Subject: news of the day 5/24/05
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 5/24/2005, 8:49 AM
To: election-law

Following the Washington Trial

See news reports in Seattle Times; Tacoma News Tribune; Reuters; New York Times. For those who want more up-to-the-minute coverage, the Seattle Times has this blog-like page.


(Limited) Coverage of Clingman Case

Other big news from the Supreme Court has crowded out Clingman. (This is par for the course. If I recall correctly, Vieth came out the same day as Lawrence v. Texas, and didn't Bandemer come out the same day as Bowers?)

Still, here is the limited coverage: First Amendment Center (Tony Mauro); A.P. (and here for local reaction to the ruling); Reuters; BNA (paid subscription required): Bob Bauer; Nate Persily.


Gerken and Persily Get Tenure

Heather Gerken has received tenure from Harvard and Nate Persily has received tenure from Penn. Well deserved congratulations to my friends.

From the Told You So Department....

On the Election Law Blog (back on blogspot) on May 15, 2003 I posted Changing the filibuster rules? Rational Republicans will say "no". A snippet:

For these reasons, this particular "nuclear" option seems very unlikely to me. In fact, I believe threats to use it are an attempt to force the Democrats to use their filibuster power less frequently. The threat to use the strategy is very rational, even if using the strategy is itself irrational. 
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