[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/29/16
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Apr 29 08:10:35 PDT 2016
WI John Doe Cert. Petition Raises Substantial Questions, But #SCOTUS
May Not Bite <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82420>
Posted onApril 29, 2016 8:08 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82420>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I have posted a copy of theredacted petition for cert
<https://www.scribd.com/doc/310939038/John-Doe-Cert-Redacted>. in the
John Doe Wisconsin case. Never before have I seen a cert. petition with
even parts of the questions presented redacted. The redactions make it
difficult to fully assess the claims, as is the fact that this was not
written by Supreme Court specialists—because the Wisconsin Supreme
Court, in more than a bit of chutzpah, denied the ability of Reed Smith
to work pro bono on this cert petition. (The petition contains a dig at
this point: “The state supreme court denied the request, refusing to
recognize the right of the district attorneys to be represented by
counsel. The court wrote that no need had been shown by the petitioners,
whose appellate experience is limited to traffic and misdemeanor matters
in the state court of appeals.”)
There are two meaty issues. First, it seems pretty clear to me that the
Wisconsin Supreme Court mangled U.S. constitutional campaign finance law
to let elected officials like Gov. Scott Walker coordinate with outside
groups on an unlimited basis with groups taking unlimited campaign
contributions from whatever source so long as the outside groups avoid
express words of advocacy like vote for or vote against. The second
issue is whether those Justices on the WI Supreme Court who benefitted
from the outside spending by the very groups before the court should
have recused themselves from hearing the case. The number of redactions
involving the actions of controversial state Supreme Court Justice David
Prosser are remarkable in and of themselves.
Either of these arguments are substantial enough, and the case important
enough nationally, to merit Supreme Court review, although while Justice
Scalia was still on the Court I would be very wary of bringing any
campaign finance case to the Supreme Court lest the Supreme Court
actually move in the direction of even further deregulation, taking a
bad ruling and making it national. Now, with Scalia gone and a
potential 4-4 split on these issues, the calculation is uncertain. There
could well be a cert denial on the campaign finance question even if, as
I said, the WI Supreme Court surely mangled constitutional law.
There is a better shot on the recusal issue. It could well interest
Justice Kennedy, who along with the four liberals formed a majority in
/Caperton/, seeing due process limits on judges deciding cases where
they benefitted from very large campaign spending on their behalf. Even
Chief Justice Roberts, who dissented in /Caperton/but who has been
concerned about the role of judges in fundraising (see his
/Williams-Yulee/decision) could be interested in this case.
But who knows what this 4-4 Court will do with a hot potato such as this
case?
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“Democrat Chuck Schumer, one-man super PAC”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82418>
Posted onApril 29, 2016 7:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82418>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Paul Kane for WaPo.
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/chuck-schumer-a-one-man-super-pac-with-26-million-and-counting/2016/04/28/33390ee8-0d70-11e6-a6b6-2e6de3695b0e_story.html>
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“The face of American political corruption might be about to change”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82416>
Posted onApril 29, 2016 7:40 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82416>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CS Monitor:
<http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0429/The-face-of-American-political-corruption-might-be-about-to-change>
That makes the Supreme Court case, to be decided later this spring,
a crucial test: Where, exactly, does the nation’s highest court want
to set the bar for what is corruption and what is not?
Comments from the court and experts suggest that many think the
pendulum has swung too far toward aggressive prosecutors and needs
to be recalibrated. The court appears poised to do that. How far it
will go is the question.
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“Originalist Methodology” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82414>
Posted onApril 29, 2016 7:32 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82414>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Larry Solum has postedthis
draft<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2764466>on SSRN:
This essay sketches an originalist methodology using ideas from
legal theory and theoretical linguistics, including the distinctions
between interpretation and construction and between semantics and
pragmatics. The Essay aims to dispel a number of misconceptions
about the methods used by originalists. Among these is the notion
that originalists rely on dictionary definitions to determine the
communicative content of the constitutional text. Although
dictionaries may play some role, the better approach emphasizes
primary evidence such as that provided by corpus linguistics.
Another misconception is that originalists do not consider context;
to the contrary, the investigation of context plays a central role
in originalist methodology.
Part I of this Essay articulates a theoretical framework that draws
on ideas from contemporary legal theory and linguistics. Part II
investigates methods for determining the constitutional text’s
semantic content. Part III turns to methods for investigating the
role of context in disambiguating and enriching what would otherwise
be sparse semantic meaning. The Essay concludes with a short
reflection on the future of originalist methodology.
As Larry would say, download it while it’s hot!!!!
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“Hartford Council Flouts Voters In Keeping Three Registrars”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82412>
Posted onApril 29, 2016 7:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82412>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Hartford Courtant editorial
<http://www.courant.com/opinion/editorials/hc-ed-hartford-council-wont-fix-3-registrar-problem-20160427-story.html>:
Hartford’s city council is flat-out dismissing the will of the
voters in refusing to fix the quirky, costly, bumbling, excessive
three-registrar problem.
