[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/22/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Oct 22 07:48:09 PDT 2015
More Posts in WaPo’s “In Theory” Symposium on Evenwel
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76945>
Posted onOctober 22, 2015 7:44 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76945>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Rick Pildes
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/10/22/equal-representation-shouldnt-exclude-non-citizens/>
Nina Perales
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/10/21/the-supreme-court-should-seize-the-chance-to-strike-down-voter-discrimination/>
Ilya Shapiro
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/10/20/why-texas-is-wrong-in-the-one-person-one-vote-case/>
Aaron Blake
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/10/20/thought-immigration-reform-was-unlikely-one-person-one-vote-could-make-things-worse/>
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“Ben Carson, GOP presidential candidate, dismisses idea anti-voter
fraud measures racist” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76943>
Posted onOctober 22, 2015 7:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76943>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Topeka Capital-Journal.
<http://cjonline.com/news/2015-10-21/ben-carson-gop-presidential-candidate-dismisses-idea-anti-voter-fraud-measures>
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
CCP v. Harris on Nov. 6 #SCOTUS Conference List
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76941>
Posted onOctober 22, 2015 7:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76941>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Docket.
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/15-152.htm>
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“Constitution Check: Are driver’s licenses the answer to voter ID
laws?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76939>
Posted onOctober 22, 2015 7:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76939>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lyle Denniston
writes<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/10/constitution-check-are-drivers-licenses-the-answer-to-voter-id-laws/>at
Constitution Daily.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
“Full interview: Charles Koch” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76937>
Posted onOctober 22, 2015 7:33 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76937>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Marketplace talked
<http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/corner-office/full-interview-charles-koch>with
Charles Koch for an hour. Here is a bit on the planned political spending:
*Ryssdal:*So if you feel that way, and if you’re spending, the Koch
brothers writ large are spending so much money on politics, reports
are $900 million dollars in the 2016-
*Koch:*No, but see, that’s totally wrong.
*Ryssdal:*Okay, what’s the number?
*Koch:*Okay, here’s the, and this is the budget, and it’s a
projection of what the donors want to-
*Ryssdal:*Mm-hm (affirmative)
*Koch:*… give to. ‘Cause we say, “Okay, here are all the things that
can be done that may or may not make a difference,” and our latest
budget is going to be lower because people aren’t contributing-
*Ryssdal:*How much lower sir?
*Koch:*… as much. Probably the total budget over the two years I
would guess would be 750, and the amount in politics is 250.
*Ryssdal:*In millions of dollars?
*Koch:*In millions of dollars.
*Ryssdal:*All right.
*Koch:*And as I said, very small portion of that 250 comes from the
so-called Koch Brothers, and even less from me than from my brother
because everybody can choose what they want to give to. So it isn’t
the Koch brothers doing it. It’s other people doing it.
*Ryssdal:*You realize that comes across as sort of disingenuous, right?
*Koch:*In what way? It’s the truth.
*Ryssdal:*You organize seminars, you fund grass roots organizations.
*Koch:*Yeah.
*Ryssdal:*You have money in politics throughout the system, and for
you to sit there and say, “I’m sorry, this isn’t really us,” doesn’t
ring true and will not ring true when people hear this interview.
*Koch:*Okay, but here’s the thing. If this wasn’t what people
wanted, other people wanted to give to, the money wouldn’t come
because we’re not putting it up. That’s, I mean you can say, yeah,
we’ve improved the capability, because we say, “Okay, if you want to
donate to these, we need to help make it more effective and to try
to pick better candidates who will do a somewhat, maybe not go 70
miles an hour, and then hope there’s a few who will agree and
actually try to change the trajectory of the country.”
*Ryssdal:*So what, how do you figure out your return on investment
for the money that you and those who think like you invest in
politics in America today? Because as you know, the electoral cycle
this past couple of cycles has not been really kind to Republicans.
*Koch:*Well that’s not true. In the off years it has.
