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[Rick Hasen]

    Breaking: Supreme Court to Hear Arizona Redistricting Case and
    Florida Case on Judicial Campaign Speech
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66201>

Posted onOctober 2, 2014 6:36 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66201>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

[This post to be updated.]

Here<http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100214zr_086c.pdf>is 
the Court's order.

Here is how the Court phrased the issue in the Arizona redistricting case:

    13-1314 AZ STATE LEGISLATURE V. AZ INDEP. REDISTRICTING, ET AL.
    Further consideration of the question of jurisdiction is
    postponed to the hearing of the case on the merits limited to
    the following questions: 1) Do the Elections Clause of the
    United States Constitution and 2 U. S. C. §2a(c) permit
    Arizona's use of a commission to adopt congressional districts?
    2) Does the Arizona Legislature have standing to bring this
    suit?

The key question is whether the state "Legislature's" power under the 
elections clause to set the manner for congressional elections includes 
the power for state voters to set those rules by initiative. It seems to 
me the matter is pretty settled that the answer is yes (for reasons 
given in my /Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly /article: When 
'Legislature' May Mean More than 'Legislature': Initiated Electoral 
College Reform and the Ghost of Bush v. Gore 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1065421>).  But 
maybe the issue is to be reopened?

Adam Liptak previewed the /Williams-Yulee/judicial elections case inthis 
recent column 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/sunday-review/judges-on-the-campaign-trail.html>.

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    Breaking: Challengers to WI Voter ID Law Seek Emergency SCOTUS Order
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66198>

Posted onOctober 2, 2014 6:20 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66198>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can read the 32-page petitionat this link. 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/14A352-Wisconsin-voting-application.pdf>

[I will post analysis of this brief later on this morning post-coffee at 
this link, SCOTUS orders, etc.]

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