| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 10/4/10 |
| From: DANIEL TOKAJI |
| Date: 10/4/2010, 7:12 AM |
| To: Election Law |
The current issue has two articles likely to be of particular interest to legislation and election law scholars: Aaron-Andrew Bruhl's Burying the "Continuing Body" Theory of the Senate and Michael LeRoy's Do Partisan Elections of Judges Produce Unequal Justice When Courts Review Employment Arbitrations?.
Politico reports here on the shift in political spending by the insurance industry, health care professionals, and drugmakers.
The Miami Herald has this story.
The WaPo reports here.
Today is the deadline for registering to vote in many states. Brian Siebel of the Fair Elections Legal Network has this comment on HuffPost on the deadlines for new registrants and those who've moved.
Michael McDonald has created this webpage, which assesses the likely impact of this year's elections on congressional redistricting on a state-by-state basis I'm sure it will quickly become a vital resource, just as his early voting statistics did in 2008.
The WaPo reports here.
The NYT has this piece on campaign spending through tax-exempt nonprofits . . . and how hard it is to follow the money to its source.
Thomas Friedman thinks we need one.
The IndyStar has this comment on an admission by the Republican candidate for Secretary of State that has Democrats crying "voter fraud" -- namely, that he continued to serve on his town council after moving out of the district he represented.
From The New Republic ($) and Carolina Journal.