[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/29/18
Rick Hasen
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Tue Aug 28 20:59:08 PDT 2018
Two Large Southern States to Have Viable African-American Candidates for Governor<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100908>
Posted on August 28, 2018 8:55 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100908> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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three: victories by either of these candidates will low key have real implications for 2020, insofar that they give us a sense of what dem voters are looking for
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four: it really is historically significant that two large southern states have viable, competitive black nominees for governor that seek to represent and enhance the voting influence of black people in their respective states
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“Judges’ Ruling on Election Map Plunges North Carolina Politics Into Disarray”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100906>
Posted on August 28, 2018 8:52 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100906> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports. <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/us/politics/congressional-maps-north-carolina-elections.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront>
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APSA Panels from Law and Political Process Study Group on California Election Reform and on Automated Redistricting<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100904>
Posted on August 28, 2018 8:49 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100904> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bruce Cain and I are very happy with the two panels we’ve put together for this year’s annual meeting on behalf of the Law and Political Process Study Group:
California Election Reform: Has It Improved Representation and Participation?
Fri, August 31, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Marriott, OrleansSession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
In recent years, the state of California has adopted a series of election reforms including the California Voting Rights Act, redistricting by non-partisan commissions, a top-two primary for most state and federal offices, and other reforms directed at rules for voting. Do these laws improve representation and participation in California? Do they have unintended consequences? What can other states learn from California’s experience?
Sub Unit
· Related Groups / Law and Political Process Study Group
Individual Presentations
· The CVRA Tsunami Rolls Across California – Douglas Mark Johnson, Claremont McKenna College; Justin Levitt, California State University, Long Beach
· Joaquin Avila’s Noble Dream: The Evolution of the California Voting Rights Act – J. Morgan Kousser, California Institute of Technology
· The Partisan Consequences of California’s Redistricting Commission – Eric McGhee, Public Policy Institute of California
· California’s New Vote Center Model: Is Increased Voter Turnout a Reality? – Mindy Romero, UC Davis; Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego; Eric McGhee, Public Policy Institute of California
Chair
· Richard L. Hasen UC Irvine School of Law
Discussants
· Christopher S. Elmendorf UC Davis
· Kathay Feng Common Cause
The Future of Automated Redistricting Applications
Sat, September 1, 8:00 to 9:30am, Sheraton, Beacon GSession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
Advances in computation now make possible what we thought impossible years ago: computer drawn plans that satisfy multiple redistricting criteria. How can political scientists, the courts, legislatures and IRCs use this tool to improve the redistricting process? How far along in development are the algorithms today and can we expect them to be used in the next round of redistricting. Will this tool help to develop standards that can be used across the country, and if so, how?
Sub Unit
· Related Groups / Law and Political Process Study Group
Individual Presentations
· The Loser’s Bonus: Political Geography and Minority Party Representation – Jowei Chen, University of Michigan; Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University
· From Measures to Standards: Using Simulation to Develop Redistricting Guidelines – Wendy K. Tam Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bruce E. Cain, Stanford University
Chair
· Michael P. McDonald University of Florida
Discussants
· Paul H. Edelman Vanderbilt University
· Richard H. Pildes NYU
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“If G.O.P. Loses Hold on Congress, Trump Warns, Democrats Will Enact Change ‘Quickly and Violently’”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100902>
Posted on August 28, 2018 8:43 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100902> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Unreal:<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/us/politics/trump-evangelical-pastors-election.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront>
President Trump warned evangelical leaders Monday night that Democrats “will overturn everything that we’ve done and they’ll do it quickly and violently” if Republicans lose control of Congress in the midterm elections.
Speaking to the group in the State Dining Room of the White House, Mr. Trump painted a stark picture of what losing the majority would mean for the administration’s conservative agenda, according to an audiotape of his remarks provided to The New York Times by someone who attended the event.
“They will end everything immediately,” Mr. Trump said. “When you look at antifa,” he added, a term that describes militant leftist groups, “and you look at some of these groups, these are violent people.”
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“Warning of ‘unmitigated chaos,’ N.C. Republicans plan to take gerrymander ruling to Supreme Court”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100900>
Posted on August 28, 2018 8:39 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100900> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/confusion-in-north-carolina-after-court-rules-house-districts-are-unconstitutional/2018/08/28/16e899f0-aadc-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html?utm_term=.da8e9af1d5c7>
North Carolina Republicans plan to ask the Supreme Court to “step in” and preserve the state’s congressional map ahead of November’s midterm election, after a lower court ruled that the current map was unconstitutional.
