[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/7/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Oct 7 10:23:02 PDT 2015
“Assembly Republicans want to split GAB into two agencies”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76489>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 10:21 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76489>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
An intentional recipe for deadlock
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/assembly-republicans-want-to-split-gab-into-two-agencies-b99592139z1-331067811.html>in
one of our most bitterly partisan state governments.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,election
administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“Calif. Justices Wade Into ‘Citizens United’ Scuffle”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76487>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 10:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76487>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Recorder<http://www.therecorder.com/home/id=1202739137527>reports on
yesterday’s oral argument.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,direct
democracy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=62>
“The New SCOTUS Term: What’s Law Got to Do With It?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76485>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 10:12 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76485>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eric Segall
<http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2015/10/the-new-scotus-term-whats-law-got-to-do.html>:
The Supreme Court’s new Term starts today and it promises to be a
blockbuster. The Justices have already agreed to hear important
cases on affirmative action, public sector unions, and the death
penalty, with abortion and voter ID cases likely to also be on the
agenda. But, perhaps the most important case this term, or maybe any
term since/Bush v. Gore/, is/Evenwel v. Abbott./
In this case, the Supreme Court will wrestle with a fundamental
political issue: for purposes of redistricting in state and local
elections (and probably federal as well), do states need to count
all the people who live in the districts or just eligible voters?
The answer has major practical implications for each political party
and for our country as a whole. It also raises a difficult and core
issue of political philosophy: whom do our elected leaders represent?
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“How a team of Obama veterans helped Bernie Sanders pull in a record
number of donations” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76483>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 10:07 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76483>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Yahoo! Politics reports.
<https://www.yahoo.com/politics/how-a-team-of-obama-veterans-helped-bernie-sanders-131204886.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“Hoyer: Alabama DMV Closures Prove That Voting Rights Act Must Be
Restored” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76481>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 10:05 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76481>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
TPM reports.
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/hoyer-alabama-dmv-voting>
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Posted inThe Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>,VRAA
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=81>
“Is pro-Bush super PAC obscuring spending?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76479>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 10:04 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76479>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/10/07/18258/pro-bush-super-pac-obscuring-spending>:
Super PACs are supposed to be both transparent and independent from
the politicians they are supporting.
But it’s not clear thatRight to Rise USA
<https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/09/01/17920/jeb-bush-ditched-his-corporate-pals-they-wont-quit-him>,
the super PAC formed by RepublicanJeb Bush
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/06/15/17142/12-things-know-about-jeb-bush>prior
to his presidential bid, is either.
The super PAC’s biggest single vendor this year through June is a
mysterious limited liability company, LKJ, LLC, whose owners are
hidden behind the state of Delaware’s opaque registration laws. The
company doesn’t appear to have a website or a physical office.
It’s only known address: a Washington, D.C., post office box — one
it shares with a company run by Heather Larrison, the national
finance director for Bush’s official presidential campaign.
The company’s Delaware origin makes it impossible to determine
whether a chief Bush lieutenant is embedded in — and profiting from
— the cash-flush tangle of entities created to boost his bid.
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“Republicans take electronic voter fraud concerns to state elections
board” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76477>
Posted onOctober 6, 2015 8:26 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76477>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Richmond Times-Dispatch
<http://www.richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/article_4b90e2b1-f83f-5442-8c99-c1d154b32ccc.html>:
The debate centered on a policy that allows voters to use
electronically typed signatures to apply for absentee ballots. The
policy was approved in May at the request of Speaker of the House of
Delegates William J. Howell, R-Stafford, who was facing a spirited
primary challenge from Susan B. Stimpson.
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“San Jose council makes sweeping changes to election law”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76475>
Posted onOctober 6, 2015 8:23 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76475>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /San Jose Mercury News /reports.
<http://www.dailydemocrat.com/general-news/20151006/san-jose-council-makes-sweeping-changes-to-election-law/3>
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Latest Rumor: Evenwel and Harris to Be Argued at #SCOTUS 12/8
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76473>
Posted onOctober 6, 2015 7:33 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76473>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here. <https://twitter.com/Eric_Spencer/status/651583470947332097>
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“Dothan Commissioner Amos Newsome arrested, charged with third
degree assault” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76471>
Posted onOctober 6, 2015 2:35 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76471>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dothan Eagle:
<http://www.dothaneagle.com/news/local/dothan-commissioner-amos-newsome-arrested-charged-with-third-degree-assault/article_2d011e24-6c46-11e5-97e7-0b21240191a3.html>
Dothan District 2 Commissioner Amos Newsome was arrested Tuesday and
charged with third degree assault following an incident which
resulted in Newsome striking a television reporter twice with an
open hand.
Newsome was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon at his home and
transported to the Dothan City Jail for booking.
Newsome struck WTVY reporter Ken Curtis in the face following
Tuesday’s Dothan commission meeting as Newsome was leaving to get in
his car.
Video<https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153593857510912&id=17517645911&refsrc=https://m.facebook.com/wtvynews4/videos/10153593857510912/&_rdr>shot
by another WTVY reporter showed Curtis approaching Newsome to ask
him about voter fraud allegations connected to his 2013 election.
When Curtis asked Newsome if he planned to resign, Newsome struck
him with an open hand two times, causing Curtis to bleed on his
right cheek.
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“BREAKING, READ: Hillary’s SNL Appearance Might Trigger ‘Equal Time’
Demands; NBC Advises Affiliates To Play It Safe”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76469>
Posted onOctober 6, 2015 2:24 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76469>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Arizona’s Politics reports.
<http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2015/10/breaking-read-hillarys-snl-appearance.html>
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“Donald Trump’s candidacy raises novel ethics questions”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76467>
Posted onOctober 6, 2015 1:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76467>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fredreka Schouten
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/10/06/donald-trump-campaign-ethics-questions/73409764/>for
USA Today:
If voters decide to hire billionaire Donald Trump as their president
in 2016, they couldn’t actually fire him from the job he now holds.
Federal law doesn’t explicitly prohibit President Trump from
continuing to run the sprawling gambling, real-estate and
brand-marketing empire that is the Trump Organization, federal
ethics experts say. And the conflict-of-interest rules that bar
Cabinet secretaries and other high-ranking executive branch
officials from overseeing matters that boost their personal bottom
lines don’t apply to the president.
“The president holds a constitutional office, and it’s very
difficult constitutionally to restrict the president’s activities,”
said Robert Kelner, a Washington lawyer who specializes in ethics
and election laws. “Were he to be elected, it would be an
interesting test case.”
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