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29 Apr 2014, 12:20 pm
Thaddeus Stevens championed Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment, which diminished state representation in the House and Electoral Colleges whenever the state denied the ballot to male citizens (i.e. freed slaves). [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 8:05 am
His numbers are especially meager among the non-college and older whites that dominate the electorate in the seven red-leaning states where Democrats must defend Senate seats in November. [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 1:22 pm
Legal news coverage was dominated this week by the Supreme Court Shuette decision, which upheld Michigan’s affirmative action ban for college admissions. [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 3:33 pm
The High Court found that the state initiative had the practical effect of removing the authority to address a racial problem from the existing decisionmaking body, in such a way as to burden minority interests of busing advocates then had to seek relief from the state legislature, or from the statewide electorate. [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 10:33 am
Individual liberty has constitutional protection, but the Constitution also embraces the right of citizens to act through a lawful electoral process, as Michigan voters did. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
Proposal 2 banned race-based and sex-based affirmative action by public institutions, including colleges and universities. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 1:55 pm
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, about Michigan’s ballot-enacted prohibition on considering race in college admissions. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 10:04 am
But it's: "Why a Plan to Circumvent the Electoral College Is Probably Doomed." [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 7:57 am
Because these are specifically provided for in detailed instructions on the electoral college. [read post]
30 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm
Just in the last few years alone, we have seen Supreme Court decisions that have unleashed an undemocratic flood of money that increasingly dominates our electoral process. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm
Senate and (even more so) in the electoral college, Democrats in Congress and the White House would be disinclined to approve the idea. [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 8:25 am
Finally, in today's Recorder, Justice Beds takes a crack at electoral reform, here. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 11:53 am
If the more than 5.8 million disenfranchised Americans lived in a state of their own, that state would have 10 votes in the electoral college. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 4:55 pm
But I think that revelation wasn’t meaningfully relevant to the decision before the electorate in 2000. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 1:02 am
Kennedy carried the electoral college by a comfortable margin, 303 out of 537 electoral votes, but his popular vote margin was a narrow 49.72 percent to 49.55 percent for Republican Richard Nixon. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 12:08 pm
Two weeks before the end of the session, a committee consisting of one delegate from every state at the Convention, going well beyond its authority, reported its proposal for a president elected by an electoral college and to shift the senate’s executive powers to the president, except for the Senate’s advice and consent to appointments and treaties. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm
Senate in 2018 (when Draper’s proposal would be sent to DC), or if the President in 2018 is a Democrat, then Draper’s measure might face partisan opposition in the Senate or in the White House (which has the power to veto any such measure), And all of that is to say nothing about how the creation of six Californias might affect the electoral college and partisan presidential politics, an extremely complicated question in its own right. [read post]
28 Dec 2013, 1:39 pm
” Bitcher & Prickman cartoons are always worth a look – from US lawyer Charles Fincher Esq 2015 is coming soon and the current government will have to see what can be done with the electorate. [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 6:25 am
Here's a notable excerpt describing their findings:“We found that most of the areas that gain additional political clout from prison gerrymandering on the state level reject the prison counts when they draw local districts,” said Peter Wagner, executive director of the Prison Policy Initiative, which he founded as a student at Western New England College School of Law more than a decade ago. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:17 pm
Is the Constitution responsible for electoral dysfunction? [read post]
