[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/1/17

Fri Dec 1 07:59:12 PST 2017

“I’m on Trump’s voter fraud commission. I’m suing it to find out what it’s doing.”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96183>
Posted on December 1, 2017 7:49 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96183> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Maine SOS Matt Dunlap<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/im-on-trumps-voter-fraud-commission-im-suing-it-to-find-out-what-its-doing/2017/11/30/1034574c-d3b0-11e7-95bf-df7c19270879_story.html?utm_term=.a398fa2aad38> for WaPo Outlook.
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Posted in fraudulent fraud squad<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“Internet Ad Rules Bring Together Strange Bedfellows”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96181>
Posted on December 1, 2017 7:47 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96181> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eliza Newlin Carney<http://prospect.org/article/internet-ad-rules-bring-together-strange-bedfellows> for TAP.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

“Sean Spicer may hold key to future of N.J. Trump voter intimidation case”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96179>
Posted on December 1, 2017 7:45 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96179> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jonathan Salant<http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/12/sean_spicer_may_hold_key_to.html> for NJ.com.
Sean Spicer’s visit to Trump Tower on Election Night looms large as a federal judge decides whether to end Republican National Committee’s 35-year restriction<http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/08/is_trump_violating_a_nj_election_law_court_case.html> on its voter activities in a case that began with  a New Jersey election.
A court-sanctioned agreement limiting GOP activities targeting minority voters, known as a consent decree, is scheduled to end Friday unless U.S. District Court Judge John Michael Vazquez decides to extend it.
Before he rules, Vazquez agreed to let Democratic National Committee lawyers question Spicer, the former White House press secretary, about his Election Night activities.
The case comes as President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that millions of people voted illegally<http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/11/what_is_trump_saying_now_about_the_election_he_won.html> in the 2016 election and formed a commission<http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/booker_calls_trump_election_commission_a_voter_suppression_effort.html> to examine voter fraud<http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/01/without_evidence_trump_continues_to_claim_that_mil.html>, which studies have shown is virtually non-existent.
“I would not have worried about the RNC engaging in conduct that would count as voter suppression,” said election law expert<http://electionlawblog.org/> Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine. “But with Trump leading Republicans, who knows? He’s made unfounded claims of massive voter fraud a key part of his political strategy. So I’m worried.”
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker<http://nj.com/cory-booker>, D-N.J., who called Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity “a thinly veiled voter suppression effort” and has introduced legislation <http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/booker_bill_would_end_trump_voter_fraud_commission_he_calls_a_fraud_and_a_farce.html> to end the panel, said the consent decree should continue.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

Where Do We Go From Here? MLK50 Symposium<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96177>
Posted on November 30, 2017 5:58 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96177> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Really looking forward to this<http://www.memphis.edu/mlk50/lawsymposium/index.php>:
Where Do We Go From Here?
MLK50 Symposium
A Symposium and Luncheon hosted by the
University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and the
National Civil Rights Museum
Featured Keynote Speaker:
The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.
82nd Attorney General of the United States (2009-2015); Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Monday, April 2, 2018
Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law | 1 North Front Street, Memphis, TN 38103
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER >><https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1728/15/index.aspx?sid=1728&gid=2&pgid=1352&cid=2458>

The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law will host the MLK50 Symposium to convene nationally renowned scholars, historians and thought leaders from across the country to present on the state of civil and human rights issues as well as racial and economic equity fifty years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death.
With former United States Attorney General Eric Holder as the keynote speaker at the symposium’s luncheon, and featuring an array of nationally recognized panelists, this symposium will focus on the legal accomplishments, challenges, hurdles and opportunities related to aspects of Dr. King’s legacy, including housing, education, voting rights, equal employment opportunity and the criminal justice system.
Featured panelists include Mark Osler, Toussaint Losier, Roy Austin, Tracey Maclin, Dayna Matthew, Debo Adegbile, Rick Hasen, Pamala Karlan, Sherrilyn Ifill, Dorothy Brown, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dorothy Roberts, Claude Steele, Beverly Tatum, Charles McKinney, and Cornell Brooks.
All panel discussions at the Symposium will be held at the School of Law at 1 North Front Street; the luncheon and keynote speech by Mr. Holder will be at the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis. The panel discussions at the law school are free to attend (including CLE). The keynote luncheon at the Peabody is $75 per person.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE SYMPOSIUM PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND TO PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE KEYNOTE LUNCHEON<https://t.e2ma.net/click/ffv5bb/jqymtfb/rg0b1k>
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Posted in Uncategorized<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

“Durenberger, Prince, Vetvick: Ranked voting passed its test with flying colors”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96175>
Posted on November 30, 2017 5:55 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96175> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Oped<http://www.twincities.com/2017/11/30/durenberger-prince-vetvick-ranked-voting-passed-its-test-with-flying-colors/> in Twin Cities Pioneer Press.
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Posted in alternative voting systems<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63>

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