Voting Rights and Campaign Finance - Upcoming Events!

Following the success of "Defining Domestic Terrorism", ACS and ACLU will be working together to bring two more big events to FIU Law this week! 

The Voting Rights Event & Voter Registration

Tomorrow, Tuesday September 25 (National Voter Registration Day) at 12:30pm in the small courtroom.

Come join the ACS and ACLU as we cover current voting issues such as: voter suppression through the purging of minorities, Voter ID Laws, Early Voting Cuts and how Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is under attack.

Our Panelists will include:

Professor Greenberg, an adjunct Election Law professor at FIU Law, has had an extensive career as an attorney. His expertise and experience with the Bush v. Gore case in 2000 has made him an asset to FIU Law.

Dan Palugyai, is a local attorney who will be representing the ACLU’s voting rights positions. Dan worked in fundraising for the ACLU of Florida’s Miami office before earning his law degree at Georgetown. Along the way he’s interned and worked in our nation’s capital for two congressmen, a lobbying firm, and a congressional committee.

Funmi Olorunnipa, currently works to protect the vote. She is an attorney who trains and organizes lawyers and law students to be poll watchers during early voting and election day in order to ensure that election laws are not broken at the polls.

The Law School Democrats will also be holding a voter registration drive outside of the small courtroom in order to register people to vote on National Voter Registration day. Please tell people you know, even non-law students, to come out and register!

They will also be doing change of addresses, so if you want to vote in Florida please update your address!

~Lunch will be provided~

Check out the Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/390292837710478

Coming up later this week will be:

Citizens United: A Campaign Finance Debate

ACS v. ACLU

Thursday September 27 at 12:00pm in the large courtroom

Is Citizens United constitutional in light of how Political Action Committees’ donations have corrupted campaigns?

Prof. Morrissey of Stetson Law will debate Prof. Wasserman of FIU Law.

Please come with any questions you may have pertaining to campaign finance!

~Lunch will be provided~

Check out the Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/279020482211406/

We would love to see everyone out in force at these events! It means a lot to the prominent speakers we invite to speak to a full room! Invite your friends.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact either myself, Bobby Bracy (bbrac001@fiu.edu) or Rachel Bentley (rbent001@fiu.edu). We hope to see you there!