More Sad News from the Ninth Circuit: Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall Has Died

The announcement is here.

"Supreme Court Ethics: Of Geese and Ganders"

Jason Mazzone blogs at Balkinization.

California Redistricting Commission Seeks to Hire Voting Rights Act Counsel

See here.

A Corporation is Not a Person, At Least Not Today

Interesting statutory interpretation discussion in today's AT&T case issued by the Supreme Court. One absence in the discussion written by the Chief Justice: no mention of legislative history.

DrawCongress.org

Nate Persily sent the following announcement to the election law listserv via email (reprinted with permission):

The website DrawCongress.org is now live. On this website you will see congressional redistricting plans drawn by students in my Redistricting and Gerrymandering Course at Columbia. Thus far, we have plans up for Virginia, New Jersey, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maryland, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Arkansas. Each posted plan includes a statewide map, individual district maps, plan statistics and reports, and a block equivalency file that can be downloaded and placed into any mapping program. In the coming months students at Harvard and Yale will also be placing maps up on the site and we invite others to do so as well. Anyone interested in doing so should contact me at npersi-at-law.columbia.edu.

The Connection Between The Wisconsin Anti-Union Measures and Voter ID

The Green Bay Gazette says it is all about hurting Democrats. Of course, this all comes at an interesting time, when CU frees both corporations and labor unions to engage in unlimited independent spending...

Justice Scalia Again Condemns "Judicial Minimalism" and (What He Says is) Stealth Overruling

Adam Liptak and Orin Kerr highlight Justice Scalia's strong rhetoric in Michigan v. Bryant. (I discuss the relationship of stealth overruling to other ways Justices move the law in this draft.)

"Clean Elections case: The stakes are high for democracy"

Anthony Tsontakis has written this opinion piece for the Arizona Capitol Times.

"Secretary of State Wants Online Voter Registration"

News from Ohio.

Watch the Jim Bopp Keynote at the USF CU Conference

Here.

Toner Jumps to Wiley Rein

See the press release.

"Even liberal law professors...."

My least favorite way to be quoted.