[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/6/18

Fri Apr 6 09:05:04 PDT 2018

Federal Court Enters Final Judgment Against Challenger to California Voting Rights Act, Teeing Up Full Appeal to 9th Circuit<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98562>
Posted on April 6, 2018 8:57 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98562> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read the district court’s latest order<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Higginson_v._Becerra_et_al_78.pdf> in Higginson v. Becerra.

This is a serious challenge. The challenger’s lawyer is William Consovoy, the lawyer who argued the Evenwel v. Abbott case on one person, one vote at the Supreme Court and one of the new lawyers representing President Trump<https://www.law360.com/articles/1028515/consovoy-mccarthy-will-represent-trump-in-emoluments-suit> in an emoluments lawsuit.
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Posted in Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

Monday at Noon Pacific: Henry Weinstein Interviews Me About My New Scalia Book<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98560>
Posted on April 6, 2018 8:31 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98560> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

On Monday at noon pacific, my UCI Law colleague and former LA Times legal reporter Henry Weinstein will interview me about my new book<https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Contradictions-Antonin-Politics-Disruption/dp/0300228643/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516904231&sr=8-1&keywords=richard+l.+hasen> on Justice Scalia’s complex legacy.

Watch the livestream.<https://livestream.com/accounts/867536/events/8109636>
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Posted in Scalia<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=123>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

“Trump declares that his voter-fraud conspiracy theory is ‘not a conspiracy theory”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98558>
Posted on April 6, 2018 8:14 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98558> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Fix:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/04/05/trump-declares-that-his-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theory-is-not-a-conspiracy-theory/?utm_term=.711eb97aeb40>

“They always like to say, ‘Oh, that’s a conspiracy theory!’ ” [Trump] continued. “Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and millions of people, and it’s very hard because the state guards their records. They don’t want to see it.”

Millions of people voting illegally? Oh, that’s a conspiracy theory. Or, at least, there is literally no evidence that hundreds of people vote illegally in California or any other state, much less millions. I suppose the underlying theory that Trump embraces is that Democrats conspire to ensure that these millions of votes are cast, making it a conspiracy theory, but that’s beside the point. The point, put as finely and directly as possible, is that Trump’s assertion is nonsense.

But let’s flesh this out a bit.
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Posted in fraudulent fraud squad<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>

“The rise of the anti-PAC Democrat”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98556>
Posted on April 6, 2018 8:11 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98556> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News Hour:<https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-rise-of-the-anti-pac-democrat>

A growing number of Democrats running for Congress in 2018 are foregoing contributions from political action committees, opting for a more grassroots approach to fundraising in a bid to appeal to the party’s progressive base.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

Stormy at the FEC<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98554>
Posted on April 5, 2018 1:46 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98554> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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Posted in federal election commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
“Anchorage’s vote-by-mail election was supposed to boost turnout. It shattered a record.”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98552>
Posted on April 5, 2018 9:05 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=98552> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

ADN reports.<https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2018/04/04/anchorages-vote-by-mail-election-was-supposed-to-boost-turnout-its-now-shattered-a-record/>
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

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