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Atiba Ellis - 8th April 2021
Dissents speak to a future age. … [T]he greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, NPR, May 2, 2002 The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is […]
Ndjodi Ndeunyema - 17th February 2020
On 5 February 2020, the judgement of Panduleni Itula, concerning the constitutionality of using electronic voting machines without a voter-verified audit trail (paperless EVMs), and thus the validity of the 2019 Presidential Elections, was delivered by the Namibian Supreme Court. Itula was much anticipated, particularly in a heavily contested political climate where the incumbent President […]
Ndjodi Ndeunyema - 27th November 2019
On November 27, Namibians will, for the 7th time since independence and multi-party democracy, go to the polls in Presidential and National Assembly elections. This time, Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will be used to cast votes. While EVMs were first used without a paper trail in the 2014 general election, there has been constant political […]
Rebecca Rattner - 14th July 2019
At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court waded into the fight over political partisanship in American politics. In a 5-4 decision, the Court held in Rucho v. Common Cause that federal courts cannot strike down district maps because they are designed to help or hurt a particular political party. Notably, the Court itself […]
Martin Kwan - 15th March 2019
Canadian citizens who have resided abroad for five years or more did not have the right to vote in a federal election unless and until they resumed residence in Canada. The constitutionality of this limit on the right to vote was recently challenged in the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision of Frank v. Canada (Attorney […]