Continue to be awed by my old man, now in his 90th year, Emeritus prof at Penn State, who founded the field of sport history. Walter Byers and the NCAA | University of Tennessee Press share.google/8aBlmclCEJhC...
Walter Byers and the NCAA | University of Tennessee Press
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To all those who celebrate #InternationalJazzDay a little of George Gershwin's Embraceable You by Jim Snidero and friends at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club in Basel
Now out at State Politics and Policy Quarterly www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Not a Teammate and Not a Fan: Probing the Identities of Unaffiliated Registered Voters | State Politics & Policy Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Not a Teammate and Not a Fan: Probing the Identities of Unaffiliated Registered Voters - Volume 25 Issue 2
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In light of the latest ICE crackdown in Miami, I’m ungating my Substack analysis from a couple weeks ago on the support for Trump in Doral. open.substack.com/pub/election...
As the Miami Herald reports, "Doral, Miami-Dade’s Venezuelan stronghold, to empower cops in Trump immigration crackdown"
At least one-in-seven registered voters in Doral, a Trump stronghold, were born in Venezuela.
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May have time this summer to dig into this Q some more. open.substack.com/pub/election...
Nearly 1/5 Miami-Dade voters were born in Cuba and 57% are Republicans. Nearly 82% of GOP Cuba-born U.S. citizens voted in the 2024 GE.
With the recent revocation by the Trump Administration of the humanitarian parole program, hundreds-of-thousands of Cubans legally in the U.S. face deportation. Will these actions erode Cuban-American...
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Hey, this looks familiar! Be sure to check it out!
Congratulations, Michael Wines, on your retirement from the @nytimes.com. And thank you for breaking this bellwether story back in 2021 on the crackdown on faculty free speech at UF. www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/u...
Florida Bars State Professors From Testifying in Voting Rights Case (Published 2021)
After being hired as expert witnesses for groups opposing a restrictive voting law, three University of Florida academics were told they could not participate in the lawsuit against the state.
www.nytimes.com
"Federal authorities in South Florida have recently detained at least 18 Cubans."
My next Substack post for subscribers will be a deep dive into changes in party registration & turnout of the more than 460K Cuban-born registered voters in FL, 305K in Miami-Dade
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
My next Substack post for subscribers will be a deep dive into changes in party registration & turnout of the more than 460K Cuban-born registered voters in FL, 305K in Miami-Dade
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
‘Deport every person under the sun’: ICE detains Cubans during immigration appointments
Beatriz Monteagudo and Laura de la Caridad Sanchez are two Cuban women detained by ICE after routine appointments in Miramar. More than a dozen others were also possibly detained.
www.miamiherald.com
And also pleased to see this decision by a Federal District Court Judge in Ohio concerning the rights of citizens to amend the state constitution via the initiative process. Several direct democracy scholars and I submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the plaintiffs. electionlawblog.org?p=149008
Federal court finds Ohio's "fair and truthful" review of ballot initiatives runs afoul of Anderson-Burdick #ELB
Decision in Brown v. Yost, stayed pending appeal to the Sixth Circuit: Citizens of Ohio have the power to amend the state constitution. Proponents of an amendment must follow a process that culminates...
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Highlighting some good news on the legal front. Proud to have served as an expert for the HAUL plaintiffs, working with the amazing attorneys at NAACP LDF, to successfully challenge SB 1 in TX. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
Federal Court Strikes Down Restrictive, Suppressive Texas Voting Measures in S.B. 1 that Limited Voting Assistance
Media Contacts: LDF, [email protected] The Arc, [email protected] Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., [email protected] Schiff, [email protected] Shackelfo
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From the Nathan Thurm School of Law... www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
Homeland Security deputy secretary Troy Edgar offered few details on the Trump administration's legal reasoning to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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I'm hoping some of you might be interested in making a charitable contribution to support UF students working with @electproject.bsky.social and me in our Election Lab. Here's the direct link to give: Election Science Group Fund (023435) www.uff.ufl.edu/giving-oppor...
We will see if FL SOEs step up to oppose DeSantis' proposal that will effectively kill direct democracy in Florida, not because they normatively support the citizen initiative, but because it will be costly and burdensome to distribute and collect signature petitions, beyond validating them
Looks interesting! :-)
Thanks for featuring our work! Looking forward to seeing in @ajpseditor.bsky.social soon.
Thanks for featuring our work! Looking forward to seeing in @ajpseditor.bsky.social soon.