*Ryssdal:*Well s-
*Koch:*And-
*Ryssdal:*… sure, sure, but last time there was a race for the white
house Carl Rove is the guy who stood up and said, “What are we
doing? We’re wasting all this money.”
*Koch:*Yeah, noted.
*Ryssdal:*So how-
*Koch:*… a lot of it is waste, and I’ll give even-
*Ryssdal:*Okay.
*Koch:*… a stronger example to make your case-
*Ryssdal:*I appreciate that, thank you.
*Koch:*… that it’s a waste, and, and that is there, there’s a tax
bill that comes up every year, it has 55 different subsidies called
“extenders.”
*Ryssdal:*Must make you crazy.
*Koch:*And so we contributed to a bunch of the congress people’s
campaigns, and so we wrote a letter to every congress person,
“Please vote this down. This is a whole series of subsidies to
things like making moves in an area, just one boondoggle after the
other.”
*Ryssdal:*Mm-hm (affirmative)
*Koch:*“Please vote against this.” After all the Republicans, close
to 250, only 46 voted against it. Okay, so this is an experiment, so
we’re going to be looking harder at which Republicans we support, or
Democrats, I’m happy to support d- We work with the white house on
criminal justice reform.
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“New Rules Help Hillary Clinton Tap Big Donors For Democrats”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76935>
Posted onOctober 22, 2015 7:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76935>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Paul Blumenthal reports
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-donors_5627a946e4b02f6a900ed79a>for
HuffPo.
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“Bernie Sanders’s inaccurate claim that the two Koch brothers will
spend more than either major party on 2016 elections”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76933>
Posted onOctober 22, 2015 7:28 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76933>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/10/22/bernie-sanderss-inaccurate-claim-that-the-two-koch-brothers-will-spend-more-than-either-major-party-on-2016-elections/>fact
checker.
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“Ballotpedia Will Hold Webinar on Presidential Ballot Access Laws &
Deadlines” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76931>
Posted onOctober 22, 2015 7:27 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76931>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Press release
<http://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia_Will_Hold_Webinar_on_Presidential_Ballot_Access_Laws_%26_Deadlines>about
October 28 event.
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“The Future of Deference” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76929>
Posted onOctober 22, 2015 7:26 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76929>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Richard Pierce has postedthis draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2672979>on SSRN.
Here is the abstract:
In this essay, Professor Pierce describes the history of the
deference doctrines the Supreme Court has announced and applied to
agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes and rules over the last
seventy years. He predicts that the Court will continue to reduce
the scope and strength of those doctrines, in part because of
increasing concern about the temporal inconsistencies created by
those doctrines. In the current highly polarized political
environment, deference doctrines create a legal environment in which
the “law” applicable to many agency actions changes every time a
President of one party replaces a President of the other party.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>,statutory interpretation
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=21>
Sam Issacharoff: How Do Courts Get Away with Intervening in
Politics? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76885>
Posted onOctober 21, 2015 8:00 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76885>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The following is the second of three guest posts by NYU’sSam Issacharoff
<https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=23845>about
his new book,Fragile Democracies
<http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/comparative-law/fragile-democracies-contested-power-era-constitutional-courts>:
fragile <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/fragile.png>
In 2010, the Colombian Constitutional Court struck down a proposed
constitutional amendment that would have permitted President Alvaro
Uribe to seek an unprecedented third term. Although the constitutional
amendment was procedurally proper, or at least tolerably so, the Court
invoked a greater principle of democratic accountability to prevent the
excess consolidation of executive power.
As extraordinary as an unconstitutional constitutional amendment may
seem, the Colombian Court found itself in good company. In 1996, the
South African Constitutional Court had struck down the entire first
proposed post-apartheid constitution as itself unconstitutional. The
Indian Supreme Court had proclaimed that certain “basic structures” of
democracy were inviolate, even in the face of constitutional efforts at
amendment. Courts across the globe, from South Korea to Eastern Europe
to Israel to Mexico, and of late even to Africa, were crossing
decisively into the political thicket. At issue with increasing
frequency was the proper calibration of political authority in the
embryonic stages of post-authoritarian rule.
