[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/19/14

Tue Aug 19 08:12:08 PDT 2014

    Dan Tokaji Guest Blogging Wed-Saturday
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64424>

Posted onAugust 19, 2014 8:10 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64424>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Thanks Dan!

I won't be easily reachable those days.

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    "The Kochs' Plan to Beat Harry Reid"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64422>

Posted onAugust 19, 2014 8:09 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64422>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports. 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/koch-brothers-harry-reid-2016-election-110133.html#ixzz3Aq1XVNsb>

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    "3 Reasons Why Rick Perry Will Be Very Tough To Take Down In Court"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64420>

Posted onAugust 19, 2014 8:00 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64420>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Sahil Kapur reports 
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/rick-perry-indictment-three-problems>.

My earlier writing on Perry:

Rick Perry and the Criminalization of Politics <http://t.co/K5yWcNzt9E>

Just Politics: Just because politics can be ugly doesn't make it a crime 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64396> (Slate)

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    Rick Perry Legal Dream Team Includes Bobby Burchfield, Ben Ginsberg
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64418>

Posted onAugust 19, 2014 7:52 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64418>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here. 
<http://online.wsj.com/articles/rick-perrys-lawyer-calls-indictment-banana-republic-politics-1408394977>

It's not every day I get ashout-out 
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/215436-perry-says-hell-fight-indictment-with-everything-i-have>from 
Ben.

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    NYT Editorial Skeptical of Perry Indictment
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64416>

Posted onAugust 19, 2014 7:44 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64416>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/opinion/is-gov-perrys-bad-judgment-really-a-crime.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region>

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    Paul Sherman NYT Letter to the Editor on Family Funds and Super PACs
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64414>

Posted onAugust 19, 2014 7:43 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64414>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/opinion/donations-from-the-family.html?_r=0>

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    "We need a fairer system for choosing House members"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64412>

Posted onAugust 19, 2014 7:42 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64412>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Katrina vanden HeuvelWaPo column. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-we-need-a-fairer-system-for-choosing-house-members/2014/08/19/bf93c84c-271c-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html>

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    Federal Court Rejects Challenge by Independent Voters to NJ Closed
    Primary System <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64409>

Posted onAugust 19, 2014 7:41 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64409>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The court held 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/nj-closed.pdf>there is no 
constitutional right of independent voters to vote in a major party's 
closed primary. The result is unsurprising and the opinion is unpublished.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>

    "Yup'ik Ballots in Alaska Illuminate Language Challenges for
    Ballots, Election Materials" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64407>

Posted onAugust 19, 2014 7:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64407>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinBlog. 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/08/yupik_ballots_in_alaska_illumi.php>

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    "Parties clash over changes to Connecticut's election law"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64405>

Posted onAugust 18, 2014 10:00 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64405>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/18/parties-clash-over-changes-to-connecticuts-election-law/>.

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    A Weak Defense of the Perry Indictment
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64402>

Posted onAugust 18, 2014 9:40 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64402>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have not seen any professors out there writing that the indictment is 
strong. The closest isMichael 
Dorf,<http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2014/08/rick-perrys-indictment.html>who 
seems ambivalent. The comments by Hashim after the Dorf post point out 
the problems with treating the veto or the veto threat as a criminal 
violation.

Now a few readers have pointed me to "Why Rick Perry Will Be Convicted 
<http://linkis.com/huff.to/0Wf4G>" by James Moore at HuffPo.

It does not seem very convincing to me, not on the question of whether a 
jury might convict, but on the question of whether the courts will let 
these charges go to a jury or overturn any jury convictions.

Moore's main point appears to be that Perry may have had a political 
motivation---to stop the investigation of an ally--when he threatened to 
veto and vetoed funding for the Travis County D.A.'s office. That's not 
news and had been reported before. Even assuming that is true, it does 
not look like that conduct fits under Count 1 of the indictment (for 
reasonsEugene has given 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/08/16/does-a-governor-have-custody-or-possession-of-funds-the-legislature-wants-to-appropriate-in-a-bill-that-he-vetoes/>). 
As for count 2, it looks like (1) the threatening of a veto may be 
protected conduct; (2) it may not be covered by the statute; and (3) 
prosecution for a veto threat under the statute may violate the First 
Amendment.

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    Torres-Spelliscy on the McDonnells' Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64400>

Posted onAugust 18, 2014 9:29 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64400>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/beware-all-enterprises-require-new-clothes-mr-mrs-mcdonnell>

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    When Will New Fla Elections Be Held?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64398>

Posted onAugust 18, 2014 9:28 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64398>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A longtime reader writes:

    Since the existing congressional districts in central and northeast
    Florida are unconstitutional, how fast can Florida hold elections
    implementing new congressional redistricting maps?
    County supervisors of election from the affected areassay they can
    hold a special election as soon as December 2014
    <http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2014/08/supervisors-special-election-is-possible-this-year-for-revised-congressional-districts.html>.

    Secretary of State Ken Detznersays election officials need at least
    half a year longer
    <http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-florida-secretary-of-state-new-congressional-elections-cant-happen-until-2015-and-are-illegal-20140815,0,2138795.post>,
    until May 2015. In other words, over nine months from now.

    That wide gulf is certainly curious. And obviously, the longer the
    delay in implementing new maps, the longer Florida must conduct
    elections using unconstitutional districts.

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