[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/23/18

[Rick Hasen]

"'Civil Right No. 1:' Dr. King's Unfinished Voting Rights Revolution"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97069>
Posted on January 23, 2018 7:45 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97069> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have posted this draft<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107752> on SSRN, which is forthcoming in a special symposium issue of the University of Memphis Law Review commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.  (More about that symposium here<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96177>.)  Here is the abstract:

On March 14, 1965, one week after "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama and one day before President Lyndon Johnson delivered a now-famous speech to Congress calling for passage of the Voting Rights Act, Dr. Martin Luther King published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Civil Right No. 1: The Right to Vote. Dr. King not only described the severe barriers to enfranchisement that African-Americans faced in the American South and elsewhere; he also offered a vision of what full enfranchisement would mean for African-Americans. Declaring that "[v]oting is the foundation stone for political action," Dr. King saw the vote not as an end within itself but as the means to a better life for African-Americans and other Americans. He predicted that that "[o]ur vote would place in Congress true representatives of the people who would legislate for the Medicare, housing, schools and jobs required by all men of any color." This was consistent with Dr. King's belief that the vote would help African-Americans, many mired in poverty after two centuries of slavery and government and private discrimination, achieve greater economic success, peace, and prosperity.

Fifty-three years after Dr. King wrote Civil Right No. 1, African-Americans' access to the franchise, economic security, and government responsiveness have improved markedly but not nearly enough. Gone are the literacy tests, poll taxes, violence, and intimidation which stymied African-American efforts to register and to vote, especially in the American South. Thanks to the Voting Rights Act, many more African-Americans and African-American-preferred candidates serve in Congress, in state legislatures, and on local elected bodies. African-Americans have nonetheless failed to fully achieve the voting rights, economic parity, and political responsiveness that Dr. King envisioned in his 1965 article.

The three primary reasons for the unfinished revolution are: the endurance of private discrimination, which first the Democrats and now the Republican Party have used for political ends; a conservative Supreme Court's narrow reading of voting rights laws and chary interpretation of the Constitution's protections for voting rights, which have allowed discrimination and a new wave of voter suppression laws to flourish; and the continued state-by-state battle to fully end post-sentence felon disenfranchisement laws which help perpetuate a cycle of poverty and political powerlessness. These three reasons for the lack of full progress reinforce one another in important ways.

The Essay, prepared for a symposium at the University of Memphis commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, first sets out in more detail Dr. King's vision of what securing the vote would mean for African-American voters beyond the important symbolic value of treating all voters with equal rights and dignity. It then briefly catalogs the great success achieved in the five decades since Dr. King and others helped bring about the voting rights revolution, but also shows that Dr. King's vision remains partially unfulfilled. It then turns to the three principal reasons for the unfulfilled vision and asks what it would take to more fully achieve his vision over the next fifty years. Even if "the arc of the moral universe" eventually "bends toward justice," vigilance and activism remain necessary, as courts retreat from protecting minority voting rights, private racism remains an enduring problem, and the achieving equal political and economic rights requires a state-by-state slog.
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Posted in felon voting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=66>, political polarization<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>


You Can Now Preorder the Audible Audiobook of My Upcoming Book on Justice Scalia, The Justice of Contradictions<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97067>
Posted on January 23, 2018 7:26 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97067> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Link.<https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Contradictions-Antonin-Politics-Disruption/dp/B0797LZWZH/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1516681541&sr=8-1>
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"Florida voters will be able to restore voting rights to over a million former felons in November"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97065>
Posted on January 23, 2018 7:23 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97065> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Think Progress:<https://thinkprogress.org/florida-ballot-voting-8b8decc2c7dd/>

Florida voters will have a chance to restore voting rights to more than 1 million former felons through a ballot initiative this November.

