[EL] Scott Walker pays fines
JBoppjr at aol.com
JBoppjr at aol.com
Sat Feb 27 06:25:10 PST 2016
Here is an article about the latest evidence of partisan enforcement by Wis
governmental officials.
_Click here: First John Doe documents released from lawsuit show GAB's
partisan motives - Watchdog.org_
(http://watchdog.org/257926/john-doe-lawsuit-gab/)
And I was not "attacking" you, just regretting your unwillingness to
debate. Jim
In a message dated 2/27/2016 9:10:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
rhasen at law.uci.edu writes:
Jim, that is emphatically NOT what I said. I said that my posts are of
course fair game for discussion and debate on the listserv. It is just that i
personally won't engage in most of those debates, because I don't feel
that the debates are all that productive.
But fire away. Always happy to be attacked by you or anyone else. I just
may not choose to respond on the listserv.
Rick
On 2/27/16 9:04 AM, _JBoppjr at aol.com_ (mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com) wrote:
Regarding this post:
_Scott Walker Paid Fines for Accepting Corporate and Excessive Campaign
Contributions_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80373)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:35 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80373) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_This is back _
(http://www.startribune.com/gov-walker-s-campaign-paid-28-300-campaign-finance-penalty/370322821/) when Wisconsin still had meaningful
campaign finance laws and a reputable agency to enforce them.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80373&title=Scott%20Walker%20Paid%20Fines%20for%20Accepting%20Corporate%20and%20Exces
sive%20Campaign%20Contributions&description=)
My take is that is "this is when Wisconsin had unconstitutionally
overbroad and vague laws that governmental officials enforced in arbitrary and
partisan ways."
But we have been advised by Rick that, alas, Rick's opinions on this
listserve are no longer debatable. See Rick's recent post to Brad Smith.. Jim
Bopp
In a message dated 2/26/2016 8:44:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
_rhasen at law.uci.edu_ (mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu) writes:
_“Donald Trump Might Not Keep Paying for His Campaign Himself, Chris
Christie Suggests”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80377)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:41 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80377) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Maggie Haberman_
(http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/26/donald-trump-might-not-keep-paying-for-his-campaign-himself-chris-christie-sug
gests/) for the NYT.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80377&title=“Donald%20Trump%20Might%20Not%20Keep%20Paying%20for%20His%20Campaig
n%20Himself,%20Chris%20Christie%20Suggests”&description=)
Posted in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) ,
_campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59)
_“Remember When Ted Cruz Helped Suppress the Minority Vote in Texas?”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80375)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:38 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80375) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Spencer Woodman_
(https://newrepublic.com/article/130530/remember-ted-cruz-helped-suppress-minority-vote-texas) for TNR.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80375&title=“Remember%20When%20Ted%20Cruz%20Helped%20Suppress%20the%20Minority%
20Vote%20in%20Texas?”&description=)
Posted in _fraudulent fraud squad_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8)
_Scott Walker Paid Fines for Accepting Corporate and Excessive Campaign
Contributions_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80373)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:35 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80373) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_This is back _
(http://www.startribune.com/gov-walker-s-campaign-paid-28-300-campaign-finance-penalty/370322821/) when Wisconsin still had meaningful
campaign finance laws and a reputable agency to enforce them.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80373&title=Scott%20Walker%20Paid%20Fines%20for%20Accepting%20Corporate%20and%20Exces
sive%20Campaign%20Contributions&description=)
Posted in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) ,
_chicanery_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12)
_“Mississippi will appeal order to change Dem primary ballot”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80371)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:31 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80371) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_AP:_
(http://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article62471962.html)
Mississippi’s top elections official said Thursday that he will ask the
U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a state court order telling him to add another
candidate to the March 8 Democratic presidential primary ballot.
