[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/16/18

[Rick Hasen]

“Civil rights groups may seek emergency relief in Georgia voter registration brawl”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101543>
Posted on October 15, 2018 8:15 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101543> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

ABC News:<https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/civil-rights-groups-seek-emergency-relief-georgia-voter/story?id=58518643>

A coalition of civil rights groups may seek emergency relief to block Georgia’s controversial “exact match” voter registration rules in time for next month’s midterm election<https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/elections>s, Bryan Sells, an attorney for the coalition, told ABC News on Monday.
In a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday, the coalition claimed that a law implemented by Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp put over 50,000 new voter registration applications on hold because the registration forms did not exactly match data on file with government agencies.

Under the new law, even a missed hyphen or a nickname inconsistency can stall an application.

The plaintiffs called the law discriminatory, claiming that according to a preliminary review by the Georgia secretary of state’s office, 80 percent of stalled applications were from African-Americans, Latinos and Asian-Americans, and only 9.8 percent were submitted by applicants identifying as White.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>


Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101540>
Posted on October 15, 2018 8:11 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101540> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>:

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 16 Aug 2018 – 15 Oct 2018
Rank

Paper

Downloads

1.

Commissioner Gail Heriot Statement and Rebuttal in the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3249121>
Gail L. Heriot<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=20485>
University of San Diego School of Law

Date Posted: 14 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 14 Sep 2018

103

2.

Disparate Impact, Unified Law<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3232079>
Nicholas Stephanopoulos<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=636048>
University of Chicago Law School

Date Posted: 26 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 03 Sep 2018

85

3.

Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3236939>
Abby K. Wood<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1292982> and Christian R. Grose<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=542228>
USC Gould School of Law and University of Southern California

Date Posted: 22 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 22 Aug 2018

84

4.

Citizenship and the Census<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3250265>
Justin Levitt<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=698321>
Loyola Law School Los Angeles

Date Posted: 17 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 02 Oct 2018

83

5.

Judicial Intervention As Judicial Restraint<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3239681>
Guy-Uriel E. Charles<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=282370> and Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=282368>
Duke University School of Law and Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Date Posted: 08 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 27 Sep 2018

76

6.

The Case for the Repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment in the Yale Law Journal<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2957111>
Alfred L. Brophy<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=343640>
University of Alabama – School of Law

Date Posted: 20 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 20 Aug 2018

75

7.

Or to the People: Popular Sovereignty and the Power to Choose a Government<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3198398>
Elizabeth Reese<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3031874>
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Date Posted: 08 Oct 2018
Last Revised: 08 Oct 2018

67

8.

Managing Electoral Cyber Risk (a.k.a. “Hacking Democracy”)<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3038308>
David Thaw<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1486784>
University of Pittsburgh – School of Law

Date Posted: 20 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 22 Aug 2018

56

9.

Could Brexit Be Void?<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3232632>
Ewan McGaughey<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1235704>
School of Law, King’s College, London; Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge

Date Posted: 05 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 25 Sep 2018

47

10.

Political Fairness in Redistricting: What Wisconsin’s Experience Teaches<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3252172>
Lynn Adelman<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1249821>
U.S. District Court – Eastern District of WI

Date Posted: 26 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 05 Oct 2018

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“Trump tops $100 million in fundraising for his own reelection”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101538>
Posted on October 15, 2018 8:06 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101538> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-tops-100-million-in-fundraising-for-his-own-reelection/2018/10/15/9ee33594-d094-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html?utm_term=.47c57ef454da>

President Trump has topped $100 million in fundraising for his 2020 reelection bid — an enormous haul for a president barely two years into his first term, according to new Federal Election Commission filings.

Trump pulled in $18.1 million last quarter through his campaign committee and two joint fundraising committees with the Republican National Committee, for a total of at least $106 million since January 2017, according to federal filings made public Monday evening.

Together, all three committees ended September with $46.7 million in cash on hand, filings show.

No other president dating back to at least Ronald Reagan had raised any money at this point for his own campaign committee, according to the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan research group. Unlike his predecessors, Trump began fundraising for his reelection shortly after his 2016 win.

