[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/2/15

Sun Feb 1 20:20:02 PST 2015

    “Blue Dot for Obama Prompts Red Nebraska to Revisit Electoral
    College Rules” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70037>

Posted onFebruary 1, 2015 8:12 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70037>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT report 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us/politics/blue-dot-for-obama-prompts-red-nebraska-to-revisit-electoral-college-rules.html?ref=politics>.

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Posted inelectoral college <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>

    “Why Judges Tilt to the Right” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70035>

Posted onFebruary 1, 2015 2:54 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70035>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Adam Liptak 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/sunday-review/why-judges-tilt-to-the-right.html?ref=politics&_r=0>NYT 
analysis:

    LAWYERS on average are much more liberal than the general
    population,a new study
    <http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/msen/files/judicial_ideology.pdf>has
    found. But judges are more conservative than the average lawyer, to
    say nothing of the graduates of top law schools.

    What accounts for the gap? The answer, the study says, is that
    judicial selection processes are affected by politics.

    Judges are, of course, almost without exception lawyers. If judges
    reflected the pool from which they were selected based on
    politically neutral grounds like technical skill and temperament,
    the bench might be expected to tilt left.

    But something else is going on.

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Posted inSupreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    Texas Files Partially Redacted Brief in 5th Circuit Voter ID Appeal
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70033>

Posted onFebruary 1, 2015 2:40 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70033>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it here. 
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey57.pdf>

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

    “A Pair Of Gay ‘Tech Bears’ Owns JebBushForPresident.com”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70031>

Posted onFebruary 1, 2015 2:28 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70031>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Business Insider reports. 
<http://www.businessinsider.com/a-pair-of-gay-tech-bears-owns-jebbushforpresidentcom-2015-1#ixzz3QDb7T6E5>

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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    “U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on the Meaning of ‘Legislature’”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70029>

Posted onJanuary 30, 2015 5:25 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70029>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Governing reports. 
<http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-scotus-legislature-meaning.html>

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Posted incitizen commissions 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=7>,Elections Clause 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>,redistricting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    “Judge to take several weeks to rule on NC voter ID challenge”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70027>

Posted onJanuary 30, 2015 5:24 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70027>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Charlotte Observer. 
<http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/01/30/5483545/judge-to-take-several-weeks-to.html#.VMwuS17F-fI>

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

    Time to Start Enforcing Section 2 of the 14th Amendment?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70025>

Posted onJanuary 30, 2015 9:20 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70025>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Richard Kreitner writes 
<http://www.thenation.com/article/195705/any-way-abridged>.

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

    “Groups With Liberal Ties Tapped To Re-Elect The GOP Establishment”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70023>

Posted onJanuary 30, 2015 9:19 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70023>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fascinating 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/29/gop-dark-money_n_6566244.html>Paul 
Blumental analysis.

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    Disqualification Clause Debate <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70021>

Posted onJanuary 30, 2015 9:15 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70021>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Extensive debate in Quinnipiac Law Review:

Benjamin Cassady,/“You’ve Got Your Crook, I’ve Got Mine”: Why the 
Disqualification Clause Doesn’t (Always) Disqualify/, 32Quinnipiac L. 
Rev. 209 (2014),/available at/http://ssrn.com/abstract=2447970
Mike Stern, Foreward,/An Exchange on the Disqualification Clause/, 
33Quinnipiac L. Rev.i (2014) (by invitation),/available 
at/http://tinyurl.com/ktftzqt
Peter C. Hoffer,/The Pleasures and Perils of Presentism: A Meditation on 
History and Law/, 33Quinnipiac L. Rev. 1 (2014) (invited response to 
Cassady),/available at/http://tinyurl.com/ktftzqt
Brian C. Kalt,/The Application of the Disqualification Clause to 
Congress: A Response to Benjamin Cassady/,//“You’ve Got Your Crook, I’ve 
Got Mine”: Why the Disqualification Clause Doesn’t (Always) Disqualify, 
33Quinnipiac L. Rev. 7 (2014) (invited response),/available 
at/http://ssrn.com/abstract=2490963
Buckner F. Melton, Jr.,/Let Me Be Blunt: In/Blount/, the Senate Never 
Said that Senators Aren’t Impeachable/, 33Quinnipiac L. Rev. 33 
(2014)(invited response),/available at/http://ssrn.com/abstract=2509665 
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Seth Barrett Tillman,/Originalism &//The Scope of the Constitution’s 
Disqualification Clause/, 33Quinnipiac L. Rev. 59-111 (2014) (invited 
response),/available at/http://ssrn.com/abstract=2484377
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    “Deadbeat politicos outrun federal enforcers; Sharpton, Gingrich
    committees among dozens that owe taxpayers money”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70019>

Posted onJanuary 30, 2015 9:13 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70019>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI reports. 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/01/30/16677/deadbeat-politicos-outrun-federal-enforcers>

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