[EL] more news 10/9/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Oct 9 14:40:29 PDT 2015 

    “Judge rejects House, Senate redistricting maps, recommends
    challengers’ plan” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76577>

Posted onOctober 9, 2015 2:39 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76577>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Miami Herald 
<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article38398038.html>:

    Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis on Friday rejected the Florida
    Legislature’s third attempt at redrawing its congressional districts
    and recommended a map proposed by the challengers — including a
    redrawn configuration of two Miami-Dade County districts — to the
    Florida Supreme Court for its final review.

    Lewis adopted the bulk of the map approved by lawmakers in the
    northern and central portions of the state but specifically rejected
    the proposed boundaries for District 26 in Miami-Dade, now held by
    Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo.

    The challengers, a coalition of League of Women Voters and Common
    Cause of Florida and a group of Democrat-leaning individuals, agreed
    with the Legislature’s configuration of 20 of the 27 districts
    proposed in a staff-drawn base map but asked the court to adopt
    their changes to the remaining districts. Lewis agreed.

You can find Judge Lewis’s 19 page opinionat this link 
<http://t.co/guclyurX3a>.
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    “Settlement in Oklahoma Sparks Huge Increase in Voter Registration”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76575>

Posted onOctober 9, 2015 2:28 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76575>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Demos blogs. 
<http://www.demos.org/blog/10/9/15/settlement-oklahoma-sparks-huge-increase-voter-registration>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,NVRA (motor voter) 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>,voter registration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>


    “Everything you need to know about the 2016 money race so far”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76573>

Posted onOctober 9, 2015 2:18 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76573>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Matea Gold for WaPo 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/09/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2016-money-race-so-far/?postshare=8841444416044942>.

    The initial batch of fundraising reports point to a continuation of
    the trend that emerged in the spring quarter, when the Democratic
    candidates raised more money directly for their campaigns, while
    nearly 80 percent of the money raised to support GOP contenders went
    to super PACs and other independent groups. It is unclear how much
    money has gone to super PACs since June 30, as the groups do not
    have to file with the FEC until the end of January.

    The large sums that Clinton and Sanders have collected for their
    campaigns underscore a structural advantage that could help the
    eventual Democratic nominee. While super PACs have inserted
    themselves into the 2016 White House contest in an unprecedented
    manner, the early exit of candidates such as former Texas governor
    Rick Perry and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker spotlights the need for
    candidates to have their own robust finance operations. That means
    creating a large pool of small donors, who will be key to generating
    the estimated $1 billion that each party’s candidate will need to
    raise by Election Day. So far, just Carson and Cruz appear to have
    amassed sizable small donor bases on the right.

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    “Alabama Budget Cuts Raise Concern Over Voting Rights”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76571>

Posted onOctober 9, 2015 2:16 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76571>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Today’s must-read 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/us/alabama-budget-cuts-raise-concern-over-voting-rights.html?ref=politics>: 
Campbell Robertson in the NYT with a look at the nuances surrounding the 
controversy.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>


    “Justice Department Called On To Investigate Alabama Voter ID Issue”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76569>

Posted onOctober 9, 2015 11:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76569>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NPR 
<http://www.npr.org/2015/10/08/446833253/justice-department-called-on-to-investigate-alabama-voter-id-issue>:

    YEAGER: At a press conference in Birmingham, the Reverend Jesse
    Jackson isn’t shy about what he thinks of the state’s move.

    JESSE JACKSON: Of course it’s a new Jim Crow.

    YEAGER: Jim Crow – he’s referring to the system of segregation laws
    once common across the South. He called on state leaders to reopen
    the driver’s license offices and echoed a call from Alabama’s only
    black representative, Terri Sewell, for the Justice Department to
    investigate how the closures could affect access to the polls.

    JACKSON: It’s really another impediment to make voting more difficult.

    ALABAMA SEC OF STATE JOHN MERRILL: The thing that we have to
    understand is that we’re not making it more difficult to vote. We’re
    making it more difficult to drive.

