[EL] more news 6/26/18

Tue Jun 26 10:46:39 PDT 2018

“Did Justice Anthony Kennedy Just Signal His Retirement? The depressing defeatism of Kennedy’s work this term indicates his time on the court could be coming to an end.”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99807>
Posted on June 26, 2018 10:45 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99807> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have written this piece<https://slate.me/2It7s0W> for Slate. It begins:

For Anthony Kennedy, America’s most powerful jurist, this term has brought unexpected and surprising expressions of powerlessness. After Tuesday’s ruling in the Trump travel ban case, it’s starting to feel like the end of his time on the court is near.

Rumors about Justice Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court have circulated for well over a year, with the common one being that he was prepared to retire last year and some force—maybe norm-bashing President Donald Trump—stopped him. But something feels different this term.

First there were the punts in the partisan gerrymandering<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/anthony-kennedy-wont-rule-on-gerrymandering.html> and cake-making<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/kennedy-turned-masterpiece-cakeshop-into-an-argument-over-civility.html> cases. Let’s start with the redistricting case. For the last 14 years, Kennedy has called upon litigants to come up with some standard to help the court separate permissible from impermissible consideration of party in redistricting. The court this term granted two different partisan gerrymandering cases<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-gerrymandering-maryland-20171211-story.html>: one with a Republican gerrymander and one with a Democratic gerrymander; one involving state legislative districts and the other involving congressional districts; and one with an equal protection theory and the other with Kennedy’s favorite, a First Amendment theory.
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Texas: “Democratic runoff winner: Voter fraud lawsuit is ‘pound of revenge’ in race for Joe Barton’s seat”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99805>
Posted on June 26, 2018 10:24 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99805> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Star-Telegram:<https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article213839829.html>

Democrat Jana Lynne Sanchez wants an Ellis County court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging her 717-vote primary runoff win<https://www.star-telegram.com/article213399159.html> for the 6th Congressional District over Ruby Woolridge.

She filed court records saying the lawsuit filed by Woolridge — which alleges Sanchez “knowingly filed petitions with fraudulent signatures” in order to secure a spot on the March primary ballot — violates her free speech rights, comes too late and is flat out wrong.
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Posted in campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

“Kobach Lost. What’s That Mean For Voting In Kansas?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99803>
Posted on June 26, 2018 10:13 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99803> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Celia Llopis-Jepsen reports<http://wvik.org/post/kobach-lost-what-s-mean-voting-kansas#stream/0> for Kansas News Service.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, NVRA (motor voter)<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

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