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

Wed Jul 10 09:53:05 PDT 2019

Concerning the 4th Circuit shutting down the Emoluments Clause litigation,
I noticed that in an amazing coincidence all three of the judges were
appointed by Republicans:  George H. W. Bush, George Bush, and Donald
Trump.

John Shockley
Political Science, Retired
Augsburg College
Minneapolis, MN

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:01 AM Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

> “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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> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
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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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> Posted in conflict of interest laws <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>
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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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> <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports>
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> <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports>
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> *Adam Klasfeld <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports>*
>
> *✔@KlasfeldReports <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports>*
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>  · 17h <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1148703390572142593>
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> <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1148703390572142593>
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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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> <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports>
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> <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports>
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> *Adam Klasfeld <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports>*
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> *✔@KlasfeldReports <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports>*
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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.
>
> <https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1148704975389888514>
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> 2,236 <https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1148704975389888514>
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> 2:26 PM - Jul 9, 2019
> <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1148704975389888514>
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> Twitter Ads info and privacy
> <https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175256>
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> <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1148704975389888514>
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> 933 people are talking about this
> <https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1148704975389888514>
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> Posted in census litigation <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=125>
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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>
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> 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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> [image:
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> <https://twitter.com/LeahLitman>
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> <https://twitter.com/LeahLitman>
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> *Leah Litman <https://twitter.com/LeahLitman>*
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> *✔@LeahLitman <https://twitter.com/LeahLitman>*
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>  · 21h <https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/status/1148638068867420160>
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> <https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/status/1148638068867420160>
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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/statu
> s/1148633835816529920 … <https://t.co/z1z5DNJ5Rc>
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> <https://twitter.com/DeItaOne/status/1148633835816529920>
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> **Walter Bloomberg at DeItaOne
> <https://twitter.com/DeItaOne/status/1148633835816529920>*
>
> 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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> <https://twitter.com/MattCollette14>
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> <https://twitter.com/MattCollette14>
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> *Matthew Collette at MattCollette14 <https://twitter.com/MattCollette14>*
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> They need to block people from Twitter so they can enforce the Voting
> Rights Act.
>
> <https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1148641311710482433>
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> 100 <https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1148641311710482433>
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> 10:13 AM - Jul 9, 2019
> <https://twitter.com/MattCollette14/status/1148641311710482433>
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> Twitter Ads info and privacy
> <https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175256>
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> <https://twitter.com/MattCollette14/status/1148641311710482433>
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> 20 people are talking about this
> <https://twitter.com/MattCollette14/status/1148641311710482433>
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>
> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
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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>
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>
> “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>
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>
> 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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> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
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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>
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> 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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> *Rick Hasen <https://twitter.com/rickhasen>*
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> *✔@rickhasen <https://twitter.com/rickhasen>*
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>  · Jul 9, 2019 <https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1148602091801387011>
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> <https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1148602091801387011>
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> #ELB <https://twitter.com/hashtag/ELB?src=hash>: 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  <https://t.co/dJ4x8jPR2K>
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> *Rick Hasen <https://twitter.com/rickhasen>*
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> *✔@rickhasen <https://twitter.com/rickhasen>*
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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.)
>
> <https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1148603950184259586>
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> 12 <https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1148603950184259586>
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> 7:44 AM - Jul 9, 2019
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> See Rick Hasen's other Tweets <https://twitter.com/rickhasen>
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> Posted in Remedies <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=57>
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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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> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
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