[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/23/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Jul 23 08:17:49 PDT 2015
“Podcast: Voting rights on trial in North Carolina”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74528>
Posted onJuly 23, 2015 7:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74528>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Derek Muller and I spoke with Jeffrey Rosen for aNational Constitution
Center podcast:
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/07/podcast-voting-rights-on-trial-in-north-carolina/>
On August 6, the Voting Rights Act will celebrate its 50th
anniversary. First enacted in 1965 and extended in 1970, 1975 and
1982, it is considered one of the most important pieces of civil
rights legislation in American history. The Voting Rights Act
codifies and enforces the 15th Amendment’s guarantee that no
American citizen shall be denied the right to vote on account of
race or color.
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Act
in/Shelby County v. Holder/. That part of the law established a
formula to determine which jurisdictions would be required to obtain
federal approval for changes in their election laws. The Court ruled
that the formula was unconstitutional in light of improved
conditions in those previously covered areas.
In this post-/Shelby County/world, lawsuits challenging new election
regulations have been filed in several states. In fact, as of July
2015, a trial is underway in North Carolina to determine whether a
law passed less than two months after the Supreme Court’s/Shelby
County/decision is a violation of the 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment
or the Voting Rights Act.
Two superb scholars joined our Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the Voting
Rights Act and the North Carolina case.
Rick Hasen <http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/>is the
Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the
University of California-Irvine School of Law. He is an expert in
election and campaign finance law, and is the author of the Election
Law Blog <http://electionlawblog.org/>.
Derek Muller
<http://law.pepperdine.edu/faculty-research/faculty/default.htm?faculty=derek_muller>is
Associate Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of
Law. He is also an expert in election law, and is the author of
Excess of Democracy <http://excessofdemocracy.com/>.
You can listen to the full audio in the player below or at the
following link:Download this episode (right click and save)
<http://nccpodcasts.podbean.com/mf/web/gxe4fb/2015-07-21podcastwpromo.mp3>
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Exclusive: Trump threatens third-party run”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74526>
Posted onJuly 23, 2015 7:36 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74526>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Hill reports.
<http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/248910-exclusive-trump-threatens-third-party-run>
That’s why I toldUnivision
<http://noticias.univision.com/article/2408083/2015-07-21/estados-unidos/destino-2016/noticias-elecciones/por-que-los-republicanos-no-expulsan-a-trump?cmpid=Tweet:article>that
Republicans will have to tread lightly. Trump is egotistical enough to
run a vanity third party candidacy, even if it leads to the election of
a Democratic candidate who disagrees with him more on issues such as
immigration.
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,third parties
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=47>
“How the Never-Ending Battle of Redistricting Will Impact 2016″
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74524>
Posted onJuly 23, 2015 7:32 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74524>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Alan Greenblatt reports
<http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-redistricting-supreme-court-florida-virginia.html>for
Governing.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Voting Rights
Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Chamber Spends Millions in Key Senate Races”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74522>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 8:06 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74522>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=73133878&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0h0e2v1n8&split=0>:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent almost $2 million this month
on television ads supporting Republicans or opposing Democrats in
four key Senate races across the country and announced July 21 that
it is jumping into to two more Senate races with major ad buys.
Campaign spending reports filed recently with the Federal Election
Commission showed that the Chamber intends to be a major factor in
next year’s congressional elections, as it has in past races, even
as public attention is drawn to the early stages of the 2016
presidential campaign.
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Wisconsin’s Responses in the New Federal Challenge to Voter ID Etc.
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74520>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 8:01 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74520>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Available here
<http://www.doj.state.wi.us/media-center/2015-news-releases/one-wisconsin-institute-inc-v-nichol-answer-motion-dismiss-brief-filed>.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“National Security or First Amendment? Gyrocopter Case Proceeds”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74518>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 12:38 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74518>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call reports
<http://blogs.rollcall.com/hill-blotter/national-security-or-first-amendment-gyrocopter-case-proceeds/>.
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“American Samoans Seek Full D.C. Circuit Review of Panel Decision
Denying Birthright Citizenship” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74516>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 12:17 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74516>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Press release
<http://www.equalrightsnow.org/american_samoans_seek_full_d_c_circuit_review_of_panel_decision_denying_birthright_citizenship>:
Five American Samoans and the Samoan Federation of Americapetitioned
yesterday
<https://www.scribd.com/doc/272161910/Tuaua-Petition-for-Rehearing-en-Banc>for
the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review a June
decision by a three-judge panel that constitutional citizenship by
birth on U.S. soil does not apply in U.S. territories. The panel
held in/Tuaua v. United States/that people born in the U.S.
territory of American Samoa have no claim to birthright citizenship
under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. As a result, the United States government does not
recognize them as citizens of any place. Under federal law they owe
“permanent allegiance” to the United States yet are labeled with the
inferior status of “non-citizen national.”
