[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/27/13

Sat Jul 27 10:55:37 PDT 2013

    "Obama is Right to Mess with Texas"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53589>

Posted on July 27, 2013 10:53 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53589> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Alec MacGillis writes 
<http://www.tnr.com/article/114062/obama-and-eric-holder-take-texas-and-other-states-voting#> 
for the New Republic.

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    "House Committee Chair Blasts FEC For Failing to Act on Enforcement
    Issue" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53587>

Posted on July 27, 2013 10:52 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53587> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg BNA 
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=33260161&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0e0d7z3w9&split=0>: 
"House Administration Committee Chairman Candice Miller (R-Mich.) in a 
July 26 statement criticized the Federal Election Commission's failure 
to vote on an enforcement manual guiding staff in the FEC Office of 
General Counsel (OGC)."

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    "Pennsylvania's Proportional Electoral Vote Allocation Proposal: A
    Nationwide Analysis" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53584>

Posted on July 27, 2013 10:48 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53584> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New FairVote repor 
<http://www.fairvote.org/pennsylvania-s-proportional-electoral-vote-allocation-proposal-a-nationwide-analysis#.UfQH5VMd43Z>t.

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    "Larson, Brady, Conyers Sign Amicus Brief Urging SCOTUS to Uphold
    Contribution Limits" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53582>

Posted on July 27, 2013 10:47 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53582> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release 
<http://www.larson.house.gov/index.php/news/press-releases/1767-larson-brady-conyers-sign-amicus-brief-urging-scotus-to-uphold-contribution-limits>: 
"Today, *Congressman John B. Larson* (CT-01), Chairman of the Task Force 
on Election Reform, joined *Ranking Member Robert A. Brady* (PA-01) of 
the Committee on House Administration, and *Ranking Member John Conyers* 
Jr. (MI-13) of the House Judiciary Committee, in submitting an Amicus 
brief <http://www.larson.house.gov/images/stories/Brief.pdf> to the 
Supreme Court regarding the upcoming McCutcheon v. FEC case. The three 
leading members were joined on the brief by 82 fellow members of the 
House of Representatives in urging the Court to uphold portions of the 
"McCain-Feingold" Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. This act 
restricted the total dollar amount of aggregate contributions a donor 
may make to candidate committees and other non-candidate political 
entities, such as political parties and PACs."

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    "Time to Mess with Texas" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53580>

Posted on July 27, 2013 10:45 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53580> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Eric Lewis writes 
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/07/voting-rights-time-to-mess-with-texas.html> 
for /The New Yorker./

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    "Eric Holder Takes the Fight for Voting Rights to Texas"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53577>

Posted on July 27, 2013 10:43 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53577> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Time reports. 
<http://nation.time.com/2013/07/27/eric-holder-takes-the-fight-for-voting-rights-to-texas/>

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    "North Carolina Republicans slammed over 'suppressive' voting bill"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53574>

Posted on July 27, 2013 10:41 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53574> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/The Guardian/ 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/27/north-carolina-republicans-voting-rights-bill>reports 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/27/north-carolina-republicans-voting-rights-bill>.

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    "North Carolina: First in Voter Suppression"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53570>

Posted on July 26, 2013 1:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53570> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

David Firestone blogs 
<http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/north-carolina-first-in-voter-suppression/?smid=tw-share> 
for NYT's "Taking Note" editorial blog.

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    "And the Shenanigans Begin" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53567>

Posted on July 26, 2013 1:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53567> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Must-read Joey Fishkin post 
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2013/07/and-shenanigans-begin.html>on 
post-/Shelby County/ developments.

