| Subject: news of the day 5/23/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 5/23/2005, 7:57 AM |
| To: election-law |
So far, the opinion has not been posted electronically yet.
Meanwhile, Tom Goldstein notes
that on today's Order List, "ustice Breyer noted his dissent from the
denial of cert. in No. 04-872, Kucera v. Bradbury, which involved
Oregon's process for reviewing nominating petitions." The Justice
offered no opinion related to this note.
The Seattle Times offers this
preview of the gubernatorial election contest trial beginning
today. See also this
preview in the Tacoma News Tribune and this
NY Times report.
Roll Call offers this
report
(paid subscription required). It includes this information: "Former EAC
Chairman DeForest Soaries, one of the first four members of the
Election Assistance Commission and its first chairman, resigned last
month. The Republican appointee cited personal reasons for his
departure but also criticized Congress and the administration for not
taking enough interest in election reform and underfunding the agency.
A successor to Soaries has not been named. The House GOP leadership is
supposed to submit names to the president, who in turn nominates an
appointee to be confirmed by the Senate."
New York's Newsday offers this
report,
which begins: "Some labor leaders have threatened to stop donating to
local politicians until the City Council amends a new regulation
curbing union campaign contributions, according to officials and
sources."
SCOTUSBlog reports
a 6-3 vote upholding the Oklahoma law, rejecting the position of the
Libertarian Party that it had a right, over the state's objection, to
invite members of other political parties to vote in its primary. More
once I've seen the opinion.
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