[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/17/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Jul 17 09:06:20 PDT 2013
Justin Levitt, Mike Carvin, Luz Urbáez Weinberg Added to Today's
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Shelby County
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53077>
Posted on July 17, 2013 9:05 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53077> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Watch the webcast live
<http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=6ae289b2466e2489f90d6b42c9d8d78f>beginning
at 1 pm eastern.
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"Texas Defends Law on ID for Voters"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53074>
Posted on July 17, 2013 9:02 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53074> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/pennsylvania-defends-law-on-id-for-voters.html?ref=politics&_r=0>.
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Is Voting Rights Act Section 2 in Constitutional Danger from the
Supreme Court? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53071>
Posted on July 17, 2013 9:00 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53071> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Will Baude raises
<http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/16/what-will-happen-to-section-two-of-the-voting-rights-act/>
the question in light of /Shelby County. /I address this issue briefly
in my APSA paper, Shelby County and the Illusion of Minimalism
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2291612>. My bottom
line is yes, Section 2 is in danger of being struck down as an
unconstitutional exercise of congressional power under /Shelby County/.
It was in danger before, and /Shelby County/ moderately increases that
danger. Unlike section 5, section 2 has no geographic or temporal
limits, and further the majority might see it as not congruent and
proportional to actual constitutional violations by states in crafting
their district lines and other voting rules. I plan to write more on
this in the future.
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"IRS Chief Counsel Office Sought Information on 2010 Election
Activity of Tea Party Applicants, House Leaders Say"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53068>
Posted on July 17, 2013 8:55 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53068> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA breaking news report onthis letter
<http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/wm_ogr_letter_to_irs.pdf>.
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"Judicial panel strikes down Indianapolis City-County Council
redistricting plan" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53065>
Posted on July 17, 2013 8:51 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53065> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
IndyStar
<http://www.indystar.com/article/20130717/NEWS/307170036/Judicial-panel-strikes-down-Indianapolis-City-County-Council-redistricting-plan>:
A Marion Superior Court judicial panel has struck down a
redistricting ordinance drawn up by City-County Council Republicans
in late 2011 and signed into law by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard
just as Democrats took majority control of the council.The panel of
five judges, voting along partisan lines, ruled 3-2 that the
redistricting plan signed by Ballard, a Republican, was not properly
drawn up under Indiana law because it was done before 2012. Indiana
law, in a statute applying specifically to Marion County, says the
council must redraw the 25 districts' boundaries during the second
year after the census, which last was conducted in 2010.
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"Lake County elections officials look into how woman voted twice in
Munster" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53063>
Posted on July 17, 2013 8:46 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53063> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
News
<http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/munster/lake-county-elections-officials-look-into-how-woman-voted-twice/article_da4e36f2-417d-53e9-b317-89c609d0152a.html>
from Indiana.
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Maryland Solution for DC Voting Rights?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53058>
Posted on July 17, 2013 8:41 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53058> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A reader, Vince Treacy, writes in:
I do have a comment on Michael Wein's proposal
at http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53006
The posting seems to be based on the bill reintroduced by Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher (R-CA), "District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration
Act of 2013?, H.R. 299, 113th Congress, promoted by its supporters
as retrocession-lite.
There are three constitutional methods for providing voting rights
for the capitol city: constitutional amendment, statehood, or
retrocession with the consent of Maryland. I favor statehood. The
proposal for semi-recession is not one of the constitutional means.
It has no basis in any of the enumerated power of Congress in the
Constitution. It would violate numerous express provisions of the
Constitution.
The author supported this scheme in a posting at the Washington Post
in January 2011 entitled "A better road to the vote: Retrocession,
with a twist." Read it here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-opinions/2011/01/a_better_road_to_voting_rights.html
He wrote: :The needed legislation involves only the constitutional
provisions found in Article IV, Section 3, which state:
Clause 1: 'New States may be admitted by the Congress into this
Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the
Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the
Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the
Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of
the Congress.'
Clause 2: 'The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all
needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other
Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this
Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the
United States, or of any particular State.'"
Neither provision, however, has any bearing on the proposal. Clause
1 permits the admission of new states, subject to limitations. Since
the proposal would not make the District of Columbia a state, or a
part of an existing state, it does not authorize the proposal for
semi-retrocession.
