Response Filed with Justice Kagan in Hunter Litigation

Moritz has the details.

Read the Fifth Circuit Brief in the Irving Texas Citizen Voting Case

>Here.

"The Most Likely Redistricting Victims"

The Fix reports.

"Social-welfare funds aren't political piggy banks"

The LA Times on 501(c)(4)s used as political vehicles.

"Sore Loser Laws and Democratic Contestation"

Michael Kang has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Georgetown L.J.). Here is the abstract:

Courts have spent a decade striking down party reforms aimed at reducing the ideological polarization of the two major political parties, but this Article proposes a more promising and novel approach from the supply side of politics - the repeal of sore loser laws. The Article is the first to analyze sore loser laws, a powerful but virtually unnoticed set of laws in almost every state that restrict losing candidates from a party primary from running in the subsequent general election as a minor party nominee or independent candidate. The Article argues that sore loser laws not only entrench the major parties against outside challenges, but even more importantly, they disrupt the fluid process of conflict and compromise within the major parties by removing the leverage of moderate dissenters to threaten splitting the party coalition in the general election through a sore loser candidacy. In so doing, the Article critically shifts the normative focus, from the usual preoccupation with interparty competition, to intraparty competition. The Article analyzes the value of democratic contestation produced by the political rivalry within the fundamental institutions of American democracy, its major political parties.

"FEC not to blame for election law"

FEC Commissioner Petersen has written this oped in The Hill. In light of my own criticisms of the FEC, I would have liked to see the Commissioner defend his going much farther than the Supreme Court or Congress in reading disclosure requirements for electioneering communications. In my view this is the most indefensible stance of these Commissioners.

"Voter Guides Go Digital...Sometimes"

That's the lead story in this week's Electionline Weekly.

"House Republicans Push to Axe EAC In Hearing But Democrats Push Back"

BNA reports.