[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/18/18

Sun Nov 18 16:09:12 PST 2018

“Why Democrats Should Not Call the Georgia Governor’s Race ‘Stolen’; There are three important reasons to cool this rhetoric, despite Brian Kemp’s odious voter suppression efforts.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102373>
Posted on November 18, 2018 4:01 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102373> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have written this piece<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/georgia-stacey-abrams-brian-kemp-election-not-stolen.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru> for Slate. It begins:

Many Democrats are understandably angry about efforts to suppress the vote in Georgia<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/georgia-governor-election-stacey-abrams-lost-brian-kemp.html> and elsewhere in the 2018 midterm elections. In the Peach State, there is no question that Gov.-elect Brian Kemp, while secretary of state, made it harder for minority and other voters to register and vote, through a combination of deliberate efforts<https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/brian-kemps-win-in-georgia-tainted-by-voter-suppression-stacey-abrams/> and gross incompetence<https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4900825/Read-the-federal-judge-s-ruling-here.pdf>. He administered what I consider<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/georgia-governor-candidate-brian-kemp-attempts-last-minute-banana-republic-style-voter-manipulation.html> to be the most egregious partisan action by an election official in the modern era when he falsely accused the Georgia Democratic Party of hacking into the state election system, and a few days before Election Day, posted that false accusation on the website that Georgia voters used to get polling information.

But for three reasons, Democrats should stop with the rhetoric that the race was “stolen,” as Sherrod Brown, Democratic senator from Ohio has said<https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/11/14/sen_sherrod_brown_if_stacey_abrams_doesnt_win_in_georgia_republicans_stole_it.html>, and they should not follow the lead of Kemp’s Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams, who repeatedly refused<https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/11/18/stacey-abrams-brian-kemp-legitimate-georgia-governor-bts-sotu-vpx.cnn> to acknowledge Kemp as the “legitimate” winner of the election when questioned Sunday by CNN’s Jake Tapper.
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Jeffrey Toobin Expresses Some Optimism About Voting Rights<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102371>
Posted on November 18, 2018 3:17 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102371> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Not so sure I agree with this one<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-voting-rights-fared-in-the-midterms>.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

DOJ John Gore’s Former Chief of Staff, Who Suggested in Memo That Citizenship Info for Census Might Be Used by Law Enforcement Some Time Down the Line, Now Clerking for Justice Alito as Court Considers Census Case<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102363>
Posted on November 18, 2018 10:15 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102363> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Hansi Lo Wang<https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1063909032862367745> (who is a must-follow on this issue):
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6. Plaintiffs' attorneys with @manatt<https://twitter.com/manatt> @LawyersComm<https://twitter.com/LawyersComm> @PublicCounsel<https://twitter.com/PublicCounsel> for one of the #2020census<https://twitter.com/hashtag/2020census?src=hash> #citizenshipquestion<https://twitter.com/hashtag/citizenshipquestion?src=hash> lawsuits in California say email is evidence that backs up fears abt confidentiality & privacy of #2020census<https://twitter.com/hashtag/2020census?src=hash> responses among members of their client @BAJItweet<https://twitter.com/BAJItweet>[👇]
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7. I've reached out to spokespeople for @TheJusticeDept<https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept> & @RepJimmyGomez<https://twitter.com/RepJimmyGomez>'s office for comment, as well as to Ben Aguiñaga, who has left the DOJ and is now a #SCOTUS<https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOTUS?src=hash> law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito[👇] https://twitter.com/LSULawCenter/status/984456356651384832 …<https://t.co/QghaIv2w1A>
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“Brian Kemp’s Win In Georgia Is Tainted by Voter Suppression”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102361>
Posted on November 17, 2018 2:15 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102361> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ari Berman:<https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/brian-kemps-win-in-georgia-tainted-by-voter-suppression-stacey-abrams/>

On Friday afternoon, Abrams acknowledged that Kemp—the secretary of state who implemented many of these restrictions and was in charge of ensuring a fair voting process—would be certified as the winner of the election. He leads by 55,000 votes, out of nearly 4 million cast. Abrams came within 18,000 votes of forcing a runoff. The election was marred by allegations of widespread voter suppression<https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/brian-kemps-voter-suppression-efforts-could-help-elect-him-governor/>, and the Abrams campaign says that suppression may have prevented enough votes to keep the race from going to a runoff. Other top Democrats echoed these concerns<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/15/democrats-are-now-going-there-stolen-elections/?utm_term=.035d65df0203>. “If she had a fair election, she already would have won,” Hillary Clinton said this week.