The city council decided Monday against adopting an ordinance that
would have authorized the appointment of two registrars — instead of
the three the city is now saddled with.
One professional registrar is really all that’s needed. That would
save towns and cities like Hartford lots of money and grief. But an
archaic state law — a throwback to the patronage politics of
yesteryear — stands in the way.
The legislature balked last year at attempts by Secretary of the
State Denise Merrill and state Rep. Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, to
update that relic of a law and allow the appointment of a single
professional registrar in every municipality. So the law continues
to require something that no other state does.
State law guarantees each of Connecticut’s 169 municipalities a
Democrat and a Republican registrar. And beyond that wasteful
mandate, the law also says, confusingly, that candidates with the
highest and second highest number of votes win the registrar jobs —
even if they’re from an obscure third party.
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White House Goes “9-9-9” for Garland
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82410>
Posted onApril 29, 2016 7:20 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82410>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
At this poin
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/white-house-makes-new-push-for-garland-222612>t,
though, I think things get serious with a Garland nomination only when
it is clear Trump will lose and Republicans will lose control of the Senate.
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Posted inSupreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Sanders is biggest spender of 2016 so far — generating millions for
consultants” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82408>
Posted onApril 29, 2016 7:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82408>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-is-biggest-spender-of-2016-so-far--generating-millions-for-consultants/2016/04/28/600170ce-0cf2-11e6-a6b6-2e6de3695b0e_story.html>
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“There’s No Such Thing as a Free Rolex”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82406>
Posted onApril 29, 2016 7:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82406>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Zephyr Teachout NYT oped
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/opinion/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-free-rolex.html?ref=opinion&_r=0>:
In its Citizens United ruling, the court gutted campaign finance
laws. It acknowledged that American politics faced the threat of
gift-givers and donors trying to corrupt the system, but it held
that campaign finance laws were the wrong way to deal with that
problem; bribery laws were the better path. Now, though, the court
seems ready to gut bribery laws, saying that campaign finance laws
provide a better approach. But if both campaign finance laws and
bribery laws are now regarded as problematic, what’s left?
With the Supreme Court apparently imagining that there is some
other, simple-to-enforce bribery law, we citizens are left
empty-handed. This is the first case since Justice Antonin Scalia’s
passing to directly address what corruption is; the issue is a
critical test of the court.
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“Money in politics: Finance, regulation and disclosure in CA’s
ballot initiative process” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82404>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 8:08 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82404>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Looking forward to participating inthis KPCC Air Tak event
<http://www.scpr.org/events/2016/04/19/1922/money-in-politics/>May 12:
As we look to the November ballot, this is expected to be a record
year for citizen initiatives in California with more than a hundred
already proposed and filed with the Secretary of State. Enacted in
1911, California’s citizens’ initiative process allows citizens the
opportunity to put their own propositions on the state ballot. But
is the average voter as well equipped to deal with complex
legislation as elected legislators and their full-time staffs?
While direct democracy is the intent, the process of qualifying and
passing initiatives in such a large state allows monied interests to
wield big clout. Do you think California’s initiative process is
controlled more by large industries, labor unions and wealthy
individuals than by voters? If so, do you have ideas for reforming
the process? Would you ban initiative financing that comes from
out-of-state? Do you think citizen initiatives are a waste of time
and money and should be scrapped altogether?
Join us on Tuesday, April 19 at KPCC’s Crawford Family Forum
as*Larry Mantle*(AirTalk),*Peter Scheer*(First Amendment Coalition)
and other special guests explore issues related to money in CA’s
initiative process.
Moderator:
*Larry Mantle*, host of AirTalk
Guests:
*John Eastman*, professor of law and community service at Chapman
University
*Richard Hasen*, Chancellor’s professor of law and political science
at University of California, Irvine
*Jessica Levinson*, professor at Loyola Law School
*John Matsusaka*, USC Charles F. Sexton chair in American
enterprise, professor of finance and business economics, and
executive director of Initiative and Referendum Institute
*Pete Peterson*, interim dean of the School of Public Policy and
executive director of the Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University
*Peter Scheer*, executive director of First Amendment Coalition
This event is a live taping of AirTalk co-presented by the First
Amendment Coalition and KPCC.
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“Why Mayor de Blasio Is Facing So Many Investigations”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82402>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 8:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82402>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/nyregion/the-de-blasio-inquiries-a-recap-and-whats-next.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0>:
What is Mr. de Blasio’s connection to the investigations?
At the heart of each of the five inquiries is money — in most cases,
fund-raising linked to the mayor, his election campaign or a
nonprofit group connected with him.
Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat elected in 2013, has made no secret of his
attempts to raise significant sums to bolster his agenda through
that group, the Campaign for One New York, and through an effort in
2014 to wrest control of the State Senate from the Republicans by
supporting several Democratic candidates. Donors to the mayor’s
political endeavors include major unions and real estate developers,
and many of them have business before the city.
It is not clear how direct a role, if any, the mayor played in some
of these matters. The inquiries that seem closest to him focus on
two issues: theeffort to help Senate Democrats
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/nyregion/inquiry-of-mayor-de-blasio-fund-raising-extends-to-14-state-senate-races.html>,
and the relationship he had with Nyclass, an animal-rights group
that spent heavily in the 2013 mayoral race against Mr. de Blasio’s
chief rival, Christine C. Quinn.
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President Obama Nominates Kate Marshall as EAC Commissioner
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82396>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 4:39 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82396>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Via the Adelson news
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/former-nevada-treasure-nominated-federal-election-panel?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter>(with
a headline suggestingMarshall <https://ballotpedia.org/Kate_Marshall>is
a former Nevada Treasure).
This fills the one vacancy on the troubled commission and replaces the
earlier nomination ofMatthew Butler
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/19/presidential-nominations-and-withdrawal-sent-senate>,
which lookedquite ill-advised. <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=68518>
Let’s see if there’s any incentive for Sen. McConnell to move this
nomination.
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“NC election law case to get quick review”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82394>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 3:40 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82394>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /News and Observer/reports.
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article74483507.html>
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“Dark Money and an I.R.S. Blindfold”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82392>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 3:04 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82392>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT editorial:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/opinion/dark-money-and-an-irs-blindfold.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region>
It is plainly illegal for foreigners to contribute to American
political campaigns. But reform groups are warning that the ban
would be gravely undermined by alittle-noticed bill
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5053>advanced
Thursday by Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee.
It would alter the current tax code provision that, while permitting
the identity of donors to 501(c) “social welfare” groups to be kept
firmly secret from the public, requires that the donors be privately
identified to Internal Revenue Service officials responsible for
enforcing the law. Politically oriented groups claiming dubious
exemptions as “social welfare” nonprofits have proliferated in
recent elections, allowing donors — including publicity-shy campaign
backers — to work from the shadows.
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Ninth Circuit Grants Rehearing En Banc in Case Involving Tuscon City
Council “Hybrid” Election System <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82390>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 2:42 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82390>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Order. <http://sos.metnews.com/sos.cgi?0416//15-16142>
The panel decision
<http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2015/11/10/15-16142.pdf>featured
an opinion by Judge Kozinski and a dissent by Judge Tallman. Judge
Kozinski explained the hybrid system in the panel decision:
In some American cities, council seats are filled at large, with the
entire city voting for each seat in the primary and general
elections. In other cities, council members are nominated and
elected by the residents of particular districts. Tucson splits the
difference: Since 1930, the city has used a “hybrid system” that
combines ward-based primaries with atlarge general elections. The
first step in the hybrid system is a partisan primary. Each ward
holds its own primary limited to residents of that ward. The winners
of the ward primaries advance to the general election, where they
compete against the other candidates nominated from that ward. In
the general election, all Tucson residents can vote for one council
member from each ward that held a primary during the same election
cycle. See Charter ch. XVI, § 9. Thus, a resident of Ward 1 can’t
vote in the Ward 2 primary, but can vote for one of the Ward 2
candidates in the general election. The parties agree that, 6 PUBLIC
INTEGRITY ALLIANCE V. CITY OF TUCSON once elected, council members
represent the entire city, not just the ward from which they were
nominated. See City of Tucson v. State, 273 P.3d 624, 631 (Ariz.
2012) (“Tucson council members, although nominated by ward,
represent the entire city, just as do council members elected at
large in other cities.”); see also Dallas Cty. v. Reese, 421 U.S.
477, 480 (1975) (“[E]lected officials represent all of those who
elect them . . . .”); Fortson v. Dorsey, 379 U.S. 433, 438 (1965)
(similar). Council seats are filled in staggered elections, with
three council members elected every other year. Once elected, a
council member serves a four-year term. See Charter ch. XVI, §§ 3–4.
The council members from Wards 1, 2 and 4 will be elected in 2015,
and the council members from Wards 3, 5 and 6 will be elected in
2017. Because only half of the council seats are up for election in
any given year, only half of Tucsonans can vote in a primary in each
election cycle. And approximately 83 percent of the electorate that
votes for any given council seat in the general election has no say
in selecting the nominees competing for that seat.