Trump continues to be buoyed by an avid small-donor base. FEC filings show 56 percent of the total raised by his committees from July through September came from donations of $200 or less.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>


“High rate of absentee ballots thrown out in Gwinnett”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101536>
Posted on October 15, 2018 8:03 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101536> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AJC:<https://politics.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/high-rate-absentee-ballots-thrown-out-gwinnett/azdOsCxX2X6mT8PTrgZlJI/>

Nearly one in 10 vote-by-mail ballots have been rejected by Gwinnett County election officials, alarming voting rights groups.

Gwinnett is throwing out far more absentee ballots than any other county in Georgia, according to records from the Secretary of State’s Office. Ballots were discarded because of allegedly mismatched signatures, incomplete forms or missing residential addresses.

The county rejected 390 absentee ballots through Sunday, which represents 8.5 percent of all mailed ballots received in Gwinnett so far, according to state figures<http://elections.sos.ga.gov/Elections/voterabsenteefile.do>. Across Georgia, less than 2 percent of absentee ballots have been rejected. Gwinnett accounts for about 37 percent of all rejected ballots in Georgia.

“They’re putting an extra burden on someone to come back in to get another absentee ballot. That’s unheard of,” said Helen Butler, executive director for the Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda, a civil rights group.

Gwinnett officials didn’t have an explanation for the disproportionate number of rejected absentee ballots — but also denied any wrongdoing.
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Posted in absentee ballots<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=53>, election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


Speaking Nov. 22 at USC at ACS Event with Ann Ravel, Abby Wood, and Derek Muller on Money in Politics<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101533>
Posted on October 15, 2018 6:38 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101533> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Looking forward to this:<https://www.acslaw.org/?post_type=event&p=56084>

The USC Student Chapter of ACS will be hosting a panel to discuss the current state of money in politics, campaign finance law, and their implications on the 2018 midterm elections. We will explore how SuperPACS and dark money groups are influencing our politics, the Federal Election Commission’s role as the regulator, the intrusion of foreign nationals into the electoral process, and opportunities for reform. The panel includes Former Federal Election Commissioner Ann Ravel, Professor Richard Hasen, Professor Abby Wood, and Professor Derek Muller.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>


Participating Nov. 30 at University of Chicago Symposium on Eric Posner/Glen Weyl Book, “Radical Markets”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101530>
Posted on October 15, 2018 6:34 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101530> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Announcement:<https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/symposium-radical-markets>

Symposium on “Radical Markets”

11/30
Friday, November 30, 2018 @ 9:00am — 5:00pm
Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the public
[https://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/2018-08/radical_markets_3.jpg]<https://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/2018-08/radical_markets_3.jpg>

The Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Chicago is hosting a one-day symposium on the new Posner-Weyl book, Radical Markets<https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Markets-Uprooting-Capitalism-Democracy/dp/0691177503/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533566208&sr=8-1&keywords=radical+markets+posner>. The symposium will take place on Friday, November 30, 2018, at the University of Chicago Law School. The contributions to the symposium will be published in a special online edition of the University of Chicago Law Review.

In Radical Markets, Posner and Weyl argue that the major problems of our time—low growth, rising inequality, and political conflict—are due to the failure of market institutions, which have allowed people and corporations to accumulate excessive market power. The solution is not more regulation but the reorganization of markets so that they are freer, more open, and more competitive. The authors make five proposals: a continuous public auction of property; quadratic voting; citizen-based immigration visas; restrictions on institutional investment; and the data-as-labor model for the tech industry.

The symposium contributors will address all aspects of this book, including the five main proposals; the methodology, known as mechanism design, that is used in the book; various aspects of the intellectual history of economics and political economy discussed in the book; and the relationship between economics and technological development, including the future of economic organization and policy as computing power continues to grow.

The symposium is free and open to the public. Registration is required.



