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

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Dec 14 20:28:13 PST 2015


    “Bush v. Gore Fifteen Years Later: The Supreme Court and American
    Democracy” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77884>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 8:25 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77884>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

[Bumping to the top with news that Curt Levey is joining the panel.]

Really looking forward to this event 
<https://events.acslaw.org/rsvp?id=a0YG0000009WL1NMAW>on December 15:

    Bush v. Gore Fifteen Years Later: The Supreme Court and American
    Democracy

    Tuesday, December 15, 2015
    12:00 PM – 02:00 PM
    *Event Location:*
    Open Society Foundations
    1730 Pennsylvania Ave NW
    7th Floor
    Washington, DC 20006
    *Details: *

    On *December 15*, ACS will host a panel discussion reflecting on the
    2000 presidential election, the unprecedented court battle that
    ensued, and the Supreme Court decision that brought it to a close.
    As the 2016 presidential election quickly approaches, panelists will
    address both the impact of the case on our elections and what the
    decision meant for the Court as an institution.*Introduction:*

      * *Caroline Fredrickson*, President, American Constitution Society
        for Law & Policy

    *Panelists*

      * *Joan Biskupic,*/Moderator/*, *Editor in Charge for Legal
        Affairs, Reuters News
      * *Judith Browne Dianis*, Co-Director, Advancement Project
      * *Richard Hasen, *Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political
        Science, UC Irvine School of Law
      * *Pamela Karlan,*Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public
        Interest Law, Stanford Law School; Co-director, Stanford Law
        School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
      * *Nelson Lund,*University Professor, George Mason University
        School of Law

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    “McConnell Takes Credit for Resuscitating the Senate”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78344>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 8:22 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78344>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-takes-credit-for-resuscitating-the-senate.html?ref=politics>:

    Barney Frank once told me that asking Republicans to govern was like
    asking him, the first openly gay member of Congress, to judge the
    Miss America contest: He would do it, but he wouldn’t enjoy it much
    or be very good at it.

    With control of the Senate up for grabs in 2016, Senate Republicans
    have spent the year trying to prove Mr. Frank wrong. And
    SenatorMitch McConnell
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/mitch_mcconnell/index.html?inline=nyt-per>of
    Kentucky, the majority leader, believes they have been pretty good
    at it — particularly when measured against the vicious stalemate of
    the previous four years. “I think the Senate is functioning again
    and producing results,” Mr. McConnell said in an interview as he
    assessed 2015 and looked ahead to a challenging election cycle that
    could quickly end his control of the Senate agenda if the public
    disagrees with his take. Mr. McConnell can tick off the bills he
    sees as victories — a budget, a long-sought solution to a perennial
    problem withMedicare
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>doctor
    fees, the first changes toSocial Security
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/social_security_us/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>in
    decades, a cybersecurity bill, a reconciliation measure undercutting
    thehealth care law
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/health_care_reform/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>,Keystone
    XL
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/k/keystone_pipeline/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>oil
    pipeline approval, the Iran nuclear review law and, most recently,
    major transportation and education bills. He admits he could not
    have compiled those achievements without significant help from an
    unlikely quarter — the Senate Democrats he so frustrated in his
    position as minority leader.


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    “Hurdles for Changing ‘One Person, One Vote'”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78342>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 8:11 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78342>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jost on Justice. 
<http://jostonjustice.blogspot.com/2015/12/hurdles-for-changing-one-person-one-vote.html>

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    “Montana GOP lawsuit to force ‘closed primary’ election is going to
    trial” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78340>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 8:08 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78340>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

MTN News reports. 
<http://www.kxlh.com/story/30745413/montana-gop-lawsuit-to-force-closed-primary-election-is-going-to-trial>

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    “Zimmerman’s lawsuit over Austin fundraising rules heads to court”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78338>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 8:04 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78338>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Austin-American Statesman 
<http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/zimmermans-lawsuit-over-austin-fundraising-rules-h/nphy6/?icmp=statesman_internallink_referralbox_free-to-premium-referral>:

    Austin City Council Member Don Zimmerman’sunprecedented lawsuit
    against the city
    <http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/council-member-don-zimmerman-sues-austin-over-camp/nm74h/#e694f0a3.3594764.735826>will
    go to trial Monday, with Zimmerman hoping to upend Austin’s campaign
    finance rules so he can raise money year-round from donors outside
    the area.

    The suit challenges the city’s $350-per-donor contribution limit,
    the $36,000 cap on total donations from outside the Austin area and
    the prohibition on fundraising until six months before the election.
    Zimmerman, who filed the suit in July in federal court, has argued
    that these rules limit his constitutional right to free speech.