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“How Majority Rule Might Have Stopped Donald Trump”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82387>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 1:23 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82387>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/how-majority-rule-might-have-stopped-donald-trump.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region>in
NYT Sunday Review:
The Marquis de Condorcet, the great 18th-century political theorist
and mathematician, proposed a system for electing candidates who
truly command majority support. In this system, a voter has the
opportunity to/rank/candidates. For example, her ballot might rank
John Kasich, Ted Cruz and Mr. Trump in that order, meaning that she
likes Mr. Kasich best, but if he doesn’t win, she would go for Mr.
Cruz. She could, alternatively, choose to vote just for Mr. Kasich,
which would amount to ranking Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz in a tie for
second. The winner would then be the candidate who, according to the
rankings, would defeat each opponent individually in a head-to-head
matchup — a real majority winner. (For simplicity, we have described
a winner-take-all case; Condorcet’s prescription would also be
applicable in primaries where delegates are assigned proportionally.)
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Get Ready for the End to Self-Funding Trump (and the Loss of His
Too-Rich-to-Be-Bought Message) <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82384>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 12:22 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82384>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Greg Sargent
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/04/28/trump-presents-himself-as-a-scourge-of-the-elites-that-wont-last/>:
This means Trump will be facing some tough dilemmas very, very soon.
The question isn’t just whether Trump himself will take
contributions (which, as Manafort says above, hasn’t been decided
yet). Another question is whether Trump will signal tacit — or even
overt — assent for Super PACs allied with the Republican Party to
raise and spend huge money on his behalf.
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How Appealing Mega-Roundup of McDonnell Oral Argument Stories
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82382>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 12:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82382>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Howard is indispensable
<http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com/042816.html#066929>.
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“The Kremlin’s Candidate” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82380>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 11:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82380>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Absolute must-read
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-russia-today-rt-kremlin-media-vladimir-putin-213833>by
Michael Crowley in Politico magazine. Wow is Ed Schultz a sellout. And
very, very troubling about Trump.
This is why I never do interviews with RT or Al Jazeera. (Years ago,
before I knew what RT was, I did a radio show (I believe Craig Holman
was on too) where it was clear that the intention was to make the United
States simply look as bad as possible.) No need to help government
mouthpieces masquerading as journalists.
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“Prosecutors ask U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Doe decision”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82378>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 10:54 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82378>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/prosecutors-ask-us-supreme-court-to-overturn-doe-decision-b99715345z1-377458391.html>
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm on Thursday asked
the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision by Wisconsin’s high
court to shut down an investigation of Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign
and conservative groups backing him.
Chisholm and other prosecutors argue Wisconsin Supreme Court
Justices David Prosser and Michael Gableman should not have been
allowed to hear the case because their campaigns benefited from work
by some of the groups being investigated.
They also want the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the
Wisconsin court got it right when it ruled candidates have free
speech rights to work closely with advocacy groups during their
campaigns, according to sources.
If anyone has a copy of the cert. petition, please pass it along.
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“The Caucuses and the Right to Vote”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82376>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 10:52 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82376>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lawyers’ Committee
<https://lawyerscommittee.org/caucuses-right-vote/>has produced an
interactive map of complaints about disenfranchisement in the use of
caucuses.
Time to kill the caucuses.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,primaries
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“Paul Manafort: Trump Hasn’t Ruled Out Taking Money From Big Donors
In The General” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82374>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 10:49 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82374>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BuzzFeed reports.
<https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/paul-manafort-trump-hasnt-ruled-out-taking-money-from-big-do?utm_term=.hcyorjAGB#.uc84V7PQE>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“GAB Director Calls Walker’s Comments On Voter ID Law
‘Disingenuous'” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82372>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 10:48 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82372>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Wisconsin Public Radio
<http://www.wpr.org/gab-director-calls-walkers-comments-voter-id-law-disingenuous>:
“The fact is, the state had to spend a whole lot of time and money
defending the (voter ID) law, and we continue to do so today,”
Walker said. “If people were really serious about that, they
wouldn’t have allowed the state to use all that money to fight
courts and to use that in promoting the system.”
Kevin Kennedy, the board’s director, disputes Walker’s statement. In
an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Central Time,” he said
that state residents, particularly students, would benefit from an
outreach campaign.
“That’s really a very disingenuous comment,” said Kennedy. “I mean,
this was a very politically charged decision in the Legislature. Not
everyone supports it. And people were challenging the right. That’s
like apples and oranges.”
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4th Circuit Expedites North Carolina Voting Case, with Briefing Done
June 14 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82370>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 9:48 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82370>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Order. <http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/NC_voter_ca4_20160428.pdf>
(Here ismy earlier analysis <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82224>of the
case, with a look at the prospects on appeal; more here on the
panellikely to hear the case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82278>.)
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“The Retreat from Voting Rights” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82368>
Posted onApril 28, 2016 9:02 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82368>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
William Barber NYT oped
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/opinion/the-retreat-from-voting-rights.html?ref=opinion>on
NC decision.
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