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Kim Wehle is a tenured professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she teaches and writes on the constitutional separation of powers, administrative law, and civil procedure. She was formerly an assistant United States attorney and an associate independent counsel in the mostra altro Whitewater investigation. Professor Wehle is also a legal expert, analyst, and commentator for numerous media outlets, including CNN, CBS News, BBC, NPR, and MSNBC, and is an opinion writer for The Atlantic, Politico, The Bulwark, and The Hill. She hosts #SimplePolitics with Kim Wehle on Instagram and YouTube. mostra meno

Comprende il nome: Kimberly Wehle

Fonte dell'immagine: author page at Harpercollins

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Even The Good Parts Will Rapidly Be - Admittedly - Outdated. This was yet another of those books whose premise held such promise, and yet whose execution was sorely lacking. The only redeemable parts of this platitude, inaccuracy, and outright lies that are damn close to libel (but to be absolutely clear do *not*, in my understanding, actually cross that line) filled book are the numerous charts of where the law stands on various issues relating to voter registration, ballot access, and similar State level issues. The rest of the text is at best a series of platitudes about how "vital" voting is and at worst lies such that if the target were not a public figure would likely be a fairly easy libel case. (The standard for libel against a public figure is much higher than the one for just a "normal" private citizen.) The charts are the *only* thing preventing this text from being a "gold mine" level - my singular worst personal rating - and as the author admits every time she discusses one, will be outdated within just a few years and potentially even before this book actually goes to print. This is one of those books that in all honesty I personally would not publish with its existing text, but which could make a buck or two from the charts alone. It is for these charts that I can recommend this book at least for the next couple of months, but other than the charts I would not recommend it at all.

Just to be perfectly clear, I have never supported the current President, nor his predecessor and in all likelihood nor his successor. Instead, I am a person that has a fair degree of expertise in election laws and issues myself, having ran for City Council twice in rural southern Georgia, recruited a Statewide candidate for office in Georgia under a non-D/R Party, been that Party's Legislative Director, ran a Facebook group promoting open ballot access, ran a political blog focusing on various issues including election laws, and even interviewed both Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams as a result of some of those other efforts. I am no law professor as the author is, but I am *far* more knowledgeable about these issues than the average reader and, based on my reading of the text, it seems that I may in fact be more knowledgeable on these issues than the author herself. Despite much of my knowledge being 10 yrs out of date on exact particulars.
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