[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/3/19

[Rick Hasen]

A Recount Could Be Coming in Closely Watched Wisconsin Supreme Court Race<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104511>
Posted on April 2, 2019 9:00 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104511> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

At the time I write this post, the closely watched race<https://projects.jsonline.com/topics/election/2019/4/2/april-2019-wisconsin-election-results.html> for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is a nailbiter:<https://decisiondeskhq.com/election-results-wisconsin-supreme-court-chicago-mayor-pa-sd-37/>
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The loser can request <https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1113271265194860544> a recount if the race is within 1 percent, and the state pays if it is at or below 0.25%.

Stay tuned.
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Posted in judicial elections<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>, Supreme Court<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>


“With little fallout from nuclear option, Senate’s legislative filibuster is in jeopardy”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104509>
Posted on April 2, 2019 8:38 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104509> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-little-fallout-from-nuclear-option-senates-legislative-filibuster-is-in-jeopardy/2019/04/02/8d8bc7c4-554c-11e9-aa83-504f086bf5d6_story.html?utm_term=.8b1d39c89f59>:

The fallout from the Senate’s so-called nuclear option has largely dissipated.

And without much fallout, the fate of the once-revered process known as the legislative filibuster faces its greatest peril in more than a century.
Senate Republicans are using a complex parliamentary move this week to unilaterally change the rules to make it easier to confirm lower-level nominees to the federal courts and agencies.

It will mark the third time in less than six years that the majority party pulled the trigger on this controversial procedure, breaking long-standing customs requiring a two-thirds majority to alter Senate rules and procedures.

Democrats went first, in fall 2013, followed by Republicans in April 2017 and now the GOP again. What was once considered so unthinkable that Senate elders warned of a “nuclear winter” to follow has turned into an almost biennial move designed to thwart minority-party rights.
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Posted in legislation and legislatures<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, political parties<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>


President Trump Again Questions Fairness of Vote Counting, Based on No Evidence<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104507>
Posted on April 2, 2019 8:28 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104507> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

So worrying:<https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1113228114891558912>
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Trump told the NRCC: “We have to be a little bit careful, because I don't like the way the votes are being tallied... You don't like it either, you just don't want to say it because you're afraid of the press.”
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Trump told Republicans at a speech tonight that they should be suspicious of upcoming elections: “There's something going on fella, hey, you gotta be a little bit more paranoid than you are.”<https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1113227863740821505>

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Posted in chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, fraudulent fraud squad<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>


Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104505>
Posted on April 2, 2019 11:41 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104505> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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

Paper

Downloads

1.

Are Corporations People? Book Review of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3335220>David E Bernstein<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=51817>George Mason University – Antonin Scalia Law School, FacultyDate Posted: 19 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 19 Feb 2019

268

2.

Laboratories of Democracy Reform: State Constitutions and Partisan Gerrymandering<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3335622>Samuel Wang<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2459280>, Richard Ober<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3371982> and Ben Williams<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3371977>Princeton University, Richard F. Ober, Jr. and Princeton UniversityDate Posted: 07 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 28 Mar 2019

234

3.

The Impact of Partisan Gerrymandering on Political Parties<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3330695>Christopher Warshaw<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=831040> and Nicholas Stephanopoulos<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=636048>George Washington University – Department of Political Science and University of Chicago Law SchoolDate Posted: 21 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 21 Feb 2019

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4.

Gerrymandering & Justiciability: The Political Question Doctrine After Gill v. Whitford<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3334370>G. Michael Parsons<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2449663>New York University School of LawDate Posted: 06 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 08 Mar 2019

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5.

When Soft Law Meets Hard Politics: Taming the Wild West of Nonprofit Political Involvement<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3352110>Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=504775>Notre Dame Law SchoolDate Posted: 14 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 14 Mar 2019

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6.

On the Political Economy of Felon Disenfranchisement<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3330565>Arpita Ghosh<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3359839> and James Rockey<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1158897>University of Leicester and University of LeicesterDate Posted: 21 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 21 Feb 2019

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The Spectrum of Congressional Authority Over Elections<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3342843>Franita Tolson<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=737594>USC Gould School of LawDate Posted: 19 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 19 Mar 2019

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8.

‘Politics Are Rather a Form of War’: How Partisan-Ideological Polarization Endangers American Constitutional Democracy<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3319027>Andy Carr<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3069305>University of California, Hastings College of the Law, StudentsDate Posted: 11 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 11 Feb 2019

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9.

Assessing Kenya’s Cooperative Model of Devolution: A Situation-Specific Analysis<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3319553>James Thuo Gathii<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=328576> and Harrison Mbori Otieno<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3337026>Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Strathmore University Law SchoolDate Posted: 02 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 02 Feb 2019

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“The Elephant in the Room: Intentional Voter Suppression”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104503>
Posted on April 2, 2019 11:38 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104503> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lisa Manheim and Elizabeth Porter have posted this draft<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3347407> on SSRN (forthcoming, Supreme Court Review . Here is the abstract:

Since its inception, the Roberts Court has acquiesced in—and at times even abetted—the attempts of many states to make it harder for Americans to vote. Illustrative is a 2018 decision, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, in which the Court rejected a statutory challenge to a state’s expansive purges of voting lists. In Husted the Court dismissed the threat of voter suppression as simply not “relevant” to the case before it. By declining to look beyond states’ unsupported explanations for voter-suppressive practices, the Court is leaving the right to vote to the vagaries of the political process.

It didn’t have to be this way. For half a century, the Court has recognized a constitutional right to vote. This Article sketches a claim that precedent might allow, if only the Court were willing to reconsider its trajectory and acknowledge the reality and constitutional implications of intentional voter suppression. More specifically, we turn to the neglected Equal Protection framework developed by the Supreme Court in the voting-rights context to argue that a state acts unconstitutionally when it acts with the intent of making it less likely that an eligible voter’s ballot will be cast or counted. If accepted, this straightforward principle would require judicial scrutiny of election practices to move beyond talking points, to allow genuine adversarial testing of states’ justifications for restrictive measures.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, Supreme Court<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>


“Online Campaign Contributions in US Politics: A Conversation”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104501>
Posted on April 2, 2019 11:30 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104501> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SSRC<https://items.ssrc.org/online-campaign-contributions-in-us-politics-a-conversation/>:

In this conversation hosted by the Media & Democracy<https://www.ssrc.org/programs/view/media-democracy/> program, program officer Mike Miller discusses the trajectory of campaign financing in recent elections with Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (Stetson University) and Heath Brown (John Jay College of Criminal Justice). In particular, they address the impact of online fundraising and small-dollar contributions.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>


“NC GOP Chairman, Durham Businessman And Others Indicted On Fraud, Bribery Charges”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104499>
Posted on April 2, 2019 11:26 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104499> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WFAE<https://www.wfae.org/post/nc-gop-chairman-durham-businessman-and-others-indicted-fraud-bribery-charges#stream/0>:

North Carolina GOP Chairman Robin Hayes was one of four people indicted in connection with an investigation involving donations made to the state Republican Party.

Hayes, a former five-term North Carolina congressman, surrendered himself to authorities and appeared in Charlotte’s federal court Tuesday, the same day the federal grand jury’s indictment was unsealed. Hayes and three others were indicted on charges related to fraud and attempting to bribe North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey.
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Posted in chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>


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