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14 Jan 2013, 5:49 am
Which is all a very long-winded way of saying, as the voting wars heat up (to borrow the title from Rick Hasen’s excellent work), it may benefit us to have cooler heads. [read post]
26 Apr 2007, 3:47 am
As Rick Hasen suggests here, this is an area where the courts should step in to protect voters' rights, though I'm not particularly sanguine about the prospects for salutary intervention by the Supreme Court in this area for reasons explained here.In sum, the voter fraud debate highlights serious problem of institutional responsibility over election administration. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 4:00 am
Commentary comes from Nathaniel Persily at the Stanford Lawyer, Rick Hasen at Slate (who also notes an error in Justice Ginsburg’s opinion for the Court at his Election Law Blog), Steven Schwinn at the Constitutional Law Prof Blog, Seth Davis at PrawfsBlawg, and Derek Muller at Excess of Democracy. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 7:31 am
At his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen discusses the timing for the Court to act on an emergency stay application filed by abortion rights groups, who have asked the Court to step in and prevent abortion restrictions from going into effect in Texas on July 1. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 11:37 am
(Thanks to Rick Hasen on his election law blog for the usual promptness in posting a link to the opinion.) [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 12:36 pm
” At his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen discusses the denial of review in a Delaware campaign finance disclosure cases, arguing that it “shows that campaign finance disclosure laws remain on strong constitutional footing. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 5:03 am
” At the Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen weighs in on the Gorsuch nomination, maintaining that although “a filibuster now would be counterproductive,” he thinks it “is deserved on the merits,” because Gorsuch would likely “not only be sharply conservative but reflexively and shallowly so. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 4:31 am
” Briefly: At the Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen offers an abstract of a forthcoming article that discusses the court’s recent racial-gerrymandering decisions, noting that, given “the malleability of Supreme Court constitutional doctrine, especially in the area of election law,” “it would not be surprising to see a new, more conservative Supreme Court revert to its original treatment of the gerrymandering claim as a tool to limit minority voting power. [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]
10 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
The next presidential election will provide a grueling stress test for our political system, and it is increasingly looking like it will not pass that test.As UCLA Law Professor Rick Hasen puts it, “The United States faces a serious risk that the 2024 presidential election, and other future U.S. elections, will not be conducted fairly, and that the candidates taking office will not reflect the free choices made by eligible voters under previously announced election rules. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 4:19 am
At the Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen speculates about whether the plaintiffs will ask the Supreme Court to lift its stay of the lower court’s order requiring the Wisconsin legislature to draw new districts by November, asking “why … Wisconsin voters [should] endure another election with an unconstitutional map, if we know where this thing is going to end up? [read post]
16 May 2017, 3:45 am
Commentary comes from Rick Hasen in the Election Law Blog, who notes that “[t]hese days at the Supreme Court, getting the Court not to hear a voting case is a significant victory,” Ian Millhiser at ThinkProgress, who cautions that “Monday’s victory for voting rights is likely to prove temporary,” Ari Berman in The Nation, Paul Waldman in The Washington Post, and German Lopez at Vox. [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 3:59 am
” Commentary comes from Rick Hasen in an op-ed for The Los Angeles Times and Noah Feldman at Bloomberg View. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 4:23 am
” Briefly: At Slate’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talks to Rick Hasen, “author of The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, about civil discourse, rock star justices, and what Justice Scalia would have thought of President Trump. [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 4:32 am
” Commentary comes from Mark Joseph Stern at Slate and Rick Hasen at the Election Law Blog, who offers some possible explanations for why it took the justices so long to dispose of this request. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 6:52 am
Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog explains that the ruling on the trigger provisions is “at odds with the Ninth Circuit decision in the McComish v. [read post]
31 Mar 2017, 4:38 am
” Briefly: At the Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen points out that North Carolina’s petition for certiorari asking the court to review an appeals court decision striking down the state’s strict voting law has been removed from the agenda for the justices’ private conference today, speculating that something “is going on behind the scenes, because maybe the Court wants the state to resolve this somehow. [read post]
22 May 2018, 7:57 am
Rick Hasen pointed out as soon as the Epic Systems ruling was released, is the fact that there is only one case from the October sitting that the Court has not yet ruled on: Gill v. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 2:46 am
Commentary comes from Rick Hasen at his Election Law Blog, Ruthann Robson at the Constitutional Law Prof Blog, Reity O’Brien at the Center for Public Integrity, and Jeff Shesol at The New Yorker. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 12:01 am
Aside from the Voting Rights Act renewal (about which a lot of people, including my colleague Rick Hasen, have written and about which I won't comment here), I don't see any serious constitutional issues with any of this legislation, given the commerce power. [read post]
