[EL] more news 10/22/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Oct 22 10:20:37 PDT 2014
Breaking: Justice Ginsburg Fixes Her Texas Voter ID Dissent After
ELB Notes Error <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67275>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 10:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67275>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Yesterday I had a post<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67193>noting an
apparent small error in Justice Ginsburg's dissent in the Texas voter id
case. The Justice said a Veterans ID card was not acceptable for voting,
but it appears that it is acceptable.
Today the Justice issueda revised dissent
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14a393_p860.pdf>.
SCOTUSBlogreports
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/ginsburg-edits-her-voting-rights-dissent/>:
In ticking off her objections, Ginsburg wrote that Texas would not
even accept "photo ID cards issued by the U.S. Department of
Veterans' Affairs." On Wednesday, the Justice conceded that that
comment was incorrect. That kind of ID card, she said through the
Court's public information office, is "an acceptable form of photo
identification for voting in Texas." So she simply deleted the
sentence, and reissued the opinion. The Court also said that she
had made "small stylistic changes" on two pages of her opinion, and
that the corrected version could be read on the Court's website.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,term limits
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=65>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act
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"The Money Midterms" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67273>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 9:55 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67273>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
New Yorker:
<http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/money-midterms-scandal-slow-motion>
And yet Wertheimer told me this fall that he smells a storm coming.
He said, "The world changes on this issue when you get
scandals"---the political pratfalls that leave lawmakers no choice
but to enact new protections. "What is going on now /is/ a national
scandal, but it doesn't have the concrete examples that have
occurred in the past. It doesn't have Jack Abramoff"---the disgraced
lobbyist who hastened a round of ethics reforms. "We have three
elements today: unlimited contributions, corporate money, and secret
money. Those were the three elements of the Watergate
campaign-finance scandal," Wertheimer said. "They're back."
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Christie says GOP gubernatorial candidates need to win so they
control 'voting mechanisms'" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67271>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 9:52 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67271>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Wow
<http://www.northjersey.com/news/christie-says-gop-gubernatorial-candidates-need-to-win-so-they-control-voting-mechanisms-1.1113989>:
Would you rather have Rick Scott in Florida overseeing the voting
mechanism, or Charlie Crist? Would you rather have Scott Walker in
Wisconsin overseeing the voting mechanism, or would you rather have
Mary Burke? Who would you rather have in Ohio, John Kasich or Ed
FitzGerald?" he asked.
There is another way: nonpartisan election administration, where the
people counting the votes have their primary allegiance to the integrity
of the electoral process and not to one political party or another. (I
make my pitch for that in /The Voting Wars/
<http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031/ref=asap_B0089NJCR2_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413996725&sr=1-4>,
among other places.)
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"FAN 37 (First Amendment News) McCutcheon case produces flood of
scholarly commentary --- 40 works!"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67269>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 8:01 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67269>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ron Collins blogs.
<http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2014/10/fan-37-first-amendment-news-mccutcheon-case-produces-flood-of-scholarly-commentary-40-works.html>
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"Why Is Chevron Spending Millions on a Municipal Election?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67267>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:26 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67267>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs
<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/why-chevron-spending-millions-municipal-election>.
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Quote of the Day: Lyle Edition <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67265>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:25 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67265>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
"Justice, it may be said, may not be blind, but it is sometimes
inscrutable."
---Lyle Denniston
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2014/10/constitution-check-when-the-supreme-court-acts-silently-what-does-it-mean-to-say/>at
Constitution Daily, on the spate of unsigned orders in the voting and
other cases recently at the Supreme Court.
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Posted inSupreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
"Big spending by parties, independent groups drowns airwaves in
negative attacks" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67263>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67263>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/big-spending-by-parties-independent-groups-drowns-airwaves-in-negative-attacks/2014/10/21/b4447f66-593c-11e4-b812-38518ae74c67_story.html>:
The record amount of independent spending swamping this year's
congressional races is fueling a deeply negative political
atmosphere, as attack ads from independent groups overwhelm the
messages of candidates in many competitive races.
