| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 2/23/11 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 2/23/2011, 8:44 AM |
| To: Election Law |
Reply-to: "rick.hasen@lls.edu" |
Yesterday I noted
that there was no ruling on the cert. petition in an interesting
judicial speech case, Bauer
v. Shepard, which presumably will be put over to the next
(or a future) conference. One possibility is that we might be
waiting a while to hear about whether or not the Court will take
this case. There was another judicial speech case, Siefert
v. Alexander, initially on the calendar for February 18.
But the Court has now asked for a response to the cert.
petition, and extended the time for filing the response until
April 1. So the Court might be considering these together, and
it might be mid-April before we know whether the Court will take
Bauer and Siefert. I continue to think it is pretty likely the
Court will take Bauer. And I flagged
Siefert as a case that could well interest the Court last
June.
HvS at NRO.
The Washington Post offers this
report.
Politico offers Senate
Dems Launch SuperPAC. The Washington Post offers Crossroads
GPS launches radio ads in 22 House districts.
See here.
The article is also interesting for noting the financial cost on
a small municality of hiring national legal talent in such an
appeal.
Check out this
Politico piece on Chamber Watch, etc. in the wake of CU.
See this
press release linking to this
brief.
See this
press release.
See this
press release from Justice at Stake and the North Carolina
Center for Voter Education.
The Sunlight Foundation is trying a
public markup approach.
Wow.
The LA Times offers this
editorial.
It is posted here
[updated link].