| Subject: news of the day 6/22/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 6/22/2004, 7:14 AM |
| To: election-law |
This
New York Sun article
discusses Judge Guido Calabresi's controversial remarks to the American
Constitution Society's convention. It has been getting a lot of play in
the blogosphere, including this
post by Eugene Volokh questioning whether the judge broke an
ethical canon and whether he has a First Amendment defense under Republican
Party of Minnesota v. White.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman offers this
Miami Herald oped.
Here is a snippet: "Currently, the Census Bureau counts prison inmates
as residents of the congressional and state legislative districts in
which they are incarcerated. This affects population data and, by
extension, legislative redistricting. Because Florida's prisons are
disproportionately located in rural Republican areas, the inmate
population increases the voting power of Republicans at the expense of
Democrats."
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