[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/12/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Dec 11 20:27:24 PST 2015 

    “Bush v. Gore: Where are They Now?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78295>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 8:23 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78295>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CNN photo gallery. 
<http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/gallery/bush-v-gore-where-are-they-now/> Saturday 
is the15th anniversar <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78249>y of the case.

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    “Dean Skelos, Ex-New York Senate Leader, and His Son Are Convicted
    of Corruption” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78293>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 7:56 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78293>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Albany 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/nyregion/dean-skelos-adam-skelos-guilty-corruption-trial.html>, 
we have a problem.

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    “Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting
    Facebook users” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78291>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 7:55 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78291>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Guardian 
<http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Gmail>:

    Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is using psychological data based
    on research spanning tens of millions ofFacebook
    <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/facebook>users, harvested
    largely without their permission, to boost his surging White House
    run and gain an edge over Donald Trump and other Republican rivals,
    the Guardian can reveal.

    A little-known data company, now embedded within Cruz’s campaign and
    indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid
    researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological
    profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly
    unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.

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    “Evenwel v. Abbott: Who Will Count in Our Democracy?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78289>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 4:52 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78289>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Janai Nelson 
<http://hamilton-griffin.com/evenwel-v-abbott-who-will-count-in-our-democracy-by-janai-nelson/>at 
Hamilton and Griffin on Rights:

    Nothing is sacred in politics; but certain things should be sacred
    in a democracy. The Supreme Court argument in/Evenwel v. Abbott/
    <http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/evenwel-v-abbott/>this
    past Wednesday proved that not even the well-worn principle of one
    person-one vote established half a century ago is beyond scrutiny
    and manipulation. What/Evenwel/(pronounced “even-well”) seeks to
    advance is an uneven allocation of power that will not serve our
    nation well. The case challenges the fundamental assumption that all
    people count in our representative democracy, not just persons
    eligible to vote. If successful, the case would upend the national
    practice of counting all persons for purposes of drawing state
    legislative districts and eviscerate the principle of equal
    representation.

    /Evenwel/is the most recent broad attack on well-settled democratic
    principles before the Court. Following the/Shelby County v.
    Holder/decision
    <http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-96_6k47.pdf>, which
    disabled a key prophylactic provision of the Voting Rights Act of
    1965 that warded off racial discrimination in voting,/Evenwel/seeks
    to add more tumult to the inherently fraught process of
    redistricting and depart from longstanding precedent and practice.
    As an ancillary matter,/Evenwel/also seeks to sow confusion and
    doubt concerning Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, whose vitality
    has only become more necessary since/Shelby/. For that reason
    alone,/Evenwel/may be one of the most portentous cases of the term.

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    Pro-Romney Super PAC Fined $50K for 2012 Activities
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78286>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 3:01 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78286>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Release 
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/clc-complaint-leads-fine-romney-super-pac-s-illegal-spending-2012>:

    Today, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) received notification that
    the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined pro-Mitt Romney
    Super PAC Restore Our Future (ROF) $50,000 for illegally spending
    millions of dollars airing an advertisement in 2012 that was
    originally produced and aired by the 2008 Romney presidential
    campaign.  ROF treasurer Charles S. Spies signed a conciliation
    agreement on behalf of ROF, agreeing to pay a civil penalty of $50,000.

Just wait till 2020 for the 2016 fines!

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    “Balance Sheet Voting Rights Act 50 years”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78284>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 2:58 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78284>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New issue <https://transatlantica.revues.org/7257>of Transatlantica on 
the Voting Rights Act:

  *
      o
        *OlivierRichomme*
        The Voting Rights Act at 50: From Participation to Meaningful
        Representation Vote
        <https://transatlantica.revues.org/7465>[Full Text]
      o
        *Jesse H.Rhodes*
        Competing Partisan Regimes and the Transformation of the Voting
        Rights Act, 1965-2015
        <https://transatlantica.revues.org/7437>[Full Text]
      o
        *Richard L.Engstrom*
        The Elephant in the Room:NAMUDNO,/Shelby/County,and Racially
        Polarized voting <https://transatlantica.revues.org/7427>[Full Text]
      o
        *MorganKousser*
        Do The Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s
        Opinion in/Shelby/ County?
        <https://transatlantica.revues.org/7462>[Full text]
      o
        *Thomas L.Brunelland Whitney RossManzo*
        The Voting Rights Act After/Shelby County v. Holder:/
        <https://transatlantica.revues.org/7429>A Potential Fix to
        Revive Section 5 [Full Text]
      o
        *LaughlinMcDonald*
        Proposed Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965
        <https://transatlantica.revues.org/7435>[Full Text]
      o
        *DesmondKingand Rogers M.Smith*
        Restricting Voting Rights in Modern Americhas
        <https://transatlantica.revues.org/7432>[Full Text]
  *

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    “Thinking Back on Bush v. Gore” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78282>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 10:58 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78282>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

@UCILaw Dean Erwin Chemerinsky hasthis post 
<http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/thinking-back-on-bush-v-gore>@ACSBlog.

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    Two on John Doe <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78280>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 10:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78280>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Steve Klein,After Wisconsin, Overbroad Campaign Coordination Regulation 
Steps Back 
<https://www.pillaroflaw.org/index.php/blog/entry/after-wisconsin-overbroad-campaign-coordination-regulation-steps-back>

Paul Jossey, After John Doe Darkness, A New Dawn In Wisconsin 
<http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/11/after-john-doe-darkness-a-new-dawn-in-wisconsin/>

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    Fifteenth Anniversary of Bush v. Gore on Saturday
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78249>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 7:50 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78249>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Saturday marks the 15th anniversary of /Bush v. Gore/, the 2000 case 
which settled the disputed election in Florida between Republican George 
W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.

I havethis oped<https://t.co/JcYNBpeDbz>in the Orlando Sentinel 
reflecting on what’s changed (and what hasn’t) since the case was decided.

On Tuesday December 15, I will be speaking on the case’s legacy atan ACS 
event <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77884>in Washington, DC with Joan 
Biskupic, Judith Browne Davis, Pam Karlan and Nelson Lund.

You can go back and read these reflections on the 10th anniversary of 
Bush v. Gore:

    Lyle Denniston,That Night at the Courthouse
    <http://electionlawblog.org/archives/018258.html>
    Ned Foley,Bush v. Gore in Historical Perspective
    <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/index.php?ID=7991>(Moritz)
    Heather Gerken,Rethinking the 2000 Fiasco
    <http://electionlawblog.org/archives/018259.html>
    Rick Hasen,Election Hangover: The Real Legacy of Bush v. Gore
    <http://www.slate.com/id/2276710/>(/Slate/)
    Nate Persily,Bush v. Gore in the American Mind
    <http://electionlawblog.org/archives/018266.html>
    Rick Pildes,That Night Ten Years Ago
    <http://electionlawblog.org/archives/018265.html>

More Bush v. Gore reflectionshere. <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=5>

And in honor of the anniversary and the publication of his new book, Ned 
Foley will be guest blogging all next week about Ballot Battles: The 
History of Disputed Elections in the United States 
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ballot-battles-9780190235277?cc=us&lang=en&>.

[Bumped to the top]

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    “Constitution Check: Finally, a test of partisan gerrymandering?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78277>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 7:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78277>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lyle Denniston writes 
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/12/constitution-check-finally-a-test-of-partisan-gerrymandering/>at 
Constitution Daily.

