[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/11/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Jun 11 08:20:09 PDT 2015
“This Web site allows political donors to give money based on how
lawmakers vote. Just don’t call it bribery.”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73397>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 8:15 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73397>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/06/11/ifthenfund/>on
the If-Then Fund.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“The False Promise of Black Political Representation; Record numbers
of African Americans hold elective office, but the policy
preferences of black voters remain unlikely to be enacted.”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73395>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 8:14 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73395>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Nick Stephanopoulos
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/black-political-representation-power/395594/>for
The Atlantic.
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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Brace Yourself for Kobach” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73393>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 8:12 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73393>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Wichita Eagle
<http://www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article23695309.html>editorial:
Secretary of State Kris Kobach finally got the prosecutorial powers
he wanted. Brace yourself, Kansas voters, as he’s unlikely to put
them in a drawer.
Kobach is such a zealot on the nonissue of voter fraud that he
didn’t even wait to start investigations until Gov. Sam Brownback
had signed the bill, whichoccurred
<http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article23498689.html>Monday.
Kobach said three attorneys in his office will work on potential
cases at least part time, and he likely will handle some as well. He
claimed he’s homing in on more than 100 possible cases of double
voting from 2014, using phrases Monday such as “all-time high” and
“slam dunk.”
The more accurate wording about Kobach’s expanded power came from
Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, whocalled
<http://cjonline.com/news/2015-06-08/brownback-signs-bill-giving-kobach-prosecution-power>it
“jousting at windmills.”
Shameful.
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Posted inchicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>,fraudulent fraud
squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“Kentucky race for governor gets started with a secret debate in
Virginia” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73391>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 8:07 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73391>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sam Youngman
<http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/10/3893782_kentucky-race-for-governor-gets.html?rh=1>:
When Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conwayannounced
<http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/09/3892408/conway-and-overly-agree-to-appear.html>this
week a series of debates and forums between himself and Republican
gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin, neither he nor Bevin mentioned
that they’ve already faced off behind closed doors.
Conway, the Democratic nominee for governor, and Bevin participated
this month in a debate at a retreat for the coal industry in
Bristol, Va., which the media were not notified about or permitted
to attend.
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
Commisioner Goodman Responds to Paul Ryan on Partisanship at the FEC
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73388>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73388>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here<http://thehill.com/opinion/letters/244618-working-toward-a-fair-fast-fcc>at
The Hill.
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Are Kochs Trying a Hostile Takeover of GOP (Master Voter File)?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73386>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73386>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Yahoo! Politics.
<https://www.yahoo.com/politics/the-koch-brothers-and-the-republican-party-go-to-121193159491.html>
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Linda Greenhouse on #SCOTUS Term, and Evenwel in the Next
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73384>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73384>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/the-supreme-court-down-the-stretch.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0>
Last month, the court accepted another case without a split among
the lower courts.Evenwel v.
Abbott<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/evenwel-v-abbott/>challenges
the inclusion of noncitizens among those who are to be counted for
the purpose of redistricting. The case reflects a cynical effort to
maximize the voting power of Anglo Republicans in Texas, propelled
to the court’s docket by the same legal team that brought us the
Fisher case as well asShelby County v. Holder
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-96_6k47.pdf>, the
2013 case that gutted theVoting Rights Act
<http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/v/voting_rights_act_1965/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>.
The theory behind the new case is that when noncitizens count – as
they do everywhere in the country — in the population that must be
spread evenly among electoral districts, the votes of citizens
(presumably Latinos) in districts with large numbers of noncitizens
are overweighted. The argument is that this violates the rule of
one-person, one-vote, because it acts to underweight the votes of
those in districts that have few immigrants. and therefore more
citizen-voters.
The issue seemed to pop up out of nowhere, but actually it’s one
that never went away. In 2001, the court refused to hear a similar
challenge to the counting of noncitizens. Justice Thomasdissented in
that case <https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-1946.ZD.html>,
Chen v. City of Houston. “We have never determined the relevant
‘population’ that states and localities must equally distribute
among their districts,” he wrote, adding that “as long as we sustain
the one-person, one-vote principle, we have an obligation to explain
to states and localities what it actually means.”
