Election-Campaign Law

Shouldn't we have universal voting
I have never completely understood why, in a country committed to democracy, we make every citizen pay taxes and get a social security number, but we do not make every citizen vote...

Freddic Mac's Capped Voting
Freddie Mac has just changed its capped shareholder voting bylaw that disables any shareholder from voting over 20 percent of the outstanding voting stock unless the others shareholders vote to allow it...

New York: Port Chester at-large system violates Voting Rights Act [updated: court docs attached]
The Auburn Citizen reports: A suburban village has been violating the Voting Rights Act by using an election system that leaves its rapidly growing Hispanic population without representation, a federal judge said Tuesday...

Rep. Lofgren Responds to Hans von Spakovsky
A response to Hans von Spakovsky from Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-16): Rep. Lofgren Issues Statement on Voting Memorandum Washington, D.C. ? Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) today issued the following statement on a recent Heritage Foundation memorandum on non-citizen voting...

Citizen Media Law Project
Formed as a cooperative project between Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Citizen Media, the Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) was established “to provide education, legal training, and resources for individuals and organizations involved in citizen media...

Whither the citizen war reporter
Evegeny Morozov, has an interesting piece in Open Democracy looking at the role of citizen journalists in conflict (specifically Georgia). He argues that citizen journalists are not the magic bullet that they’ve been trumped up to be as far as covering news in underreported conflict areas...

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

How to Become a US Citizen
Citizenship Eligibility, Application, Exmaination

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Is Obama a Natural Born Citien?
Philip J. Berg, Esquire vs. Barack Hussein Obama, a/k/a Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barry Obama, a/k/a Barack Dunham, a/k/a Barry Dunham, et al

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Cowboy Hat
Lincoln County pays citizen $10,500 settlement for Constitutional Rights violations.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...