Carter-Baker Second Commission Meeting Today

Here is the agenda. See also this report.

"Senate committee OKs redistricting plan; GOP wants changes"

A.P. offers this report.

Pre-election Challenge to California Energy Initiative

So reports Dan Weintraub.

"Can Blogs Skirt Rules on Political Funding?"

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune offers this report.

"Hearing on 527 Bill Devolves Into Partisan Jabs"

Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required). See this A.P. report.

"$200,000 in penalties paid to settle Evans campaign case"

The Chicago Tribune offers this report, which begins: "The Federal Election Commission and campaign committees that supported the re-election of U.S. Rep. Lane Evans (D-Ill.) have reached a court settlement resulting in more than $200,000 in civil penalties over alleged campaign finance violations that began in 1998."

"Autonomy Versus Equality: Voting Rights Rediscovered"

Terry Smith has posted this working paper on SSRN. The abstract:

Using empirical and other evidence, this paper examines the success of Shaw v. Reno and the Supreme Court's wrongful districiting cases in reducing the role of race in politics. Observing that the Court has shown an inability to distinguish between race as such and politics, the author argues that rather than the reduce the role of race, more than a decade of the wrongful districting cases has simply reduced minority political autonomy under the stalking horse of color-blindness. The author argues that this autonomy ought not be so easily disposable becaause it is rooted in the Constitution and in the exercise of the franchise

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