Weather dictated the choice of a date for Election Day in America. The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November placed the election after the labor of the harvest had been completed and before the snows would block access to the polls. However, as New Jersey voters, such as [...]
On Tuesday, Alabama will vote on Amendment 4, which would delete segregationist language from the Alabama Constitution. Officially named Senate Bill 112, the proposed Amendment eliminates the poll tax and deletes the following provision: “Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race [...]
CR-CL’s Executive Editors for Online Content, Noah Kaplan and Matt Giffin sort through the issues that may point progressives away from voting to re-elect Barack Obama. Does being progressive mean voting for Democrats, or should progressives send a message to the president that we expect more?
Prior to hearing the news of Thursday’s tragedy in Minneapolis, CR-CL’s Executive Editors for Online Content, Noah Kaplan and Matt Giffin sat down to discuss why the United States hasn’t seen any renewed vigor in the gun control debate following the multiple mass shootings over the summer. Noah and Matt also talk about the wave of Voter ID laws sweeping the country.
This summer, the Supreme Court quickly dispensed with a campaign finance law from Montana in American Tradition Partnership, even though the state argued that there was, indeed, a history of corruption that gave the state a compelling interest in limiting independent campaign expenditures. This decision did not speak explicitly about judicial elections, but a more recent decision of the 9th Circuit has invoked Citizens United to weigh in on a different speech issue concerning judicial elections, making the relationship between money, speech, law, and politics deliciously convoluted.
Noah and Matt give their brief reactions to United States v. Alvarez, Miller v. Alabama, Arizona v. United States, and NFIB v. Sebelius. Noah and Matt take a look at Mitt Romney’s recently leaked closed-door comments. The discussion turns to the recent protests and violence in the Middle East over the YouTube video negatively depicting Islam.
Just four months ago, D.C. District Court Judge John Bates reaffirmed that §5 of the Voting Rights Act is constitutional. Though many advocates celebrated the thorough opinion—and called particular attention to its source, a Bush II appointee—all recognized that the Supreme Court would inevitably weigh in. No appeal has yet [...]
In October, the Nebraska State Democratic Party ran this advertisement. Seemingly innocuous, it closes with Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson registering his intent to oppose any attempts to weaken Social Security or Medicare. Senator Nelson’s appearance is what makes the advertisement exceptional. His decision to work directly with an outside group [...]
Arizona was back in the news last week with Governor Jan Brewer’s highly controversial move removing the chairwoman of the state’s “independent” redistricting committee. Seeing the process now corrupted by an ideologically aligned governor and legislature, what can the voters in Arizona to make the process more independent and more immune from partisan influence?
In a succinct and persuasive paper entitled “If I can shop and bank online, why can’t I vote online?“ David Jefferson explains why online voting is unrealistic. A computer scientist by trade—and chair of Verified Voting’s board of directors—Jefferson elaborates technical differences between purchasing textbooks on Amazon.com and registering your vote [...]
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