[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/5/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Mar 4 21:17:55 PST 2015
Off to Fordham Corruption Symposium
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70755>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 9:15 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70755>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70089>should be fun and informative.
My presentation: Why Isn’t Congress /More /Corrupt?
Regular blogging resumes on Monday.
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Posted inbribery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>
Marc Elias to Clinton Campaign <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70753>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 8:58 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70753>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/03/04/clinton-hires-campaign-lawyer-ahead-of-likely-run/?ref=politics>:
Marc Elias, a veteran campaign finance lawyer who was general
counsel for John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004, is scheduled
to be Mrs. Clinton’s lead campaign lawyer in her all-but-assured
second bid for the presidency, three Democrats with knowledge of the
hire said. Mr. Elias, who was brought on long before questions
emerged about Mrs. Clinton’s personal email use at the State
Department, is a partner at the firm Perkins Coie, which represents
a number of Democratic senators.
I
guessthis<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Obama_lawyer_warns_of_reckoning_for_Clinton_527_donors_and_staff.html>is
water under the bridge.
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“Kentucky Should Let Rand Run” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70751>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 8:48 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70751>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Josh Douglas oped
<http://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/03/04/kentucky-let-rand-run/24366653/>:
Will Sen. Rand Paul run for president, re-election to the Senate, or
both? That last option —both — is unavailable to Paul based on
aKentucky law
<http://www.lrc.ky.gov/statutes/statute.aspx?id=27639>that forbids
candidates from appearing on the ballot for more than one office.
Kentucky should repeal that law and allow the voters to decide
Paul’s fate.
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“House Committee Approves Bills to Eliminate EAC, Public Funding for
Presidential Races” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70749>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 8:46 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70749>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA reports
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/display/link_res.adp?lt=email&fname=A0G3C1W7Y0&lf=eml&emc=mpdm:mpdm:109>.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,election
administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Election Assistance
Commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>
“The Hypocrisy of Celebrating Selma”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70747>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 12:53 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70747>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Russell Berman
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-hypocrisy-of-celebrating-selma/386426/>for
The Atlantic.
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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
Read the DOJ’s 5th Circuit Brief in the Texas Voter ID Case
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70745>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 12:45 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70745>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1680169-texas-doj-20150303.html#document/p11>
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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>
“Federal Actions Bring Election Matters to the Forefront”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70743>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 12:43 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70743>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Goldfeder and Perez.
<http://www.stroock.com/siteFiles/Publications/FederalActionsBringElectionMatterstotheForefront.pdf>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Student Voting Rights Case Filed in TN”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70741>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 12:40 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70741>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://fairelectionsnetwork.com/news/release-student-voting-rights-case-filed-tn>:
A federal
lawsuit<http://fairelectionsnetwork.com/sites/default/files/001%20-%20Complaint-13302.pdf>was
filed today in the U.S. District Court in Nashville challenging
Tennessee’s voter ID law as violating the voting rights of Tennessee
college and university students. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of
a student organization and nine college students by the Fair
Elections Legal Network, a national voting rights organization, and
Nashville law firm, Barrett Johnston Martin & Garrison, LLC. The
lawsuit asks the court to rule that the current voter ID law
violates the 14th Amendment and 26th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution because it discriminates against college students by
excluding student ID cards from the list of accepted voter IDs.
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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>
“Liberal ‘dark money’ group scrutinized in Pennsylvania”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70739>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 12:37 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70739>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI reports.
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/03/04/16822/liberal-dark-money-group-scrutinized-pennsylvania>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
No Justice Scalia, Congressional Overrides Don’t Happen “All the
Time” (Anymore) <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70735>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 11:16 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70735>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
From today’s oral argument in King v. Burwell:
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But today, Congress very rarely overturns the Supreme Court, especially
in high profile cases with great partisan salience, except in situations
(unlike today) where the Congress and Presidency are all controlled by
one party. See End of the Dialogue? Political Polarization, the Supreme
Court, and Congress
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2130190>,
86/Southern California Law Review/205 (2013) and Response: Conscious
Congressional Overriding of the Supreme Court, Gridlock, and Partisan
Politics,/Texas Law Review See Also/,(forthcoming 2015) (draft available
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2530114>) (with Jim
Buatti).
As I wrote inthis LA Times oped,
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-roberts-supreme-court-obamacare-20141113-story.html> in
relation to the Chief Justice making such an argument, “In today’s
fraught political environment, court-Congress dialogues are not
generally possible. But that might not stop Roberts from citing the
possibility of such a dialogue — especially if what he is really
seeking is political cover and a chance to redeem his controversial
earlier ruling on the Affordable Care Act with a new one that hobbles a
key part of the law.”
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Posted instatutory interpretation
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=21>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“City Election Sea Change Santa Barbara to Initiate New District
System This November” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70733>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 9:01 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70733>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
News:
<http://www.independent.com/news/2015/feb/25/city-election-sea-change/>
Although a few “i”s remain to be dotted and few “t”s to be crossed,
the Santa Barbara City Council voted 6-0 to settle a lawsuit
charging that the at-large elections City Hall has conducted since
1971 have yielded “racially polarized” results as defined by the
California Voting Rights Act. The five plaintiffs who brought the
lawsuit pointed out that only one Latino — Cathy Murillo — had been
elected to the council since 2000 even though Latinos make up 38
percent of the population and 24 percent of eligible voters. As part
of the settlement, the council agreed to begin holding district
elections this November, when three seats come up for grabs.
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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Keeping Up with the Congressmen: Evaluating Constituents’ Awareness
of Redistricting” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70731>
Posted onMarch 4, 2015 8:58 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70731>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Christopher Lawrence and Scott Huffmon havethis new article
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.12130/abstract>in the
/Social Science Quarterly./
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
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