The proposed constitutional amendment on Tuesday reached the 766,200 petition signatures<http://dos.elections.myflorida.com/initiatives/initdetail.asp?account=64388&seqnum=1> required to go on the ballot. The Voting Restoration Amendment, which the state is expected to certify soon, would automatically restore rights to citizens convicted of most non-violent crimes who have completed their prison sentence, parole, and probation. Only those convicted of murder or felony sexual offense would be excluded.
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"How Big a Deal Is a New Congressional Map for Pennsylvania?"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97063>
Posted on January 22, 2018 9:51 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97063> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nate Cohn<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/upshot/pennsylvania-congressional-map-ruling.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=7&pgtype=sectionfront> for NYT's The Upshot:

The Republicans are counting on a favorable congressional map to help their majority ride out a possible "wave" election this November. But the congressional map got a little less favorable on Monday when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/us/pennsylvania-maps-congress.html> the state's Republican-drawn congressional map.

If the ruling holds - and it is expected to, because it's based on state law, not federal - this will be the fourth Republican gerrymander to be eroded by the courts since the 2014 midterm elections. It will probably cost the Republicans at least one seat in this year's midterms, while eroding their position in several others.

Pennsylvania has one of the harshest gerrymanders in the country. Republicans have held a 13-to-5 majority in the state's congressional delegation since the map took effect in 2012, even though the state is traditionally competitive in state and federal elections.

It's impossible to predict exactly what the new map will look like. The court ordered the Republican-controlled state legislature to produce a new map by Feb. 9. Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, will have a veto, and if a new map isn't approved by Feb. 15, the court will probably redraw the map itself. Neither outcome will necessarily yield an incumbent-blind nonpartisan map, like the kind that would be drawn by a commission in California or Arizona.
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"It may 'smell bad,' but Long Beach mayor's deal-making doesn't break the law, experts say"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97061>
Posted on January 22, 2018 9:39 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97061> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Long Beach Press Telegram:<https://www.presstelegram.com/2018/01/22/it-may-smell-bad-but-long-beach-mayors-apparent-quid-pro-quo-doesnt-break-the-law-experts-say/>

Legal scholars say even if Fox or another candidate dropped out of the race because of a deal struck, it would have been within the law.

"You may think possibly this smells bad," said Daniel Hays Lowenstein, a retired UCLA law professor who specialized in election law. "And it may smell bad, but even if it does, it doesn't make it a violation of the statute. "

The statute in question is an 1893 state law that prohibits the advancing, paying or soliciting money or any "valuable consideration" to stay out of or withdraw from a political race.

The law has rarely been tested by top prosecutors, many of whom are elected to their position, he said.

Lowenstein was the attorney for then Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler, one of the few cases where he said prosecutors invoked the law.

Fiedler was indicted by a Los Angeles County grand jury<http://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/25/us/effort-to-bribe-rival-charged-to-rep-fiedler.html> in 1986 on a charge of offering $100,000 to an opponent to withdraw from the Republican primary. The judge in the case eventually dismissed the charges, <https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/02/27/judge-drops-charges-against-fiedler-aide/773e6255-fa41-441e-b06e-95c2d9e1d3b3/?utm_term=.0aa4b0247955> finding the law vague and the evidence insufficient. It was not appealed.

Lowenstein said, if Garcia had offered a political position in exchange for Fox or another candidate dropping out of the race, that would be a tougher call but would still not likely not rise to the standard of "valuable consideration."

"That, I think, is a harder question," he said, but "I think it would come down the same way."

Fox owns more than a dozen rental properties in Long Beach, and could lose money from a rent control law. He might even see a benefit from further discussion of the city's Land Use Element, which establishes parameters for the types of development allowed across the city through 2040.

But Lowenstein said that even if Fox benefited from Garcia's stance, it would be a political gain, not a personal one. In other words, Fox can't bank money on Garcia's position and he wouldn't gain anything new that he values.
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"Alleged payment to porn star was illegal donation to Trump campaign, watchdog says"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97058>
Posted on January 22, 2018 9:32 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97058> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Gerstein<https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/22/stormy-daniels-trump-payment-illegal-donation-357250> for Politico:

A watchdog group filed a pair of complaints on Monday alleging that a $130,000 payment reportedly made to a pornographic film actress who claims to have had an affair with Donald Trump violated campaign finance laws.