It took 14 years, but now the issue is back, in what looms so far as
the dominant case of the court’s next term. But that’s next year’s
stretch run.
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“Elections supervisors call out Secretary of State Ken Detzner”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73382>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:33 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73382>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Woah
<http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/elections-supervisors-call-out-secretary-of-state-ken-detzner/2233116>:
Pasco elections supervisor Brian Corley, the association’s new
president, noted that Detzner in private meetings said he was
enthusiastic about voter registration but would have to check with
Gov. Rick Scott, but then later told reporters he never spoke to the
governor about it: “You told us in that meeting you had to talk to
the governor, and then you told the media multiple times you hadn’t
spoken to the governor. So which is it, respectfully sir?,” Corley
said, suggesting Detzner either “misled” the media or the elections
officials working with him.
See alsoElections conference could put Gov. Rick Scott’s chief in hot
seat
<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/06/elections-conference-could-put-gov-rick-scotts-chief-in-hot-seat.html>.
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“Weak Internet Security Leaves U.S. Elections Agency Vulnerable to
Hackers, Reports Find” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73380>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:31 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73380>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ on FEC.
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/weak-internet-security-leaves-fec-vulnerable-to-hackers-reports-find-1433945246>
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“‘Desperate’ at the FEC Part II: The Risks of Unintended
Consequences” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73378>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:28 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73378>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ravel-Weintraub petition may backfire.Bauer makes the case
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/06/desperate-fec-part-ii-risks-unintended-consequences/>.
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election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
“Arizona Republicans Planning Redistricting Push After SCOTUS
Decision” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73376>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:24 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73376>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Reid Wilson
<http://morningconsult.com/2015/06/arizona-republicans-planning-redistricting-push-after-scotus-decision/>for
the Morning Consult:
The U.S. Supreme Court is nearing a decision over the
constitutionality of independent commissions created to draw
district lines, but lawmakers in Arizona aren’t waiting for the
outcome to start radically redrawing the state’s political
boundaries — for their own gain.
House and Senate leaders have already begun discussing how and where
to redraw lines, and they are likely to come to some sort of
agreement over the summer, sources close to Republican leaders in
both chambers said. Once an agreement is close, Gov. Doug Ducey (R)
would call a special legislative session to dispense with the new maps.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>,redistricting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Campaign Preview? Clinton and Christie Spar Over Early Voting in
New Jersey” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73374>
Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73374>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Yael Bromberg blogs.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yael-bromberg/campaign-preview-clinton_b_7556992.html>
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“It’s PAC Season: Time to Put Up a Firewall, Attorneys Say”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73370>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 4:11 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73370>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Campaigns & Elections
<http://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/2468/it-s-pac-season-time-to-put-the-firewall-up-attorneys-say>.
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“Top aide to Fla. ex-congressman will plead guilty to breaking
election law” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73368>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 2:18 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73368>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Miami Herald
<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article23667943.html>:
“A former campaign manager for onetime Democratic Congressman Joe Garcia
plans to plead guilty Thursday in Miami federal court to financing a tea
party candidate in a scheme to siphon votes from his Republican nemesis.”
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,chicanery
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
Former Rep. Henry Waxman Already a Lobbyist? For T-Mobile?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73366>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 2:06 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73366>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Whodathunkit?
<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/supposedly-a-lobbyists-nightmare-liberal-henry-waxman-spins-easily-through-the-revolving-door/article/2565971?custom_click=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter>
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Claims of Hasidim Against Village of Bloomingburg Partially Survive
Motion to Dismiss <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73363>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 12:40 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73363>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/bloomingburg-order.pdf>is
the federal court order. More fromJTA.
<http://www.jta.org/2015/06/10/news-opinion/united-states/judge-upholds-hasidic-lawsuit-alleging-discrimination-in-bloomingburg-n-y>
I’ve been
following<http://electionlawblog.org/?s=bloomingburg&x=0&y=0>this set of
cases because of allegations of voter fraud as well as voting
discrimination as a group of Hasidim try to take over a small
municipality in upstate New York.