Two questions follow. First, what is the end aim of this form of
judicial intervention? Unlike a simpler rights proclamation, the object
is not to free a dissident from prison or award damages against state
misconduct, or even to enjoin a particular decision. The Colombian
decision to deny the voters of Colombia the choice of returning
President Uribe to office a third time has to be justified in terms of a
commitment to democratic competition, and in turn to the importance of
popular “renewal of consent” through the ability to vote the rascals out.
Second, how can courts possibly get away with challenging incumbent
political power? Unlike the traditional rights based interventions,
structural reallocations of power necessarily engage core issues of
governmental authority. Part of the answer has to be the uncertainty of
the consolidation of power in the early stages of democracy. Part also
lies in the support from the outgroups in the society, and the ability
to claim a democratic heritage for the judicial intervention.
Intriguingly, an important source of judicial authority comes from the
mediating role that courts play (what I term “democratic hedging”) in
allowing the first governments to form in post-autocratic conditions.
By recasting a core judicial function in terms of democratic
stabilization, the book organizes disparate constitutional themes in
various countries around the need to preserve democratic accountability.
Looked on in this fashion, the anti-communal incitement cases of India,
the anti-corruption cases of South Africa, the anti-lustration cases of
Eastern Europe, and even the minimum vote requirement for parliamentary
representation all begin to fall into patterns that define the judiciary
as a superintendent of the integrity of the political process.
There is no doubt that the emergence of strong constitutional courts is
a defining feature of the late 20^th century efforts at new democracies.
The book argues that properly discharged, this judicial power can
forestall many of the characteristic failings of fragile democracies.
The last post assesses the prospects of this strategy.
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“Police officer accused of voter fraud”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76927>
Posted onOctober 21, 2015 6:48 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76927>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Absentee ballot fraud
<http://www.batesvilleheraldtribune.com/news/local_news/police-officer-accused-of-voter-fraud/article_768117eb-7d12-5195-b587-018bd40cbdea.html>,
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
Quote of the Day: “You Can’t Be Serious, NBC” Edition
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76921>
Posted onOctober 21, 2015 6:27 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76921>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
From @AdamBonin, @Lessig’s attorney,in a letter
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Equal-Time-Response-to-NBC-10.21.15.pdf>
to NBC o
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Equal-Time-Response-to-NBC-10.21.15.pdf>n
an equal time request:Screen Shot 2015-10-21 at 6.25.26 PM
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MORE<http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/larry-lessig-nbc-saturday-night-live-equal-time-1201623473/>at
Variety.
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“Kansas May Be The Toughest Place to Vote in America”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76918>
Posted onOctober 21, 2015 4:36 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76918>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
John Hockenberry talks to Kansas SOS (and fraudulent fraud squad
huckster) Kris Kobach onThe Takeaway
<http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/kansas-toughest-place-vote-america/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=featuredcomment&utm_content=article>.
Kobach admits that most noncitizens are registering (or voting) not
because they want to commit fraud but because someone else has
(mistakenly) told them they could register.
John asks: “Has an election ever been thrown in Kansas because of fraud
like this, and you said ‘many many many’ aliens because of fraud like
this, and you weren’t talking about Kansas you were saying around the
country?”
Kobach’s answer is laughable, relying on a case out of Missouri
involving Somalis which has been debunked.
Here is the first comment on The Takeaway’s website:
It’s not surprising that at 4:25 Kobach lied about the Missouri
election.
1) There’s NO evidence that “50 non-citizens voted” in that
election. The allegation was that some Somali voters — who election
judges verified were legally registered to vote and presented
identification — may have received improper help from a translator.