Clause 2 grants Congress authority over territories. Since the
District is not a territory, it has no relevance at to the District
The District was created by Article 1, section 8, which is the sole
source of Congress's authority over the District.
These are legal errors. If the proposal relied only on these
provisions, then it would have no constitutional basis. But there is
no other apparent authority in the Constitution.
The bill itself makes no mention of the Territories Clause in
Article IV. It instead relies on the District Clause , on the power
over "Places purchased," and the authority over federal elections in
Article I, section 4.
The District Clause grants Congress the power "To exercise exclusive
Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not
exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States,
and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of
the United States,..." Art. I, cl.8, sec. 17 (first part). While the
clause grants Congress plenary municipal power over the Seat of the
Government, it provides no authority to interfere in the elections
provisions of a sovereign state, or of any other matter beyond
District boundaries . The one exception, the extension of diversity
jurisdiction to the District, was sustained by a divided Supreme
Court in a decision without a majority holding.
Kenneth R. Thomas, CRS Report "The Constitutionality of Awarding the
Delegate for the District of Columbia a Vote in the House of
Representatives or the Committee of the Whole," January 24,
2007.http://www.dcwatch.com/issues/voting070124.htm
Another possible source may be the power to "exercise like Authority
over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the
State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts,
Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings." Art.
I, cl.8, sec. 17 (first part). The bill itself, in its Findings in
section 2(2),
The bill recites Congress's exclusive legislation over the District
and then finds in (section 2(3) that Congress "shall exercise like
authority" over places purchased from the states for needful
buildings. Since 1801, the District has never been a purchased
place of "enclave" within Maryland or any other state. It is a
"District" created by "Cession" for the "Seat of the Government of
the United States" under an entirely different provision of clause 17.
The bill also cites the power of Congress to make or alter
regulations governing the "Time, Places and Manner" established by
legislatures "in each State." Art. 1, sec. 4, cl. 1. While Congress
is granted authority to supersede certain state election
requirements, this clause gives it no authority to require a state
to register residents of another jurisdiction who are not, and have
never been, its citizens.
At one time, Congress ordered states to register 18-year old persons
for federal elections, but that provision was superseded by the 26th
Amendment, and those persons were state citizens. Similarly, states
have been required to register former citizens who are overseas,
but, once again, they are citizens; this law has not yet been
sustained by the Supreme Court.
Even if there were any enumerated or implied power to support the
bill (and I do not believe there is one), it would violate the
literal terms of many express limitations on the power of Congress.
1. The House "shall be composed of Members chosen ... by the
People of the several States." Art. I, sec. 2, cl. 1. The District
is not a state, and has not been part of a state since it was
created in 1801. Its residents therefore cannot be counted as people
of the several states, although they are United States citizens.
2. House electors in each state must have "the
Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous branch
of the State Legislature." Art. I, sec. 2, cl. 1. The residents of
the District do not, and cannot have, the qualifications for
electors of the Maryland House of Delegates.
3. The Senate "shall be composed of two Senators from each
State, elected by the people thereof." 17th Amd., cl. 1. With
respect to Maryland, the residents of the District are not, and
cannot be, "the people thereof." Senators cannot be elected from any
area that, like the District, is not a "State."
4. A Representative or Senator must be, when elected, "an
Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen." Even if
District residents were allowed to vote, no DC inhabitant could ever
serve as Senator or Representative. Art. I, sec. 2, cl. 2; 17th
Amd., cl. 1. The bill (sec. 3(b)) purport to "restore" the right of
residents of DC to "be considered inhabitants" of Maryland, but, of
course, an express constitutional requirement cannot be eliminated
by a mere statute.
5. "Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the
Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors" equal to the
number of its Senators and Representatives. Art. II, sec. 1, cl. 2.
In violation of this reservation of authority to the states, the
bill would order Maryland officials to register DC residents to vote
for presidential electors.
6. The Constitution requires both congressional and state
approval for any "Agreement or Compact with another State." Art. I,
sec. 10, cl. 4.This Clause applies to compacts between a State and
the District (See. for example, compacts establishing Metropolitan
Washington Area Transit Authority and Metropolitan Washington
Airports Authority). The bill implicitly requires agreement between
Maryland and the District over voting eligibility and procedures,
but has no provision for votes of approval by either the
legislatures or the people of either Maryland or the District.