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    Ned Foley: The Risk of Another Disputed Presidential Election is
    Higher than Most Think <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78237>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 8:00 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78237>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The following is the second of five guest posts byNed Foley 
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/professor/edward-b-foley/>of Ohio 
State, about his new bookBallot Battles: The History of Disputed 
Elections in the United States 
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ballot-battles-9780190235277?cc=us&lang=en&>:

ballotbattles 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/ballotbattles.jpeg>‘

*Theme Two*: History shows that the risk of another disputed 
presidential election is greater than one might think.

/Ballot Battles/is not just about presidential elections.  But as 
America is on the eve of another presidential election year—and because 
presidential elections are obviously the most significant ones in our 
system—it is worth reflecting on the possibility that 2016, like 2000, 
might end up embroiled in a ballot-counting controversy.

The risk, thankfully, is small.  The fact that the nation has suffered 
only two seriously disputed presidential elections is a sign of that.  
Still, it significantly understates the risk to say that we’ve 
encountered only two of these episodes in over 200 years, and so we are 
probably safe for another century.

First of all, one conclusion reached in/Ballot Battles/is that 1960 
needs to be classified with 1876 and 2000 as presidential elections in 
which the nation failed to have in place an adequate mechanism to handle 
a vote-counting dispute.  Now, I want to be very clear about what this 
assertion does/not/entail.  I’m/not/claiming that Daley stole Illinois 
for Kennedy, or that LBJ’s machine stole Texas for the Democratic 
ticket.  Instead, what I am asserting is that in 1960 there was no 
system in place, especially in Texas, by which Nixon would have been 
able to get a fair recount if he had asked for one.  Nixon was a 
practical politician; he conceded because he knew he did not have a 
chance for a fair fight over allegations that a proper count of valid 
(and only valid) ballots would show that he had won both Illinois and 
Texas—and thus the White House that year. Given that there was no 
mechanism for a fair recount in place, Nixon’s concession to Kennedy 
cannot be taken as evidence that the system worked.  Instead, it was 
just capitulation to the reality that America still lacked an adequate 
system for counting ballots in a close presidential election.

With this sobering assessment of 1960 in mind, the historical numbers 
start to look a little different.  Rather than only two failed 
presidential elections—in terms of having an adequate ballot-counting 
system in place—there are three.  Moreover, two of these three failures 
occurred within a span of forty years.  That’s roughly a failure rate of 
two out of every ten quadrennial elections.  Especially when considers 
that this forty-year span is recent rather than distant history, that 
failure rate is uncomfortably high.

Add to these three failures the “near misses” when the nation narrowly 
escaped seriously disputed presidential elections.  Most Americans today 
are blissfully unaware of the fact that in both 1884 and 1916 the 
outcome of the presidential election remained unsettled for a couple of 
weeks, while lawyers closely scrutinized ballots in the way that they 
had in 1876 and would again in 2000.  The good news is that in neither 
1884 nor 1916 did that scrutiny produce evidence of problems that would 
have been worthy of a more protracted fight.  But it was not for lack of 
looking hard for something to fight on about.

To invoke contemporary terminology, the “margin of litigation” was much 
narrower in 1884 and 1916, because the pivotal states those years (New 
York in 1884, California in 1916) ran their elections well enough to 
withstand a margin of victory of a thousand votes or so.  Had the 
pivotal state been Florida, as it was in 1876 (actually one of four 
pivotal states that year) or would be again in 2000, lawyers likely 
could have fought on for weeks or months over a margin of that 
magnitude.  Thus, 1884 and 1916 were years in which the proverbial 
“killer asteroid” came awfully close to hitting planet Earth, but 
fortunately passed by without an impact—although today the idea of 
waiting two weeks for a concession in a presidential election, while the 
lawyers looked closely ballots, would be viewed as a calamity in and of 
itself.

1884, moreover, was the closest of a trilogy of three very close 
presidential elections in the 1880s, all turning on New York.  It was 
like asteroids coming fairly close each time, but thankfully not quite 
close enough, after a big one had hit in 1876.  Some political 
scientists say that we are currently living through an era of 
hyper-polarized, hyper-competitive politics not dissimilar to the 
1880s.  If so, it’s like planet Earth passing through a more dangerous 
patch of the asteroid belt; our orbit took us through this tricky patch 
before and now we’re going through it again.

I don’t want to overstate the risk of a seriously disputed presidential 
election.   Even in our current political conditions, it’s still 
unlikely.  But just as a “killer asteroid” would be a monumental 
calamity although a low-risk proposition, so too another disputed 
presidential election like 2000 or, even worse, 1876.  The consequences 
are bad enough that they are very much worth trying to avoid even if the 
probability of them happening is mercifully small.

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    ‘How Children Emerged as Key Players in ‘One Person, One Vote’ Case’
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78336>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 4:10 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78336>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tony Mauro fascinating column 
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/supremecourtbrief/id=1202744837637/How-Children-Emerged-as-Key-Players-in-One-Person-One-Vote-Case?mcode=0&curindex=0&curpage=2>on 
Evenwel.

