[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/5/14

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Sun May 4 21:27:20 PDT 2014


    "Congressman John Conyers Probably Will File a Lawsuit to get on
    Democratic Primary Ballot" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61198>

Posted on May 4, 2014 9:22 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61198>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ballot Access News 
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/05/congressman-john-conyers-probably-will-file-a-lawsuit-to-get-on-democratic-primary-ballot/>:

    Michigan election officials are likely to keep Congressman John
    Conyers off the August 5 primary ballot, unless he files and wins a
    lawsuit. See this story
    <http://www.freep.com/article/20140502/NEWS06/305020117/John-Conyers-Cathy-Garrett>,
    which explains that Michigan law requires circulators for primary
    candidates to be registered voters. It appears some of Conyers'
    circulators weren't registered voters when they circulated his
    petition. He needed 1,000 signatures, and he has fewer than 1,000 if
    the petitions circulated by the apparently unregistered voters are
    excluded.

    As the story says, in 1999 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Buckley v
    American Constitutional Law Foundation that states cannot require
    petitioners to be registered voters. Although that case involved
    initiative petitions, lower courts since 1999 have unanimously ruled
    that the principle applies to all types of petitions.

    In 2009, a U.S. District Court in Michigan ruled, "Overall, the
    Court finds that the distinctions between the various kinds of
    petition circulators are not of great significance to the analysis
    of the burdens posed by registration and residency requirements."
    That case struck down a requirement that recall petition circulators
    must be registered voters. Ironically, in that case, the state of
    Michigan argued that while a residency requirement and a
    registration requirement for circulators of candidate petitions is a
    severe burden, the requirement as applied to recall petitioners is
    not severe. The Court rejected the state's argument. That decision
    is Bogaert v Land, western district, 1:08-cv-687, issued December
    17, 2009.

    So far, Michigan officials are saying that whereas residency
    requirements for circulators of independent candidate petitions are
    unconstitutional, residency requirements for circulators of primary
    candidates are constitutional. There is no case law to support that
    conclusion....

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    LA Times Endorses Pete Peterson, Only Republican Preference
    Candidate for Secretary of State, Because He Would Focus on "the
    More Mundane Tasks of the Job" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61196>

Posted on May 4, 2014 9:10 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61196>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Just as interesting 
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/endorsements/la-ed-end-secretary-of-state-20140504,0,4204662.story#axzz30oKeggZ0> 
is why the Times does not like the "reform" candidates in the race:

    Like Peterson, Derek Cressman, a Democrat, has excellent
    qualifications for the job. As an executive with the good-government
    group Common Cause, Cressman advocated for fair elections and
    campaign finance reform, and he would continue that advocacy as
    secretary of state. He has intelligent ideas about how to improve
    voter education, including creating an online voter guide with
    candidate videos, footage of debates and campaign contribution data.

    Similarly, Dan Schnur would fight for anti-corruption laws,
    including banning political contributions during the legislative
    session. A former Republican consultant who became the director of
    the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC, Schnur is running
    as an independent and hopes to be the first independent candidate
    elected to statewide office.

    But both Cressman and Schnur are too focused on making the office a
    bully pulpit for political reform rather than addressing the more
    mundane tasks of the job.

    State Sen. Alex Padilla
    <http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/alex-padilla-PEPLT00008179.topic>
    (D-Pacoima) has immersed himself in the details of the job, meeting
    with most county election officials and introducing bills to ban
    campaign contributions in the final 100 days of the legislative
    session and to increase the frequency of campaign finance
    disclosures. Yet we are concerned that Padilla sees the job merely
    as a steppingstone to higher office, at a moment when California
    needs a secretary of state who is 100% committed to modernizing the
    office, creating more transparent political campaigns and helping
    increase the number of educated, engaged and voting citizens.

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    "Liberal donors eye new long-term investments in states and new
    voters to boost Democrats" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61194>

Posted on May 4, 2014 9:06 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61194>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/liberal-donors-eye-new-long-term-investments-in-states-and-new-voters-to-boost-democrats/2014/05/04/0433e53a-d20f-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html>:

    A group of wealthy liberal donors who helped bankroll the Center for
    American Progress and other major advocacy groups on the left is
    developing a new big-money strategy that could boost state-level
    Democratic candidates and mobilize core party voters.

    The plan, being crafted in private by a group of about 100 donors
    that includes billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros and San
    Francisco venture capitalist Rob McKay, seeks to give Democrats a
    stronger hand in the redrawing of district lines for state
    legislatures and the U.S. House.

