The court also turned away an appeal from Adnan Syed, whose case was the subject of the first season of the podcast “Serial.”The Supreme Court on Monday returned a challenge to Alaska’s limits on campaign contributions to a lower court, suggesting that the limits were too low.Source: Supreme Court Acts in Campaign Finance and Libel Cases...
The U.S. Supreme Court has docketed Colorado Department of State v Baca, one of the two pending lawsuits over whether presidential electors are free to vote for anyone who meets the constitutional qualifications. It is case 19-518. The cert petition was filed by the state last week.Source: U.S. Supreme Court Dockets the Colorado “Faithless Electors” Case...
On July 11, 2019, the Washington State Supreme Court upheld Seattle’s voucher-system of public funding of candidates for city council. Elster v City of Seattle, 96660-5. Here is the opinion, which is short.Source: Opponents of Seattle’s Voucher System of Public Funding of Campaigns Turn to U.S. Supreme Court...
(Reuters) - The Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a libertarian nonprofit founded by Charles and David Koch, filed a petition this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to review a 2018 ruling by the 9th U.S.Source: Koch-founded charity asks for Supreme Court help to keep donor list secret...
Alexandria, VA – The largest state in the country has the nation’s lowest limits on donations to statewide candidates. In an amicus brief filed yesterday, the Institute for Free Speech asked the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging those limits as unconstitutional under the First Amendment.Source: Amicus Brief: Supreme Court Should Hear Alaska Contribution Limits Case...
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Rucho v. Common Causepresents competing judicial conceptions of American voters. Justice Kagan’s dissent encourages courts to employ an “evidence-based, data-based, statistics-based” approach when considering political gerrymandering claims.Source: Michael Morley: Rucho, Legal Fictions, and the Judicial Models of Voters...
Ken Klukowski is Of Counsel at First Liberty Institute, Senior Legal Analyst for Breitbart News and Senior Fellow at the American Civil Rights Union.Source: Gerrymandering symposium: Janus-like judicial restraint in political gerrymanders and the census...
Justin Riemer is Chief Counsel of the Republican National Committee, which filed an amicus brief in support of the state in Rucho v. Common Cause. The Supreme Court’s decision in Rucho v. Common Cause is a triumph of judicial prudence.Source: Gerrymandering symposium: Finally finality from the Supreme Court on partisan gerrymandering...
The Supreme Court issued two opinions with direct implications for redistricting this morning, on the last day of the October 2018 Term. In a consolidated opinion for Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v.Source: TheRepLawyer Blog...