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    Andrew Grossman and Nate Persily Talk Evenwel with Dahlia Lithwick
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78334>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 2:26 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78334>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

On theSlate Amicus podcast. 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/amicus/2015/12/the_supreme_court_considers_the_meaning_of_one_person_one_vote.html>

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    “Bush v. Gore as Precedent in Ohio and Beyond”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78331>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 1:55 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78331>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have writtenthis post 
<http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/bush-v-gore-as-precedent-in-ohio-and-beyond>for 
the ACS Blog:

    Almost from the moment in December 2000 that the Supreme Court
    decided its controversial opinion in/Bush v. Gore/
    <https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZPC.html>ending the
    recount in Florida,there has been great debate
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/us/23bar.html>about whether the
    case had any precedential value and, assuming it did, what precisely
    its equal protection principle stood for. Was it a one-day-only
    ticket? Is it a case about equality of procedures in the conduct of
    a jurisdiction-wide recount? Or does it require broader equal
    treatment of voters, so as to fulfill/Bush v. Gore/’s admonition
    against the government, by “arbitrary and disparate treatment,
    valu[ing] one person’s vote over that of another”? We may finally
    find out the case’s precedential value as soon as the 2016 elections.

    At the Supreme Court,/Bush v. Gore/has beena legal Voldemort
    <http://the-parallax-view.blogspot.com/2006/08/bush-v-gore-legal-voldemort.html>,
    a case whose name a Court majority has dare not spoken since 2000.
    Only Justice Clarence Thomas has cited the case,in a dissenting
    opinion
    <https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14763185671625765035&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr#[13]>,
    and not speaking on its equal protection principles.

    Lower courts have been initially divided over whether/Bush v.
    Gore/could be used to force jurisdictions to require greater
    equality in the conduct of elections. Is it an equal protection
    violation, for example, to use much less reliable voting technology
    in some parts of a state but not in others? Some courts initially
    ruled such disparities created constitutional problems. By 2007,
    however, federal appellate courts seemed to reject these muscular
    readings of the case, and I declared the precedent all but dead ina
    2007/Stanford Law Review/article
    <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=976701>.

    But since the time I wrote that article, a key federal circuithas
    resurrected/Bush v. Gore/as precedent
    <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2182857>: the
    Sixth Circuit. In a number of cases out of Ohio, the perennial
    battleground state in presidential elections, the Sixth Circuit has
    found lack of uniform rules in the state to raise/Bush v.
    Gore/problems.It has held
    <https://casetext.com/case/hunter-v-hamilton-county-bd-of-elections>that
    the disparate treatment of provisional ballots in a recount
    violate/Bush//v. Gore/equal protection principles, thatthe
    disproportionate distribution of voting machinery
    <https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1287216/league-of-women-voters-of-ohio-v-brunner/>leading
    to long lines in more populated areas can violate the principle, and
    thatgiving only certain military and overseas voters
    <https://casetext.com/case/obama-for-am-v-husted-2>but no other
    voters the chance to cast a ballot in early voting the weekend
    before an election violates/Bush v. Gore/.

    Most recently, in 2014, a federal district court held that Ohio’s
    cutback in the number of days of early voting violated/Bush v.
    Gore/. The Sixth Circuitrejected a request to stay
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65407>that order but the Supreme
    Court,without opinion
    <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/order_016.pdf>reversed,
    allowing Ohio’s early voting cutback to go through. The vote was 5-4
    at the Supreme Court, suggesting deep division on the Court
    (although the ruling might have beenmore about the timing
    <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2545676>of the
    relief than about the merits).

    Those deep divisions shown by the Court and the question of the
    meaning of/Bush v. Gore/itself could make its way back to the Court
    in time for the 2016 election. There is anew challenge
    <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/organizingvhusted.php>to
    Ohio voting cutbacks currently pending in federal district court,
    and it would not be surprising to see the Court asked to weigh in on
    the meaning of/Bush v. Gore/yet again.

    If past performance is any guide, the Court will do what it can to
    avoid uttering the words /Bush v. Gore/and reflecting on the case’s
    merits.

    With a lot potentially riding on the results in Ohio in 2016,
    however, the temptation to decide the question of/Bush v. Gore/as
    valid precedent may finally prove irresistible.