    The effort reflects a sense among many top donors on the left that
    Democrats missed opportunities in 2010 to shape the redistricting
    process and contain the tea party wave that helped propel Republican
    victories around the country.

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    "Fewer lobbyists are passing through the revolving door from K
    Street to Capitol Hill" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61192>

Posted on May 4, 2014 9:04 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61192>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fewer-lobbyists-are-passing-through-the-revolving-door-from-k-street-to-capitol-hill/2014/05/04/1c86939e-cfc1-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html>.

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    "The Battle to Protect Voting Rights"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61190>

Posted on May 4, 2014 9:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61190>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Al Hunt 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/us/politics/the-battle-to-protect-voting-rights.html?ref=politics> 
for Bloomberg View/International NYT.

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    New "Latino Victory Project" Gets NYT Launch Coverage
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61188>

Posted on May 4, 2014 8:59 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61188>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/us/politics/in-california-race-a-latina-democrat-carries-hopes-of-her-party-and-people.html?ref=politics&_r=0>.

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    When One Justice Makes a Mistake, It is an Embarrassing Blunder. But
    When 9 Do, Silence. <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61184>

Posted on May 4, 2014 5:00 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61184>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bob Barnes of the Washington Post has a nice recap 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2014/05/03/8629d9d8-d231-11e3-937f-d3026234b51c_story.html> 
of the partisanship surrounding Justice Scalia's error in a recent case 
in which he mischaracterized a precedent (a precedent whose opinion he 
authored).  Justice Stevens made a mistake 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/02/justice-stevens-made-the-same-mistake-before-justice-scalia/> 
like this in a case as well, and Eugene Volokh offers more, some 
corrected, some not 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/02/errors-in-supreme-court-opinions/>.

These mistakes are easy to flag as mistakes because there is another 
precedent to compare---the mistake consists of how a prior case is 
characterized.  But consider another kind of mistake: where a Court 
opinion mischaracterize the law in a way that changes the law in a major 
way, perhaps through inadvertence. That's what happened with a case on 
the standard for permanent injunctions a few years ago, /eBay v. 
MercExchange. /This kind of error is much more serious than the kind of 
error Justice Scalia made, which changed neither the holding of a case 
nor the standards lower courts would apply to a legal issue.  The error 
I described has changed the law in profound ways, and the Court has 
never acknowledged that it might have resulted from an error.

Here's my analysis from a recent article in the /Emory Law Journal/, 
Anticipatory Overrulings, Invitations, Time Bombs, and Inadvertence: How 
Supreme Court Justices Move the Law 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1750398>.

    D.  Inadvertence

    Inadvertence occurs when the Court changes the law without
    consciously attempting to do so, through attempts to restate
    existing law in line with the writing Justice's values. Of course,
    it is possible that some of these misstatements of the law are
    intentional, either on the part of a Justice or Justices or a clerk,
    as a surreptitious means of shifting the law without alerting the
    other Justices of the shift.[1] <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn1>
    But the issue of such devious motivation is very difficult to
    prove,[2] <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn2> and it is enough for
    my purposes to treat all cases of legal misstatements as those of
    inadvertence.

    Consider the Supreme Court's recent treatment of the standards for
    issuing permanent injunctions. In /eBay Inc. v. MercExchange
    L. L. C./, the Supreme Court reversed a "'general rule,' [of the
    United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit] unique to
    patent disputes, 'that a permanent injunction will issue once
    infringement and validity have been adjudged.'"[3]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn3> Unremarkably, the Supreme Court,
    in an opinion by Justice Thomas, held that the question of the
    issuance of a permanent injunction must be judged on a case-by-case
    basis through the application of judicial discretion.[4]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn4> It rejected the Federal
    Circuit's special rule for patent injunctions.[5]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn5> The surprise in the case came in
    the Court's statement of the "well-established principles"
    applicable to the issuance of permanent injunctions:

    *According to well-established principles of equity, a plaintiff
    seeking a permanent injunction must satisfy a four-factor test
    before a court may grant such relief. A plaintiff must demonstrate:
    (1) that it has suffered an irreparable injury; (2) that remedies
    available at law, such as monetary damages, are inadequate to
    compensate for that injury; (3) that, considering the balance of
    hardships between the plaintiff and defendant, a remedy in equity is
    warranted; and (4) that the public interest would not be disserved
    by a permanent injunction. The decision to grant or deny permanent
    injunctive relief is an act of equitable discretion by the district
    court, reviewable on appeal for abuse of discretion.[6]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn6>*