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said he intends to file his appeal
with the nation’s highest court Friday and he did not know whether it would
receive rapid consideration.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80371&title=“Mississippi%20will%20appeal%20order%20to%20change%20Dem%20primary%
20ballot”&description=)
Posted in _ballot access_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46)
_“Donors ask GOP consulting firm to research independent presidential bid”
_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80369)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:29 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80369) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Politico reports._
(http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/doors-gop-consulting-independent-219859)
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80369&title=“Donors%20ask%20GOP%20consulting%20firm%20to%20research%20independe
nt%20presidential%20bid”&description=)
Posted in _ballot access_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46) ,
_campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59)
_“When Super PACs Go Dark: LLCs Fuel Secret Spending”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80367)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:25 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80367) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Eliza_
(http://prospect.org/article/when-super-pacs-go-dark-llcs-fuel-secret-spending) :
A hallmark of super PACs, the political action committees that may raise
unlimited contributions if they act independently from candidates, is that
they must publicly disclose their donors.
But in this election, super PACs and their backers are proving
increasingly adept at skirting the federal disclosure rules, particularly through the
use of limited liability companies, or LLCs—a type of business entity that
leaves no paper trail and gives political players cover to hide their
identities.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80367&title=“When%20Super%20PACs%20Go%20Dark:%20LLCs%20Fuel%20Secret%20Spending
”&description=)
Posted in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10)
_“Scalia Took Dozens of Trips Funded by Private Sponsors”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80365)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:23 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80365) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Eric Lipton_
(http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/us/politics/scalia-led-court-in-taking-trips-funded-by-private-sponsors.html) for the NYT:
When _Justice Scalia_
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/antonin_scalia/index.html?inline=nyt-per) died two weeks ago, he
was staying, again for free, at a West Texas hunting lodge owned by a
businessman whose company had recently had a matter before the _Supreme Court_
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_co
urt/index.html?inline=nyt-org) .
Though that trip has brought new attention to the justice’s penchant for
travel, it was in addition to the 258 subsidized trips that he took from
2004 to 2014. Justice Scalia went on at least 23 privately funded trips in
2014 alone to places like Hawaii, Ireland and Switzerland, giving speeches,
participating in moot court events or teaching classes. A few weeks before
his death, he was in _Singapore and Hong Kong_
(http://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/en/events/detail.php?paramDate=2016-02-01&guid=F50BE73D-CC48-8EDE-6D3F-E18629BF
4CE4-1453278297) ….
After Justice Scalia, the second most active traveler on the current court
is Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who took 185 privately paid trips from 2004
to 2014, according to a database built by the Center for Responsive
Politics, based on individual reports filed by the justices. Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr., based on a yearly average, had the fewest of these privately
funded trips — a total of 48 from 2005 to 2014, the last year for which
records are available. Over all, Supreme Court members disclosed 1,009 paid
trips between 2004 and 2014.
The destinations often are luxurious, including the Casa de Campo Resort
in the Dominican Republic, where Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was listed as a
speaker for an_event last February,_
(https://www.federalbarcouncil.org/FBCFiles/2013_2014_FBC_Annual_Report_Website.pdf) or Zurich, where Justice
Scalia traveled at least three times on privately funded trips….
The disclosure reports show that the majority of the privately funded
trips — by far — are sponsored by universities, both in the United States and
around the world.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80365&title=“Scalia%20Took%20Dozens%20of%20Trips%20Funded%20by%20Private%20Spon
sors”&description=)
Posted in _conflict of interest laws_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20)
, _Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)
_“Lawsuit Challenging San Juan County’s Mail-Only Electoral System Filed”
_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80363)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:15 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80363) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Release_
(https://lawyerscommittee.org/press-release/lawsuit-challenging-san-juan-countys-mail-only-electoral-system-filed/) :
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee),
DLA Piper, LLP, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the American
Civil Liberties Union of Utah (ACLU of Utah) announce the filing of a new
lawsuit against San Juan County, Utah on behalf of the Navajo Nation Human
Rights Commission, and seven members of the Navajo Nation. The lawsuit
challenges the County’s decision to switch to a mail-only voting system that
adversely impacts Navajo voters, and the County’s decision to designate the
only site for in-person voting at a location far away from the majority of
the Navajo voters.