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    “Much-Anticipated FEC Legal Report Suggests Crossroads GPS Is a
    Political Committee” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78329>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 1:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78329>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Craig Holman 
<http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=5760>of 
Public Citizen:

    /Note: As a result of a recent order in/Public Citizen v. Federal
    Election Commission (FEC)
    <http://www.citizen.org/litigation/forms/cases/getlinkforcase.cfm?cID=853>/,
    the FEC has released areport (PDF)
    <http://www.citizen.org/documents/FEC_1st_report.pdf>that has been
    kept under wraps for two years. It indicates that Public Citizen
    likely is correct in contending that Crossroads GPS is a political
    organization masquerading as a policy-focused nonprofit./

    At long last, the public can read the first version of the FEC
    general counsel’s report on the political committee status of
    Crossroads GPS, a group co-founded by Republican strageist Karl
    Rove. The report, like the later report that was released to the
    public at the time the FEC deadlocked and declined to take action
    against Crossroads GPS, suggests that Public Citizen likely was
    correct in calling for Crossroads GPS to be classified as a
    political committee subject to disclosure requirements for political
    committees.

    Crossroads GPS spent millions to influence the 2010, 2012 and 2014
    elections – a pattern that may be repeated in the 2016 elections.
    Yet, because it is registered as a “social welfare” nonprofit
    organization rather than a political committee, Crossroads evades
    disclosure laws designed to let voters know who is trying to
    influence their votes.

    There are only two major differences between this report and the
    final report from the FEC general counsels’ office – both of which
    argue that Crossroads GPS has indeed crossed the line into political
    committee status. The newly disclosed report places greater emphasis
    than the final report on the close link between Crossroads GPS and
    its super PAC sister, American Crossroads. The report also argues
    that Crossroads GPS should be viewed as having the “primary purpose”
    of influencing elections under either a “plurality” or “majority”
    standard for determining how much of an organization’s activity must
    be electoral in order to qualify as its major purpose.

    The report weighs strongly in favor of Public Citizen’s complaint
    and its lawsuit against the FEC, which contends that the FEC acted
    arbitrarily and unlawfully in declining to pursue the allegation
    that Crossroads GPS should be classified as a political committee
    subject to the disclosure requirements imposed by federal election laws.

    A robust democracy requires transparency. Voters deserve to know who
    is spending money to influence their choices at the polls.

More from CCP, 
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2015/12/11/ccp-obtains-first-first-general-counsels-report-in-crossroads-gps-case/?utm_content=bufferd1945&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer>which 
says the document was released in response to its FOIA request.

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    “The Kochs’ War on Poverty” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78327>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 1:49 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78327>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Vogel: 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/charles-david-koch-poverty-charity-216631>

    The political operation created by the billionaire conservative
    mega-donors Charles and David Koch is quietly investing millions of
    dollars in programs to win over an unlikely demographic target for
    their brand of small-government conservatism ― poor people.

    The outreach includes everything from turkey giveaways, GED training
    and English-language instruction for Hispanic immigrants to
    community holiday meals and healthy living classes for predominantly
    African American groups to vocational training and couponing classes
    for the under-employed. The strategy, according to sources familiar
    with it and documents reviewed by POLITICO, calls for presenting a
    more compassionate side of the brothers’ politics to new audiences,
    while fighting the perception that their groups are merely fronts
    for rich Republicans seeking to game the political process for
    personal gain….

    The Koch efforts can seem at times almost like a post-/Citizens
    United
    <http://www.politico.com/story/2010/01/court-decision-opens-floodgates-for-corporate-cash-031786>/version
    of turn-of-the-century political machines like Tammany Hall ― part
    privatized social-service agency, part voter mobilization. But
    liberal critics see it as a craven and patronizing gambit to bribe
    the disadvantaged into supporting a de-regulatory agenda that helps
    the haves at the expense of the have-nots.

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    “Reform Groups Urge Democratic Leaders to Oppose Any Efforts to Kill
    Presidential Tax Checkoff System in Omnibus”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78325>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 1:46 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78325>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Release. 
<http://www.democracy21.org/legislative-action/press-releases-legislative-action/reform-groups-urge-democratic-leaders-to-oppose-any-efforts-to-kill-presidential-tax-checkoff-system-in-omnibus/>

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    “Ohio Secretary of State Ignores Precedent, Says Trump Can’t be an
    Independent Presidential Candidate in Ohio”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78323>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 1:45 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78323>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BAN reports. 
<http://ballot-access.org/2015/12/14/ohio-secretary-of-state-ignores-precedent-says-trump-cant-be-an-independent-presidential-candidate-in-ohio/>

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    “Judge suggests conditional ruling on Va. congressional districts”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78319>

Posted onDecember 14, 2015 10:46 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78319>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Richmond Times-Dispatch: 
<http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_d9800898-5ada-54d3-8aa0-b8f8eb0a5ea7.html#.Vm8ImMtX1VE.twitter>

    A three-judge federal panel in Richmond might choose a fix for the
    constitutionally flawed 3rd congressional district, but make its
    imposition of a new map conditional on a later ruling by the U.S.
    Supreme Court.

    U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne suggested that course of action
    today as he, U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady and Judge Albert Diaz
    of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals presided over a two-hour
    hearing in Virginia’s congressional redistricting case.

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