[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/29/14

Mon Apr 28 20:50:02 PDT 2014

    Pa Voter ID Case May Soon Go to State Supreme Court
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60955>

Posted on April 28, 2014 8:48 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60955>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News 
<http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Judge-denies-Commonwealths-motion-in-voter-ID-case.html> 
from Pa:

    A Commonwealth Court judge on Monday denied the Corbett
    administration's motion to reconsider his ruling overturning the
    state's two-year-old voter identification law.

    In his 29-page decision, Judge Bernard L. McGinley said the law
    requiring voters to produce photo ID at the polls failed "to provide
    liberal access to compliant photo ID" and as a result voters were
    disenfranchised.

    "The evidence showed the voter ID provisions at issue deprive
    numerous electors of their fundamental right to vote, so vital to
    our democracy," wrote McGinley, who struck down the law in January.

    The Corbett administration has 30 days to file an appeal to the
    state Supreme Court.

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The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id 
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    John Doe Campaign Finance Investigation in Wisconin Makes Appearance
    in NYT Profile of Gov. Scott Walker
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60953>

Posted on April 28, 2014 8:45 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60953>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/us/politics/governor-with-eye-on-2016-finds-his-rise-under-scrutiny.html?ref=politics&_r=1>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    A Fish is Known by the Company It Keeps: Fishy Noscitur a Sociis
    SCOTUS Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60951>

Posted on April 28, 2014 8:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60951>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Eugene Volokh 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/04/28/when-fish-are-informational-items-and-part-of-a-record/> 
on a case sure to delight statutory interpretation nerds.

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Posted in statutory interpretation <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=21>, 
Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    An Odd Omission in NY Times Story on Senate Confirming Judicial
    Nominees: The Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60949>

Posted on April 28, 2014 8:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60949>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The story 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/us/white-house-steps-up-effort-to-confirm-federal-judges.html> 
begins:

    With the possibility that Republicans could take the Senate in
    November, the White House and Senate Democrats are working swiftly
    to confirm judges to the federal courts in an effort to allow
    President Obama
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
    to leave a lasting liberal imprint on the judiciary.

How could such an article not even mention the Justice 
Ginsburgretirement controversy 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/12/ruth_bader_ginsburg_s_retirement_stop_telling_the_supreme_court_justice.html>? 
The issue is therefore not only that there could be a Republican 
president in 2016 who could appoint a conservative in Justice Ginsburg's 
place to solidify the position of conservatives on the Court. It is that 
an Obama replacement of Justice Ginsburg in 2015 or 16 might end up 
being not as liberal as someone who could get through the Senate before 
the 2014 elections.

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Posted in Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    "How North Carolina's Voter ID Law Could Actually Help Democrats
    This Year" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60947>

Posted on April 28, 2014 8:20 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60947>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Kate Nocera reports 
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/katenocera/how-north-carolinas-voter-id-law-could-actually-help-democra> 
for BuzzFeed.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act 
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    McGahn, Reiff Added to Witness List for Senate Rules Campaign
    Finance Hearing <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60945>

Posted on April 28, 2014 4:47 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60945>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Witness list 
<http://www.rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=CommitteeHearings&ContentRecord_id=3fb0fbe5-f5f6-4366-80fa-ab84c40746ff>for 
Wednesday's hearing:

*Witness List *

Panel I:

*The Honorable John Paul Stevens*
Associate Justice (Ret.)
United States Supreme Court
Washington, DC

Panel II:

*Mr. Donald F. McGahn, Esq. *
Patton Boggs LLP
Washington, DC

*Mr. Norman J. Ornstein*
American Enterprise Institute
Washington, DC

*Mr. Trevor Potter, Esq.*
President and General Counsel
Campaign Legal Center
Washington, DC

*The Honorable Ann M. Ravel*
Vice Chair
Federal Election Commission
Washington, DC

*Mr. Neil Reiff, Esq.*
Sandler, Reiff, Young & Lamb
Washington, DC

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    "A Judge Speaks Truth to the Supreme Court; A Tale of Two Views of
    Democracy" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60943>

Posted on April 28, 2014 2:26 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60943>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Larry Noble blogs. 
<http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=562:a-judge-speaks-truth-to-the-supreme-court-a-tale-of-two-views-of-democracy>

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    Federal Court Rejects Voting Rights Lawsuit Against At-Large Voting
    in Pasadena TX School Board Elections
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60940>

Posted on April 28, 2014 2:26 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60940>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read the 46-page opinion 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/cisneros.pdf> in 
/Cisneros v. PISD./

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Posted in Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

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