The lawsuit, _Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission v. San Juan County et
al._
(https://lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Doc-2-San-JuanComplaint.pdf) , was filed in the United States District Court for the
District of Utah and alleges that San Juan County violates provisions of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution.
The case arises from the County’s decision in 2014 to close all polling
places and switch to a mail-only voting system. The County is covered by
Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act and is required to provide all voting
materials – including voting instructions and ballots – in both English and
Navajo. However, because Navajo is an unwritten language, the County’s
mail-only ballot system conflicts with their Section 203 obligations.
The postal system in rural parts of San Juan County, where many Navajo
voters reside, is unreliable and not accessible, making it difficult for many
Navajo voters to receive and return their ballots on time under a
mail-only electoral system. Although the County is approximately half white and
half Navajo, the only way a voter can vote in-person under the current voting
scheme is to travel to the County Clerk’s office in the county seat of
Monticello, which is 84 percent white.
Because Navajo residents tend to live farther from the county seat than
white residents, Navajo voters do not have the same voting opportunities as
other residents: Navajo residents must travel, on average, more than twice
as long as white residents in order to reach Monticello to vote in-person.
The trip for a Navajo voter takes, on average, over two hours round trip,
while the trip for a white voter takes, on average, under an hour. For
residents living in the areas in the southwest of the County that are majority
Navajo, the round trip to Monticello to vote in-person is even longer and
may take between nine and ten hours.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80363&title=“Lawsuit%20Challenging%20San%20Juan%20County’
s%20Mail-Only%20Electoral%20System%20Filed”&description=)
Posted in _Voting Rights Act_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15)
_Fan Mail: Ass Clown Edition_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80361)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:11 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80361) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Via email:
Mr. Hasen,
I read _your article_
(http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/02/21/appoint-another-scalia-kiss-democracy-goodbye/) this week concerning Justice
Scalia. After careful consideration I have come to this conclusion about
the author: You sir are a complete Ass Clown.
Your hyperbole on kissing democracy good bye reminds me of Donald Trump
talking about his wall. Justice Scalia will be remembered as one of the most
influential judicial minds of the century. You will be remembered by your
students years from now as “you know, old what’s his name”.
The University of California system seems like a nice, unchallenging place
for you to place your pulpit.
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Posted in _Uncategorized_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1)
_“Outside Conservative Groups Overwhelm Arkansas Judge Races”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80357)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:04 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80357) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_AP_
(http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/conservative-groups-overwhelm-arkansas-judge-races-37221313) :
The Judicial Crisis Network, a Washington-based group, has spent more than
$600,000 on television ads targeting Justice Courtney Goodson as she runs
for the chief justice post. A second group, the Republican State
Leadership Committee’s Judicial Fairness Initiative, has bought about $250,000 worth
of airtime for spots criticizing a Little Rock attorney in another high
court race.
The nearly $1.3 million spent on TV airtime alone more than doubles the
previous Arkansas record for such spending in a judicial election, according
to campaign finance groups.
(https://www.addtoany.co
m/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80357&title=“Outside%20Conservative%20Groups%20Overwhelm%20Arkansas%20Judge%20R
aces”&description=)
Posted in _judicial elections_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19)
_“63,756 Reasons Racism Is Still Alive in South Carolina”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80353)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 5:00 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80353) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Ari Berman_
(http://www.thenation.com/article/63756-reasons-why-racism-is-still-alive-in-south-carolina/) :
Larrie Butler, a 90-year-old African-American man, was born in Calhoun
County, South Carolina, at a time when the South was segregated during Jim
Crow. He moved to Maryland after serving in the military and attending
college, but returned to South Carolina in 2010. He got a voter-registration card
and voted in the state in 2010.\
In 2011, South Carolina passed a strict new voter-ID law requiring a
government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot. When Butler went to the DMV to
switch his driver’s license from Maryland to South Carolina, he was told he
needed a birth certificate to confirm his identity. But Butler was born at
home, when there were few black hospitals, and never received a born
certificate. When he went to the state Vital Records office to get a birth
certificate, they said he needed to produce his Maryland driving records and
high-school records from South Carolina. After he returned with that information,
he was told he needed his elementary-school records, which Butler couldn’t
produce because the school was closed. So instead he found his census
record, which was not accepted because his first name in the census, Larry, did
not exactly match the name he’d used for his entire life, Larrie. He was
told to go to court and legally change his name at 85 years old, in order to
obtain the birth certificate required to get a driver’s license in South
Carolina and also be able to vote.
