[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/1/19

Mon Apr 1 08:18:28 PDT 2019

Senator Ted Cruz Suing to Kill Campaign Finance Law Limiting Post-Election Fundraising for Personal Loan Repayments to $250K<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104484>
Posted on April 1, 2019 8:16 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104484> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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NEW: Sen. Ted Cruz is suing the FEC, challenging a $250K cap on the amount of money a candidate can raise after an election to repay personal funds the candidate loaned to his or her campaign https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5785151/4-1-19-Cruz-v-FEC-Complaint.pdf …<https://t.co/tDfFnuDuUa>
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

“How fighting political disinformation could collide with the First Amendment”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104482>
Posted on April 1, 2019 8:10 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104482> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Fix reports.<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/30/how-fighting-political-disinformation-could-collide-with-first-amendment/?utm_term=.05cddd568e7b>
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Posted in campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

“Will the Supreme Court Follow the Law and Save the Census?”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104480>
Posted on April 1, 2019 8:06 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104480> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

David Gans blogs.<https://www.theusconstitution.org/blog/will-the-supreme-court-follow-the-law-and-save-the-census/>
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Posted in census litigation<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=125>, Supreme Court<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

“How Trump Could Lose the Election and Remain President”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104478>
Posted on April 1, 2019 8:05 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104478> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Daniel Block<https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2019/how-trump-could-lose-the-election-and-remain-president/> in Washington Monthly.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

April Fools Posting Hiatus<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104476>
Posted on April 1, 2019 8:02 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104476> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I usually have some<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=98463> fun with these<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=98472>, but like Larry Solum<https://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2019/04/no-april-fools-posts.html> this year, I don’t think these jokes feel right in the current environment. Maybe back next year.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

“Trump calls Census ‘meaningless’ without citizenship question”; Kristen Clarke Responds<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104474>
Posted on April 1, 2019 7:50 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104474> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico<https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/01/trump-census-citizenship-1246499>:

President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at Democrats for fighting his administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a controversial move set to undergo legal scrutiny by the Supreme Court in the coming months.

“Can you believe that the Radical Left Democrats want to do our new and very important Census Report without the all important Citizenship Question,” Trump tweeted<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1112702018383212544>. “Report would be meaningless and a waste of the $Billions (ridiculous) that it costs to put together!”

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This is FALSE

A citizenship question hasn’t appeared on the Census in more than 6 decades

It was added after push by Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach

It’s intended to discourage participation among people of color

It was found unconstitutional by a judge in our court challenge
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Posted in census litigation<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=125>

Some EAC Commissioners Lack Security Clearances<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104472>
Posted on April 1, 2019 7:32 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104472> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Eric Geller with the scoop<https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1112716248276623360> (but full story behind paywall):
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Scoop: Half of @EACgov<https://twitter.com/EACgov> commissioners lack security clearances, and no one on the commission had a clearance during the 2016 or 2018 elections: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2019/04/half-of-eac-lacks-security-clearances-complicating-response-to-voting-threats-1308613 …<https://t.co/ebhbumzVFC>

An EAC member without a clearance "is like making a baseball player hit without a bat," @RonWyden<https://twitter.com/RonWyden> told Politico.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, Election Assistance Commission<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>

Mark Rush Reviews Mulroy’s “Rethinking U.S. Election Law: Unskewing the System”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104470>
Posted on April 1, 2019 7:22 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104470> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<http://www.lpbr.net/2019/03/rethinking-us-election-law-unskewing.html>, at LPBR.
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Posted in alternative voting systems<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63>, theory<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=41>

Esquire Interviews Allison Riggs, One of the Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Who Argued the North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104468>
Posted on March 31, 2019 9:00 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104468> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26975450/gerrymandering-supreme-court-north-carolina/?utm_campaign=socialflowTWESQ&src=socialflowTW&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social-media&fbclid=IwAR3yul2kEEhC3sG8Qm8ET_Jd6EZFGpRdDqXoXN46RY9ywHmb1XEuIiv6-mY>.
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Posted in redistricting<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>, Supreme Court<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

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