Participating Faculty
Ananya Chakravarti

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University

Daniel L. Chen

Professor, University Toulouse Capitole

Adam B. Cox

Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

Lee Fennell

Max Pam Professor of Law, UChicago Law

Richard L. Hasen

Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine

Daniel Hemel

Assistant Professor of Law, UChicago Law

Zachary Liscow

Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Eric A. Posner

Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair, UChicago Law

Moira Weigel

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University

Katrina Wyman

Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

E. Glen Weyl

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research




REGISTER BY NOVEMBER 23, 2018<https://www.law.uchicago.edu/form/symposium-on-radical-markets-rsv>
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Speaking at Princeton November 9 on My Book on Justice Scalia’s Legacy<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101528>
Posted on October 15, 2018 6:31 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101528> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Princeton Program in Law and Public Affairs:<https://lapa.princeton.edu/content/justice-contradictions-antonin-scalia-and-politics-disruption>

[Hot Off The Press Book Talks]

The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
Rick Hasen, University of California, Irvine School of Law
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Date:
Fri, 11/09/2018 – 12:00pm
Location:
Robertson Hall, Bowl 16
Audience:
Princeton University Community: Faculty, Fellows, Students, Staff
Public

[book cover]<https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228649/justice-contradictions>Members of the Princeton community receive priority; members of the public are welcome if space is available. Lunch is provided.

RSVP required: Click Here<https://goo.gl/forms/ukHbK9DWkuuvegGg1>

Please join us for a lunchtime book talk with Rick Hasen, to discuss The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption.

From Yale University Press: “Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this fascinating new book, legal scholar Richard L. Hasen assesses Scalia’s complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptive public intellectual.  The left saw Scalia as an unscrupulous foe who amplified his judicial role with scathing dissents and outrageous public comments. The right viewed him as a rare principled justice committed to neutral tools of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Hasen provides a more nuanced perspective, demonstrating how Scalia was crucial to reshaping jurisprudence on issues from abortion to gun rights to separation of powers. A jumble of contradictions, Scalia promised neutral tools to legitimize the Supreme Court, but his jurisprudence and confrontational style moved the Court to the right, alienated potential allies, and helped to delegitimize the institution he was trying to save.”
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Posted in Scalia<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=123>, Supreme Court<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>


“Showdown in Georgia Governor’s Race Reflects a Larger Fight Over Voting Rights”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101526>
Posted on October 15, 2018 6:22 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101526> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT:<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/politics/georgia-abrams-kemp-voting.html>

The Georgia race highlights the national transformation of the office of secretary of state since the disputed 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Once a low-visibility, uncontroversial job, focused on administering voting laws in a nonpartisan way, secretaries of state in many places have become politicized.

This year, two of the most activist-minded Republican secretaries of state are running for governor: Mr. Kemp of Georgia and Kris Kobach of Kansas, who was the face of President Trump’s commission that unsuccessfully sought proof of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election.

Both are in statistically tied races, according to polls. Should the vote on Nov. 6 be so close in either state that a recount is necessary (or, in Georgia, a runoff if no one wins a majority), the candidates would face a conflict of interest in the determination of the victor.

The issue is not academic. Mr. Kobach awoke the morning after his Republican primary in August leading an opponent, the incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer, by just 121 votes.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>


“Exclusive: Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming U.S. elections”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101522>
Posted on October 15, 2018 1:21 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101522> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Reuters:<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-election-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-ban-misinformation-on-voting-in-upcoming-u-s-elections-idUSKCN1MP2G9>

 Facebook Inc (FB.O<https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=FB.O>) will ban false information about voting requirements and fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations in the run-up to and during next month’s U.S. midterm elections, company executives told Reuters, the latest effort to reduce voter manipulation on its service.
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“DHS finds increasing attempts to hack U.S. election systems ahead of midterms”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101520>
Posted on October 15, 2018 1:17 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101520> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Pete Williams and Ken Dilanian<https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dhs-finds-increasing-attempts-hack-u-s-election-systems-ahead-n920336?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma> for NBC News:

The Department of Homeland Security says it’s working to identify who — or what — is behind an increasing number of attempted cyber attacks on U.S. election databases ahead of next month’s midterms.

“We are aware of a growing volume of cyber activity targeting election infrastructure in 2018,” the department’s Cyber Mission Center said in an intelligence assessment issued last week and obtained by NBC News. “Numerous actors are regularly targeting election infrastructure, likely for different purposes, including to cause disruptive effects, steal sensitive data, and undermine confidence in the election.”