“It made me feel terrible,” Butler said.
On May 18, 2011, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley _signed the voter-ID
law_
(https://www.scgop.com/2011/05/18/gov-nikki-haley-signs-voter-id-bill-into-law/) . “If you have to show a picture ID to buy Sudafed, if you have
to show a picture ID to get on an airplane, you should show a picture ID
when you vote,” Haley said.
After the bill’s signing, Butler spoke at a press conference 10 feet away
from where Haley spoke. He held up a plane ticket and Sudafed he’d bought
with his Maryland driver’s license, which he was unable to use in South
Carolina to vote. Shortly thereafter, the DMV called Butler and said they’d
bypass the requirement for a birth certificate, allowing him to get a state
driver’s license and vote in future elections.
But there are still hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians facing
similar obstacles as Butler. According to state data, 178,000 registered
voters, 7 percent of the electorate, lack a DMV-issued photo ID. Minority voters
are 20 percent more likely than whites to lack a DMV-issued ID, and there
are 63,756 nonwhite registered voters without one.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80353&title=“63,756%20Reasons%20Racism%20Is%20Still%20Alive%20in%20South%20Caro
lina”&description=)
Posted in _election administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) ,
_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) , _voter id_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9)
_“Celebrity Justice: Supreme Court Edition”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80351)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 4:57 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80351) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
The Green Bag has posted _the final version _
(http://www.greenbag.org/v19n2/v19n2_articles_hasen.pdf) of my article on how SCOTUS Justices are much
more in the news than ever before.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80351&title=“Celebrity%20Justice:%20Supreme%20Court%20Edition”&descriptio
n=)
Posted in _Celebrity Justice_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=109) ,
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)
_“More Complaints about Super PACs”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80349)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 4:54 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80349) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Bauer on Frum._
(http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2016/02/complaints-super-pacs/)
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80349&title=“More%20Complaints%20about%20Super%20PACs”&description=)
Posted in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) ,
_campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59)
_“Governor Brown seeks urgent Supreme Court intervention regarding ballot
measure”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80347)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 4:52 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80347) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_At the lectern_
(http://www.atthelectern.com/governor-brown-seeks-urgent-supreme-court-intervention-regarding-ballot-measure/) :
The Supreme Court had _just yesterday_
(http://www.atthelectern.com/supreme-court-will-not-order-anti-citizens-united-measure-onto-the-ballot/)
finished its review of one controversial ballot proposition, when another one
landed on its docket today. Governor Jerry Brown is asking the Supreme Court
to overturn a superior court order, filed yesterday, that the Sacramento
Bee _calls_
(http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article62340057.html) “a major setback for Gov. Jerry Brown’s sweeping
prison and parole initiative.” The order, which was sought by the California
District Attorneys Association, prevents the circulation for voter
signatures of an _initiative_
(http://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0121%20(Prison%20Sentence%20Reform)_0.pdf?) that would make certain
nonviolent felons eligible for early parole.
The governor’s emergency writ petition in _Brown v. Superior Court_
(http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=2134
157&doc_no=S232642) is available _here_
(https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mwth7urewl757ch/AADIxmH1G2oD4XYqGtTTSqRKa/1_S232642%20-%20Emergency%20Petition%20fo
r%20Writ%20of%20Mandate.pdf?dl=0) , and the two-volume appendix in support
of the petition is available _here_
(https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mwth7urewl757ch/AACju-J0BXsR8Ved6dvddYS6a/2_S232642%20-%20Appendix%20(Vol%201%20of%202).
pdf?dl=0) and _here_
(https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mwth7urewl757ch/AAAgqYLOwJn4yH8PcvaK0Mfea/3_S232642%20-%20Appendix%20(Vol%202%20of%202).pdf?dl=0) .
