[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/3/15

Tue Mar 3 07:33:20 PST 2015

    “Obamacare case: All eyes on 2 justices; The keys to the case are
    expected to be John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70679>

Posted onMarch 3, 2015 7:29 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70679>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/obamacare-supreme-court-case-john-roberts-anthony-kennedy-115673.html>.

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

    “Where black voters stand 50 years after the Voting Rights Act was
    passed” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70677>

Posted onMarch 3, 2015 7:27 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70677>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo: 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/03/where-black-voters-stand-50-years-after-the-voting-rights-act-was-passed/>

    African Americans have come a long way politically over the past
    half-century, but disparities remain.

    In the five decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act,
    blacks have made significant strides in registering and turning out
    to vote, accordingto a new study
    <http://jointcenter.org/blog/50-years-voting-rights-act>. Yet, the
    policies enacted tend to better represent the interests of white
    Americans and blacks continue to be underrepresented in elected office.

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    “Founders Would Approve of Arizona’s Meddling”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70675>

Posted onMarch 3, 2015 7:21 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70675>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Noah Feldman 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-02/founders-would-approve-of-arizona-s-meddling>for 
Bloomberg View.

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    “McDonnell launches effort to have corruption conviction thrown out”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70673>

Posted onMarch 3, 2015 7:16 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70673>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mcdonnell-launches-bid-to-have-corruption-conviction-thrown-out/2015/03/02/3cc8950a-c0dc-11e4-9271-610273846239_story.html?wpisrc=nl_readin&wpmm=1>:

    Former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell on Monday fired the
    opening salvo in a bid to get his public corruption conviction
    thrown out, arguing in a filing that the case against him was “built
    on a boundless definition of bribery” and that the judge made legal
    errors throughout the process that warrant a new trial.

    The brief — 103 pages, including indexes and other administrative
    sheets — restated many of the arguments that McDonnell made at
    various points during the case against him, arguments that were
    rejected by a U.S. District Court judge. But McDonnell (R) is trying
    to persuade a different audience — a three-judge panel at the U.S.
    Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which will look at the case
    with fresh eyes.

Anyone have the brief?

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    “Backers of Prop. 8 marriage initiative lose disclosure case”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70671>

Posted onMarch 3, 2015 7:13 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70671>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bob Egelko reports 
<http://www.sfgate.com/lgbt/article/Backers-of-Prop-8-same-sex-initiative-lose-6110769.php>for 
the SF Chronicle.

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    “‘Plain meaning,’ absurdity, and the (almost forgotten) Gregory/Bond
    federalism canon, in King v. Burwell”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70669>

Posted onMarch 2, 2015 7:49 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70669>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Interesting Marty Lederman post 
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/03/plain-meaning-absurdity-and-almost.html>.

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    “Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email at State Dept., Possibly
    Breaking Rules” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70666>

Posted onMarch 2, 2015 7:17 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70666>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html?ref=politics>:

    Hillary Rodham Clinton
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html?inline=nyt-per> exclusively
    used a personal email account to conduct government business as
    secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have
    violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be
    retained as part of the agency’s record.

    Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her
    four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions
    to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the
    time, as required by the Federal Records Act.

NYT says it is a “possible” rules violation for HRC to use private 
email. What’s the defense she’s complied with the law?

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    “FEC Limits on Newly Formed PACs Supported by Federal Court
    Decision” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70664>

Posted onMarch 2, 2015 7:12 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70664>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg BNA 
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=64149716&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0g3a6b7q1&split=0>:

    A constitutional challenge to contribution limits on traditional
    political action committees has been turned back by a federal judge
    in Virginia, who ruled that the limits remain valid under Supreme
    Court rulings dating back to the 1976 landmark caseBuckley v.
    Valeo(Stop Reckless Economic Instability Caused By Democrats v. FEC
    <http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/document/Stop_Reckless_Economic_Instability_Caused_By_Democrats_et_al_v_Fe/1>,
    E.D. Va., No. 14-397,summary judgment order, 2/27/15).

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    “How campaign finance law makes senators early lame ducks”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70662>

Posted onMarch 2, 2015 7:08 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70662>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

David Karol 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/02/how-campaign-finance-law-makes-senators-early-lame-ducks/>at 
The Monkey Cage.

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

    “California lawmaker seeks tax on independent political spending”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70660>

Posted onMarch 2, 2015 4:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70660>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/LAT/ 
<http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-outside-spending-tax-20150302-story.html>reports.

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    Some Links on Today’s Arizona Redistricting Case at #SCOTUS
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70658>

Posted onMarch 2, 2015 3:13 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70658>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT 
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-supreme-court-redistricting-20150302-story.html>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/justices-show-skepticism-on-independent-redistricting-panel.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150302&nlid=30026843&tntemail0=y&_r=0>

NPR 
<http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245031/high-court-case-tests-independent-redistricting-commissions>

Arizona Republic 
<http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/02/supreme-court-arizona-redistricting-case/24261009/>

Politico 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/supreme-court-independent-redistricting-115642.html>

WaPo 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-skeptical-of-arizona-redistricting-commission/2015/03/02/96f05892-c104-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html>

National Journal 
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/supreme-court-weighs-overturning-dozens-of-congressional-districts-20150302>

WSJ 
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-skeptical-of-arizona-initiative-on-congressional-districting-1425328764>

SCOTUSBlog 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/03/argument-analysis-literalism-vs-the-power-of-the-people/>(andPlain 
English 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/03/independent-redistricting-commission-in-jeopardy-todays-oral-argument-in-plain-english/>)

Common Cause 
<http://www.commoncause.org/press/press-releases/like-asking-the-foxes-to-guard-statehouse.html>

Think Progress 
<http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/03/02/3628567/republicans-may-come-regret-gerrymandering-lawsuit-took-supreme-court/>

More to come

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    “Proportional Voting Through the Elections Clause: Protecting Voting
    Rights Post-Shelby County” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70656>

Posted onMarch 2, 2015 2:52 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70656>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Conner Johnston has writtenthis student note 
<http://www.uclalawreview.org/?p=6357>for the /UCLA Law Review./

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    “Section 2 Zero-Sums: How the Supreme Court Misconstrued the Voting
    Rights Act, Limits Minority Representation, and Dangerously Pits
    Minorities Against Each Other” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70654>

Posted onMarch 2, 2015 2:47 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70654>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Salvador Perez has writtenthis piece 
<http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/section-2-zero-sums>for the 
/Stanford Law Review Online./

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    Is Justice Kennedy in Play in Arizona Redistricting Case?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70652>

Posted onMarch 2, 2015 1:22 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70652>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

My read of the transcript was no <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70645>. 
But I’ve now heard from three very smart people I know who were in the 
courtroom who said Justice Kennedy seemed more in play in the case than 
it appeared to me from the cold read of the transcript.  I hope that’s 
right.

I’d love to be wrong on this one!

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