On July 2, two Democrats running in the New Jersey July 7 primary for U.S. House filed a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit attacks the state law that restricts political slogans that candidates can place next to their names on primary ballots. Mazo v Way, 2:20cv-8174. Here is the Complaint.Source: Federal Lawsuit Filed Over New Jersey Limits to Political Slogans on...
On Monday, in a fractured set of opinions, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of an association of political consultants challenging the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. That statute bans robocalls to cellphones.Source: Opinion analysis : Fractured court rules in favor of political consultants in First Amendment challenge to federal robocall law but keeps robocall ban in place...
A 1991 federal statute generally banned robocalls to cell phones (among other things), but a 2015 amendment exempted calls "made solely to collect a debt owed to or guaranteed by the United States." In today's Barr v. Am.Source: S. Ct. Strikes Down Content-Based Exception from Robocall Ban,...
The party is starting to think bigger than just beating Trump. Donald Trump’s collapsing poll numbers have Democrats thinking bigger than just winning the White House and seizing the Senate — they’re imagining a rout that extends all the way down the ballot.Source: Democrats smell a rout — and the chance to control redistricting in 2021...
The California legislature has placed a proposed constitutional amendment on the November 2020 ballot. Proposition 18 will ask voters if the voting age should be reduced to 17, if the voter would be age 18 by the general election for the same offices.Source: Californians Will Vote on Whether To Let 17-Year-Olds Vote in Primaries If Such Voters Will be 18...
This morning the Supreme Court unanimously rejected two challenges to the constitutionality of so-called “faithless elector” laws, which penalize or remove presidential electors who fail to vote for the candidate they have pledged to support.Source: Opinion analysis: Court upholds “faithless elector” laws...
Election night is at the center of the opening chapter in The Making of the President 1960, the most influential campaign book ever written. In it, Theodore White conveys the dramatic sweep of a close election as TV reports follow the time zones from Connecticut (safe for John F.Source: The Media Can’t Treat Election Night 2020 Like Years Past...
Joe Biden's campaign is assembling hundreds of lawyers nationwide to monitor potential voting issues as part of its extensive voter protection efforts heading into the general election.Source: Biden campaign readying hundreds of lawyers in expansive vote protection effort...
Joshua A. Douglas is a professor at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law who specializes in election law, voting rights, and constitutional law. He is the author of "Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting." Follow him @JoshuaADouglas.Source: We don't have to have chaos when America votes this...