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Posted invoting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
The ELB Search Function is Not Working Right
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74513>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 11:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74513>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The technical gurus will take a look. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“VoteCal and the Struggle to Modernize California’s Statewide Voter
Registration Database” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74511>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 11:25 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74511>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Policy Brief
<http://www.calvoter.org/issues/voterreg/votecalpolicybrief.html?utm_source=072215_CVF-NEWS&utm_campaign=CVF-NEWS_072215&utm_medium=email>from
California Voter Foundation.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voting technology
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>
“Reform Groups Urge Senators to Co-sponsor and Support Leahy Bill,
the Stop Super PAC-Candidate Coordination Act”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74509>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 11:24 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74509>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Press release
<http://www.democracy21.org/legislative-action/press-releases-legislative-action/reform-groups-urge-senators-to-co-sponsor-and-support-leahy-bill-the-stop-super-pac-candidate-coordination-act/>.
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“Don’t replace state’s elections watchdog agency”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74507>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 11:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74507>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Milwaukee Journal Sentineleditorial
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/dont-replace-states-elections-watchdog-agency-b99541915z1-318019091.html>.
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“Legislator: North Carolina’s election law curtailed previous
efforts to make it easier for blacks to vote”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74505>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 11:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74505>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest
<http://www.journalnow.com/business/legislator-north-carolina-s-election-law-curtailed-previous-efforts-to/article_bf07d616-3099-11e5-a048-931a0b9f065c.html>from
the NC voting trial.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“Why Republicans do not expel Trump”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74503>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 8:52 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74503>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Univsion
reports<http://noticias.univision.com/article/2408083/2015-07-21/estados-unidos/destino-2016/noticias-elecciones/por-que-los-republicanos-no-expulsan-a-trump?cmpid=Tweet:article>(translated
from Spanish).
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“High court’s judicial activists are making a bad situation worse”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74500>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 8:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74500>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Cap Times editorial.
<http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/editorial/high-court-s-judicial-activists-are-making-a-bad-situation/article_a4b4ec6b-664a-58f9-9147-deba8ce84209.html>
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“Democratic legislator: GOP rushed to pass voting law”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74498>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 8:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74498>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest
<http://www.journalnow.com/news/elections/state/democratic-legislator-gop-rushed-to-pass-voting-law/article_7288b3b6-3024-11e5-9a2b-f761ed075375.html>from
the NC voting trial.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Two on Campaign Finance in Washington Times
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74495>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 8:31 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74495>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Stephen Klein –Campaign Finance Reform Can’t Punish Free Speech
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/21/celebrate-liberty-month-campaign-finance-reform-ca/>
Alan Morrison –It’s Buckley, Not Citizens United, That Created Massive
Spending
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/21/celebrate-liberty-month-its-buckley-not-citizens-u/>
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“Jeb Bush’s Lobbying Reform Plan Probably Won’t Rein In K Street”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74493>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 8:26 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74493>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Russ Choma
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/jeb-bush-lobbying-reform>for Mother
Jones:
The issue is that the six-year ban would only prevent former members
of Congress from taking part in “official” lobbying—a very
specifically defined set of activities. Avoid those activities—or
earn less than 20 percent of your income from lobbying
activities—and you can avoid registering as a lobbyist. There’s no
shortage of high-profile ex-lawmakers who have used this loophole to
sell their insider expertise and thick Rolodexes to the highest
bidder without ever registering as a lobbyist. Former Democratic
Sen. Tom Daschle has worked for three lobbying firms since his
departure from Congress 10 years ago, never once officially
registering as a lobbyist. Instead, Daschle has served as a “senior
policy advisor.” Similarly, upon leaving Congress in 1999, former
Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich immediately went to work for
a number of private interests offering“quasi-lobbying” services
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/newt-gingrich-historian-fact-checker-biography/2011/12/13/gIQAJqiMsO_blog.html>,
but called his work anything but lobbying. Notably, Gingrich was
paid $1.65 million for his work as a “historian” for mortgage lender
Freddie Mac.
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“The Judging of Politicians by Judges, Part II: Blagojevich in the
Seventh Circuit” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74491>
Posted onJuly 22, 2015 7:55 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74491>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/07/judging-politicians-judges-part-ii-blagojevich-seventh-circuit/>on
Blagojevich:
The Court seems to believe that, where the political trading is for
government posts, the/cost/of public corruption is somehow more
limited, more tolerable. It is just a government salary’s worth of
political self-dealing. Of course, it is more than that: there is
also the question of the quality of administration, of service to
the public. Compare that to the purchase of “access” with campaign
funds, by which the donor is just offered, for her political
support, a chance to make her case, and not everyone would agree on
which of the two kinds of trades is more costly.
There also seems to be a belief that the deals politicians cut with
each other should be given more room than the deals between
politicians and their supporters or donors, because it has always
been the “everyday politics” of interactions among politicians that
helps the government run. There is merit in this view, up to a
point. So would say the “political realists
<http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2015/05/political-realism-rauch>.”
Others, including some of the realists, might worry about a view of
public corruption that zeros in on political supporters’ “access”
while politicians trade more freely in taxpayer funds and in the
services that these taxpayers are supposed to get for the money.
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UC Irvine School of Law
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