7. The bill describes the District as an "enclave," although
it is not a federal enclave (a term not found in the Constitution),
but a "District" created by the Constitution as "the Seat of the
Government" of the U.S.
The proposed bill has been introduced in every Congress for the past
ten years. As yet, there does not appear to be a Congressional
Research Service Report on its constitutional issues, although any
Member of Congress may request one.
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6th Circuit Reverses Kentucky Vote Buying Convictions for New Trial
Because of Evidentiary Issues <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53055>
Posted on July 17, 2013 8:12 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53055> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this opinion <http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/13a0179p-06.pdf>.
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Jerry Goldfeder on Petitioning in NY
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53051>
Posted on July 17, 2013 7:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53051> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Watch
<http://www.cityandstateny.com/look-jerry-goldfeder/#.UeRm72hQqJA.email>.
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"Miguel Estrada, Controversial Bush Court Nominee, Judges U.S.
Supreme Court at UCI" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53046>
Posted on July 17, 2013 7:46 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53046> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The OC Weekly offers this item
<http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/07/miguel_estrada_uc_irvine_law_supreme_court.php>
on the UCI Supreme Court Term in Review event
<http://www.law.uci.edu/events/supreme_court_term_review_2013.html> I'll
be moderating Friday. (For the record, I don't think anyone has called
"Slick" Rick Hasen before---though they will now!)
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"Cautionary Tale: Student Gets Jail Time for Stealing Online School
Election" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53044>
Posted on July 17, 2013 7:43 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53044> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A ChapinBlog
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2013/07/cautionary_tale_student_gets_j.php>.
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"IRS Employees Showed No Politics, Lawmakers' Memo Shows"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53041>
Posted on July 16, 2013 4:43 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53041> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-16/irs-employees-showed-no-politics-lawmakers-memo-shows.html>:
"Interviews with 15 U.S. Internal Revenue Service employees show no
political motivation or White House involvement in targeting groups
applying for tax-exempt status, House Democrats said in a memo
<http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/MemoOnNoPoliticalTargetingAtIRS.pdf>."
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"Statistics dominate day 2 of Pa. voter ID trial"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53038>
Posted on July 16, 2013 4:39 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53038> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP reports
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PA_VOTER_ID_PAOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>.
That analysis showed that, as of this spring, about 511,000
registered voters either lacked one of the PennDOT-issued IDs or
have IDs that have expired or will expire before the Nov. 5 election.
Siskin's testimony bolsters the plaintiffs' central claim in the
state Commonwealth court trial that the law, one of the strictest in
the nation, cannot be implemented without disenfranchising a large
segment of Pennsylvania's 8.2 million voters.
But the state's statistics expert, William Wecker, has criticized
Siskin's research in confidential court papers, excerpts from which
the plaintiffs' attorney displayed on a large video screen. Wecker
said Siskin's analysis exaggerates the problem by ignoring the fact
many voters have other acceptable IDs that are available outside of
PennDOT, such as IDs from many universities or the armed forces. He
also has said the research includes voters who don't require IDs
because they vote by absentee ballots.
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HuffPost Live Archived Webcast of Debate on "Dysfunctional FEC"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53035>
Posted on July 16, 2013 4:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53035> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Watch <http://t.co/RcxKd0oebc>.
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"College kid steals classmates' login info, uses it to rig student
body president election -- gets year in jail time for his trouble"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53031>
Posted on July 16, 2013 3:59 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53031> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP reports.
<http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/student_steals_classmates_login_Wmw9AMyNI1kkjgtcnJ3yJI>
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"Voting rights enforcers shift focus after Supreme Court defeat"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53028>
Posted on July 16, 2013 3:55 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53028> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Reuters reports
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/16/us-usa-justice-voting-idUSBRE96F1AV20130716?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews>.
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Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, Voting Rights Act
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AG Holder's NAACP Speech Says DOJ VRA Enforcement to Shift to
Section 2, Other Provisions <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53025>
Posted on July 16, 2013 2:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53025> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Full text of speech
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/07/16/text-of-holder-speech-on-trayvon-martin-case/>.
