[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/20/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Mar 20 08:12:23 PDT 2014
"Supreme Court faces wave of free-speech cases from conservatives"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59590>
Posted on March 20, 2014 8:10 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59590>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Savage
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-court-free-speech-20140320,0,6923802.story#axzz2wW2qgdIv>for
the LA Times:
This year's Supreme Court term features an unusual array of
potentially powerful 1st Amendment claims, all of them coming from
groups on the right.
And in nearly every case, liberal groups --- often in alliance with
the Obama
<http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/barack-obama-PEPLT007408.topic>
administration --- are taking the opposing side, supporting state
and federal laws that have come under attack for infringing upon the
rights of conservatives.
The free-speech challenges include cases on campaign contribution
limits, no-protest zones in front of abortion clinics and mandatory
union dues for public employees.
At the same time, devout Christian employers are claiming their
religious liberty should entitle them to an exemption from a
provision in President Obama's healthcare law
<http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/healthcare-laws/affordable-care-act-%28obamacare%29-EVGAP00039.topic>
requiring that full contraceptive coverage be offered to female
employees.
And waiting on deck is a free-speech appeal from a Christian
photography company challenging a New Mexico state law that bars
businesses from discriminating against gays and lesbians.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
Chapin Analysis of Kobach v. EAC Decision
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59588>
Posted on March 20, 2014 8:02 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59588>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Doug:
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/03/kansas_arizona_win_proof_of_ci.php>
As usual, what's most interesting (at least to me) is what's next.
Here's a short list:
1. Does the EAC appeal in an effort to revive its authority to
control the federal form and the accompanying instructions --
and if so, do they prevail?
2. Does the appeal make its way back to the Supreme Court and give
Justices another opportunity to delineate federal and state
election law responsibilities as they did in last summer's
opinion in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2013/06/arizona_v_inter_tribal_council.php>?
3. Do more states enact proof-of-citizenship requirments as a result?
4. Does the case give more incentive for states to consider online
voter registration, which usually includes an
eligibility/citizenship check
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2013/12/switcheroo_ohio_sos_says_onlin.php>
as part of the process?
5. What happens to the thousands of voters in who applied using the
federal form before the lawsuit was decided? Can the states (and
if so how) enforce the proof-of-citizenship law in time for
those voters to cast ballots in this year's election?
This is a big deal and is likely the starting gun for another round
of disputes across the nation. Stay tuned!
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Posted in Elections Clause <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>, NVRA
(motor voter) <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>, The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Court requires citizenship proof for new voters"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59586>
Posted on March 20, 2014 8:00 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59586>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Howard Fischer writes
<http://azdailysun.com/news/local/state-and-regional/court-requires-citizenship-proof-for-new-voters/article_b9016f9a-aff1-11e3-a18e-001a4bcf887a.html>
for /AZ Daily Sun./
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Posted in Elections Clause <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>, NVRA
(motor voter) <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>, The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Is Organizing For Action Too Close To The White House?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59584>
Posted on March 20, 2014 7:55 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59584>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Peter Overby reports
<http://www.npr.org/2014/03/19/291312006/is-organizing-for-action-too-close-to-the-white-house>
for NPR.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
Eric Zorn on Instant Runoff Voting in Illinois
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59582>
Posted on March 20, 2014 7:54 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59582>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2014/03/instant-democracy-just-add-choices-and-count.html>.
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Posted in alternative voting systems <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63>
"Judge rules Libertarians will stay off ballot"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59580>
Posted on March 20, 2014 7:48 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59580>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest
<http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/03/19/judge-rules-libertarians-will-stay-ballot/6631969/>from
Ohio.
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Posted in ballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>
Roy Schotland Would Have Loved Participating in This
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59578>
Posted on March 19, 2014 7:47 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59578>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Justice at Risk: Research Opportunities and Policy Alternatives
Regarding State Judicial Selection.
<http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu/calendar/2014/03/21/justice-at-risk-research-opportunities-and-policy-alternatives-regarding-state-judicial-selection.217247/?utm_source=vuhomepage&utm_medium=newsbox&utm_campaign=justice-at-risk>
Looks like a fabulous lineup at March 21 Vanderbilt event.
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Posted in judicial elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>
"Kansas wins lawsuit allowing proof of citizenship requirement for
voters" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59576>
Posted on March 19, 2014 7:10 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59576>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /Kansas City Star/ reports.
<http://www.kansascity.com/2014/03/19/4901700/kansas-wins-lawsuit-allowing-proof.html>
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Posted in Elections Clause <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>, NVRA
(motor voter) <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>, The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Useful Derek Muller Post on the Confusion in Kobach v. EAC Case
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59574>
Posted on March 19, 2014 4:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59574>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2014/3/necessary-voter-eligibility-enforcement-under-kobach-v-eac>,
at Excess of Democracy.
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Posted in Elections Clause <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>, NVRA
(motor voter) <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>, The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"DOJ plans expansion of voting rights enforcement"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59572>
Posted on March 19, 2014 4:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59572>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/USA Today /reports.
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/19/justice-department-plans-offensive-in-voting-rights-mission/6625173/>
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Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
"FEC Lets Chevron Off the Hook for $2.5 Million Super PAC
Contribution" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59570>
Posted on March 19, 2014 3:20 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59570>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Public Citizen press release
<http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=4120>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
"Want to Vote? Show Us Your Papers"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59568>
Posted on March 19, 2014 3:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59568>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Firestone blogs
<http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/want-to-vote-show-us-your-papers/?smid=tw-share>
for NYT's Taking Note blog.
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Posted in NVRA (motor voter) <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>, The
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
"Flip-flopping conservatives take aim at another key provision of
the Voting Rights Act" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59566>
Posted on March 19, 2014 2:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59566>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Zack Roth <http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/war-voting-rights-act>:
Last summer, the Supreme Court invalidated the Voting Rights Act's
(VRA) most powerful provision, known as Section 5. And in the wake
of that ruling, msnbc reported
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/conservatives-prepare-finish-voting-ri>
on signs that the right would next set its sights on the landmark
civil rights law's other key pillar, essentially rendering the VRA a
dead letter. That assault is now officially underway---just in time
to stymie several high-stakes challenges to voter ID laws.
Two leading conservative legal activists argued in a memo
<http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/03/disparate-impact-and-section-2-of-the-voting-rights-act>
published this week by the Heritage Foundation that the provision at
issue, Section 2, should be construed so narrowly that it would be
able to stop only the most blatant forms of racial discrimination in
voting. And the memo, written by Heritage's Hans von Spakovsky and
Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity, may aim to lay the
groundwork for an even more far-reaching claim: The prominent
election law scholar Rick Hasen, no alarmist on voting rights,
described <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59492> it as a step "on the
road to arguing for the unconstitutionality of Section 2."
"Now that Section 5 is essentially gone, it is time for the attack
on Section 2," Hasen added.
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Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
"Exclusive: ES&S iVotronic Touch-Screen Voting Systems Now For Sale
on eBay!" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59564>
Posted on March 19, 2014 1:50 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59564>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
For that special someone <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10544>....
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"The I.T.T. Affair and Why Public Financing Matters for Political
Conventions" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59562>
Posted on March 19, 2014 1:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59562>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs
<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/itt-affair-why-public-financing-matters-political-conventions>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Judge Says U.S. Must Help States Enforce Voter ID Laws"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59560>
Posted on March 19, 2014 1:29 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59560>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/us/judge-says-us-must-help-states-enforce-voter-id-laws.html>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
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