| Subject: Electionlawblog news and commentary 11/23/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/23/2005, 8:22 AM |
| To: election-law |
ACSBlog has this
post quoting a New York Post
article that I have been unable to access. According to ACSBlog,
the article quotes Justice Scalia as follows: "The election was dragged
into the courts by the Gore people. We did not go looking for trouble."
It further quotes him as saying: "The issue was whether Florida's
Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court [would decide the
election.] What did you expect us to do? Turn the case down because it
wasn't important enough?"
Spencer Overton writes
of the need to address certain assumptions about race, politics, and
Katrina, including the following assumption: "Louisiana is a 'swing'
state, and because many evacuees from New Orleans were African
American, Republicans have incentives to insure that those evacuated
permanently settle in other states and do not return to Louisiana." He
concludes with the question: "Can we have a real conversation about
Katrina, race, and politics that is more than political sound bites?"
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers this
report, which begins: "Rep. David Scott of Atlanta, backed by
Democrats on the House Government Oversight Committee, is calling for a
congressional hearing into whether the U.S. Department of Justice
improperly approved Georgia's voter ID law." Another snippet:
"Democrats last week acknowledged it was unlikely the Republican
chairman of the committee would agree to investigate the Republican-run
Justice Department." Meanwhile, Cecil Staton writes this
oped. A snippet: "As the legislator who originally introduced and
shepherded the photo ID legislation through the Senate, I am deeply
offended that anyone would suggest or imply that the motivation for
this law was racism. What we originally proposed in Senate Bill 84,
which was rolled into House Bill 244, was to eliminate as much voter
fraud as possible, so that the votes of all Georgians are protected."
Roy Saltman has this
letter to the editor of the Washington Post regarding
Georgia's voter i.d. law.
The Kansas City Star offers this
report, which begins: "The federal government sued the state of
Missouri on Tuesday, alleging it does not maintain voter registration
lists properly and has failed to purge ineligible voters from the
rolls."
The New York Times offers this
report, which begins: " Moving to defend the Supreme Court nominee
Samuel A. Alito Jr. against attacks on his stance on civil rights, the
White House said Tuesday that he had assured senators last week of his
commitment to the principle of one person one vote. 'Judge Alito
believes and has told senators that he believes 'one man one vote' is
bedrock principle,' Steve Schmidt, a White House spokesman, said
Tuesday."
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