Avoidance of Constitutional Questions in Recent Electoral Reform Legislation

Nussbaumer, Kirsten

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Avoidance of Constitutional Questions in Recent Electoral Reform Legislation

Kirsten A. Nussbaumer

Stanford University (law & political science)

2002

Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law Policy, Vol. 9, p. 341, 2002

Abstract:
Prepared symposium remarks (followed by extemporaneous question-and-answer) on the 2001-02 congressional election reform bills, with a focus on the strategic aspects of the Court-Congress relationship from a client-advocacy perspective.

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Keywords: election reform, strategic advantage of the Congressional Elections Clause over other bases of congressional power from the perspective of judicial federalism, disability access, polling-place accessibility, political federalism

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Date posted: August 27, 2011

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Nussbaumer, Kirsten A., Avoidance of Constitutional Questions in Recent Electoral Reform Legislation (2002). Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law Policy, Vol. 9, p. 341, 2002. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1917873

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Kirsten A. Nussbaumer (Contact Author)

Stanford University (law & political science) ( email )

Stanford, CA 94305
United States