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    “At Week’s End: The Possibility of a Kennedy-Like Outcome in
    Evenwel—And Finding the Unexpected in the Arizona Redistricting
    Case” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78274>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 7:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78274>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer blogs. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/12/weeks-end-possibility-kennedy-like-outcome-evenwel-finding-unexpected-arizona-redistricting-case/>

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    Albert Alschuler and Larry Tribe Think Gov’t Should Try to Rein in
    Super PACs and Overturn SpeechNow <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78272>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 7:25 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78272>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See this Newsweek piece. 
<http://www.newsweek.com/who-blew-lid-campaign-contributions-403489>

I think it is pure fantasy to suggest anyone in the /Citizens 
United/majority would vote differently on a challenge to 
the/SpeechNow/decision, which relied on/Citizens United/to find a right 
of individuals to make unlimited contributions to independent only 
expenditure committees (Super PACs).

Now before anew progressive Supreme Court 
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/supreme-court-greatest-civil-rights-cause> is 
another matterentirely 
<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/>.

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    Second Brennan Center Event on Plutocrats United
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78254>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 7:00 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78254>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This Jan 21 
lunch<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/workshop-plutocrats-united>workshop 
(by invitation) may interest academics, law students, and policy folks, 
and it will feature Yasmin Dawood, Janai Nelson, Nick Stephanopoulos and me:


        Plutocrats United
        /A Brennan Center Workshop/

    *Thursday, January 21, 2016
    12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.*

    *Brennan Center for Justice
    161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor
    New York, NY 10013*

    Last October, the New York Timesreported
    <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/11/us/politics/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.html?_r=0>that
    just 158 families contributed nearly half of all early money in the
    2016 presidential race. A Princeton political scientistrecently
    concluded <http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9836.html>that the
    preferences of most Americans rarely are reflected in government policy.

    Against this challenging terrain, we believe the time has come for a
    fundamental rethinking of how we approach campaign finance
    regulation. On January 21, 2016,*the Brennan Center will host an
    invitation-only workshop*to discuss Professor Rick Hasen’s most
    recent contribution to the debate – his forthcoming new
    bookPlutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the
    Distortion of American Elections
    <http://yalepress.yale.edu/OtherVendors.asp?isbn=9780300212457>. He
    will be joined by several other leading academics in the field.

    In/Plutocrats/, Hasen explores how our campaign finance system
    reduces political equality and diminishes democracy. He argues that
    advocates on all sides have misunderstood the greatest challenge
    posed by/Citizens United/– the need to balance political inequality
    with free speech. With the goal of promoting creative and practical
    thinking, we are inviting a diverse group of advocates, activists
    and academics to discuss these critically important and timely issues.

    *To request an invitation, contact*

    *Ava Mehta atava.mehta at nyu.edu <mailto:ava.mehta at nyu.edu>or (646)
    292-8371.*

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    District Court Accepts Navajo Nation One Person, One Vote Claim in
    Utah School Board Election <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78261>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 6:58 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78261>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Very thoughtful opinion 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/San-Juan-Co-Order-Granting-NN-Mot-SJ-4th-Claim-1.pdf>, 
including a discussion of the level of scrutiny to apply to a OPOV claim.

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    “U.S. urges Supreme Court to reject McDonnell appeal”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78258>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 6:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78258>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Roanoke Times/reports. 
<http://www.roanoke.com/news/politics/u-s-urges-supreme-court-to-reject-mcdonnell-appeal/article_41cd4ae1-9344-519b-b9bd-6593aef0079a.html>

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    “The Court Takes Up One Person, One Vote”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78268>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 6:45 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78268>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT editorial 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/opinion/the-court-takes-up-one-person-one-vote.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0>on 
Evenwel.

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    “GOP preparing for contested convention”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78270>

Posted onDecember 11, 2015 6:40 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78270>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-preparing-for-contested-convention/2015/12/10/d72574bc-9f73-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_gopconvention-420pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory>:

    Republican officials and leading figures in the party’s
    establishment are preparing for the possibility of a brokered
    convention as businessman Donald Trump continues to sit atop the
    polls in the GOP presidential race.

    More than 20 of them convened Monday near the Capitol for a dinner
    held by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, and
    the prospect of Trump nearing next year’s nominating convention in
    Cleveland with a significant number of delegates dominated the
    discussion, according to five people familiar with the meeting.

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