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28 Oct 2020, 9:16 am
This post surveys litigation brought since March 2020, challenging vote-by-mail ballot submission rules and procedures that voting rights advocates argue burden the right to vote. [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 12:21 pm
Submission to a local agency of a qualified citizen-generated initiative petition – i.e., one in proper form and signed by the requisite number of voters as specified by statute – compels the local agency to either adopt the proposed measure exactly as drafted or to place it on the next ballot for a vote of the people, and, significantly, neither of these options requires or allows for CEQA review of the measure’s environmental impacts. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 9:07 pm
That is the question presented by Texas' complaint.In other words, the lawsuit presents certain facts about the procedures followed for the presidential election in the four swing states that allegedly violated their own constitutional and legislative enactments (such as extending the deadline for submission of ballots beyond Election Day as specified by Congress, or waiving the verification of absentee ballots, or by sending out to all voters mail-in ballots… [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 2:00 am
That is the question presented by Texas' complaint.In other words, the lawsuit presents certain facts about the procedures followed for the presidential election in the four swing states that allegedly violated their own constitutional and legislative enactments (such as extending the deadline for submission of ballots beyond Election Day as specified by Congress, or waiving the verification of absentee ballots, or by sending out to all voters mail-in ballots… [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 7:38 am
Worse still, elites have doubled down on their politics of condescension, offering What’s the Matter with Kansas explanations pondering why working-class white workers voted against their own interest, without pausing to consider the elite neoliberal consensus that has alienated voters, providing them with little real choice at the ballot box. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 10:55 am
“For historians and voting rights advocates, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment is an opportunity to reflect on the triumphs – and shortcomings – of the suffrage movement as a whole, as well as the challenges to voting rights that persist to this day,” reads an AARP story titled “Why Women’s Right to Vote Matters 100 Years Later. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 10:55 am
“For historians and voting rights advocates, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment is an opportunity to reflect on the triumphs – and shortcomings – of the suffrage movement as a whole, as well as the challenges to voting rights that persist to this day,” reads an AARP story titled “Why Women’s Right to Vote Matters 100 Years Later. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 7:57 am
” The leading trade journal for political consultants, Campaigns & Elections, surely did not think its title was mere redundancy. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 11:55 am
The members of the Committee shall be elected by secret ballot from a list of persons nominated by States Parties, they shall be elected for a term of 4 years. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 5:21 am
In cases where prosecutions are being considered it is a matter for the DPP to decide whether to proceed or not. [read post]
10 Sep 2011, 12:59 am
The district court dismissed the Stephens County matter for lack of standing and the Apache Tribe matter as not ripe. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 11:20 am
Sometimes, in a representative democracy, the only remedy available when a state’s elected officials act unwisely is the ballot box. [read post]
23 Apr 2016, 10:08 pm
The three kinds of jurisdiction shall be personal, or personam, subject matter, or subjectam, and territorial, or locum, and all three must be proved in any trial.3.1 The principle political subdivision of the Union is the land, which may also be called a state, to distinguish it as a member of the Union, which has voting representation in the houses, or camera, of the legislature, or Diet. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 2:36 pm
I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this blog’s readers. [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 3:00 am
Investigators are exploring whether Gaetz paid for sex in violation of federal sex-trafficking laws and have been interested in his dealings with a 17-year-old girl, people familiar with the matter have said. [read post]
26 Oct 2014, 8:23 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law. [read post]
14 Mar 2010, 10:47 pm
On or about October 22, 2009, Wildearth Guardians filed an amended complaint alleging that EPA Administrator Jackson failed to comply with a mandatory duty to fully or partially approve or disapprove State Implementation Plan (SIP) submissions from the States of Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Utah within the time frame required by section 110(k)(2) of the Act and asking the court to enter judgment providing: (i) A declaration that EPA has violated and continues to violate the Act by… [read post]
