[EL] more news 3/11/16

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Mar 11 16:24:12 PST 2016 

    OH SOS Husted Gives Up Trying to Block 17-Year-Olds from Voting
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80803>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 4:21 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80803>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Via Chris Geidner 
<https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/708446868708204545/photo/1>, 
comes this statement. Given the timing of an appeal, Husted says it 
would be irresponsible to try to make the changes right before the election.

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    “Grocery group hid names of donors from public, court rules”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80801>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 4:19 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80801>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
<http://blog.seattlepi.com/boomerconsumer/2016/03/11/grocery-group-hid-names-of-donors-from-public-court-rules/>:

    Ajudge ruled
    <http://atg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a64d02479d9d79402df2b20&id=09e4ee22e7&e=0186856307>Friday
    that the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association violated Washington
    campaign finance disclosure laws by hiding the identities of
    corporate donors that were funding efforts to defeat a food labeling
    initiative in Washington.

    “This landmark case has been a long fight for accountability,”
    Attorney General Bob Ferguson said. “This ruling sends an
    unequivocal message: Big money donors cannot evade Washington law
    and hide from public scrutiny.”

    The case
    <http://atg.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a64d02479d9d79402df2b20&id=33ae764836&e=0186856307>is
    about the association’s financing of a 2013 campaign against
    Initiative 522, which would have required the labeling of
    genetically engineered products. The association was the largest
    donor to the “No on 522” political committee.

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    “Symposium: ‘Courts, Campaigns, and Corruption: Judicial Recusal
    Five Years After Caperton'” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80799>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 4:12 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80799>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 
<http://www.nyujlpp.org/issues/issue-18-volume-3/>:

    Opening Remarks
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Opening-Remarks-18nyujlpp473.pdf>
    /Wendy Weiser/

    /Caperton/ and the Courts: Did the Floodgates Open?
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Caperton-and-the-Courts-Are-the-floodgates-open-18nyujlpp481.pdf>
    /Adam Liptak, Keith Swisher, James Sample & Bradley A. Smith/

    The State of Recusal Reform
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/The-State-of-Recusal-Reform-18nyujlpp515.pdf>
    /Charles Geyh, Myles Lynk, Robert S. Peck & The Honorable Toni Clarke/

    A View From the Bench
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/A-View-From-the-Bench-18nyujlpp550.pdf>
    /Barbara S. Gillers, The Honorable Jonathan Lippman, The Honorable
    Sue Bell Cobb, The Honorable Maureen O’Connor & The Honorable Louis
    Butler/

    /Caperton’s /Next Generation: Beyond the Bank
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Capertons-Next-Generation-Beyond-the-Bank-18nyujlpp587.pdf>
    /Jed Shugerman, Debra Lyn Bassett, Gregory S. Parks, Dmitry Bam &
    Rex R. Perschbacher/

    Closing Remarks
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Closing-Remarks-18nyujlpp629.pdf>
    /Dean Trevor Morrison/

    *Articles*

    Recusal Failure
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Bam-Recusal-Failure-18nyujlpp631.pdf>
    /Dmitry Bam/

    Three Reasons Why the Challenged Judge Should Not Rule on a Judicial
    Recusal Motion
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Bassett-Three-Reasons-Why-18nyujlpp659.pdf>
    /Debra Lyn Bassett/

    Judicial Recusal: Cognitive Biases and Racial Stereotyping
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Parks-Cognitive-Biases-and-Racial-Stereotyping-18nyujlpp681.pdf>
    /Gregory S. Parks/

    /Caperton/on the International Stage
    <http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Perschbacher-Caperton-on-the-international-stage-18nyujlpp699.pdf>
    /Rex R. Perschbacher/

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    NC Supreme Court to Consider Retention Elections for NC Supreme
    Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80793>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 3:43 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80793>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Oral argument will be April 13.

No indication in theoral argument order 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/NC-oral.pdf>or ondocket 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/NC-oral.pdf>that the 
Justice whose seat is the subject of the appeal will be recused from 
hearing the case.

My earlier coverage noted <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80557>that this 
change to retention elections seemed to have some partisan motivations.

Shocking for NC 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/us/north-carolina-voting-rights-redistictricting-battles.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront>, 
I know.

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    “Obama: Texas Leaders ‘Aren’t Interested’ in Higher Voter Turnout”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80791>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 2:37 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80791>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Texas Tribune 
<http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/11/obama-texas-leaders-arent-interested-higher-voter-/>:

    Texas’ Republican leadership has stifled voter turnout, and the
    public sector should do more to encourage online voting and other
    civic engagement, President Barack Obama said in an interview Friday
    with Tribune CEO and Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith.

    Obama’s remarks at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in
    Austin focused on using Internet technology to encourage more civic
    participation, including voting.

    “It is much easier to order pizza or a trip than it is for you to
    exercise the single most important task in a democracy, and that is
    to select who’s going to represent you in government,” the president
    said.

