[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/10/19

Wed Jul 10 07:59:01 PDT 2019

“Justice Dept. Watchdog Is Preparing to Deliver Verdict on the Russia Investigation”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106162>
Posted on July 10, 2019 7:47 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106162> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT:<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/ig-russia-investigation-steele.html>

But the investigation by Mr. Horowitz, who has maintained a reputation<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/us/politics/michael-horowitz-justice-department-inspector-general.html?module=inline> for being above the partisan fray, may have a better chance of being accepted across party lines as credible. Mr. Horowitz, who is expected to release a much-anticipated report of his findings in the coming weeks, is believed to be weighing whether to recommend that the Justice Department tighten rules for any future counterintelligence investigations of a presidential campaign, which was a novel dilemma in 2016, according to people familiar with aspects of his investigation.
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Unanimous 4th Circuit Panel Shuts Down Emoluments Litigation Brought by D.C. and Maryland Against Trump on Standing Grounds<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106160>
Posted on July 10, 2019 7:40 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106160> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can find the opinion here<https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6186865/Emoluments-ca4-20190710.pdf>.

I wonder whether this will go en banc to the entire 4th Circuit. The panel certainly went further than it had to here at this point given the procedual posture of the case.
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Judge Furman Will Not Let DOJ Lawyers Withdraw from Case, at Least Not Without an Adequate Explanation<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106158>
Posted on July 9, 2019 3:36 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106158> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Order:<https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1148704975389888514>
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BREAKING: Judge Furman DENIED motion for some @TheJusticeDept<https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept> counsel to withdraw from the #2020Census<https://twitter.com/hashtag/2020Census?src=hash> case. cc: @CourthouseNews<https://twitter.com/CourthouseNews>
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The DOJ’s motion to withdraw certain attorneys is “patently insufficient,” Furman said in a scorching 3-page ruling.

Only two attorneys who left DOJ’s civil division, Brett Shumate and Alice LeCour, will be allowed to withdraw. Several others must stay.
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Teachers’ (and Students’) 2019 Update to Laycock & Hasen, Modern American Remedies (5th Edition) Now Available<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106156>
Posted on July 9, 2019 3:33 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106156> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This supplement is current through the end of the Supreme Court’s term ending June 28. It is free for use for instructors assigning the book and their students. There are separate versions for the regular<https://www.wklegaledu.com/Laycock-Remedies5> and Concise editions<https://www.wklegaledu.com/Laycock-RemediesConcise5> of the book.

Professors can log in with their WK account to go the “Professor Resources” page for each book. There, professors will find the Teachers’ Update (and a separate password to open the documents).
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Posted in Remedies<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=57>

Tweet of the Day<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106154>
Posted on July 9, 2019 10:28 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106154> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Matthew Collette:<https://twitter.com/MattCollette14/status/1148641311710482433>
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cannot wait for SCOTUS argument about whether the President can block his critics on Twitter.

(what an utter waste of DOJ resources.) https://twitter.com/DeItaOne/status/1148633835816529920 …<https://t.co/z1z5DNJ5Rc>
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U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT "EXPLORING POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS" AND "DISAPPOINTED" IN APPEALS COURT DECISION PREVENTING TRUMP FROM BARRING CRITICS FROM HIS TWITTER FEED -- SPOKESWOMAN<https://twitter.com/DeItaOne/status/1148633835816529920>

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They need to block people from Twitter so they can enforce the Voting Rights Act.
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Pa. Governor Will Use Bonds to Pay for Voting Machine Upgrades to Insure Machines with Paper Trail, After Republicans in Legislature Tried to Tie Upgrade Money to End of Straight Ticket Voting<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106152>
Posted on July 9, 2019 10:14 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106152> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Release.<https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/pennsylvania-will-use-bonding-authority-to-fund-county-voting-security-upgrades/>
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

“Call Time is a Time Suck for Congress”—Post and New Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Blog<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106150>
Posted on July 9, 2019 9:02 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106150> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Looking forward to more blog posts <https://www.cskllc.net/blog/july-8-2019> at her new site.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

Watch the Archived Video: UCI Law 9th Annual SCOTUS Review, with Adler, Chemerinsky, Geidner, Goodwin, and Harrington<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106147>
Posted on July 9, 2019 7:41 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106147> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can watch here<https://livestream.com/accounts/867536/events/8721251>. It was a dynamite discussion.
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“Be Careful What You Wish For: Private Political Parties, Public Primaries, and State Constitutional Restrictions<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106145>
Posted on July 9, 2019 7:39 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106145> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Hugh Spitzer has written this article<https://www.law.uw.edu/wlr/print-edition/print-edition/vol-94/2/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-private-political-parties-public-primaries-and-state-constitutional-restrictions> for the Washington Law Review. Here is the abstract:

Political parties always disliked the Progressive Era changes that pulled the entire electorate into nominating candidates. Why, after all, should non-party members participate in the affairs and choices of private organizations? Over the course of a century, Democrats, Republicans, and minor parties repeatedly mounted lawsuits to attack new primary laws, and they eventually prevailed on a key constitutional issue: the First Amendment right of association. But when political actors access the courts for strategic purposes, they can get caught in the vagaries of history and public attitudes, with outcomes they might not like. This Essay focuses on the history of Washington State’s “direct primary” and “blanket primary” systems, the repeated lawsuits challenging them, and the freedom of association doctrine that propelled the blanket primary’s 2004 demise. It then recounts the blowback from Washington voters, who enacted a “top two” primary system that sidelined the political parties by sending the two highest vote-getters to the general election regardless of political affiliation. It asserts that remaining aspects of Washington’s election system might violate the State’s own constitution, and that things could get worse than ever for the parties, perhaps disrupting precinct officer elections and even the state’s presidential primary. How did the political parties wind up at odds with their own voters, with an outcome opposite to what they intended? This Essay suggests that the answer lies in a web of conflicts: between litigation and political strategies; between the federal and state constitutions; and between the First Amendment’s protections of freedom of association, the late nineteenth century populist constitutional ban on public assistance to private entities, and the early twentieth century progressive goal of forcing private political parties to open their processes to the voting public. It concludes that long-term litigation strategies to address political issues can fail to achieve their objectives when those lawsuits overlook historical policy choices and ignore popular sentiments entrenched in the national and state constitutions.
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Posted in political parties<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>

Second Circuit Unanimously Affirms Decision Granting Declaratory Judgment Holding President Trump Violates the 1st Amendment by Blocking Followers on Twitter<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106143>
Posted on July 9, 2019 7:37 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106143> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here’s the opinion<https://knightcolumbia.org/sites/default/files/content/Cases/Twitter/2019.07.09_Opinion.pdf>.
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Here's a bit on the Trump Twitter case, and the trial court's use of a declaratory judgment rather than an injunction, from the Laycock & Hasen remedies casebook (5th ed.)
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“California May Mandate Tax Returns for Presidential Candidates”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106141>
Posted on July 9, 2019 7:10 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106141> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg Tax reports.<https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-state/california-may-mandate-tax-returns-for-presidential-candidates>
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