“What the court suggests is simply impossible,” state House Speaker Tim Moore and state Senate President Phil Berger said in a statement Tuesday. “[We’re] not aware of any other time in the history of our country that a state’s congressional delegation could not be seated, and the result would be unmitigated chaos and irreparable voter confusion.”
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“North Carolina’s gerrymandering case could make or break Democrats’ momentum on partisan gerrymandering”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100898>
Posted on August 28, 2018 8:37 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100898> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/28/north-carolinas-gerrymandering-case-could-make-or-break-democrats-momentum-partisan-gerrymandering/?utm_term=.ca37eed34576>
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Andrew Gillum, Democratic Nominee for Florida Governor, Allegedly Posts Ballot Selfie in Apparent Violation of Florida Law<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100896>
Posted on August 28, 2018 8:33 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100896> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tallahassee Democrat:<https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/08/28/gillums-ballot-photo-social-media-may-not-have-been-legal/1125784002/>
Mayor Andrew Gillum may have run afoul of little-known provisions of Florida election law when he posted a photo of his ballot on social media today. But his chances of getting in trouble over it are virtually nil, according to one Florida law school professor.
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“Texas Officials Aim to Shutter Driver’s License Offices in Black, Hispanic Communities”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100894>
Posted on August 28, 2018 4:18 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100894> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Rewire<https://rewire.news/article/2018/08/28/texas-officials-aim-to-shutter-drivers-license-offices-in-black-hispanic-communities/> has this report, with the subhead: “The proposal to close dozens of driver’s license offices across Texas comes less than three months before November’s midterm elections. Texas has a law requiring voters to show some form of ID at the polls.”
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“North Carolina gerrymandering: Judges back Kagan interpretation and could decide balance of power in House”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100892>
Posted on August 28, 2018 1:38 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100892> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Joan Biskupic<https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/politics/north-carolina-gerrymandering-kagan-balance-of-power-house/index.html> for CNN.
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North Carolina Republican Leaders Abandon Appeal over Republican Designation of State Supreme Court Candidate on the Ballot<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100890>
Posted on August 28, 2018 1:28 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100890> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Might it be connected to the partisan gerrymandering order from yesterday?
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Maybe now North Carolina Republican leaders want to get these cases resolved and ballots printed to forestall a court ordered redistricting to solve the partisan gerrymandering problem
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Defendants Berger and Moore have just abandoned their appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court in the Anglin Supreme Court ballot case https://www.ncappellatecourts.org/show-file.php?document_id=232991 …. That case is now over. Anglin will be on ballot as an R. #NCPol<https://twitter.com/gercohen/status/1034536878815494144>
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“‘What about November?’ Answers to your questions about the NC congressional districts ruling”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100888>
Posted on August 28, 2018 11:16 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100888> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Charlotte Observer Editorial Board. <https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article217437255.html>
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“Corporate Democracy: How Corporations Justified Their Right to Speak in 1970s Boston”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100886>
Posted on August 28, 2018 10:31 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100886> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This is a fantastic paper<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-history-review/article/corporate-democracy-how-corporations-justified-their-right-to-speak-in-1970s-boston/70495E878096B369526F2C12E535874F> from Niko Bowie on the runup to the Bellotti case. Really fascinating history I did not know:
In the early 1970s, the executives of the First National Bank of Boston spent hundreds of thousands of the bank’s dollars on ads opposing statewide efforts to raise their personal income taxes. When frustrated Massachusetts legislators banned this sort of corporate spending, the executives sued, arguing that “corporations have the same First Amendment rights as individuals.” In First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, the Supreme Court held for the first time that the First Amendment protects all political speech, even ads paid for by a corporation. Surprisingly, the first corporation to take advantage of this decision was not the bank, but the city of Boston–a municipal corporation that spent nearly a million dollars on a new referendum in the fall of 1978.
This article discusses the history of the 1978 referendum, one pitting municipal corporations against business corporations. It argues that the referendum and the discourse surrounding it made it intuitive for Bostonians that all corporations, banks and cities, are representative institutions. Corporations can “speak” only by spending money, and the leaders of Boston and the bank justified spending other people’s money by pointing to the internal elections that put them in office. But voters were skeptical of the argument that “corporate democracy” alone could guarantee that elected executives spoke with the consent of the people they purported to represent. The article offers a novel contribution to the historiography of modern business and politics: a legal history of how corporations–municipal and financial–became politicized in the wake of evolving First Amendment free-speech doctrine.
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