The assessment said the federal government does not know who is behind the attacks, but it said all potential intrusions were either prevented or mitigated.
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“First Came a Flood of Ballot Measures From Voters. Then Politicians Pushed Back.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101518>
Posted on October 15, 2018 1:15 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101518> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT:<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/referendum-initiative-legislature-dakota.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront>

Over the past two years, governors and state legislatures around the nation have used an array of tools to overturn, delay, diminish or pre-emptively declare unconstitutional a variety of initiatives approved by the same voters who put them in office. Those moves follow a rise in efforts by residents to enact their own legislation, in a growing battle over who will make laws — legislators or voters.

In 2016, 71 initiatives were brought forward by voters; 46 were approved, and legislatures changed or sought to alter nearly one-quarter of those. Sixty-five more measures are expected to appear on ballots next month.
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Posted in direct democracy<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=62>


“Democracy Reform, One Ballot at a Time”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101516>
Posted on October 15, 2018 12:11 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101516> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Douglas<https://blog.harvardlawreview.org/democracy-reform-one-ballot-at-a-time/> for the HLR Blog. [corrected link]
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“Bill to reform government, elections should be the top item on the agenda in 2019”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101514>
Posted on October 15, 2018 12:08 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101514> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tiffany Muller oped<https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/411210-bill-to-reform-government-elections-should-be-the-top-item-on> in The Hill.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>


“U.S. Still Hasn’t Finalized Election Security Plans—and the Midterms Are Weeks Away”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101512>
Posted on October 15, 2018 12:06 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101512> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Daily Beast:<https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-still-hasnt-finalized-election-security-plansand-the-midterms-are-weeks-away>

The midterms are less than a month away. But working groups inside the intelligence community charged with overseeing election security are still trying to finalize plans for countering foreign interference in the 2018 elections, three senior officials involved with the efforts told The Daily Beast.

The issue came up in a meeting this month that included current senior intelligence officials and former officials who were asked to attend and provide advice. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency were pinpointed as two of the departments that had made the most progress. The Department of Homeland Security, however, is lagging behind, according to officials inside the meeting.
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“Maryland is the cutting edge in running trustworthy elections”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101510>
Posted on October 15, 2018 12:04 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101510> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Steven Rosenfeld<https://www.salon.com/2018/10/14/maryland-is-the-cutting-edge-in-running-trustworthy-elections_partner/> for Salon.
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“Democrats Maintain the Edge in Secretary of State Races”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101508>
Posted on October 15, 2018 7:59 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101508> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Governing Magazine<http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-2018-secretary-state-races-elections.html> reports (via Doug Chapin<http://editions.lib.umn.edu/electionacademy/2018/10/15/governing-magazine-handicaps-sos-races-with-three-weeks-to-election-day/>).
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“Raising Red Flags about Shelby County”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101506>
Posted on October 15, 2018 7:44 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101506> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Travis Crum<https://takecareblog.com/blog/raising-red-flags-about-shelby-county> at Take Care:

If you’re a voting rights advocate or a law review editor, you might have noticed something different on Westlaw. After the Supreme Court invalidated the Voting Rights Act’s coverage formula in Shelby County v. Holder<https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-96_6k47.pdf>, Westlaw displayed a “red flag” on four previous decisions upholding the VRA, including South Carolina v. Katzenbach<https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/383/301>, which famously established the rationality standard for Congress’s Fifteenth Amendment enforcement authority. On Westlaw, a red flag means that a decision has been overturned or abrogated, thus signaling to bench and bar alike that it is no longer good law. Relatedly, Westlaw’s description of Shelby County’s holding stated that those four decisions had been abrogated.

But after a recent back-and-forth between Westlaw representatives and me, Westlaw has revised its description of Shelby County’s holding to delete any reference to abrogated decisions and to remove any corresponding red flags. So why did Westlaw change course? Because Shelby County addresses only the 2006 reauthorization of the VRA’s coverage formula.
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