[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/1/17

Tue Feb 28 20:33:38 PST 2017

Marc Joseph Stern Dispatch from Texas Voter ID Hearing Said It Went Well for Plaintiffs, Despite DOJ Flip<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91393>
Posted on February 28, 2017 4:44 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91393> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read at Slate.<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/02/a_federal_judge_looks_poised_to_fight_jeff_sessions_doj_in_texas_voting.html>
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Posted in Department of Justice<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

“Rescheduled:” #SCOTUS Takes North Carolina Voting Case Off March 3 Calendar<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91390>
Posted on February 28, 2017 2:42 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91390> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The dispute<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91359> between the Governor/AG and Legislature as to who speaks for North Carolina and whether its cert. petition can be withdrawn has gotten the Supreme Court’s attention.
There is now a docket notation<https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docketfiles/16-833.htm> that the consideration of the case’s cert petition, first set for the March 3 conference, is now “Rescheduled.”
We will see if there is some kind of order related to the fight over who controls the litigation when orders are next released, likely on Monday.
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Posted in Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

I Talked to Texas Standard About DOJ’s About-Face on Texas’s Voter ID Law<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91388>
Posted on February 28, 2017 2:17 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91388> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Listen.
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Posted in Department of Justice<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter initiatives<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=61>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

Listen to Richard Briffault and Me on Bloomberg Law Talking DOJ and the Texas Voter ID Case<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91386>
Posted on February 28, 2017 2:13 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91386> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2017-02-28/doj-drops-objections-to-texas-voter-id-law-audio>
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Posted in Uncategorized<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

New Review of My Book, Plutocrats United, in the Law and Politics Book Review<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91384>
Posted on February 28, 2017 2:09 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91384> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here<http://www.lpbr.net/2017/02/plutocrats-united-campaign-money.html>, by Alex Keena.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Plutocrats United<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

Goldfeder and Perez on the Current State of Voting Rights<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91382>
Posted on February 28, 2017 2:08 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91382> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
In the NYLJ.<http://colreaction.stroock.com/Reaction/RSProcess.asp?RSID=g0oAoWovSZDlN8XBE_LSrg&RSTYPE=OPENATTACH>
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“A Closer Look at Husted’s Allegations of Non-Citizen Voting”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91380>
Posted on February 28, 2017 2:00 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91380> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Slater <http://www.projectvote.org/blog/closer-look-husteds-allegations-non-citizen-voting/> for Project Vote:
Secretary Husted very likely exaggerates the number of non-citizen registrants and voters. He misleads his constituents about the availability of a reliable and accurate federal database of non-citizens. He fails to explain that the few non-citizens who are registered are, primarily, confused permanent residents.
The result is to reinforce Trump’s repeatedly debunked claim of widespread illegal voting, and further fan the flames of anti-immigrant hysteria. That’s irresponsible, and it’s disappointing behavior from an official who admitted, in January, that “there’s no evidence to support any of [Trump’s] concerns, at least in Ohio.”
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“Mathematical theorem finds gerrymandering in PA congressional district maps”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91377>
Posted on February 28, 2017 1:42 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91377> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Phys.org:<https://phys.org/news/2017-02-mathematical-theorem-gerrymandering-pa-congressional.html>
Pennsylvania’s congressional district maps are almost certainly the result of gerrymandering according to an analysis based on a new mathematical theorem on bias in Markov Chains developed by Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh mathematicians. Their findings are published in the Feb. 28 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Posted in redistricting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

“Justice Department asks court to dismiss claim of discrimination in Texas voter ID case”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91375>
Posted on February 28, 2017 7:15 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91375> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ariane de Vogue<http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/politics/texas-voter-id-justice-department/index.html> for CNN.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

Bauer on Judge Silberman, Rick Pildes, and “Existential Politics”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91373>
Posted on February 28, 2017 6:50 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91373> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read it here.<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2017/02/political-reform-era-existential-politics/>
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Posted in political polarization<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

Today’s Must-Read: Emily Bazelon on the New DOJ: “Department of Justification”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91371>
Posted on February 28, 2017 6:47 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91371> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
With a nice section on voting rights, in the new NYT Magazine<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/magazine/jeff-sessions-stephen-bannon-justice-department.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news>.
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Posted in Department of Justice<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

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