In submissions<http://www.commoncause.org/policy-and-litigation/litigation/fec-complaint-trump-january-22-2018.pdf> to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission, Common Cause said the alleged payment to Stephanie Clifford - who uses the stage name Stormy Daniels - amounted to an in-kind donation to Trump's presidential campaign that should have been publicly disclosed in its official reports.
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Spring Speaking Engagements-Including Talks on My Upcoming Scalia Book, The Justice of Contradictions<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97056>
Posted on January 22, 2018 8:31 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97056> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I'll be doing a fair amount of speaking in the spring, some (but not all) of it connected to the upcoming publication of my book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption<https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Contradictions-Antonin-Politics-Disruption/dp/0300228643/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1516681541&sr=8-1>(Yale University Press 2018). The first event will be February 7 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, commemorating the second anniversary of the Justice's death. The book should start shipping in early March.

The schedule below is subject to change, and tentative.  I'll update periodically with links and rsvp information as applicable.

Hope to see many of you out there!
Date

City

Venue

Event

Jan 26, 11 am

San Francisco, CA

UC Hastings

Voting in 2018 and Beyond Symposium<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96726>

Jan 27, noon

Simi Valley, CA

Reagan Library

Federalist Society Western Conference, Discussion with 9th Cir. Judge Carlos Bea and Prof. Brad Smith on Donor Disclosure<https://fedsoc.org/events/2018-annual-western-chapters-conference>

Feb 7, evening

Philadelphia

National Constitution Center

Justice Antonin Scalia: Life and Legacy (Panel with Jeffrey Rosen and Kannon Shanmugam)<https://constitutioncenter.org/calendar/justice-antonin-scalia-life-and-legacy>

March 5, noon

New York, NY

Cardozo Law

Conversation about Scalia book at Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy

March 5, evenng

New York, NY

Brennan Center, NYU

Conversation about Scalia book with Joan Biskupic of CNN

March 6, lunch

Washington, D.C.

Georgetown Law

Conversation about Scalia book with Sue Bloch of Georgetown and Adam Liptak of NY Times

March 10, afternoon

Austin, TX

SXSW

Conseration with Rep. Terri Sewell and Mike Allen of Axios about voting rights<https://schedule.sxsw.com/2018/events/PP78059>

March 15, evening

Boston, MA

Northeastern Law

Conversation about Scalia book with Dan Urman

March 20, evening

Irvine, CA

UCI Law

Conversation with Adam Winkler about our new Supreme Court books

March 28, noon

Los Angeles CA (downtown)

LA ALOUD (Library Foundation)

Conversation about Scalia book with Erwin Chemerinsky

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"Donor privacy and Campaign-Related Speech"-Speaking at Federalist Society Event at Reagan Library<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97054>
Posted on January 22, 2018 8:01 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97054> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Looking forward to this on Saturday at the Federalist Society Western Conference:<https://fedsoc.org/events/2018-annual-western-chapters-conference>

Luncheon Discussion: Donor privacy and Campaign-Related Speech
12 Noon - 1:45 p.m.

With federal proposals like the DISCLOSE Act sidelined by Republicans in Congress, some state governments officials, including state secretaries of state, have sought to place limitations on campaign speech through other methods. State legislators have proposed new state laws against "dark money" and advocated new disclosure regimes as well as increased restrictions on speech and political engagement by key public officials who coordinate on a national level.  City lawmakers have proposed public financing regimes as well as matching funds, which are often far more restrictive than with state law. State Secretaries of State have proposed rules to implement failed campaign finance reform proposals and impose heightened donor disclosure regulations as well as requiring more detailed financial disclosures from non-profit organizations. Do these campaign speech proposals and increased pushes toward greater disclosure lead to more transparency and freer and fairer elections, or do these efforts infringe upon First Amendment rights?

*         Professor Richard L. Hasen, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine

*         Professor Brad Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law, Capital University Law School

*         Hon. Carlos T. Bea, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (Moderator)
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"Can Adversaries Hack Our Elections? Can We Stop Them?"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97051>
Posted on January 22, 2018 7:36 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97051> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The UCI Cybersecurity and Research Institute is holding this event<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/CPRIMarch2018EventFlyer.FINAL_.1.18.1821430.pdf> on March 13, with keynote James Carville.
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"New Analysis: Voter Suppression Laws a Concern in 2018, Though Many States Looking to Expand Access"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97049>
Posted on January 22, 2018 1:16 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97049> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brennan Center:<http://www.brennancenter.org/press-release/new-analysis-voter-suppression-laws-concern-2018-though-many-states-looking-expand>