    YEAGER: Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is the state’s top
    election official. He says residents without a valid ID for voting
    can get a free one at every County board of registrars. He says the
    state has a mobile unit driving county to county to offer voter IDs.
    Merrill says they’ve been getting the word out.

    MERRILL: This has not changed anything that we’re doing or the way
    that we’re doing it because we already had the most aggressive,
    assertive photo ID voter registration effort in the history of the
    state.

    YEAGER: Alabama’s governor says the call for a federal investigation
    is ill-informed. He says the closures are not about keeping black
    people from voting, they’re a business decision to deal with budget
    cuts. Raymond Johnson teaches at Stanford University’s law school
    about the Federal Voting Rights Act, which is intended to make sure
    voters aren’t discriminated against by race. Johnson says if the
    Justice Department does investigate, he believes under that law,
    Alabama wouldn’t pass muster.

    RAYMOND JOHNSON: I think they’re going to find that this is going to
    have a disproportionate impact upon minority voters in particular,
    as well as the poor.

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<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>


    “Campaign Finance Reformers Skeptical of Doug Hughes’ Strategy”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76566>

Posted onOctober 9, 2015 10:47 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76566>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call reports. 
<http://blogs.rollcall.com/hill-blotter/campaign-finance-reformers-skeptical-of-doug-hughes-strategy/>

I expressed my skepticism of Hughes and the 99Rise tactics inthis TPM 
piece 
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/supreme-court-greatest-civil-rights-cause>on 
the Supreme Court and the 2016 election.

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    The Latest Jeb! Slipup <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76562>

Posted onOctober 9, 2015 10:01 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76562>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ken Vogel <https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/652521263798337536>:

    Telling slip-up here from@*JebBush*
    <https://twitter.com/JebBush>highlights ineffectiveness of super PAC
    coordination
    ban.http://iowapublicradio.org/post/bush-weighs-guns-agricultural-subsidies-and-education#stream/0…
    <http://t.co/vGVMQnVtMX>

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    “Government Abandons Prior Interpretation of 2006 Veterans Act in
    New Brief to the Supreme Court” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76560>

Posted onOctober 9, 2015 9:22 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76560>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Luke McLoughlin 
<http://blogs.duanemorris.com/appellatelaw/2015/10/02/new-government-brief/>:

    In abrief
    <http://blogs.duanemorris.com/appellatelaw/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2015/10/14-916bsUnitedStates.pdf> filed
    with the Supreme Court on September 29, 2015 in the case/Kingdomware
    Technologies, Inc. v. United States/, 14-916, the government
    abandoned the restrictive interpretation of the 2006 Veterans Act
    that it pressed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
    Circuit (background on the case may be foundhere
    <http://blogs.duanemorris.com/appellatelaw/2015/04/22/vas-restriction-on-competitive-bidding-by-veteran-owned-small-businesses-challenged-before-the-supreme-court/>).
    The 2006 Veterans Act requires that the VA prioritize competitive
    bidding by veteran-owned small businesses, but the VA has for years
    declined to follow that mandate to the full extent Congress
    required. In briefing before various courts, including the Supreme
    Court, the government had for several years (and as recently asMay
    1, 2015
    <http://blogs.duanemorris.com/appellatelaw/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2015/10/2015.05.01-Brief-for-the-United-States-in-Opposition_ActiveUS145107895ActiveUS11.pdf>)
    contended that the VA was allowed to limit competitive bidding by
    veteran-owned small businesses for VA contracts, but the government
    has now – six weeks before oral argument before the Supreme Court –
    abandoned that position. Instead, the government now contends that
    VA “orders” that may be filled through the Federal Supply Schedule
    should be excluded from mandatory competitive bidding, while VA
    “contracts” should not.

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    #SCOTUS Will Hear Evenwel and Harris Voting Cases December 8
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76558>

Posted onOctober 9, 2015 8:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76558>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

And Fisher, the affirmative action case, on December 9.

Confirmed bySupreme Court posting. 
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/calendars/MonthlyArgumentCalDecember2015.html>

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


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