At a press conference on Friday, Abrams said that “under the watch of the now-former secretary of state, democracy failed Georgia.” She noted that although there was “no further viable remedy” to challenge the election results, she would soon be filing “a major federal lawsuit” challenging Kemp’s “gross mismanagement” of the election. “Voting is not a right for some, it is a right for all,” she said.

“It is not about me, it is about us, it is about the democracy that we share,” Abrams added.

We don’t know yet—and might never know—how many people were disenfranchised or dissuaded from voting in the state. But it’s clear that Kemp did everything in his power to put in place restrictive voting policies that would help his candidacy and hurt his opponent, all while overseeing his own election.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“A ‘stress test’ for the next campaign: Florida recount sets the rules of engagement for the 2020 race”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102359>
Posted on November 17, 2018 2:03 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102359> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important WaPo report.<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-stress-test-for-the-next-campaign-florida-recount-sets-the-rules-of-engagement-for-the-2020-race/2018/11/17/48f16c38-e9cf-11e8-bd89-eecf3b178206_story.html?utm_term=.31c8ba38a036>

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“In the new politics of the recount, it pays to fight to the bitter end”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102357>
Posted on November 17, 2018 11:29 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102357> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT:<http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-recount-opportunity-20181117-story.html>

In the new political landscape, recount battles are being waged with unprecedented fervor, as political parties and activists look beyond the race at hand and see opportunities to reform voting laws, resculpt the political map and motivate and focus the base. There can be victory — and considerable campaign cash — even in losing.
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“America’s Election Grid Remains a Patchwork of Vulnerabilities”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102355>
Posted on November 17, 2018 11:26 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102355> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT deep dive.<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/us/usa-voting-system-elections.html>
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“Hanging Chads Long Gone, Florida Has Another Election Nightmare”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102353>
Posted on November 16, 2018 3:42 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102353> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

HuffPost reports.<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/florida-election-recounts_us_5bef2dcde4b0f32bd5899378?gr9>
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“RNC pays alleged leader of the 2000 ‘Brooks Brothers Riot’ to observe Broward recount”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102351>
Posted on November 16, 2018 2:42 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102351> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Miami Herald reports.<https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article221722465.html>
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It’s Over for Stacey Abrams in Georgia<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102349>
Posted on November 16, 2018 2:27 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102349> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Democrat Stacey Abrams says she can't win Georgia governor race, effectively ends challenge to Republican Brian Kemp.
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I Talked to Diane Rehm for Her Podcast About the Latest in the Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102347>
Posted on November 16, 2018 2:20 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102347> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Listen. <https://dianerehm.org/shows/2018-11-16/partisan-attacks-on-the-electoral-process-and-more-issues-with-how-we-vote>
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“Supreme Court Will Hear Fast-Track Arguments in Census Case”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102344>
Posted on November 16, 2018 12:00 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102344> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg:<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-16/supreme-court-will-hear-fast-track-arguments-in-census-case>
The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments early next year on lawsuits challenging the addition of a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, acting with unusual speed in a politically charged case.

The justices will consider the Trump administration’s bid to limit the evidence that can be used in the challenge, which has been the subject of a trial in federal court in New York. The court will hear arguments Feb. 19.

Court order:<https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/111618zr_daei.pdf>

18-557 IN RE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, ET AL. The petition for a writ of mandamus is treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari. The petition for certiorari is granted. Petitioners’ brief on the merits is to be filed on or before Monday, December 17, 2018. Respondents’ brief on the merits is to be filed on or before Thursday, January 17, 2019. The reply brief is to be filed on or before Monday, February 4, 2019. The case is set for oral argument on Tuesday, February 19, 2019.
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