Showing posts with label Blogging the Ballot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging the Ballot. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The Silver Lining: Will McCain’s Legacy be America’s Rejection of Partisanship Politics?

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By Professor Maureen Johnson American values. It’s hard to imagine a statesman who so perfectly embodied American ideals as Sen. John ...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Trump's Failure to Disclose Taxes Should be a Disqualifier

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By Professor Katherine Pratt Just days before the presidential election, concerns about Donald Trump’s payment of his tax obligations ...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Do Lawyers Make Better Presidents?

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What do the following Presidents have in common: Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt? All are freq...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Historic Nomination of Hillary Clinton Underscored by Donald Trump's Misogyny

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By Professor Jessica Levinson Elections should be about ideological differences. Liberals and conservatives, or Democrats and Republic...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

President & Policing: What the Candidates Need to Consider

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By Adjunct Professor Steve Lurie Lieutenant, Los Angeles Police Department The next president of the United States will lead our nation’s ...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Comparing California's Competing Death Penalty Initiatives

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By Adjunct Professor  Paula Mitchell Executive Director, Alarcón Advocacy Center & Legal Director, Loyola Project for the Innocent On...
Friday, July 1, 2016

The Perils of Killing International Trade Deals

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Not since the 1993 Ross Perot-Al Gore debate on NAFTA have international trade issues appeared so prominently ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Obama’s Fateful Warning

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By Professor Eric Miller Yesterday, President Obama gave an impassioned speech warning against singling out the American Muslim communit...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Garland on the Rights of People with Disabilities

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By Dean  Michael Waterstone This op-ed originally appeared in the April 28, 2016 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal. What wo...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Criminal Justice Issues & Election 2016

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By Professor Laurie Levenson Although there are critical issues facing our criminal justice system today, precious little has been said ...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

If You're Going to Be a Single-Issue Voter, Make That Issue the Supreme Court

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By: Professor Jessica Levinson This is an excerpt from an op-ed Professor Levinson wrote for Pacific Standard Justice Antonin Sca...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Election Results through a Healthcare Lens

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By Professor Brietta Clark Since election night people have been preoccupied with what the post-election polling reveals about America...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Free Speech and the Victory Speech

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By Associate Professor Aaron Caplan Barack Obama's election -- and now re-election -- signal America's willingness to select as i...
Monday, November 5, 2012

With voting, there's no place like home

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By Associate Professor Justin Levitt In a recent New York Times "Campaign Stops" piece , I mentioned concerns about citizens und...

The Climate Elephant in the Voting Booth

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By Associate Professor Kathy Trisolini In the immediate aftermath of "Superstorm" Sandy, a number of articles appeared in the mai...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

They're aliiiiive! (Really. They're alive.)

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By Associate Professor Justin Levitt Every year, late October brings pumpkin pie and horror movies and reports of deceased voters. The rep...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Do Ballot Initiatives Foster the Darker Side of Political Spending?

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By Associate Clinical Professor Jessica Levinson Californians will soon go to the polls to weigh in on no less than eleven ballot initiati...

Marriage Equality Populism

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By Associate Professor Douglas NeJaime On November 6, voters in Maine, Maryland, and Washington will decide whether to allow same-sex coup...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Disability and Voting

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By Associate Dean Michael Waterstone My primary research area, disability law, typically doesn't garner a lot of headlines or attentio...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Prop. 35 CASE Act Undermines Victims' Rights

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Professor Kathleen Kim , Kevin Kish and Cindy Liou This op-ed originally appeared in Pacific Standard . This November, voters will consi...