According to today’s Wall Street Journal, this fall, voters in New York City may have another opportunity to vote for the elimination of partisan primary elections, a cause long championed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. An earlier attempt in 2003 was … read more
Last Saturday, the City of Irving, Texas held its first city council elections using a new form of governance that was mandated by a federal court in 2009. The outcome of that election is dripping with irony. Here’s why. Readers … read more
During the next few days, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue its opinion in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, a challenge to the constitutionality of the recently reauthorized Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Section … read more
Right on cue, the NY Times enters stage left to deliver a grim dirge on the necessity of maintaining Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act exactly as it was in 1965, the year of its inception. The U.S. Supreme … read more
For the Supreme Court justices who still cling to the belief that racial attitudes in the Deep South have not changed enough to warrant striking down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, now comes James A. Young, the newly … read more
