[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/10/18

Tue Oct 9 20:32:32 PDT 2018

“Ginsburg puts census depositions on hold”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101428>
Posted on October 9, 2018 8:28 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101428> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SCOTUSBlog:<http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/10/ginsburg-puts-census-depositions-on-hold/>

Tonight Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg granted<http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18A375-In-Re-Department-of-Commerce-Temp.-Stay.pdf> the federal government’s request to put off the depositions of two high-level Trump administration officials, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and John Gore, the acting head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Gore’s deposition had been scheduled for tomorrow morning, and Ross’ for Thursday, in a challenge to Ross’ decision to bring back a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. (More details on the challenge and the issues involved can be found in an earlier post<http://amylhowe.com/2018/10/03/federal-government-asks-justices-to-intervene-in-census-dispute/>.)…Ginsburg directed the challengers to respond to the government’s request by 4 p.m. on Thursday, October 11. Her order will remain in effect until either she or the full Supreme Court acts on the request.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

Missouri State Court Strikes Portions of Law Related to Voter ID Requirements<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101426>
Posted on October 9, 2018 3:28 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101426> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The court’s opinion and order is here.<https://www.courts.mo.gov/fv/c/judgment_FINAL.pdf?l=SMPDB0004_CT19&di=1441137>
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Posted in voter id<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

“Independent Spending in the 2018 Congressional General Elections Up From Same Time in 2016”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101424>
Posted on October 9, 2018 3:08 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101424> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New report<http://cfinst.org/Press/PReleases/18-10-09/Independent_Spending_in_the_2018_Congressional_General_Elections_Up_From_Same_Time_in_2016.aspx> from the Campaign Finance Institute.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

“Supreme Court Denies Review, Feds Defend Disenfranchisement in U.S. Territories Before Human Rights Commission”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101422>
Posted on October 9, 2018 3:06 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101422> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Equally American:<http://www.equalrightsnow.org/supreme_court_denies_review_feds_defend_disenfranchisement_in_u_s_territories_before_human_rights_commission>

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review<https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100918zor_p8k0.pdf> in Segovia v. United States<http://www.equalrightsnow.org/segovia>, a lawsuit seeking to expand voting rights in U.S. territories. The lawsuit was brought by Equally American on behalf of a group of veterans and others living in Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands who would be able to vote for President and have voting representation in Congress if they lived in any other U.S. territory or even a foreign country but cannot based on discriminatory federal and state overseas voting laws.

On Friday, federal officials defended the continued disenfranchisement of millions of U.S. citizens living in the territories in a hearing before the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (IACHR<http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/>) in Rossello v. United States<http://www.equalrightsnow.org/rossello>.
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Breaking: Supreme Court, on 6-2 Vote, Allows North Dakota to Enforce Its Voter ID Law Address Requirement Alleged to Discriminate Against Native American Voters<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101420>
Posted on October 9, 2018 1:22 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101420> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Justices Ginsburg and Kagan (but surprisingly not Justice Sotomayor) dissented, citing the Purcell Principle. Justice Kavanaugh did not participate.
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Breaking: #SCOTUS<https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOTUS?src=hash> allows North Dakota voter ID requirement, which had been enjoined during the primaries, to be enforced during the general election.
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“With hours left to register to vote in Florida, complaints are mounting over glitches”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101418>
Posted on October 9, 2018 12:49 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101418> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Miami Herald:<https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article219732785.html>

That huge swirling menace in the Gulf known as Hurricane Michael has the attention of Floridians four weeks before Election Day.

But a disturbance of another kind is intensifying, and it involves voting.

Two controversies erupted at once Tuesday, one over a state online voter registration system and the other involving the storm’s disruption of the last day that Florida residents could become eligible voters in 2018.

Complaints multiplied from people who say the state’s online registration portal<https://registertovoteflorida.gov/en/Registration/Index> was not working. The portal, which was a year old on Oct. 1, has had glitches before, but never this close to a voter registration deadline, and it prompted threats of legal action.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

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