[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/13/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Nov 13 07:35:23 PST 2014
"John Doe lawsuit could be headed to U.S. Supreme Court"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68341>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:31 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68341>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Wisconsin Reporter
<http://watchdog.org/182581/john-doe-supreme-court-speech/>says cert.
petition due by Jan. 21.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,chicanery
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
"Hillary Clinton left out by liberal donor club"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68339>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68339>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ken Vogel reports for Politico.
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/hillary-clinton-democracy-alliance-2016-elections-112831.html#ixzz3IveLRTy1>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"Runoff Elections Require Early Preparation for Overseas and
Military Voters" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68337>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68337>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
New Pew
<http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/news/2014/12/runoff-elections-require-early-preparation-for-overseas-and-military-voters>.
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
WaPo Editorial Endorses Instant Runoff Voting for DC Elections
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68335>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68335>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/three-ways-dc-can-improve-the-electoral-process-for-voters/2014/11/12/52d6edfe-6602-11e4-9fdc-d43b053ecb4d_story.html>.
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Posted inalternative voting systems <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63>
"Post-Mortem: Rhode Island's Nov. 4, 2014 Referendum to Convene a
State Constitutional Convention" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68333>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:27 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68333>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
J.H. Snider blogs. <http://rhodeislandconcon.info/?p=1588>
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
"Campaign Finance Deadlock, Part II: Campaign Finance Reform as
Reform of the Electoral Process" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68331>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:24 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68331>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer blogs.
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/11/campaign-finance-deadlock-part-ii-campaign-finance-reform-reform-electoral-process/>
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"It's Pretty Much Just Fox Viewers Who Think Voter Fraud Is A
Problem" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68328>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68328>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
TPM
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/fox-viewers-voter-fraud-voter-disenfranchisement>:
"By a huge margin, people who consider Fox News their most trusted TV
news source say that "people casting votes who are not eligible to vote"
is the bigger problem while most people who trust other news stations
(CNN, broadcast news, or public television) say that eligible voters who
are denied the right to vote is the bigger issue in voting today."
I'd be very careful about causation here. Many people are drawn to FOX
(and other stations) because of their pre-existing views, which are then
reenforced by the network.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
SCOTUS Alabama Redistricting Roundup
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68326>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68326>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
How Appealing
<http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com/111314.html#059011>andSCOTUSBlog
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/11/thursday-round-up-252/>have extensive
roundups. For my writing on the case see
this SCOTUSBlog preview
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/argument-preview-racial-gerrymandering-partisan-politics-and-the-future-of-the-voting-rights-act/>
this Slate commentary
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/11/alabama_redistricting_supreme_court_did_legislators_redraw_district_lines.html>
and
this SCOTUSBlog oral argument analysis
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/11/argument-analysis-hitting-the-sweet-spot-on-race-party-and-redistricting/>.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
Linda Greenhouse Connects New Obamacare Case to Bush v. Gore
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68324>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:05 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68324>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Must-read column.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/opinion/law-in-the-raw.html?emc=eta1&_r=1> Iconnected<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-roberts-supreme-court-obamacare-20141113-story.html>King
v. Burwell to Shelby County.
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
"Pew Post-Election Survey Has Some Interesting Numbers for Election
Geeks, Too" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68321>
Posted onNovember 13, 2014 7:02 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68321>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read Doug Chapin
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/11/pew_post-election_survey_has_s.php>on
the new Pew Survey and look at these fascinating data on voter
confidence over time:
Pew.confidence.Nov.2014
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Pew.confidence.Nov_.2014.png>
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"History gives clues to Chief Justice Roberts' thinking on new
Obamacare case" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68319>
Posted onNovember 12, 2014 5:23 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68319>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I have writtenthis
oped<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-roberts-supreme-court-obamacare-20141113-story.html>for
tomorrow's /Los Angeles Times. /It begins:
The Supreme Court's surprising decision last week to hear a new
challenge to the Affordable Care Act has once again focused
attention on Chief Justice John Roberts, who cast the deciding vote
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/supreme-court-lets-health-law-largely-stand.html?pagewanted=all> in
a 2012 decision that saved Obamacare from being declared
unconstitutional. Many court watchers expect that he will once again
be the swing vote in deciding a case crucial to the healthcare law,
this one involving questions about who qualifies for subsidies under
the law. But Roberts' vote in a recent voting rights case suggests
he might not step in to save the health law this time.
It concludes:
Even if Congress were to come together in a bipartisan way to
override some statutory interpretations of the Supreme Court, there
is no way it is going to override the Supreme Court on the
Affordable Care Act. The House has voted dozens of times to repeal
the healthcare law in its entirety; there is little chance it would
step in now to save a law its members have so long maligned.
Roberts can point to many past cases in which court decisions have
initiated a "dialogue" with Congress, which then stepped in with
legislation to correct what it saw as errors in the court's
interpretation of congressional statutes.
In today's fraught political environment, court-Congress dialogues
are not generally possible. But that might not stop Roberts from
citing the possibility of such a dialogue --- especially if what he
is really seeking is political cover and a chance to redeem his
controversial earlier ruling on the Affordable Care Act with a new
one that hobbles a key part of the law.
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Posted inSupreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,Voting
Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
"Alabama Redistricting Case Divides Supreme Court"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68317>
Posted onNovember 12, 2014 4:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68317>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Marcia Coyle
reports<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/supremecourtbrief/home/id=1202676230105/Alabama-Redistricting-Case-Divides-Supreme-Court?mcode=1202615432992&curindex=1&back=NLJ&slreturn=20141012185641>for
the NLJ.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
"Bloomberg Law: Voting Clash at the Supreme Court (Audio)"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68315>
Posted onNovember 12, 2014 3:43 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68315>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
*
Bloomberg Law: Voting Clash at the Supreme Court (Audio)
Nov 12, 2014
Richard Hasen, a professor at the University of California Irvine
School of Law and a leading authority on election law, discusses
oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court over claims that Alabama
Republicans unconstitutionally packed too many black residents into
a handful of state legislative districts. He speaks with June Grasso
and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."
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<http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/Politics/Law/vddUUN1j0rwY.mp3>
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
"Want to Improve Voter Turnout? Abolish Voter Registration. No,
Really!" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68313>
Posted onNovember 12, 2014 3:40 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68313>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This item
<http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/11/improve_voter_turnout_by_abolishing_voter_registration.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr%3Acontent%26>appears
at The Root.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter registration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
Tenth Circuit Orders Its Citizens United v. Gessler Disclosure
Opinion Published <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68311>
Posted onNovember 12, 2014 3:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68311>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I earlier asked <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67492>why this was not a
published opinion.
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