More than 80 percent of the money spent by big-money independent
groups and parties in the general election has gone to oppose a
candidate, according to a Washington Post analysis of campaign
finance data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics
<http://www.opensecrets.org/index.php>, a nonpartisan research
organization.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"Republicans Set to Gain from Laws Requiring Voter IDs"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67261>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:16 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67261>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports.
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-22/republicans-set-to-gain-from-laws-requiring-voter-ids>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"How Voter Friendly Is Your State?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67259>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:15 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67259>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Guardian with a fun and informativeinteractive
<http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2014/oct/22/-sp-voting-rights-identification-how-friendly-is-your-state>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Another Sign The Election is Close: Armies of Lawyers Stories Appear
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67257>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:14 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67257>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-22/gop-group-readies-1000lawyer-army-for-election-day>.
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Posted inThe Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Bleak voting rights landscape for election and beyond"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67255>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:12 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67255>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Zack Roth write
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bleak-voting-rights-landscape-midterm-election-beyond>s
for MSNBC.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Husted, Turner differ on early-vote philosophy in secretary of
state race" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67252>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:11 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67252>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /Columbus Dispatch/reports. <http://t.co/DzulJj1zyJ>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Would Stronger Parties Mean Less Polarization?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67250>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:08 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67250>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tom Edsall NYT column
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/opinion/would-stronger-parties-mean-less-polarization.html?_r=0>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,political polarization
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>
We Get Letters, Cont'd <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67248>
Posted onOctober 22, 2014 7:03 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67248>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Angry Texans in my mailbox this morning as the/Dallas Morning News/
<http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20141021-richard-l.-hasen-justice-ginsburgs-dissent-on-texas-voter-id-law-a-wake-up-call-for-voting-rights.ece>picks
upmy Slate piece
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/10/ginsburg_s_dissent_in_texas_voter_id_law_supreme_court_order.html>on
Justice Ginsburg and Texas voter id. Here's a sample letter:
Sir-
We here in Texas are quite capable of deciding what's good for Texas- without any help from the land of fruits and nuts.
We don't need your kind of liberalism- I call it being a "California Liberal"- telling us what is best for us.
I have a few friends here in Texas that grew up in Cali. We even go to Starbucks here in Texas, and we discuss football, the weather, and like we do every morning- politics. I live in a smaller suburb of Dallas, one that has the highest income, per capita, of any town in the US with a population of less than 30,000. We have a tendency to believe that people who work for their money are the same people who should be able to decide how their money should be dispersed. Yes- I'm one of those "right wing conservatives" that Hillary is so worried about. Most of you Cali Libs LOVE to give away other people's money. There are many things that my other conservative friends and I can discuss with our Cali friends, but politics isn't one of them.
You guys must put something in the water out there that tends to make people see "real world" events, such as a woman's right to kill an unborn baby, and some imaginary "right" to do so, along with so many other stupid ideas that I won't even attempt to go into here. Suffice it to say that we don't think like you Cali Libs do here in Texas. Oh, there's a few who have moved here from "up North" and from places like Cali- fools who want to try and tell us "how they do it" up North, or out in Cali.
It's the same ones doing that who lost their jobs in Cali, or got tired of the unemployment, or the higher taxes, or whatever else you libs have ruined in that place they couldn't wait to get out of, only to come here and try to tell us just how "wrong" we are.
Idiots.
Tell you what- you guys can have your Gwyneth Paltrows, your Alec Baldwins, your Sean Penns, Harvey Weinsteins, etc- you know, the "limousine liberals" that tell me not to drive my SUV, but ride in their limos and in their private jets- yet fail to see the hypocrisy in their duplicitous ways- and we'll keep our George W Bushes, our Ross Perots, etc.
We're not trying to tell you what's best for you nutjobs- so, why don't you keep your liberal nose out of Texas' bidness, ay?
Stay the hell out of Texans' affairs. You have no clue what you are talking about.
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We Must Be Close to an Election <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67246>
Posted onOctober 21, 2014 8:46 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67246>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michelle Malkinrevs
up<http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/21/michelle-malkin-liberal-billionaires-created-a-voter-fraud-frankenstein-video/>the
fraudulent fraud squad talk.
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Posted infraudulent fraud squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>,The
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