| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 12/22/10 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 12/21/2010, 9:15 PM |
| To: Election Law |
Reply-to: "rick.hasen@lls.edu" |
AP offers this
report.
Roll Call offers this report.
Roll Call:
"Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito repudiated their
confirmation testimony and provided the key votes to permit
corporations and unions to secretly pay for political
advertising -- effectively undermining the basic democratic
principle of the power of one person/one vote," Specter said.
Maryland legislator Jon Cardin has written this
oped.
John Fund's provocative
new column, raising the old debate about foundation
funding for campaign finance reform.
You can read the 53-page opinion in this challenge to section 5
of the Voting Rights Act here.
The Constitutional Accountability Center offers District
Court Issues Opinion Dismissing Private Parties' Challenge to
the Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.
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