@ProfTolson Also did I miss something? Has someone out there ever argued that the 14th amendment's SDP doctrine could be used to support a right to treat people as property? 14 comes after 13, right? Forgive me if my math is off here
@TravisCrumLaw pulls together several strands to argue--persuasively--that we need to be thinking differently about federal government involvement in elections. Important and timely for so many reasons--including due to recent congressional action.
https://t.co/9h25ibhaHZ
My latest piece, Federalizing the Voting Rights Act, has been published in @VandLRev En Banc and is now on @SSRN! Its a Response Piece to @LisaManheimWA's terrific article, Presidential Control of Elections. Download it while its hot!
https://t.co/UUf5zGQkcr
@djsziff What would you say to a student who submitted a sentence like this?
It is also not entirely unworthy of observation, that in declaring what shall be the supreme law of the land, the constitution itself is first mentioned;
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@rcalo@lee_kovarsky When Congress can't/won't legislate, that pressure for reform doesn't go away; it shifts elsewhere. So the problem with increasingly creative EOs starts in the legislative branch -- and needs to get fixed there.
@ProfNickStephan@ProfNickStephan A student had a question today -- can any discrete voting reforms get through via budget reconciliation? I can't think of anything...?