Browsing Law School by Subject "Election law -- United States"

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    • Contracting Around "Citizens United" 
      Sitaraman, Ganesh (Columbia Law Review, 2014)
      The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC is widely considered a major roadblock for campaign finance reform, and particularly for limiting third party spending in federal elections. In response to the decision, ...
    • Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act: How Politics and Symbolism Failed America 
      Swain, Carol M. (Carol Miller) (Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2007)
      In passing a watered-down piece of legislation (in July 2006), the Senate missed a critical opportunity to truly strengthen Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and protect voters against voting rights violations on a ...
    • Supreme Court's Rulings on Congressional Districts Could Benefit Minority Voters 
      Swain, Carol M. (Carol Miller) (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1996)
      With the Supreme Court's latest rulings, redistricters can no longer pack minority voters into super-minority districts. The effect of those decisions thus may ulti­ mately be far more beneficial for minority­ group voters ...