New Harvard Law Review
Student Comment on Majority-Minority Districts In Volume 116, Number
7 (May 2003) of the Harvard Law Review, the same issue containing
Dan Lowenstein's very interesting review of Ackerman and Ayres Voting
with Dollars, readers will find a student note, The Future of Majority-Minority
Districts in Light of Declining Racially Polarized Voting, 116 Harvard
Law Review 2208 (2003). The article focuses on the possibility of using "coalitional
districts" to remedy Voting Rights Act violations.
New study on private financing of party conventions The Campaign Finance
Institute has issued a new study
on private financing of party conventions. Here is an excerpt from the accompanying
press release:
A new CFI study documents
that major party political conventions have become substantially privately
financed since 1992 via overwhelmingly corporate contributions to "host committees"
and "municipal funds." What was originally a "very narrow exception" to
the financing of conventions by a federal public grant (and city and state
public funds) is now the primary vehicle for subsidizing convention business.
Furthermore, federal regulations permitting unlimited private contributions
are based on the outdated assumption that such donations are "undertaken
chiefly" to promote the host city economy....
As the ..table compiled by CFI from diverse campaign finance disclosure sources
details, exploding private contributions have provided the dynamic behind
the tripling in private and public support of major party conventions since
1992. Private donations -- only 38% of the federal public grant to support
the two conventions in 1992 -- have risen to 208% in 2000 and a projected
297% in 2004.
"Pelosi, Daschle make their recommendations for federal Election Assistance
Commission" The Hill offers this report.
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Rick Hasen
Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow
Loyola Law School
919 South Albany Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
(213)736-1466 - voice
(213)380-3769 - fax
rick.hasen@lls.edu
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