An order striking down Regulation 23 (11) of Public Elections Regulations, 2016; CI.94 as being inconsistent with Article 49 (2), (3)(a) and (b) of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, 1992 and Section 13 of the Representation of the People Law, 1992; PNDCL 284. (citifmonline.com)
«You don't need to hire a team of campaign - finance lawyers to figure out how to evade disclosure under the Board of Elections regulation,» said Adam Skaggs, a senior counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. (nytimes.com)
But unlike in challenges to non-judicial election regulations, where preventing political corruption often rests alone in the balance against plaintiffs» First Amendment rights, in the judicial context, the First Amendment rights of those challenging election rules are also counterbalanced by the fundamental constitutional due process rights of litigants to a fair trial before a tribunal that is impartial in both fact and appearance. (faircourtslitigation.org)