[EL] more news 10/31/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Oct 31 13:27:51 PDT 2014
"Lousy Judgment: This year's scary election ads will destroy any
lingering confidence in the judicial branch."
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67764>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 1:25 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67764>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dahlia Lithwick and I have writtenthis piece <http://t.co/bm0iWdctk4>for
/Slate/. It begins:
If you really think about it, who among us */hasn't/ *been accused
on television of coddling child molesters?
A few years ago, in the spirit of Halloween, we created an "Evil Men
in Black Robes" Halloween Spooktackular
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2010/10/evil_men_in_black_robes.html>,
pulling together some of the worst in scary judicial election attack
ads. Well, they're baaaaack, and some of them are worse than ever.
This time it's not just the judicial candidates literally inhabiting
the pockets of special interests (although we do have a creepy
pocket judge again), but also sitting judges accused of coddling
child molesters, rapists, and more.
In 39 states, some or all judges must face some kind of election
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/10/judicial_elections_and_free_speech_the_supreme_court_s_williams_yulee_case.html>---often
a partisan one. These races used to be about as interesting to watch
as Bingo night. But now, it's all /Law and Order/, and all the time.
The ads are scarier than the shows they interrupt.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,judicial elections
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>
"House District 114 election to go forward but case will be argued
later" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67766>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 1:25 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67766>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Post and Courie
<http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141031/PC1603/141039902?ref=email>r:
"The S.C. Supreme Courthas overruled
<http://www.postandcourier.com/assets/pdf/courtorder.pdf>the state
Election Commission and will let the House District 114 race go forward
Tuesday. However, the results may not be the final say, as the justices
will allow all sides to come back later and be heard during oral
arguments on whether they should stand."
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,election
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"Are non-citizens following American election laws?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67762>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 1:05 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67762>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
James McCann and Michael Jones-Correa write
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/31/are-non-citizens-following-american-election-laws/>at
The Monkey Cage.
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administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"New Hampshire Law Banning Ballots on Facebook Draws a Legal
Challenge" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67760>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 12:47 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67760>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ
<http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/10/31/new-hampshire-law-banning-ballots-on-facebook-draws-a-legal-challenge/?mod=WSJBlog>:
"A New Hampshire legislator has sued the state, arguing that a new law
banning voters from displaying their marked ballots violates the First
Amendment's guarantees on free speech."
I'm going to disagree with my friends at the ACLU on this one: this is
justified by the government's compelling interest in preventing vote buying.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Today's voting freakout: noncitizens are coming to steal your
election" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67758>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 12:45 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67758>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Hiltzik column
<http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-steal-your-election-20141031-column.html>at
the LAT.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,fraudulent fraud squad
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
Read the Post-Trial Briefs in the Texas Redistricting Cases
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67756>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 12:42 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67756>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here <http://www.tlc.state.tx.us/redist/trialbriefs/trialbriefs.html>.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Voting Rights
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How to Use Negative Ads to Preserve the Status Quo
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67753>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 12:05 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67753>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Another Rick Berman nugget:
<http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1349204/berman-at-western-energy-alliance-june-2014-doc.pdf>"You
get in people's minds a tie. They don't know who is right. And you [,
the energy industry, win] all ties because the tie basically insures the
status quo."
As a reader wrote: "Or in the case of donations to the Humane Society,
the mental paralysis leads to people not getting out their checkbooks
and indirectly funding the opposition to factory farming, etc."
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
"L.A. officials to consider ballot measures to change election
years" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67751>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 11:54 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67751>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LAT reports.
<http://www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-election-dates-20141030-story.html>
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"Voter ID Laws Are Now In 17 More States Than They Were In 2000?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67749>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 11:52 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67749>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fascinating data
<http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/voter-id-laws-are-now-in-17-more-states-than-they-were-in-2000/>at
538.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
"Court won't block campaign laws before election"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67747>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 11:46 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67747>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Court-won-t-block-campaign-laws-before-election-5859318.php>:
"A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a request that would have
allowed certain tax-exempt groups to release campaign-related ads in
Montana before Tuesday's election without disclosing their donors or
spending. Without comment, a two-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals
<http://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22U.S.+Circuit+Court+of+Appeals%22> denied
Montanans for Community Development's emergency motion for an injunction."
