump. [read post]
6 Nov 2016, 8:16 am
Panel, Without Full Response from Democrats, Reverses OH Trump Voter Intimidation Order": Rick Hasen has this post at his "Election Law Blog. [read post]
