| Subject: news of the day 4/4/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 4/4/2005, 8:35 AM |
| To: election-law |
The Los Angeles Times offers this
front-page report.
AP offers this
report,
which begins: "U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, whose name has become
synonymous with campaign finance reform, is raising both his profile
and thousands of dollars with his new leadership political action
committee."
The Baltimore Sun offers this
report,
with the subhead: " Developer leads donors in use of related entities
to spread political funds; Bill to close loophole languishes." See also
Other
states act to prohibit, limit corporate contributions.
Included in today's Supreme Court order list is a denial of cert. in Hall v. Virginia (cert petition here), which raised the following question: "Whether minority plaintiffs challenging electoral districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973(b), fail to state a vote dilution claim where they allege that members of their minority group have the ability to 'elect representatives of their own choice' in a single-member district, but do not allege that their minority group constitutes an arithmetical majority of the population in that district."
The Court failed to issue an opinion in the party primary case, Clingman v. Beaver. The next possible date for an opinion is April 19.Rick
Hasen
William
H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law
Loyola
Law School
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