And in other election law news today.... The Denver Post
offers "Colorado
Justices Set to Consdier GOP's remap." (Thanks to J.J. Gass for the
link.) The Ninth Circuit, in Idaho
Coalition United for Bears v. Cenarussa,
struck down an Idaho law that required collecting signatures to place a
ballot measure on the ballot from a certain number of counties with
unequal populations: "Because Idaho's counties vary widely in
population, this geographic distribution requirement favors residents
of sparsely populated areas over residents of more densely populated
areas in their respective efforts to participate in the process of
qualifying initiatives for the ballot. The district court held that
this unequal treatment violates the Equal Protection Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment." (Link via How Appealing). I'll be
traveling tomorrow, so it is likely I'll do little blogging.
Early post-BCRA argument reports Washington
Post; A.P.;
New
York Times; Los
Angeles Times; Reuters;
NPR
(audio); UPI;
Knight-Ridder;
BBC.
See also Tom Mann's Washington
Post internet chat.
By the way, if you read my afternoon argument report, you will note I
make the statement that no one mentioned the Beaumont case at
oral argument today. Two other list members who attended the argument
told me that this is incorrect; in fact Seth Waxman mentioned the case.
Rick