Those allegations, however, were dismissed by a Missouri court:
http://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=41678#24
2) The only two substantiated cases of voter fraud in that election
were committed by two U.S. citizens — neither of whom were Somali
nationals. Those two people were actually related to one of the
candidates and were convicted of voting in a district that they did
not live in:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article322208/Missouri-Rep.-John-Joseph-Rizzo%E2%80%99s-relatives-admit-to-voter-fraud.html
3) I found no article from the Kansas City Star that conceded that
this election was stolen because of non-citizens voting. I did find
an article from the Kansas City Star pointing out all the lies
Kobach has made about this case:
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article322569/Beware-Kobach%E2%80%99s-lie-about-KC-voter-fraud-case.html
4) It’s also important to note that Kobach has worked for several
racists organizations, as noted by the the Southern Poverty Law
Center multiple times.
https://www.splcenter.org/20110130/when-mr-kobach-comes-town-nativist-laws-and-communities-they-damage
This is what motives Kobach. He invokes the false specter of
“aliens” or “Somali nationals” voting in elections to stoke
xenophobia among conservative voters.
5) Hockenberry needs to do a better job of fact checking the claims
of noted liars like Kobach before they appear on his show and spread
misinformation.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,fraudulent fraud squad
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Texas Opposes Preliminary Injunction in Never-Ending Redistricting
Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76914>
Posted onOctober 21, 2015 4:24 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76914>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read it here
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/texas-pi.pdf>(myearlier
coverage <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76697>).
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The Supreme Court Dissent as Vanity Publishing for the Celebrity
Justice? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76912>
Posted onOctober 21, 2015 2:32 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76912>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
@DahliaLithwick
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/dissent-and-the-supreme-court-by-melvin-i-urofsky.html>:
What is not clear,” Urofsky argues, “is whether the dissent in the
modern court is as powerful an agent of dialogue as it was in the
days of Holmes and Brandeis, especially in terms of conversing with
the larger society.” But Justices Scalia, Ginsburg and Roberts, in
particular, are trying to reach out to join the larger
constitutional debate, using all the mechanisms at hand — be it a
Notorious R.B.G. tote bag or an eminently tweetable put-down. The
frightening thing to contemplate is that these modes of dialogue may
be as powerful a tool of dissent in the modern era as the Brandeis
brief was in the past.
The current Supreme Court includes a number of individuals who are
fully capable of expressing a forceful I, and each has the ability
to communicate powerfully — as well as almost instantaneously — with
millions of citizens. Whether this is a continuing part of a
constitutional dialogue or merely constitutional performance art
remains to be seen. History will surely let us know.
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“Marco Rubio’s Interview With Fox News May Have Violated Ethics
Rules” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76910>
Posted onOctober 21, 2015 2:23 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76910>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
HuffPo
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marco-rubio-campaign-funds-ethics-rules_5626b48be4b08589ef498c7a?jrtchaor>:
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) may have just violated ethics rules that
prohibit soliciting campaign funds while on Senate property.
Rubio gave an interview to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Tuesday,
speaking from the Russell Senate Office Building. When asked about
lagging behind some of his rivals for the Republican presidential
nomination, the senator attempted to tout the strength of his
fundraising.
In doing so, however, Rubio made a direct appeal for donations.
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“Billionaire Carl Icahn launches $150 million super PAC”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76908>
Posted onOctober 21, 2015 11:34 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76908>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico:
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/billionaire-carl-icahn-launches-super-pac-215005#ixzz3pDfh6jCW>
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced Wednesday that he is
forming a super PAC with $150 million of his own money “to help end
the crippling dysfunction in Congress.”
“I am starting a Super PAC with my initial commitment of $150
million to help end the crippling dysfunction in Congress,” Icahn
tweeted. In a follow-up tweet, he shared the letter he sent to the
House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, and
House and Senate minority and majority leaders.
The super PAC’s first goal will be to reverse the trend of U.S.
companies merging with foreign ones or relocating overseas because
of high corporate taxes, Icahn said.
Vox <http://www.vox.com/2015/10/21/9583646/carl-icahn-super-pac>: “Carl
Icahn creates $150 million Super PAC advocating enormous tax cut for
Carl Icahn.”
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