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    “Pennsylvania Judge Rules That Ted Cruz is Eligible to Run for
    President” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80789>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 2:22 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80789>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WSJ 
<http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/03/11/pennsylvania-judge-rules-that-ted-cruz-is-eligible-to-run-for-president/>:

    A Pennsylvania judge has rejected
    <https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2755257/PA-TedCruzruling.txt> an
    effort to kick Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz off the
    state primary ballot, ruling that the Texas senator’s birth outside
    of the United States doesn’t disqualify him from the ballot under
    the U.S. Constitution.

    The ruling is the latest legal victory for Mr. Cruz on the
    eligibility question. So-called “birther” suits have been filed in
    other states, including New York
    <http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/politics/new-york-ted-cruz-birther-lawsuit/> and
    Illinois
    <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cruz-court-idUSMTZSAPEC31DDY4EK>.
    The cases in those two states were dismissed on technical grounds….

    There’s no consensus in the legal community on the meaning of
    “natural born citizen.” But some scholars, most notably Ohio State
    University law professor Daniel Tokaji
    <http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/03/11/pennsylvania-judge-rules-that-ted-cruz-is-eligible-to-run-for-president/Daniel%20P.%20Tokaji>,
    have observed that state court could be where a court action
    opposing Mr. Cruz’s place on the ballot has the best shot of going
    somewhere.

    The reason is that state courts have less stringent standing
    requirements for bringing a lawsuit than federal courts. Mr. Carmon
    could object to the nomination petition of Mr. Cruz in state court
    just by being a registered Republican voter.

    “Fortunately for skeptics of Senator Cruz’s eligibility, there’s at
    least one state where a challenge could still be brought,” wrote Mr.
    Tokaji in a February essay posted on Election Law Blog
    <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=80026>. “Pennsylvania will hold its
    primary on April 26. The last day for candidates to file nominating
    petitions was yesterday, February 16.”

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    “Will Donald Trump reverse course and seek donations for his 2016
    bid?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80787>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 1:54 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80787>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Matea Gold reports 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/will-donald-trump-reverse-course-and-seek-donations-for-his-2016-bid/2016/03/11/fd52eca2-e7bf-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html>for 
WaPo.

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    “Judge rules against Husted in teen voting case”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80785>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 1:32 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80785>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NBC4 
<http://nbc4i.com/2016/03/11/judge-rules-against-husted-in-teen-voting-case/>:

    FRANKLIN CO., Ohio (WCMH)–Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge
    Richard Frye ruled against the Secretary of State in the case of a
    lawsuit filed by a national voting rights organization on behalf of
    nine 17-year-old plaintiffs.

This is a state court suit separate from the federal suit filed by the 
Sanders campaign.

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    Ralston Live on Nevada Violating NVRA “Motor Voter” Law
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80783>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 1:17 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80783>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Watch. <http://video.vegaspbs.org/video/2365687614/>

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    “Dark Money, Voter Intimidation & Tech”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80779>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 1:02 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80779>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy video. <https://www.hitrecord.org/records/2752884>

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    Montana Republican Party Seeks Emergency #SCOTUS Relief to End Open
    Presidential Primary <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80776>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 1:01 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80776>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This filing 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/160311-MTGOP-Emergency-Application.pdf>, 
directed to Justice Kennedy, could have implications if Trump is short 
of delegates in June. Right now Democrats could vote in the Republican 
party primary, and this seeks an order to close the primary. The 
logistical problem is that Montana has no registration by primary.

It is a very interesting petition.

UPDATE: It’s been pointed out to me that the petition seeks an order to 
enjoin the open primary, not to mandate a closed primary.  That is, it 
is possible to fix the problem with the open primary in a number of 
other ways, such as a convention.

[Headline fixed to reflect this fact]

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    David Cole on How Local Activism and New Jurisprudence and
    Scholarship Can Change Campaign Finance
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80774>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 7:39 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80774>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read David inThe Atlantic 
<http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/how-to-reverse-citizens-united/471504/> (and 
see hisrelated oped in today’s NY 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/opinion/what-liberals-can-learn-from-the-nra.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0>T, 
tied to his new book,Engines of Liberty 
<http://www.amazon.com/Engines-Liberty-Citizen-Activists-Constitutional/dp/0465060900>.)

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    “In Politics, Money Isn’t Everything — but It Still Matters”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80772>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 7:30 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80772>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Norm Ornstein 
<http://www.insidesources.com/in-politics-money-isnt-everything-but-it-still-matters/>at 
Inside Sources.

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    “Democracy by the People” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80770>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 7:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80770>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Free Speech for People is putting onthis event 
<http://freespeechforpeople.org/seton-hall-symposium/>a Seton Hall April 1.

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    “A Specific Proposal That Helps Give Us a Sense of What Getting Rid
    of Citizens United Might Entail” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80768>

Posted onMarch 11, 2016 7:27 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80768>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Vik Amar 
<https://verdict.justia.com/2016/03/11/a-specific-proposal-that-helps-give-us-a-sense-of-what-getting-rid-of-citizens-united-might-entail>writes 
for Verdict.

I address why a constitutional amendment is the wrong way to go to fix 
Citizens United in part 4 ofPlutocrats United. 
<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/>

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