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    Could Justice Ginsburg Really Have Believed Congress Would Fix the
    VRA in 2009? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53564>

Posted on July 26, 2013 9:16 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53564> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Blackman poses the question on Twitter 
<https://twitter.com/JoshMBlackman/status/360792206962987010>following 
my earlier post <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53548>. And I think this 
piece in American Prospect by Heather Gerken 
<http://prospect.org/article/uncertain-fate-voting-rights> from 2009 
shows the answer is yes, though it was a longshot:

    Finally, it's possible that the cavalry might come to Section 5?s
    rescue, in the form of a congressional solution. The oral argument
    in April already prompted one prominent scholar to act
    <http://electionlawblog.org/archives/013542.html> before the Court
    issued its decision. And it's hard not to read the decision as a
    shot across the bow, giving members of Congress a chance to fix the
    problem before the Court fixes it for them. A number of commentators
    --- including /American Prospect Online/ guest bloggers --- have
    come up with potential fixes, ranging from allowing
    <http://www.tobinproject.org/papers/Heather_Gerken_Paper.pdf>
    civil-rights groups to "opt in" to the Voting Rights Act to creating
    <http://www.tobinproject.org/papers/Rick_Pildes_Paper.pdf> a
    national right to vote, from requiring local officials to consider
    the impact of their decisions on participation rates
    <http://www.tobinproject.org/papers/Bruce_Cain_and_Dan_Tokaji_Paper.pdf>
    to proactive bailout. Many of these proposals draw on conversations
    begun at a conference hosted by the Tobin Project and the American
    Law Institute on elections research and reform in February 2009 or
    build upon work done for the leading collection of scholarship on
    Section 5?s renewal gathered here
    <https://www.russellsage.org/publications/books/060711.045704>.

    Depending on Congress to save the day means betting on a long shot.
    Congress is powerful, but it's a lumbering giant, one that often
    requires a fairly sizeable crisis to get it to budge. Whether the
    Supreme Court's implicit threat is enough of a prod remains to be
    seen. But that, of course, is just what makes for a good cliffhanger.

More on 2009 thinking in my 2010 piece 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436669> for Supreme 
Court review on NAMUDNO and Citizens United.

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    "Holder Asks For Federal Voting Oversight In Texas"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53561>

Posted on July 26, 2013 9:00 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53561> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Carrie Johnson reports for NPR's Morning Edition 
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=205695274> about 
what AG Holder's decision means for the chances of a post-Shelby Voting 
Rights Act fix in Congress.

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    "For Abbott, a Legal Fight and a Political Bonanza"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53556>

Posted on July 26, 2013 8:47 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53556> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Texas politics 
<http://www.texastribune.org/2013/07/26/abbott-legal-fight-and-political-bonanza/>of 
bail in.

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    "The potential impact of one voting change in Durham, N.C."
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53554>

Posted on July 26, 2013 8:46 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53554> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Don Taylor blogs. 
<http://donaldhtaylorjr.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/the-potential-impact-of-one-voting-change-in-durham-n-c/>

And an update 
<http://donaldhtaylorjr.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/update-on-durham-nc-absentee-v-same-day-register-voting/>.

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    DOJ Makes Second Filing in Texas "Bail-In" Voting Rights Dispute
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53551>

Posted on July 26, 2013 8:39 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53551> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lyle Denniston 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/07/u-s-asks-new-limit-on-texas-vote-laws/#more-167799>:

    Thursday evening, the Justice Department filed two documents in the
    Washington case. In one,
    <http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/US-response-Sec.-5-case-dismissal-issue.pdf> Justice
    Department lawyers said they do not object to a new request by Texas
    to dismiss that case in view of the legislature's enactment of new
    maps to replace the 2011 districts.   The government said
    that, since Texas has no plans to implement the 2011 maps, there was
    no need for that court to rule further upon that case.

    In the second,
    <http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/US-Response-Section-3-DC1.pdf> and
    more important, document filed by the government in Washington, it
    argued that the San Antonio case was a better lawsuit in which to
    decide whether to apply the Section 3 remedy and put Texas back
    under a preclearance duty.  There are procedural questions, that
    filing argued, about whether the intervening challengers have a
    right to put forth a Section 3 plea in a case in which they are not
    the ones who had sued.  That is not an issue in San Antonio, it said..

    The papers filed in Washington were submitted just ahead of a Friday
    deadline for new filings in that case.

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