[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/10/17

[Rick Hasen]

No SCOTUS Nominee Until Sessions is Confirmed?<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90405>
Posted on January 10, 2017 8:42 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90405> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico Playbook:

NEWS - SCOTUS UPDATE - MULTIPLE GOP SOURCES tell us that PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP is not likely to introduce his SCOTUS nominee until Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is confirmed as attorney general. Why? Handing the Judiciary Committee a SCOTUS nominee while they're dealing with Sessions would be too heavy a workload. If Sessions gets confirmed in early February, Trump could have his new justice on the bench by Memorial Day.
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Posted in Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>


"We were ethics lawyers for Bush and Obama. Trump's cabinet hearings must be delayed"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90403>
Posted on January 10, 2017 8:40 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90403> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Eisen and Painter<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/ethics-lawyers-bush-obama-trumps-cabinet-nominations-must-be-delayed> in the Guardian.
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Posted in conflict of interest laws<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>


"Trump Shows That Money in Politics Still Counts"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90401>
Posted on January 10, 2017 8:37 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90401> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs.<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/trump-shows-money-politics-still-counts>
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>


"When Lawyers (Surprise!) Disagree: Sorting out the Nepotism Issue"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90399>
Posted on January 10, 2017 8:37 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90399> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer blogs.<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2017/01/lawyers-surprise-disagree-sorting-nepotism-issue/>


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Posted in conflict of interest laws<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>


"Betsy DeVos, Trump's Education Pick, Plays Hardball With Her Wealth"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90395>
Posted on January 10, 2017 8:36 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90395> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT:<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/us/politics/betsy-devos-education-secretary.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1>

Like the Kochs, the DeVoses are generous supporters of think tanks that evangelize for unrestrained capitalism, like Michigan's Acton Institute, and that rail against unions and back privatizing public services, like the Mackinac Center.

They have also funded national groups dedicated to cutting back the role of government, including the National Center for Policy Analysis (which has pushed for Social Security<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/social_security_us/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> privatization and against environmental regulation) and the Institute for Justice (which challenges regulations in court and defends school vouchers). Both organizations have also received money from the Koch family.

Indeed, the DeVoses' education activism, which favors alternatives to traditional public schools, appears to derive from the same free-market views that inform their suspicion of government. And perhaps more than other right-wing billionaires, the DeVoses couple their seeding of ideological causes with an aggressive brand of political spending. Half a dozen or more extended family members frequently coordinate contributions to maximize their impact.

In the 2016 cycle alone, according to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network<http://mcfn.org/node/6043/devos-family-made-14-million-in-political-contributions-in-the-last-2-years-alone>, the family spent roughly $14 million on political contributions to state and national candidates, parties, PACs and super PACs.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>


New CLC Analysis on Partisan Gerrymandering in the 2016 Election<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90393>
Posted on January 9, 2017 2:06 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=90393> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Download here.<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/blog/analysis-partisan-gerrymandering-2016-election>
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Posted in redistricting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>


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