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Tue Dec 22 17:33:45 PST 2015

    “Rep. Brown plans court battle over redistricting”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78595>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 5:31 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78595>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/politics/2015/12/22/corrine-brown-vows-redistricting-court-battle/77777938/>from 
Fla.

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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Voting Rights 
Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    “Ohio Governor John Kasich Voices Support for Redistricting Reform”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78593>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 5:30 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78593>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here. 
<http://www.the-news-leader.com/latest%2520headlines/2015/12/22/ohio-gov-john-kasich-voices-support-for-redistricting-reform>

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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

    “Colorado redistricting reform effort splits Democrats”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78591>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 5:28 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78591>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Durango Herald 
<http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20151222/NEWS01/151229904/-1/News/Colorado-redistricting-reform-effort-splits-Democrats>:

    A proposed ballot question that would change congressional
    redistricting in Colorado is being rewritten to address concerns
    raised by black and Latino voters.

    The bipartisan proposal has caused a bit of a rift within the
    Colorado Democratic Party, with black and Latino Democrats at odds
    with certain white Democrats over the effort.

    “There were, I’m sorry, a bunch of white guys sitting around the
    table deciding our politics on redistricting moving forward,” said
    state Rep. Angela Williams, D-Denver, chairwoman of the Colorado
    Black Caucus.

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Posted incitizen commissions 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=7>,redistricting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

    “Bevin suspends order restoring voting rights to felons”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78589>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 5:01 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78589>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News 
<http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Bevin-suspends-order-restoring-rights-to-felons-363284511.html>from 
Ky:

    Governor Matt Bevin issued an executive order Tuesday suspending
    former governor Steve Beshear’s restoration of voting rights to
    non-violent felony offenders.

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Posted infelon voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=66>

    Election Data Services Releases New Congressional Apportionment
    Study <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78586>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 3:04 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78586>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Which states 
<https://www.electiondataservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NR_Appor15wTables.pdf>shall 
gain, and which shall lose, in the next round of congressional 
apportionment? (If current trends hold.)

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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    “As TV Ad Rates Soar, ‘Super PACs’ Pivot to Core Campaign Work”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78584>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 2:33 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78584>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/us/politics/as-tv-ad-rates-soar-super-pacs-pivot-to-core-campaign-work.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0>

    The shift away from the broadcast television buys that had been the
    groups’ main role in past presidential campaigns is among the most
    significant developments in outside political spending since the
    Supreme Court’s 2010Citizens United decision
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html>, which
    paved the way forsuper PACs
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/campaign_finance/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>.
    Originally conceived as a vehicle to raise and spend unlimited money
    on television, the most expensive part of a White House run, the
    groups now are seeking to relieve campaigns of much of the vital
    infrastructure that candidates would otherwise have to assemble and
    manage themselves.

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    “RELEASE: Federal Judge Dismisses Tennessee Student Voting Rights
    Case” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78581>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 2:16 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78581>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

FELN 
<http://fairelectionsnetwork.com/press/release-federal-judge-dismisses-tennessee-student-voting-rights-case/>:

    Late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Aleta
    Traugergranted<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/NSOC-v.-Hargett-Order-Granting-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf>the
    State of Tennessee’s motion to dismiss the federal case challenging
    Tennessee’s voter ID law. The Court relied on the Supreme Court’s
    2008 decision in/Crawford v. Marion County Election Board/, arguing
    this foreclosed plaintiffs’ claims of discrimination against college
    and university student voters.

    The plaintiffs – the Nashville Student Organizing Committee (NSOC)
    and seven students from Fisk University, Belmont University and
    Tennessee State University – claimed that Tennessee’s voter ID law
    discriminated against them on account of their age in violation of
    the 26th Amendment and discriminated against public college and
    university students by excluding their student ID cards from the
    list of accepted voter IDs while permitting faculty and staff ID
    cards from the same institutions.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    “SEC can still work on a corporate political disclosure rule”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78579>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 2:04 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78579>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lisa Gilbert oped. 
<http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/264036-sec-can-still-work-on-a-corporate-political-disclosure-rule>

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    “15 Things We Learned About Money in Politics in 2015”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78577>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 2:03 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78577>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs. 
<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/15-things-we-learned-about-money-politics-2015>

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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

    “Charges Narrowed in Case Against Supreme Court Protesters”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78575>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 1:49 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78575>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NLJ 
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/courts-litigation/id=1202745553861/Charges-Narrowed-in-Case-Against-Supreme-Court-Protesters?mcode=1202615549854&curindex=1&slreturn=20151122164803>on 
charges against @99Rise protestors:

    A federal district judge in Washington on Tuesday narrowed the scope
    of charges against five protesters accused of disrupting U.S.
    Supreme Court proceedings earlier this year.

    Charging documents say the defendants “did unlawfully make a
    harangue or oration or utter loud language in the Supreme Court
    Building.” U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the terms
    “harangue” and “oration” were unconstitutionally vague.

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Posted insocial media and social protests 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=58>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    Politifact Rates as “Mostly False” Ted Cruz Statement about
    Democrats’ Proposed Constitutional Amendment to “Overturn” Citizens
    United <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78571>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 11:06 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78571>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://www.politifact.com/iowa/statements/2015/dec/22/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-overstates-effect-proposed-constitutional/>.

I actually devote part of a chapter ofPlutocrats United 
<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/>to 
Ted Cruz’s charges.

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Posted incampaign finance 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Plutocrats United 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    Federal Court Rejects “Stop Hillary” PAC Challenge to FEC Name
    Restrictions <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78569>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 10:57 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78569>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can’t use the name of a candidate in your independent PAC name. This 
helps prevent confusion of voters giving to PACs. The Stop Hillary PAC 
and Dan Backer challenged this restriction as a violation of the First 
Amendment, and today afederal court rejected a preliminary injunction 
<http://www.fec.gov/law/litigation/shp_dc_order_mpi.pdf>which would have 
stopped the FEC from enforcing this law. The court said that this is 
likely not a First Amendment violation.

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election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

    “These California lawmakers don’t live in the districts they
    represent” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78567>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 10:41 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78567>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT 
<http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-congress-living-outside-district-20151222-html-htmlstory.html>.

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Posted inresidency <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=38>,voting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

    “Working Group Offers Meaningful Ways to Make Military Voting
    Easier” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78565>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 10:39 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78565>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Stacey Scholl blogs 
<http://www.democracyfund.org/blog/entry/modernizing-registration-and-voting-for-those-who-serve> at 
the Democracy Fund.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,military voting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=48>

    Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Voter Residency Challenge
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78563>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 10:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78563>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2015/2015-Ohio-5306.pdf>.

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Posted invoting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

    Tokaji’s “True Threats” in NYU Review of Law & Social Change
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78561>

Posted onDecember 22, 2015 10:22 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78561>byDan Tokaji 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

My short piece “True Threats: Voter Intimidation and the Constitution” 
isnow posted 
<http://socialchangenyu.com/true-threats-voter-intimidation-and-the-constitution/>on 
NYURLSC’s online publication /The Harbinger/.  The abstract ishere 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78029>.

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Posted inchicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>,The Voting Wars 
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