    A major problem with the Supreme Court's recitation of this
    supposedly "well-established" four-part test is that the test did
    not exist before. Professor Doug Rendleman explained that
    "[r]emedies specialists had never heard of the four-point test."[7]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn7> There was a familiar four-part
    test for the issuance of /preliminary/ injunctions, but it was not
    this same test.[8] <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn8> The test for
    preliminary injunctions, which looks in part at future likelihood of
    success on the merits, "make[s] no sense as applied to /permanent
    /injunctions."[9] <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn9>

    So how did this new test come into being in /eBay/? Professor
    Laycock explains what appears to be Justice Thomas's inadvertence:

    EBay and many of its amici, and the U.S. Solicitor General, who was
    supporting MercExchange, all referred to some version of four
    traditional considerations relevant to injunctive relief. They did
    not all cite the same four factors, and none of the lead briefs
    offered anything so flat footed as the Court's formulation. The
    Court appears to have mostly taken its four-part test from the
    district court, which took it from one earlier district court
    opinion; putting irreparable injury in the past tense appears to
    have been an innovation by Justice Thomas or one of his clerks. And
    because the opinion gives no hint how any of the four parts of the
    test apply to the facts of the case, its abstract pronouncement has
    no real content. The case was litigated by an all-star cast of
    Supreme Court lawyers, but none of them consulted a remedies
    specialist.[10] <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn10>

    But Court inadvertence takes on a life of its own.[11]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn11> The /eBay /test has now been
    cited and applied by numerous lower courts,[12]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn12> and the Court recently
    reaffirmed it as the "traditional four-factor test" last term
    in/Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms/.[13]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn13> "And once again the Court
    appeared oblivious to any difference between permanent and
    preliminary injunctions."[14] <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn14>

    In the /eBay /and /Monsanto /cases, the law moved, significantly,
    through apparent inadvertence. The term "inadvertence" might suggest
    some randomness, but I expect inadvertent mistakes to more
    systematically reflect the value judgments of the Justice drafting
    the opinion. The causal mechanism for such a bias is
    straightforward: an error in stating existing law (or inadvertent
    change of law) in a draft opinion is less likely to capture the
    attention of a Justice reviewing a draft opinion if the error is in
    line with what the Justice expects the law to be.

    The /eBay/ case provides a nice example of the nonrandomness of
    inadvertence. In applying the (new) four-part test, the Court's
    analysis in /Monsanto/ increased the burdens on plaintiffs seeking
    permanent injunctions.[15] <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn15>
    Before /eBay/, the common understanding was that it was up to a
    defendant to raise the question of the public interest as a kind of
    affirmative defense if the defendant believed the injunction sought
    by the plaintiff did not serve the public interest.[16]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn16> Under the new test, however,
    the /plaintiff/ must demonstrate that the public interest "would not
    be /disserved/" by a permanent injunction.[17]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn17> As Professor Laycock asks:
    "Might this mean that benefits to the public interest cannot count
    in favor of issuing the injunction, but that harm to the public
    interest is an absolute reason not to issue it? Did Justice Thomas
    choose that phrasing deliberately in /eBay/, or might it be
    inadvertent?"[18] <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn18> Whatever
    Justice Thomas intended, he has certainly written or signed onto a
    number of opinions in recent years that make it harder for
    plaintiffs to obtain an injunction and easier for defendants to seek
    modifications of injunctions that ease the burden on defendants.[19]
    <http://electionlawblog.org/#_ftn19> His inadvertence appears to
    line up with his values.


    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

             [1]   Douglas Laycock, /Federal Interference with State
    Prosecutions: The Cases /Dombrowski/Forgot/, 46 U. Chi. L. Rev. 636,
    670 (1979) ("It reads as though the Court were unaware of any case
    after /Douglas/, but the Court could have deliberately created that
    impression.").

             [2] /Id./ at 669--79 (providing detailed analysis to
    determine possible Supreme Court Justices' motivations in ignoring
    relevant precedent in /Dombrowski v. Pfister/, 380 U.S. 479 (1965),
    and concluding that the reason for ignoring precedent was likely
    inadvertence).

             [3]   547 U.S. 388, 393--94 (2006).

    //[4]/   See id. /at 391.

