[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/9/17

Mon Jan 9 08:25:47 PST 2017

Texas Voter ID Cert Petition Relisted for Friday's #SCOTUS Conference<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90390>
Posted on January 9, 2017 8:23 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90390> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

So noted on the docket.<https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docketfiles/16-393.htm>

What does this mean?  It could mean the Court will agree to hear the case,, but that's no sure thing just from a relist.

We'll just have to sit tight and wait.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

Read Tom Mann on Jeff Sessions' AG Nomination<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90388>
Posted on January 9, 2017 8:14 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90388> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/01/09/sessions-attorney-general/>.
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Posted in Department of Justice<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>

"Some misgivings about the Foreign Emoluments Clause arguments"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90386>
Posted on January 9, 2017 8:12 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90386> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Will Baude:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/01/09/some-misgivings-about-the-foreign-emoluments-clause-arguments/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_term=.15648032b055>

Even if you are satisfied that Trump is likely to violate one of the emoluments clauses, the arguments are technical, and the answers are not completely obvious. To argue against Trump's behavior on those grounds is, I fear, to get sucked into a trap where the arguments are unlikely to resonate or accomplish their aims. (I think we have seen this in many other areas of over-constitutionalized law as well.)

The more urgent and more serious question is how the American people do and should feel about the president's business interests. The emoluments clauses are not the most relevant thing to that inquiry, and maybe not the best way to frame it.
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Posted in conflict of interest laws<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>

"The Voter Fraud Case Jeff Sessions Lost and Can't Escape"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90384>
Posted on January 9, 2017 8:03 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90384> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fascinating Emily Bazelon<http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/magazine/the-voter-fraud-case-jeff-sessions-lost-and-cant-escape.html?smid=tw-nytmedia&smtyp=cur&_r=1> for NYT Magazine.
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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>

"The Law-or-Ethics Question for Congressional Ethics"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90382>
Posted on January 9, 2017 7:55 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90382> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer blogs.<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2017/01/law-ethics-question-congressional-ethics/>
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Posted in conflict of interest laws<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>, ethics investigations<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=42>
"Three myths about the Electoral College"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90380>
Posted on January 9, 2017 7:54 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90380> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ed Zelinsky blogs.<http://blog.oup.com/2017/01/three-myths-electoral-college/>
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Posted in electoral college<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>

"Three Big Questions About DHS' 'Critical Infrastructure' Designation For Elections"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90377>
Posted on January 9, 2017 7:52 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90377> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Must-read Doug Chapin <http://editions.lib.umn.edu/electionacademy/2017/01/09/three-big-questions-about-dhs-critical-infrastructure-designation-for-elections/> on an underreported story.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

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