Court
to weigh use of race in drawing political lines [USA Today, 9/2/14]: The
case could affect similar disputes over district lines from Texas to Virginia,
where Republicans who now control every Southern legislature have used the
Voting Rights Act to their political advantage. See the case, Alabama
Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama,
summarized for your students in the new Con Law (5th) textbook!
Nine things to focus on
for November's election [SJ
Merc, 9/2/14]: With Labor Day behind us, Californians need to brace themselves
for the tidal wave of ads, mailers, robo calls and door knocks between now and
the Nov. 4 election.
Greenhut: Tenure ruling
heats up November races [San
Diego U-T, 9/2/14]: A California judge’s affirmation last week of his June
decision in a landmark teacher-tenure case may turn the little-followed
statewide election for superintendent of public instruction into a nationally
followed — and funded — race.
Constitution
Check: What are the Supreme Court's options now on same-sex marriage? [Nat.
Constitution Center blog, 9/2/14]: Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s
constitutional literacy adviser, previews the various dimensions of the
same-sex marriage cases that await the Supreme Court on its return in later
this month.
Texas schools win adequacy suit but challenges remain
[Cabinet Report, 9/2/14]: Despite a ruling from a district judge that the
school funding system in Texas violates the state’s constitution, advocates for
public education have received mixed results when taking the adequacy issue
into court.
One article
about the Texas case is:
Decaying
Guantanamo Defies Closing Plans [NY Times, 9/1/14]: One sweltering afternoon last month, a Boeing C-17 military
transport plane arrived at the American naval base here. It had come to take
six low-level detainees to new lives in Uruguay after 12 years of imprisonment.
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