Subject: more news |
From: Rick Hasen |
Date: 6/26/2006, 1:52 PM |
To: election-law |
Roll Call offers Texas Decision Due This Week; Parties Brace for Fallout and Voting Fraud Bill Gets Cool Reception at Panel. (paid subscription required) (On the second matter, see also this post by Dan Tokaji.)
AP offers DeLay Testifies He Lives in Va., part of the dispute over whether DeLay is ineligible to appear on the Texas ballot in November.
AP offers Congress
Urged to Renew Voting Rights Act. At a press conference today,
President Bush made the following
remarks on VRA renewal:
THE PRESIDENT: I am working very carefully with members of Congress to implement that which I said when I signed the proclamation for Rosa Parks, is I want this Voting Rights Act extended. And so we're working with members of the United States Congress to see if we can't get it done.
Fourth Circuit oral argument audio in the Miss. primary case is here.
Bloomberg offers this report on the Vermont campaign finance decision. Blog commentary by Allison Hayward, Bob Bauer, and the Campaign Legal Center. More to come.-- Rick Hasen William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law Loyola Law School 919 Albany Street Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211 (213)736-1466 - voice (213)380-3769 - fax rick.hasen@lls.edu http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html http://electionlawblog.org