Supreme Court Acts in Campaign Finance and Libel Cases

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.

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U.S. Supreme Court Dockets the Colorado “Faithless Electors” Case

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.

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Opponents of Seattle’s Voucher System of Public Funding of Campaigns Turn to U.S. Supreme Court

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.

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Koch-founded charity asks for Supreme Court help to keep donor list secret

(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.

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Amicus Brief: Supreme Court Should Hear Alaska Contribution Limits Case

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.

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Michael Morley: Rucho, Legal Fictions, and the Judicial Models of Voters

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

Gerrymandering symposium: Finally finality from the Supreme Court on partisan gerrymandering

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.

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Gerrymandering symposium: Janus-like judicial restraint in political gerrymanders and the census

Ken Klukowski is Of Counsel at First Liberty Institute, Senior Legal Analyst for Breitbart News and Senior Fellow at the American Civil Rights Union.

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TheRepLawyer Blog

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.

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Partisan gerrymandering is upheld by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the partisan gerrymandering that has allowed Republicans to control power in several closely divided states. A majority ruled that elected lawmakers, not judges, have right to draw the election maps for their states.

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U.S. Supreme Court Gerrymander Opinions Likely on June 21 or June 24

The U.S.. Supreme Court opinions on partisan gerrymandering will probably be released either Friday June 21, or Monday June 24.  No election law cases were issued on June 20.

Source: U.S. Supreme Court Gerrymander Opinions Likely on June 21 or June 24

Supreme Court blocks gerrymandering rulings in Michigan and Ohio

The Supreme Court on Friday set aside two lower court rulings tossing out congressional maps in Michigan and Ohio, putting the process of redrawing district lines on hold while it prepares to rule on whether or not partisan gerrymandering is constitutional.

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Neil Gorsuch’s Bad-Faith Ploy to Save Partisan Gerrymandering and Doom American Democracy

Most Americans agree that partisan gerrymandering is a scourge to democracy. But is it one that citizens can fix themselves? That’s the theory floated by Justice Neil Gorsuch during oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuesday over two major gerrymandering cases.

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Proportionality is Not the Baseline In Modern Partisan Gerrymandering Cases

At oral arguments in yesterday’s partisan gerrymandering cases, several Justices raised questions about whether partisan-gerrymandering challenges implicitly appeal in one way or another to a baseline of proportional representation (PR).

Source: Proportionality is Not the Baseline In Modern Partisan Gerrymandering Cases

U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in appeal of Virginia racial gerrymandering case

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a redistricting case that could help determine the balance of power in Virginia’s legislature for years to come.

Source: U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in appeal of Virginia racial gerrymandering case

Gov. Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger weigh in on Maryland redistricting case before U.S. Supreme Court

Gov. Larry Hogan has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to back up the claims of Maryland residents who argue the state’s 6th Congressional District was unconstitutionally gerrymandered.

Source: Gov. Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger weigh in on Maryland redistricting case before U.S. Supreme Court

Long legal battles over Utah election law end as U.S. Supreme Court refuses to accept GOP appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court ended Monday five years of legal battles by the Utah Republican Party to quash a 2014 election law that allows candidates to qualify for the ballot by collecting signatures and/or through the caucus-convention system.

Source: Long legal battles over Utah election law end as U.S. Supreme Court refuses to accept GOP appeal

Opinion: Time for Democrats to abandon myth about Citizens United

My fellow Democratic politicians like to campaign on overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations to spend unlimited sums advocating for candidates.

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US Supreme Court Won't Take Challenge To Montana Campaign Finance Law

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