[EL] will today's decisoin revive the EAC?

[Marty Lederman]

"the court will simply order EAC employees to accommodate Arizona on the
federal form'

or, as the footnote suggests, if the court can't mandamus the EAC
employees, it might simply declare that Arizona can deny registration
absent further proof of citizenship, Federal Form notwithstanding.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

>  I don't see that Richard.  That would just delay things in the Arizona
> case.  Now Arizona can go to court and demand that the EAC act.  When it
> can't because of the lack of a quorum to act, the court will simply order
> EAC employees to accommodate Arizona on the federal form.
>
> More broadly, the Republicans I've spoken who oppose the EAC see it as a
> failed agency that does the bidding of Democrats.  So why revive it for a
> single case?
>
>
>
> On 6/17/13 2:37 PM, Richard Winger wrote:
>
>   Maybe Republicans in Congress will now want to see the EAC in
> operation?  I would expect at least Arizona's Republican members of
> Congress would favor that.
>
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