| Subject: Electionlawblog news and commentary 9/21/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 9/21/2005, 8:46 AM |
| To: election-law |
Eliza Newlin Carney offers this "Rules of the Game"
column at National Journal.
Roll Call offers this
editorial (paid subscription required), which begins: "It no longer
inspires much news coverage — or, apparently, voter outrage — but
Members of Congress continue to break self-imposed term-limit pledges
with impunity. Just because it continues to happen, however, doesn’t
make it right."
Bob Bauer posts here
on the Club for Growth complaint at the FEC, noting that ethical and
practical concerns (his client filed the complaint) limit what he can
say.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers this
report. Thanks to Ed Packard for the link.
The Christian Science Monitor offers this report on the "backlash" to Carter-Baker. The LA Times gives a somewhat positive endorsement to the proposals. See also more blogospheric reaction: Andrew Gumbel, Dan Tokaji (and his roundup); the Lonely Centrist; Bob Bauer; Brad Blog; Spencer Overton (and here).
I'll have more to say on Carter-Baker soon.
Get your "Shut Up and Vote" mechandise here. Makes a great holiday
gift for that election law scholar in your life.
You can find the details here. FEC
Commissioner Ellen Weintraub's testimony is here.
Mike Krempasky's testimony is here.
I'll add links to other testimony as I receive them.
Paul Gronke has three interesting posts on Carter-Baker, including
one on the Brennan Center question raised in relationto race and the
use of absentee ballots. See here,
here,
and here.
I have uploaded here
a federal district court decision rejecting Lenora Fulani's case
against the DNC for conspiring to keep Ralph Nader off the presidential
ballot in NY. The opinion begins: "This is yet another in a long line
of cases in which Plaintiff Lenora Fulani has misused the courts in an
attempt to pursue a political agenda which she is not able to
accomplish at the ballot box. For the reasons set out below, this
misguided effort also fails." This senteced is followed by a footnote
noting at least 35 "published cases of this ilk."
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