Subject: news of the day 6/26/03
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 6/26/2003, 9:20 PM
To: election-law

"Shelley slows the recall count" Dan Weintraub has quite a scoop over on his blog, regarding the California secretary of state's apparent plan to delay the verification of signatures in the recal process, to push the process to the March date preferred by Democrats.
More Georgia v. Ashcroft news The Washington Post story is here. Law.com's article is here. This article notes that the attorney general is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to declare moot the state lawsuit over the governor's authority to withdraw the appeal in the Supreme Court.
The updated New York Times article is here. The updated A.P. story is here.
South Carolina Campaign Finance News "Samford Signs Campaign Finance Reform into Law." (Thanks to Ed Feigenbaum for the pointer.)
In the law reviews Frances Hill publishes Targeting Exemption for Charitable Efficiency: Designing a Nondiversion Constraint,, 56 SMU Law Review 675 (2003). Donald B. Tobin has published Anonymous Speech and Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, 37 Georgia Law Review 611 (2003). (Thanks to Steven Sholk for the pointers.)


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