Attorney General Kamala Harris — a real party in interest in the writ
proceeding — has already _filed a letter_
(https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mwth7urewl757ch/AADNqwR0_lRdH6InhTAbNNLza/4_S232642%20-%20Attorney%20General%20Letter%20
in%20Support.pdf?dl=0) supporting the writ petition.
>From a very quick review of these materials, it appears the primary issue
concerns the application of a recent change in the initiative process.
The submission to the Attorney General of a proposed initiative now begins a
30-day public review period, during which the initiative proponent can “
submit amendments to the measure that are reasonably germane to the theme,
purpose, or subject of the initiative measure as originally proposed.”
(Elections Code, _section 9002_
(http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC§ionNum=9002.) .) It looks like Governor
Brown submitted amendments that the superior court found to be not
germane.
[Evening update: _No stay, but expedited supplemental briefing, for
governor’s writ petition_
(http://www.atthelectern.com/no-stay-but-expedited-supplemental-briefing-for-governors-writ-petition/) .]
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80347&title=“Governor%20Brown%20seeks%20urgent%20Supreme%20Court%20intervention
%20regarding%20ballot%20measure”&description=)
Posted in _direct democracy_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=62)
_“Does the Biden speech undermine the case for Supreme Court confirmation
hearings?”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80345)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 4:48 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80345) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_John Witt:_
(http://balkin.blogspot.com/2016/02/does-biden-speech-undermine-case-for.html)
As readers of this blog will likely know by now, then-Senator Joseph Biden
delivered a speech on the Senate floor in June of 1992 warning that in
the event of a Supreme Court vacancy, President George H. W. Bush ought not “
name a nominee until after the November election is completed.” Biden
urged that the Senate consider “not scheduling confirmation hearings on the
nomination until after the political campaign season is over.”
Flash forward to 2016. Republicans in the Senate and elsewhere cite the
Biden speech in support of their refusal to consider a nomination to fill
the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Scalia. The country’s
newspapers and commentators have gone along. The New York Times called Biden’s
speech “a direct contradiction to President Obama’s position.”
The Times is flat wrong. The Biden speech is no contradiction, but not
for the reasons the White House and its allies have asserted. In 1992, Biden
’s argument was that action “must be put off until after the election
campaign is over.” In our system of government, the end of campaign season
does not coincide with the inauguration of the new president. To the
contrary, since the enactment of the Twentieth Amendment, the election gives way
to a period of two and a half months in which the incumbent president,
though to be sure a lame duck, holds all the formal powers of the office,
including the power to nominate new justices. Biden’s move was to insist that,
until the post-election period, there would be too much partisan rancor to
have a full and fair hearing on the merits. After all, that was what
mattered: ensuring an evaluation of the next justice on the merits, not according
to a partisan political calculus.
By contrast, when Republicans today insist that the the current president
should not get a nomination at all, they assert the exact opposite: that
partisan politics should decide the fate of the Court. Thus the letter to
the Senate Majority Leader signed by every Republican member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee announcing that there will be no hearings “on any
Supreme Court nominee until after our next President is sworn in.”
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80345&title=“Does%20the%20Biden%20speech%20undermine%20the%20case%20for%20Supre
me%20Court%20confirmation%20hearings?”&description=)
Posted in _Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)
_“Without an Instant Runoff, Trump Favored to Win GOP Nomination”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80343)
Posted on _February 26, 2016 4:40 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80343) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Rob Richie _crunches the numbers._
(http://www.fairvote.org/without_an_instant_runoff_trump_favored_to_win_gop_nomination)
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80343&title=“Without%20an%20Instant%20Runoff,%20Trump%20Favored%20to%20Win%20GO
P%20Nomination”&description=)
Posted in _alternative voting systems_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63) , _campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59)
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