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“Challenges Implementing Federal Automatic Voter Registration”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73361>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 11:57 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73361>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Derek the
Muller<http://excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2015/6/challenges-implementing-federal-automatic-voter-registration>raises
good points, but all of them could be dealt with in the unlikely event
we got down to the details of such a plan.
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“One Governor’s Audacious, Unprecedented Effort To Use Personal
Wealth To Re-Create The Legislature”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73359>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 11:46 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73359>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sacha Feinman
<http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/06/10/3665526/illinois-wealthy-governor-breaking-new-ground-money-politics/>for
Think Progress on Illinois’s Governor Rauner.
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“Active Avoidance: The Modern Supreme Court and Legal Change”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73357>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 11:36 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73357>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
New article
<http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/06/active-avoidance-the-modern-supreme-court-and-legal-change/>by
Neal Katyal and Thomas Schmidt in the Harvard Law Review, witha response
<http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/06/avoiding-constitutional-questions-versus-avoiding-unconstitutionality/>by
Caleb Nelson.
Here is how Katyal and Schmidt situate their work in relation to other
recent work on the avoidance canon, including my own:
1 Others have discussed the use of the avoidance canon in the
Roberts Court. See Neal Devins, Constitutional Avoidance and the
Roberts Court, 32 U. DAYTON L. REV. 339 (2007); Richard L. Hasen,
Constitutional Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance by the Roberts Court,
2009 SUP.CT. REV. 181. Professor Neal Devins argues that the Roberts
Court “need not make extensive use of constitutional avoidance,”
Devins, supra, at 339, because Congress is “less engaged in
constitutional matters” and seems less “poised to strike back at the
Court” than it has been in the past, id. at 345. Professor Richard
Hasen explores inconsistencies in the Roberts Court’s applications
of the canon. Professor Richard Re has also written a short,
incisive piece on the Roberts Court’s tendency to signal legal
change before actually following through with it, and “active
avoidance” could be seen as an instance of that broader tendency.
See Richard M. Re, The Doctrine of One Last Chance, 17 GREEN BAG 2D
173, 182 (2014). Our focus is different from these prior efforts: we
use recent avoidance decisions by the Roberts Court to assess and
critique the avoidance canon more generally.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=21>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“New Voting Rights Litigation Summary from CLC Shows Growing Voter
Dilution and Suppression Efforts Since Supreme Court’s Shelby County
Decision” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73355>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 11:27 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73355>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/new-voting-rights-litigation-summary-clc-shows-growing-voter-dilution-and>:
Over the past few years, efforts to dilute and suppress minority
voting rights or to restrict the vote for partisan gain have spiked
dramatically. Racially-discriminatory voting laws have been passed
in states and municipalities across the country, particularly in
jurisdictions that no longer have to comply with a key provision of
the Voting Rights Act as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision
two years ago in/Shelby County v. Holder/. Jurisdictions have also
passed election restrictions designed to benefit one party over the
other, often under the guise of improving already-efficient election
procedures and preventing non-existent voter-fraud. The Campaign
Legal Center has filed suit to challenge a number of those laws and
participated in other cases across the country.
The Legal Center has released an updatedsummary
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/sites/default/files/Campaign%20Legal%20Center%20Litigation%20Summary_new%20address_May-2015_0.pdf>of
that litigation to facilitate the tracking of those cases. The
summary includes a number of the most prominent post-/Shelby/cases,
though more are out there.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“The Lobbying Bonanza” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73353>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 9:27 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73353>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tom Edsall NYT column.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/opinion/the-lobbying-bonanza.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthomas-b-edsall>
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“Here’s Jeb Bush’s paperwork to run for president, at long last”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73350>
Posted onJune 10, 2015 8:36 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73350>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/09/heres-jeb-bushs-paperwork-to-run-for-president-at-long-last/?postshare=6501433867259371>
It’s amazing. I guess it takes helping your Super PAC try to raise $100
million for your campaign and making literally dozens of campaign
appearances, including in early caucus and primary states, to help
someone who is not a candidate decide to skip the “testing the waters”
phase and become a candidate.
You never know though. He’s left himself an escape hatch. “If I run…”
Earlier:Jeb the Destroyer.
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/jeb_bush_destroying_campaign_finance_rules_his_tactics_will_be_the_future.html>
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