He also discusses a congressional response to /Shelby County./
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"Congress Recalls Watchdog to Explain IRS Audit"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53022>
Posted on July 16, 2013 2:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53022> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/16/us/politics/ap-us-irs-investigation.html?ref=politics>:
The investigator who wrote a scathing report about the Internal
Revenue Service targeting conservative political groups is heading
back to Capitol Hill as a key House Democrat says his committee's
investigation has found no evidence of political bias at the agency.
IRS inspector general J. Russell George is to testify Thursday
before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, along
with two IRS workers who have been interviewed as part of the
committee's investigation.
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FOX News of Pa Voter ID Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53019>
Posted on July 16, 2013 1:23 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53019> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Interesting video report
<http://video.foxnews.com/v/2547069721001/pennsylvanias-voter-id-law-gets-its-moment-in-court/?playlist_id=163737>.
In the intro, Shepard Smith says: "Supporters say it could help prevent
voter fraud, though frankly there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud."
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"The Senate that Senators Want" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53016>
Posted on July 16, 2013 1:09 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53016> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Monkey Cage
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guest post from Eric Schickler
<http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=27>
and Greg Wawro: <http://www.columbia.edu/%7Egjw10/>
Events in the Senate over the past few weeks offer two clear
lessons. First, a simple majority in the Senate has the power --
and indeed has long had the power -- to change how the institution
operates. The strategy proposed by Harry Reid -- which essentially
duplicated the strategy proposed by Republican leader Bill Frist
(R-TN) in 2005, which in turn echoed a strategy promoted by liberals
in the 1950s-70s and by Republican leader Nelson Aldrich as far back
as January 1891 -- has been available to a determined Senate
majority at least since the nineteenth century -- as we discuss in
our book <http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8202.html> on the
filibuster. The fact that the Republican minority relented in the
nominations fight indicates that the threat of "reform by
resolution" is real and that the Senate is not locked into its rules
by virtue of its past institutional history. Second, the filibuster
persists because a majority of senators has consistently preferred a
system in which the minority can block action to one in which a
simple majority decides every issue. Senators do not want their
Chamber to become the House.
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"The Senate didn't go nuclear. But, actually, it kind of did."
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53013>
Posted on July 16, 2013 11:53 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53013>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ezra Klein:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/16/the-senate-didnt-go-nuclear-but-actually-it-kind-of-did/>
"This will be the new normal. It will be the new normal under Democrats
and then it will be the new normal under Republicans. The Senate stopped
short of actually ending the filibuster against executive-branch
nominations today. But the effect might well be the same."
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"Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Could Disenfranchise More Than 500,000
People: Trial Expert" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53010>
Posted on July 16, 2013 10:57 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53010>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
HuffPo
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/16/pennsylvania-voter-id-law_n_3605658.html?utm_hp_ref=tw>:
A statistician testified on the second day of Pennsylvania's latest
trial
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/pennsylvania-voter-id-tri_0_n_3600979.html>
over the constitutionality of the state's voter identification law
that hundreds of thousands of voters could be disenfranchised if the
law is allowed to stand.
Bernard Siskin, a statistical expert who served as a consultant for
a variety of government agencies and companies, including the FBI,
testified that about 511,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania lack
the state-issued IDs required at the polls under the new law, which
was passed last spring but has yet to be enforced.
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"The Maryland solution to D.C. voting; A neighboring state may hold
the key to representation in Congress"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53006>
Posted on July 16, 2013 10:07 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53006>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Wein oped
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-dc-voting-20130711%2c0%2c4497900.story>in
the /Baltimore Sun./
Interested to know what others think of this analysis.
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Right Church, Wrong Pew Order <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53001>
Posted on July 16, 2013 9:41 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53001> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read it here
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/SEIU-v-Husted.pdf>.
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"UC Irvine School of Law to Host U.S. Supreme Court Term in Review
Program on July 19? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52998>
Posted on July 16, 2013 9:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52998> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this press release
<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uc-irvine-school-of-law-to-host-us-supreme-court-term-in-review-program-on-july-19-2013-07-16>.
The event will be live webcast at 12 pm Pacific on Friday.
UPDATE: The event is SOLD OUT but will be live webcast. I will post
the webcast link Friday morning.
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