'04 Election Effect on Supreme Court

Hi,

Glad to join the ACS and this blog.

Some leading scholars believe the election won't have much impact on the direction of the Court.
http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1095434441602
Liberal Georgetown University Law Center professor Mark Tushnet has even offered the heretical and hotly contested view that the outcome Nov. 2 will be a wash for the Court. "The politics in the Senate make it likely that a newly appointed Democratic Supreme Court justice would look a lot like a newly appointed Republican one," Tushnet wrote in the current issue of Legal Affairs magazine.

ballot wars in battle ground states?

Looks like the Democrats might be trying to avoid a November squeeze from Nader. See
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-campaign-nader-arkansas.html and
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Nader.html for the details. Maybe this year, the motto for all the political parties should be "It's the election procedures, stupid!"

--Matt Conroy

American overseas? Voting obstacles arise.

The Defense Department operates a website for the Federal Voting Assistance Program, designed to help American civilians and servicemen and -women overseas cast absentee ballots. Now the International Herald Tribune is reporting that the Pentagon has begun blocking access to the site through a range of internet service providers in at least 25 countries - including Yahoo Broadband in Japan, Wanadoo in France, BT Yahoo Broadband in Britain and Telefónica in Spain. The ostensible reason: to prevent hackers from accessing the site. Hackers using other ISP's can of course still reach the site--it's really just a problem for Americans using those ISP's who want to vote.

More info here.