    //[5]/   See id. /at 393--94.

    //[6]/   Id./ at 391 (citations omitted).

             [7]   Doug Rendleman, /The Trial Judge's Equitable
    Discretion Following /eBay v. MercExchange, 27 Rev. Litig. 63, 76
    n.71 (2007); /accord/ Doug Rendleman & Caprice L. Roberts, Remedies:
    Cases and Materials 273 (8th ed. 2011).

             [8]   Rendleman, /supra /note 83, at 76 n.71.

    //[9]/   See/ Douglas Laycock, Modern American Remedies: Cases and
    Materials 426 (4th ed. 2010) (emphasis added). The test also suffers
    from other problems, such as that the first and second elements
    appear to be asking the same question. /Id./ at 426--27.

    //[10]/   Id./ at 427.

    //[11]/   See id./ ("There was no such test before, but there is now.").

    //[12]/   See id. /("By early May 2010, /eBay/ had been cited more
    than 4,100 times.").

           [13]   130 S. Ct. 2743, 2757 (2010).

           [14]   Douglas Laycock, Modern American Remedies 26 (2011
    Teachers' Update).

           [15]   130 S. Ct. at 2757 ("It is not enough for a court
    considering a request for injunctive relief to ask whether there is
    a good reason why an injunction should /not/ issue; rather, a court
    must determine that an injunction /should/ issue under the
    traditional four-factor test set out above.").

    //[16]/   See /Laycock, /supra/ note 85,//at 426--27.

    //[17]/   eBay/, 547 U.S. at 391.

           [18]   Laycock, /supra/ note 90, at 4.

           [19] /See, e.g./, /Monsanto/, 130 S. Ct. 2743;/see also
    /Horne v. Flores, 129 S. Ct. 2579, 2593 (2009) ("The party seeking
    relief bears the burden of establishing that changed circumstances
    warrant relief, but once a party carries this burden, a court abuses
    its discretion 'when it refuses to modify an injunction or consent
    decree in light of such changes.''' (citation omitted) (quoting
    Agostini v. Felton 521 U.S. 203, 215 (1997))); Winter v. Natural
    Res. Def. Council, Inc., 129 S. Ct. 365, 375--76 (2008) ("Issuing a
    preliminary injunction based only on a possibility of irreparable
    harm is inconsistent with our characterization of injunctive relief
    as an extraordinary remedy that may only be awarded upon a clear
    showing that the plaintiff is entitled to such relief.").

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    "Prosecutors: County candidate lied about home address, drawing
    felony voter fraud charges" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61182>

Posted on May 4, 2014 4:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61182>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP 
<http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/7ab3ab49792142c4bb9406777277bff5/CA--Candidate-Charged-Alameda-County/#.U2bP8ceCrjw>: 
"Prosecutors say a woman running for the office of auditor-controller in 
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    "In Colorado, an effort to revive democracy"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61180>

Posted on May 4, 2014 4:40 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61180>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ryan Ross 
<http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_25684761/colorado-an-e-8800-ort-revive-democracy#ixzz30lwXXZir>:

    An election initiative recently approved for signature-gathering by
    Colorado ballot-access regulators means that for the first time in a
    century, Coloradans have an alternative to political stagnation,
    hyper-partisanship, and a seemingly endless stream of political
    acrimony, recalls, court fights, government shutdowns, secession
    movements and negative campaign ads.

    That alternative is to give more power to the radical center, where
    compromise is a virtue, where progress becomes the norm, not the
    exception, where Coloradans can renew their faith in their state ---
    and their country --- and where the economy can get supercharged, so
    that job growth and wealth creation are accelerated.

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    "Got a Voter ID?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61178>

Posted on May 4, 2014 4:35 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61178>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jessica Levinson oped 
<http://politix.topix.com/story/11871-got-a-voter-id>on Politix.

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    "Voter ID is not worth the cost: Our View; Judge finds virtually no
    evidence of voter fraud in Wisconsin"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61176>

Posted on May 4, 2014 4:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61176>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Gannett editorial. 
<http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20140504/WDH06/305040079/Voter-ID-not-worth-cost-Our-View>

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    Must-Read Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Analysis of Political
    Polarization in Milwaukee and Wisconsin
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61174>

Posted on May 4, 2014 4:31 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61174>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Stark. 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/democratic-republican-voters-worlds-apart-in-divided-wisconsin-b99249564z1-255883361.html>

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