Election Law

1272 ABA Journal Election Law articles.

Supreme Court Turns Down Election Disclosure Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused an appeal seeking to overturn federal disclosure requirements for groups that spend money independently of political candidates. The case is “a sequel to last January’s Citizens United decision” that found corporations have a First Amendment right to expressly support political candidates, SCOTUSblog reports. The…

Nov 1, 2010 3:53 PM CDT

Take Down Election-Eve Legal Ethics Censure and Replace It with My Order, Fed’l Judge Tells Agency

A judicial candidate censured this week by a legal ethics agency in Nevada over her criticism of her opponent has won an emergency restraining order from chief federal judge of the local U.S. District Court. It not only requires that the censure be taken down from a public website maintained…

Oct 29, 2010 6:46 PM CDT

Election Round-Up: Fed’l Judge Smacks Down Conn.‘s Potentional Ban of WWE Garb at Polls

For Connecticut voters who want to wear a Stone Cold Steve Austin costume to the polls on Tuesday, in a nod to Halloween and the retired professional wrestling star, the Christian Science Monitor has good news: They will apparently be allowed to do so, under a federal judge’s ruling that…

Oct 28, 2010 9:00 AM CDT

A Cautionary Tale of Corporate Political Spending Emerges in Minnesota

Long regarded as a leader in campaign finance reform, Minnesota until this year had some of the nation’s toughest laws on political spending by corporations. With the federal government and many other states, Minnesota for decades tried to tame corporate political participation through various restrictions on expenditures. Minnesota legislators considered…

Oct 22, 2010 8:48 PM CDT

Study: Felon Voting Rights Expanded in 23 states Since 1997

According to a new study by the Washington, D.C.-based Sentencing Project, 23 states have given increased voting rights to convicted felons in the past 13 years and added 800,000 former felons to voter rolls. Nine states have either repealed or amended mandates that convicted felons be permanently disenfranchised; eight have…

Oct 19, 2010 10:09 PM CDT

Supreme Court Turns Down Prisoner Voting Rights Case

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by inmates who claim a ban on voting violates the Voting Rights Act. The decision lets stand a ruling by the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld a voting ban in Massachusetts, according to Bloomberg, the Associated…

Oct 18, 2010 3:07 PM CDT

Ex-Fla. Gov. Accuses Dem Hopeful of Trademark Infringement

Lawyers for former Republican Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have accused Democratic state senate hopeful Deborah Gianoulis of trademark infringement. At issue is the Democratic candidate’s use of a red Deb! logo with white lettering, which lawyers for Bush contend is too similar to the ex-governor’s trademarked Jeb! logo. Bush’s lawyers…

Oct 15, 2010 8:39 PM CDT

Repeal the 17th Amendment? Some Candidates Back the Idea

What is the 17th Amendment, and why are some candidates backing its repeal? “Quick, what’s the 17th Amendment?” Cato Institute vice president Gene Healy wrote in a column earlier this year for the Washington Examiner. “Good on you if you didn’t need a lifeline: It’s the one that mandated direct…

Oct 13, 2010 10:30 AM CDT

In Op-Ed, Law Prof Lawrence Lessig Backs ‘Grubstake’ Campaign Finance Bill

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig says a bill that promotes publicly funded election campaigns could help restore public trust in government. In a Washington Post column, Lessig writes that laws limiting campaign contributions haven’t worked as intended, leading to cynicism and the belief that “money buys results in Congress.” He’s…

Oct 1, 2010 2:27 PM CDT

Judge Orders DNA Tests for City Officials in Ballot Fraud Case Over Alternative Party Primary

A state-court judge has ordered officials in Troy, N.Y., to take DNA tests to help prosecutors determine who may or may not be responsible for alleged absentee ballot fraud in an alternative party primary election a year ago. Court records concerning a search-warrant request claim that individuals affiliated with the…

Sep 14, 2010 5:02 PM CDT

O’Connor Supports Iowa Justices Targeted for Ouster Over Gay-Marriage Ruling

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Wednesday supported judicial merit selection and three Iowa justices up for retention in November. Speaking at a forum in Des Moines, O’Connor urged Iowa voters to retain the three justices who have been targeted for a ruling last year striking down the…

Sep 9, 2010 2:10 PM CDT

Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Launch Campaign to Oust Iowa Judges

Opponents of same-sex marriage have launched a campaign to unseat the three Iowa Supreme Court justices whose votes helped legalize it who are up for retention in the Nov. 7 election. The campaign is spearheaded by Bob Vander Plaats, a conservative activist who lost the Republican nomination for governor in…

Aug 27, 2010 5:22 PM CDT

Suit Seeks to Block Appointment of Kansas Supreme Court Judge

The supremely successful election-law gadfly, provocateur and mover-and-shaker James Bopp Jr. is at it again, already. The earth is still trembling from the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year, in a case Bopp developed, that the First Amendment protects unlimited corporate spending on independent campaign advertising, in Citizens United v.…

Aug 27, 2010 3:26 PM CDT

Citizens United Aftermath: Target Donation Supports ‘Fiery Conservative’

Target has donated $150,000 to a group supporting a controversial GOP candidate for Minnesota governor, taking advantage of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling finding corporations have a First Amendment right to support political candidates. The ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission had struck down restrictions on corporate spending…

Jul 28, 2010 10:29 AM CDT

Bloggers Are Asked to Stop Disparaging Polling Company’s Research

The operators of two popular blogs have received cease-and-desist letters from lawyers for a polling company whose data they have questioned. The letters were sent to the politcal blog Daily Kos and to FiveThirtyEight, a blog that analyzes polling data, on behalf of Reseach 2000, a widely used polling company,…

Jul 1, 2010 6:34 PM CDT

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Election Law

Supreme Court Turns Down Election Disclosure Appeal

Take Down Election-Eve Legal Ethics Censure and Replace It with My Order, Fed’l Judge Tells Agency

Election Round-Up: Fed’l Judge Smacks Down Conn.‘s Potentional Ban of WWE Garb at Polls

A Cautionary Tale of Corporate Political Spending Emerges in Minnesota

Study: Felon Voting Rights Expanded in 23 states Since 1997

Supreme Court Turns Down Prisoner Voting Rights Case

Ex-Fla. Gov. Accuses Dem Hopeful of Trademark Infringement

Repeal the 17th Amendment? Some Candidates Back the Idea

In Op-Ed, Law Prof Lawrence Lessig Backs ‘Grubstake’ Campaign Finance Bill

Judge Orders DNA Tests for City Officials in Ballot Fraud Case Over Alternative Party Primary

O’Connor Supports Iowa Justices Targeted for Ouster Over Gay-Marriage Ruling

Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Launch Campaign to Oust Iowa Judges

Suit Seeks to Block Appointment of Kansas Supreme Court Judge

Citizens United Aftermath: Target Donation Supports ‘Fiery Conservative’

Bloggers Are Asked to Stop Disparaging Polling Company’s Research

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