A first look at voting laws introduced in state legislatures across the country finds that voter suppression efforts continue to be a concern at the outset of a pivotal election year. The Trump administration is promoting a similar agenda at the national level. At the same time, lawmakers are also making a significant push to expand access to the polls, according to a new analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

In the first analysis of its kind in 2018, the Brennan Center's Voting Laws Roundup<https://brennancenter.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86950646d6302177bc47ef9c5&id=c20abb8550&e=8e695165a2> shows that lawmakers in eight states have introduced at least 16 bills making it harder to vote, and 35 restrictive bills in 14 states have carried over from previous legislative sessions. If passed, the laws would increase restrictions on voter registration and limit early and absentee voting opportunities, among other changes.

Legislatures in 22 states are considering a combined total of at least 144 bills that would expand access to voting, and in 23 states and the District of Columbia lawmakers are considering 263 bills that carried over from the previous session. This includes legislation to automate the voter registration process, a reform with bipartisan backing that increases voter turnout, along with accuracy and security of voter rolls. There are also bills to expand opportunities to register, restore voting rights to people with past criminal convictions, reduce the burden of existing voter ID laws, and more.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Strikes Congressional Districts on State Law Grounds; And There's a Longshot Theory to Get SCOTUS Review<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97047>
Posted on January 22, 2018 12:13 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97047> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Today the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on state law grounds held<http://www.pacourts.us/assets/files/setting-6015/file-6740.pdf?cb=b74d61> the state's congressional districting violated the state constitution. It ordered the state legislature to submit a plan with compact and contiguous districts.  If it can't get a plan signed by the (Democratic) governor, the Pa courts will draw the maps.  (Two Justices dissented<http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Supreme/out/Dissenting%20Statement%20%20GrantedJurisdiction%20Retained%20%2010339890932033722.pdf>.)

This case is separate from a federal constitutional case (Agre v. Wolf<https://www.brennancenter.org/legal-work/agre-v-wolf>) that is on its way to SCOTUS. That case may be mooted by today's state ruling.

I leave to others whether the Republican legislature and Democratic governor would be able to agree on a plan.

But Republicans have already said<https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/955525472254877698> they will appeal today's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. At first blush, it looks like there would be no basis, as this case is under the Pa. Constitution, and the state supreme court is the final arbiter of what that means. However, as I've noted<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96968>, the state legislature may argue that Article I vests in the state legislature, and not the state courts, the power to set the rules for congressional elections (subject to congressional override). These kinds of arguments have not done well in recent years (think of the Arizona redistricting case<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/arizona-state-legislature-v-arizona-independent-redistricting-commission/>), but perhaps that's what the Republicans have in mind. Shades of Bush v. Gore. The argument is a long shot but not an impossible one.
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"Trump election fraud commission bought Texas election data flagging Hispanic voters"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97045>
Posted on January 22, 2018 10:02 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97045> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-election-fraud-commission-bought-texas-election-data-flagging-hispanic-voters/2018/01/22/2791934a-fd55-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?utm_term=.a8de18b2bffb>

President Donald Trump's election fraud commission asked every state and the District for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas's case it took an additional step: it asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with Hispanic surnames, newly released documents show.

In buying nearly 50 million records from the state with the nation's second largest Hispanic population, a researcher for the White House panel checked a box on two Texas public voter data request forms explicitly asking for the "Hispanic surname flag notation," to be included in information sent to the commission, according to copies of the signed and notarized state forms....

The commission vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach (R) who launched the drive to collect data from every state, said "at no time did the commission request any state to flag surnames by ethnicity or race. It's a complete surprise to me."
 Told of documents showing the Texas purchase, Kobach said, "Mr. Williams did not ask any member of the commission whether he should check that box or not, so it certainly wasn't a committee decision."

Such "information does not, did not advance the commission's inquiry in any way, and this is the first I've heard the Texas files included that," Kobach said Friday....

The commission was chaired by Vice President Pence. A White House official, who asked to speak on condition of anonymity because the defunct panel is no longer under its purview, said that given the option in Texas, the commission asked to identify Hispanic surnames to resolve data discrepancies or confusion caused by the traditional Spanish naming convention that uses the surnames of both parents.

