[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/6/17

Mon Feb 6 08:25:55 PST 2017

"Pence Says It Would Be His 'Honor' To Lead Trump's Voter Fraud Commission"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90929>
Posted on February 6, 2017 8:19 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90929> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TPM reports.<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pence-says-he-would-be-honored-lead-trump-voter-fraud-commission>

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Posted in fraudulent fraud squad<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

"Analysis: Why Voting Rights Advocates Are Worried About a Trump Voter Fraud Probe"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90927>
Posted on February 6, 2017 8:10 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90927> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Zack Roth<http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/analysis-why-voting-rights-advocates-are-worried-about-trump-voter-n717101?cid=par-twitter-feed_20170206> for MSNBC.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

Bauer on Church Speech<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90925>
Posted on February 6, 2017 7:52 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90925> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it here.<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2017/02/church-speech/>
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

We're So Busy Talking About Trump Judge Tweets, We Ignore Oil and Gas Rules Killed at Request of Koch Bros.<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90920>
Posted on February 5, 2017 2:25 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90920> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fascinating A1 NYT story<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/us/politics/republicans-oil-gas-regulations.html?ref=politics> by Eric Lipton.

Or this piece on killing net neutrality.<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/technology/trumps-fcc-quickly-targets-net-neutrality-rules.html?ref=politics>

Or this<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/health/with-fda-vacancy-trump-sees-chance-to-speed-drugs-to-the-market.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news> on FDA safeguards for consumers taking medicines.

Or this <https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/02/04/us/politics/ap-us-trump-financial-regulations.html> on consumer protection and killing Dodd-Frank.

There's so much disrupting going on, people just lack the bandwidth to process it all.
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Posted in Uncategorized<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

Is President Trump Backing Away from False Claim of 3 Million Illegal Votes? VP Pence to Head Commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90918>
Posted on February 5, 2017 2:17 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90918> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/05/trump-walks-back-false-voter-fraud-claim-in-interview-with-bill-oreilly/?utm_term=.05d580890ff7> on the fuller Bill O'Reilly interview:

"It has to do with the registration," he continued. "And when you look at the registration, and you see dead people that have voted, when you see people that are registered in two states - and that voted in two states - when you see other things, when you see illegals, people that are not citizens and they are on the registration rolls. Look, Bill, we can be babies, but you take a look at the registration. You have illegals, you have dead people, you have this - it's really a bad situation. It's really bad."

O'Reilly pressed: "But the data has to show that 3 million illegals voted" for Trump to be right, O'Reilly said.

"Forget that," Trump replied. "Forget all that. Just take a look at the registration, and we're going to do it. And I'm going to set up a commission to be headed by Vice President Mike Pence, and we're going to look at it very carefully."

"Forget all that" is about as close as Trump gets to acknowledging he was wrong to claim that millions of illegal ballots tainted an election in which he lost the popular vote. He is basically asking voters to pretend that what he really meant all along is that registries often contain inaccuracies.

As for having a commission headed by VP Pence, that would not meet the markers I've set out for a fair and impartial examination<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/trump_s_voting_fraud_investigation_is_a_great_idea.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top> of voter fraud and voter suppression issues in the 2016 elections.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, fraudulent fraud squad<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

"McConnell: No federal money should be spent on Trump's voter fraud investigation"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90916>
Posted on February 5, 2017 12:31 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90916> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CNN:<http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/05/politics/mitch-mcconnell-voter-fraud-states-trump/index.html>
McConnell told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" he wants to leave the task of wiping voters who have died or moved away off their rolls to state governments.
"This sort of thing is handled at the state level, and the Democrats always claim there's no election fraud at all. That is, of course, not true - election fraud does occur. There's no evidence that it occurred in such a significant number that would have changed the presidential election, and I don't think we ought to spend any federal money investigating that," the Kentucky Republican said.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

"Neil Gorsuch Understands Campaign Finance - And That's The Problem"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90914>
Posted on February 5, 2017 12:25 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90914> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs.<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/neil-gorsuch-understands-campaign-finance-%E2%80%93-and-that%E2%80%99s-problem>
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

Bill O'Reilly (!) Goes After Pres. Trump on Lack of Any Evidence of 3 Million Illegal Voters<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90912>
Posted on February 5, 2017 10:51 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90912> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See this preview<https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/828033214782464000>. Sad!
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Posted in fraudulent fraud squad<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

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