[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/8/13

Fri Jun 7 21:39:50 PDT 2013

    "Scalia's Speech to Secretive Hollywood Political Organization
    Raises Questions" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51424>

Posted on June 7, 2013 3:57 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51424> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Common Cause 
<http://www.commonblog.com/2013/06/07/scalias-speech-to-secretive-hollywood-political-organization-raises-questions/>:

    Common Cause has obtained the financial disclosure reports of eight
    of the nine Justices of the Supreme Court. Justice Alito's is
    unavailable, either because it was not yet ready for release or
    because he filed an extension.

    Of particular note, Justice Antonin Scalia reports reimbursement
    <http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/SCALIA%20FORM%206-7.PDF>
    for "Transportation, Food and Lodging" from an organization called
    "Friends of Abe." Justice Scalia reports that he gave a speech
    before Friends of Abe on August 25, 2012.

    What is Friends of Abe?

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    "Lawmakers are negotiating a possible deal on election law changes"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51422>

Posted on June 7, 2013 3:55 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51422> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/lawmakers-are-negotiating-a-possible-deal-on-election-law-changes-b9928926z1-210642231.html> 
from Wisconsin.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, 
election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting 
Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id 
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    President Obama Renominates Hicks and Perez to Seats on EAC, But...
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51419>

Posted on June 7, 2013 2:21 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51419> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/07/presidential-nominations-sent-senate-0>. 
Don't hold your breath on either these two nominees getting a hearing 
any time soon or Republicans putting forward two nominees of their own 
for the zombie commission. From my conversations with some influential 
Republicans, it sounds like the view is that the EAC is a failed 
experiment and nothing should be done to revive it.

The House voted again this week toget rid 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51270> of the agency. No reason to expect 
Democrats in the Senate to go along with that, but no reason to think 
anything will happen in the short term to revive the agency either.

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Posted in Election Assistance Commission 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>, political polarization 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>, The Voting Wars 
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    "Was IRS Targeting Limited to Cincinnati Office?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51416>

Posted on June 7, 2013 12:57 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51416> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important AP report 
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/06/07/us/politics/ap-us-irs-investigation.html?ref=politics>.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law 
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    "First Public Meeting of Presidential Commission on Election
    Administration Set" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51411>

Posted on June 7, 2013 10:55 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51411> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See this media advisory 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/First-Public-Meeting-Media-Advisory.docx>.  
See alsothis meeting notice 
<http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2013-13496_PI.pdf>.

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    "Please, Republicans, save the filibuster"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51408>

Posted on June 7, 2013 10:52 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51408> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jonathan Bernstein blogs 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/06/07/please-republicans-save-the-filibuster/>.

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    "Future of voting rights up in the air: In Plain English"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51405>

Posted on June 7, 2013 10:42 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51405> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Amy Howe: 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/future-of-voting-rights-up-in-the-air-in-plain-english/#more-164579>

    We often think of Justice Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote on the
    Court, and that might eventually wind up being the case here.  But
    nothing that he said at the oral argument gave supporters of the
    Voting Rights Act much hope that he would vote to uphold the law in
    its current form.   And Court watchers are now predicting that Chief
    Justice John Roberts will be the author of the Court's opinion in
    the case, which can only make the law's supporters more nervous. 
    Will the Chief Justice surprise us all by pulling a "health care"
    here too?   We could know as soon as Monday at 10 a.m.

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    "John Lewis's Long Fight for Voting Rights"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51402>

Posted on June 7, 2013 9:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51402> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ari Berman writes 
<http://www.thenation.com/article/174684/john-lewiss-long-fight-voting-rights> 
for /The Nation./

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