"There was never a request made to flag people based on their ethnicity," the White House official said Friday. "That was never asked for, nor is that what this [Texas] response is saying, though I can see why some could read it that way," the official said.
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"Eight years after Citizens United, it's time for bold ways to fix democracy"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97043>
Posted on January 22, 2018 8:56 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97043> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Liz Kennedy and Alex Tausanovitch oped<http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/369861-eight-years-after-citizens-united-its-time-for-bold-ways-to-fix> in The Hill.
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"Dallas County Republicans file lawsuit to kick 128 Democrats off election ballot"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97041>
Posted on January 22, 2018 7:50 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97041> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Potentially big news in Texas:<https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/01/21/dallas-county-republicans-file-lawsuit-kick-128-democrats-election-ballot>

Dallas County Republicans have filed a lawsuit to have 128 Democrats kicked off the March 6 primary ballot.

The lawsuit, filed in Dallas County late Friday, contends that Dallas County Democratic Party Chairman Carol Donovan didn't sign the petitions of 128 Democratic Party candidates before sending them to the Texas Secretary of State's office, as required by law.

"The Election Code says the chairman, and nobody else, has to sign them," said Elizabeth Alvarez Bingham, a lawyer for the Dallas County Republican Party. "Carol Donovan is the chair. She was supposed to sign them. She didn't do it."

The news stunned some Democrats after a lawyer for their party notified them of the lawsuit Sunday afternoon.
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Posted in ballot access<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>, election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


Government Doesn't Want Senator Menendez to Have Prayer Circles During Next Trial<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97037>
Posted on January 22, 2018 7:42 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97037> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NJ.com on the government's weird motion:<http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/01/menendez_to_face_retrial_in_corruption_case_feds_s.html>

Prosecutors complained that the  jury in the first trial would often see the senator holding prayer circles with dressed clergy in the hallway and singing religious hymns in the hallway. They said Menendez would occasionally pray, gathering with clergy outside the courthouse, and sometimes was heard singing 'Amazing Grace.'"

In its filing, the government urged the court to impose safeguards to protect the jury from what they called "undue extrajudicial pressure" during the next trial.

"Each morning during trial, the jury had to walk down a long public hallway from the elevator to the jury room. Defendant Menendez, his family, his attorneys, his employees, and his supporters lined the hallway each morning until the last juror had passed. The jury thus had to walk a gauntlet of the defense team each morning before court," prosecutors complained.
They also asked the court to order to defense not to make "improper arguments and comments that politicize and racialize" the case.
Marc Elias: "Lets play pretend - If the Holder/Obama DOJ had said in a court document that Bob McDonald had "racialized" the case by appealing to white jurors, and objected to McDonald praying with clergy in the hallway, what would be the reaction?"
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/954845993673068547
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"Did Citizens United Help Russians Funnel Money To NRA?"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97035>
Posted on January 22, 2018 7:34 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97035> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TPM reports.<https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/campaign-finance-russia-funneling-dark-money-trump-nra>
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>


"A second bite at the apple? State constitutions and the ethos of fairness in elections"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97033>
Posted on January 22, 2018 7:29 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97033> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Franita Tolson oped<http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/369706-a-second-bite-at-the-apple-state-constitutions-and-the-ethos-of-fairness-in> in The Hill.
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"GOP legislators ask altered North Carolina maps be delayed"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97031>
Posted on January 21, 2018 7:37 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97031> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WRAL:<http://www.wral.com/gop-legislators-ask-altered-north-carolina-maps-be-delayed/17279007/>

The GOP lawmakers' lawyers filed Sunday a motion asking the federal judges stay their order accepting new boundary lines from a special master while legislators appeal that order to the U.S. Supreme Court. They want a decision by Monday because they plan to request a similar delay before the Supreme Court if the judges deny it.

On Friday I explained<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97015> why such a stay request in this racial gerrymandering case is not likely to fare as well as other recent stay requests to the Supreme Court.
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"Trump's attempts to show voter fraud appear to have stalled"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97029>
Posted on January 21, 2018 6:10 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97029> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The PBS News Hour reports.<https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-attempts-to-show-voter-fraud-appear-to-have-stalled>
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