[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/3/19

[Rick Hasen]

Same Three-Judge State Court in North Carolina That Found State Legislative Districts to Be Partisan Gerrymanders Assigned to Handle Case Over North Carolina Congressional Districts<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107566>
Posted on October 3, 2019 8:49 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107566> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Big development<https://twitter.com/mel_bough/status/1179489946408759296>:
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Melissa Boughton<https://twitter.com/mel_bough>
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JUST IN: The same three-judge panel that presided over Common Cause v. Lewis (partisan gerrymandering case over 2017 #ncga<https://twitter.com/hashtag/ncga?src=hash> maps) has been appointed to hear the g/m case over the congressional maps #ncpol<https://twitter.com/hashtag/ncpol?src=hash>
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Stephen Wolf:<https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1179495277234798592>
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Great news for the odds North Carolina's GOP congressional gerrymander will get thrown out. @rickhasen<https://twitter.com/rickhasen> recently told me it's possible they could grant summary judgment striking it down without a trial given the GOP's literal admission they did it (their defense in federal court) https://twitter.com/mel_bough/status/1179489946408759296 …<https://t.co/CBlBs6rYtr>
Melissa Boughton<https://twitter.com/mel_bough/status/1179489946408759296>
✔@mel_bough<https://twitter.com/mel_bough/status/1179489946408759296>

JUST IN: The same three-judge panel that presided over Common Cause v. Lewis (partisan gerrymandering case over 2017 #ncga maps) has been appointed to hear the g/m case over the congressional maps #ncpol<https://twitter.com/mel_bough/status/1179489946408759296>

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Posted in redistricting<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>


“Elizabeth Warren Proposes a Big New Tax on Lobbyists. But Is It Legal?”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107564>
Posted on October 3, 2019 8:46 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107564> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Time reports.<https://time.com/5690947/elizabeth-warren-tax-lobbyists-legal/>
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Posted in lobbying<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>


“Trump Publicly Urges China to Investigate the Bidens”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107562>
Posted on October 3, 2019 8:41 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107562> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Quiet part out loud <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/trump-china-bidens.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage> department:

President Trump on Thursday publicly called on China to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in an extraordinary presidential request to a foreign country for help that could benefit him in the 2020 election.

“China should start an investigation into the Bidens,” Mr. Trump said Thursday as he left the White House to travel to Florida where he was expected to announce an executive order<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/medicare-executive-order.html?module=inline> on Medicare.
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Posted in chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>


“Odd markings, ellipses fuel doubts about the rough transcript of Trump’s Ukraine call”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107560>
Posted on October 3, 2019 8:39 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107560> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/03/odd-markings-ellipses-fuel-doubts-about-rough-transcript-trumps-ukraine-call/>:

But the whistleblower complaint that spurred the investigation described an “official word-for-word transcript” of the call — words closely matching the ones used by Trump on Wednesday — creating uncertainty about what was included in the document the White House released last week and what may have been left out.

Current and former U.S. officials studying the document pointed to several elements that, they say, indicate that the document may have been handled in an unusual way.

Those include the use of ellipses — punctuation indicating that information has been deleted for clarity or other reasons — that traditionally have not appeared in summaries of presidential calls with foreign leaders, according to the current and former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the elaborate, non-public process.
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“Alabama governor appoints elections official with voter fraud history”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107558>
Posted on October 3, 2019 8:28 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107558> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports.<https://mynbc15.com/news/local/alabama-governor-appoints-elections-official-with-voter-fraud-history>
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Posted in chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>


“How to Get Away With Gerrymandering”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107556>
Posted on October 2, 2019 10:24 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107556> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

David Daley:<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/alec-meeting-gerrymandering-audio-recording.html>

Luxury cabanas atop Austin’s JW Marriott kept state legislators cool poolside as August-in-Texas temperatures soared above 103 degrees during each day of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2019 annual meeting. The gathered Republican officials could enjoy a $14 rooftop Peppered Paloma cocktail with Patrón silver, housemade grapefruit poblano soda, and Chilean salt, all while gazing over Lady Bird Lake and the nearby state Capitol, or catching a ballgame on the cabana’s 55-inch private TV.
Downstairs, meanwhile, five of the GOP’s most seasoned redistricting minds and über-lawyers would teach them the finer points of tilting maps and drawing districts that would allow them to retain such spoils for another decade.
Slate has obtained an exclusive audio recording of the closed-door panel called “How to Survive Redistricting,” moderated by influential Republican lawyer Cleta Mitchell. The panel’s four experts—Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation, North Carolina election lawyer Thomas Farr, former Georgia Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, and Texas state Rep. Phil King—are among the architects and defenders of some of the most notorious gerrymanders and voter suppression plans of this decade.
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Posted in redistricting<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>


“California isn’t doing enough to verify citizenship while registering voters, lawsuit says”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107553>
Posted on October 2, 2019 7:08 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107553> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SacBee:<https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article235686972.html>

A Republican attorney filed a lawsuit<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6443073-Motor-Voter-Lawsuit.html> on Tuesday demanding that two California agencies develop a better system to verify the citizenship of people who register to vote through the Department of Motor Vehicles.

In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento, Harmeet Dhillon<https://www.dhillonlaw.com/team-showcase/harmeet-k-dhillon/> alleges Secretary of State Alex Padilla is violating federal law by not verifying citizenship information from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles.

She wants the DMV to send Padilla more records related to citizenship to demonstrate that only eligible people are able to register.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


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