[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/20/16

Fri Feb 19 18:31:02 PST 2016

    “North Carolina Fights Over Its Election Rules”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80147>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 6:25 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80147>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Richard Fausset with theevergreen NYT headline 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/us/north-carolina-fights-over-its-election-rules.html?_r=0>. 
Story:

    Since Republicans took control of this deeply divided state’s
    legislature five years ago, Democrats and their allies have
    complained that Republicans have been illegally changing the rules
    of the voting game and effectively suppressing minority voting
    power. They have mounted numerous legal challenges, which
    Republicans have largely dismissed as desperate attempts by
    Democrats to regain their faltering political strength.

    But now this bitter struggle over state election law — which is of
    potential national consequence, given North Carolina’s status as a
    swing state — has set off a new wave of confusion. This week,
    Republican state lawmakers were forced to redraw the state’s
    congressional maps less than a month before the March 15 primary
    election after a United States District Court ruled that elements of
    the Republicans’ 2011 congressional redistricting plan amounted to
    unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.

    Now, unless the United States Supreme Court stays or overturns the
    ruling, North Carolina will have to follow a hastily arranged
    contingency plan, which was approved by the legislature Friday over
    the objection of Democrats, who claimed that the new maps were
    hyperpartisan — giving Republicans 10 safe districts to the
    Democrats’ three — and still failed to protect black voters’ interests.

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    “Scalia Shrugged Off Concerns About Influence of Money in Politics;
    A liberal majority could void ‘Citizens’ ruling.”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80145>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 6:15 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80145>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tony Mauro 
reports<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202750196574/Scalia-Shrugged-Off-Concerns-About-Influence-of-Money-in-Politics?mcode=1202615432992&curindex=2&curpage=ALL>for 
the National Law Journal on the potential for a new liberal Supreme 
Court to overrule /Citizens United/.

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

    “There no longer are any rules in the Supreme Court nomination
    process” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80143>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 5:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80143>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Must-read Miguel Estrada and Benjamin Wittesoped. 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/there-no-longer-are-any-rules-in-the-supreme-court-nomination-process/2016/02/19/2a56198a-d740-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html?tid=ss_tw>

This is right. Whether President Obama’s nominee will get an up or down 
votelikely depends <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79999>upon the 
political cost to endangered Republican Senators.

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

    Is a Voucher Initiative Going to Make it to the Washington State
    Ballot? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80141>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 5:34 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80141>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Maybe <http://sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/initiatives/FinalText_997.pdf>.

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    “The Long and Winding Road of the Presidential Primaries”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80139>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 5:29 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80139>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Explainer <http://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/presidential-primaries/>at 
the Bipartisan Policy Center.

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Posted inprimaries <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>

    “Sheldon Adelson Bets It All” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80137>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 5:23 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80137>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

MoJo 
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/sheldon-adelson-macau-casinos-lawsuit>on 
whether money from Macau is making it into U.S. elections.

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    “The IRS gives up on fighting ‘dark money’”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80135>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 5:18 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80135>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo editorial. 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-irs-throws-in-the-towel-on-dark-money/2016/02/19/33a544f0-d418-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html?postshare=2111455930631420&tid=ss_tw>

I made similar points inthis LAT oped. 
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-green-light-for-more-dark-money-20160212-story.html>

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    “Senator proposes two-state solution on redistricting reform”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80133>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 5:16 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80133>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Finallya two-state 
solution<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-senator-proposes-twostate-solution-on-redistricting-reform-20160209-story.html>that 
might work!

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    “LA Mayor Eric Garcetti quietly fundraising for 2024 Olympics bid”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80131>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 3:21 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80131>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LADN reports. 
<http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20160219/la-mayor-eric-garcetti-quietly-fundraising-for-2024-olympics-bid>

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    “Democratic party fundraising effort helps Clinton find new donors,
    too” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80129>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 3:21 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80129>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports.

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    SCOTUS Doesn’t Act in NC Redistricting Stay; NC Still Wants a Stay
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80127>

Posted onFebruary 19, 2016 3:06 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80127>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here <https://www.scribd.com/doc/299813729/15A809-Letter-2-19-16>is the 
state’s letter, asking for a stay despite the passage of the new 
redistricting plan, based “on the disruption” from the new plan. Here is 
a letter fromplaintiffs <https://t.co/qZyNHryFNr>. They point out that 
the state has also moved the primary and eliminated the runoff primary.

Maybe next week?

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