| Subject: news of the day 2/7/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 2/7/2005, 7:27 AM |
| To: election-law |
A.P. offers N.Y.
State Senate Race Hangs on Court Decisions." Thanks to Doug Greene
for the pointer.
See her Rules of
the Game column in today's National Journal.
Georgia Remap Ahead? GOP Members Have Proposal
New Bill on Continuity Proposed, which begins: "Acknowledging strong philosophical opposition to his previous attempt to fix Congress’ constitutional danger if a catastrophe were to strike at the Capitol, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) plans to introduce a different proposal that would allow every district continuity in representation without employing temporary lawmakers."
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George Skelton offers this
column in the Los Angeles Times. More Shelly news here.
The New York Times offers this
front-page report. In my view, this movement is an entirely
appropriate response to the Supreme Court's Vieth
case. Because there is no social consensus over how best to control
partisan manipulation of the redistricting process, the Supreme Court
was right in Vieth not to impose a one-size-fits-all
constitutional solution. The matter should be fought out in the
political processes in the states and Congress, as is now occurring.
This is a point I make in much greater detail in my recent Election
Law Journal article
on Vieth.
Following up on this post
you can find the electoral law symposium introduction here
and Bryan Mercurio's contribution here.
Details here
on the Feburary 9 hearing. Thanks to Doug Chapin for the link.
See this
editorial in the Charlotte Observer. See also this
article on the aftermath of an other Election Day problem in that
state.
See this
San Diego Union-Tribune article.
The issue of course will have most effect in San Diego, but there would
be a beneficial externality to such an appeal as well: especially if
the case makes it to the California Supreme Court, it would help
clarify the extent to which Bush v. Gore mandates equal
treatment of classes of voters casting votes in a race.
You can find stories on potential replacements for Kevin Shelley here
and here.
I'll be writing my own thoughts on how to replace California's
secretary of state soon.
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