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Politicians As Fiduciaries: Public Law V. Private Law When Altering The Date Of An Election, Steven J. Cleveland

Washington and Lee Law Review

In the 2019 decision Rucho v. Common Cause, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that federal challenges to partisan gerrymandering—a practice yielding election results that “reasonably seem unjust”—were non-justiciable. If partisan gerrymandering claims are not federally justiciable, and if that conclusion emboldens politicians, how else might incumbents manipulate election mechanics to preserve their political advantage? This Article explores one possibility that was briefly mentioned by the Rucho majority: the strategic advancement or delay of the date of a federal election. The strategic shift of election day is not simply a theoretical problem. Foreign politicians have strategically altered their election days …

The Support-Or-Advocacy Clauses, Richard Primus, Cameron O. Kistler

Articles

Two little known clauses of a Reconstruction-era civil rights statute are potentially powerful weapons for litigators seeking to protect the integrity of federal elections. For the clauses to achieve their potential, however, the courts will need to settle correctly a contested question of statutory interpretation: do the clauses create substantive rights, or do they merely create remedies for substantive rights specified elsewhere? The correct answer is that the clauses create substantive rights.

More Than The Vote: 16-Year-Old Voting And The Risks Of Legal Adulthood, Katharine B. Silbaugh

Faculty Scholarship

Advocates of 16-year-old voting have not grappled with two significant risks to adolescents of their agenda. First, a right to vote entails a corresponding accessibility to campaigns. Campaign speech is highly protected, and 16-year-old voting invites more unfettered access to minors by commercial, government, and political interests than current law tolerates. Opening 16-year-olds to campaign access undermines a considered legal system of managing the potential exploitation of adolescents, which sometimes includes direct regulation of entities and also gives parents authority in both law and culture to prohibit, manage, or supervise contacts with every kind of person interested in communicating with …

Putting The Constitution In Its Place, Edward L. Rubin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The fact that Donald Trump became President in 2016, despite losing the popular vote by a substantial margin, has brought renewed attention to the Electoral College system. In "Forging the American Nation," Shlomo Slonim provides an illuminating account of the process that led to this bizarre method of determining the outcome of presidential elections. But Professor Slonim's book also provides insights into the origins of many other structural features of our constitutional system that are of questionable value in a modern democracy, such as elections by state for the Senate, the Senate's exclusive exercise of legislative authority for treaties and …

Law Library Blog (October 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

Table of Contents

Undefeated - Women Still Don't Have Equal Rights (Or = Pay) Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

Undefeated - Women Still Don't have Equal Rights (Or = Pay) poster

History of Equal Rights Amendments for Women.

Undefeated - Jim Crow Laws Ended With The Civil Rights Act, Or Not? Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

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Undefeated - Bicycle Cut-Outs To Promote Voting Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

Undefeated - Bicycle Cut-outs To Promote Voting poster

Includes instructions for cut-out to include artists' names.

Undefeated - Disinformation Memes Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

Undefeated - Disinformation memes poster

The poster displays memes for encouraging seeking true voter information to and calls out Facebook for allowing fake news

Undefeated - Introduction Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

Undefeated - introduction poster

The right to vote is fundamental to a constitutional democracy. Any action to restrict protections to every citizen's right to vote is anathema to our democracy.

Undefeated - The Importance Of Bipartisanship Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

Undefeated - The Importance of Bipartisanship poster

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer." "Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

Undefeated - Vote Values Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

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Undefeated - 12 Continues, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - An Even More Ugly Example! Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

Undefeated - An Even More Ugly Example! poster

"This What Gerrymandering Looks Like" display of West Virginia redistricting.

Undefeated - Bicycle Cut-Outs To Promote Voting Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

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Undefeated - Election Issues Dial Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

Undefeated - Election Issues Dial poster

A dial that asks "Is the US currently representing your views on priorities as a world power? No? Then VOTE". Under the dial are issues such as immigrants, gun deaths, poverty, healthcare, gender gap, energy, education and largest economy.

Undefeated - Richard Chance Quote Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Richard Chance Quotation poster

"We're the only advanced democracy that deliberately discourages people from voting." Richard Chance / The Guardian

Undefeated - Gerrymandering / Jim Crow Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

Undefeated - Gerrymandering / Jim Crow poster

Definitions of redistricting, malapportionment and gerrymandering as means of voter suppression.

Undefeated - Elections Matter Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

Undefeated Exhibit Panels

Undefeated - Elections matter poster

The poster draws attention to the ways that Congressional districts have been mapped inconsistently.