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"Arms race: Parties, groups ready thousands of lawyers for Election
Day" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67745>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 11:36 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67745>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
McClatchy reports
<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/10/31/245334_arms-race-parties-groups-ready.html?rh=1>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
SCOTUS Adds Argument Time in Alabama Redistricting Case for Federal
Government <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67742>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 11:09 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67742>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Seethis Order
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/103114zr.pdf>. As I
explained in my SCOTUSBlog preview posted yesterday, Argument preview:
Racial gerrymandering, partisan politics, and the future of the Voting
Rights Act
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/argument-preview-racial-gerrymandering-partisan-politics-and-the-future-of-the-voting-rights-act/>,
the government filed a brief supporting neither side in this case:
Beneath the surface of the briefing in the case, and perhaps
explaining the reason for the federal government
<http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/13-895tsacUnitedStates.pdf> and
Lawyers' Committee /amicus/ briefs
<http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV4/13-895_np_lccr.pdf> urging
a remand in the case for further analysis of the predominant motive
of the Alabama legislature in drawing particular Alabama districts,
is a fear that the Court could (1) adopt Alabama's understanding of
the Voting Rights Act as mandating the creation of these packed
majority-minority districts and then (2) strike the Act itself as an
unconstitutional race-based statute in violation of the Equal
Protection Clause. It seems unlikely that the Court would use this
case as the vehicle to reach that result, but the potential for the
same Court which decided /Shelby County/ to declare more of the
Voting Rights Act unconstitutional lurks in the case's background
and appears to be making voting rights advocates nervous.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
"Minority Voter Registrations Unprocessed in Georgia Senate Race"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67740>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 11:02 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67740>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-31/minority-voter-registrations-unprocessed-in-georgia-senate-race.html> reports.
Looks like this issue is far from resolved and could make a difference
if the U.S. Senate race is close.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter registration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
"Surge of Last Minute Outside Spending Hits State Supreme Court
Races" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67738>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 10:47 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67738>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Brennan Center:
<http://www.brennancenter.org/press-release/surge-last-minute-outside-spending-hits-state-supreme-court-races>
With less than a week until Election Day, special interest groups
have dramatically increased TV ad spending to influence state
Supreme Court races in Illinois, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina,
and Ohio. Outside groups have spent nearly $2.1 million on TV ad
buys in these states for the November general election, with nearly
$1 million spent over the last week, according to FCC filings,
campaign financial disclosures, and estimates from Kantar Media/CMAG
analyzed by the Brennan Center for Justice and Justice at Stake.
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"Sedgwick County election commissioner recruiting family, friends to
work polls" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67736>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 10:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67736>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Witchita Eagle reports
<http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article3484657.html>.
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"Straw Into Gold: Candidates Trading Leadership PAC Dollars for
Campaign Cash" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67734>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 9:55 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67734>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Open Secrets findsanother shady pattern.
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/10/straw-into-gold-candidates-trading-leadership-pac-dollars-for-campaign-cash/>
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Two on Nasty Judicial Election in Ohio
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67731>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 9:47 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67731>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Columbus Dispatch
<http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/the-daily-briefing/2014/10/odonnell-complaint.html>:
"An Ohio State Bar Association committee claims Democrat John P.
O'Donnell has crossed the line with a TV commercial
<http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/the-daily-briefing/2014/10/10-29-14-odonnell-tv.html> attack
on his opponent, Republican Justice Judith L. French. O'Donnell's first
TV ad attempts to link French's acceptance of campaign donations from
American Electric Power executives with her decision in favor of the
utility in a rate case. The TV commercial French pops out of the pockets
of utility executives accompanied by wads of cash."
Another
<http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/10/27/justice-french-defends-comments.html>from
the Dispatch: "An Ohio Supreme Court justice says she was talking
judicial philosophy --- not politics --- when she addressed a Republican
crowd about the court serving as a 'backstop' for decisions made by GOP
officeholders....At a Saturday event at which she introduced Republican
Gov. John Kasich, French said, 'I am a Republican and you should vote
for me. You're going to hear from your elected officials, and I see a
lot of them in the crowd. Let me tell you something: The Ohio Supreme
Court is the backstop for all those other votes you are going to
cast. Whatever the governor does, whatever your state representative,
your state senator does, whatever they do, we are the ones that will
decide whether it is constitutional; we decide whether it's lawful. We
decide what it means, and we decide how to implement it in a given
case. So, forget all those other votes if you don't keep the Ohio
Supreme Court conservative,' French said."
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Read the Entire, Eye-Opening Rick Berman Speech on Undisclosed Money
to Influence Public Opinion <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67729>
Posted onOctober 31, 2014 9:42 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67729>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Following up on thisquote of the day
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67673>, the NYT has posted ithere
<http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1349204/berman-at-western-energy-alliance-june-2014-doc.pdf>.
There is lots in here that didn't get inEric Lipton's excellent story
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0>,
including how Berman demonized the Humane Society.
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UC Irvine School of Law
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