[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/23/19

Tue Oct 22 22:53:14 PDT 2019

“An overlooked consequence of the Supreme Court’s gerrymandering rulings: Stricter abortion laws”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107771>
Posted on October 22, 2019 10:32 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107771> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Interesting WaPo report.<https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/22/an-overlooked-consequence-supreme-courts-gerrymandering-rulings-stricter-abortion-laws/>
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Posted in redistricting<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

Shah Zuberi, Los Angeles Financier Who Donated $900K to Trump Inaugural, Pleads Guilty to “making almost $1 million in illegal campaign contributions that included funneling money from foreign entities and individuals to influence U.S. elections.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107769>
Posted on October 22, 2019 1:55 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107769> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Daily Beast:<https://www.thedailybeast.com/imaad-zuberi-who-donated-dollar900000-to-trumps-inaugural-committee-indicted-by-feds?via=twitter_page>

A Los Angeles financier who donated $900,000 to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has admitted to falsifying records to hide his work as a foreign agent while he lobbied prominent U.S. government officials, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Shah Zuberi, 49, also known as “Imaad Zuberi,” has agreed to plead guilty to three counts in a criminal information for allegedly making almost $1 million in illegal campaign contributions, engaging in various lobbying efforts, and evading taxes, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California.

DOJ release<https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/campaign-fundraiser-agrees-plead-guilty-falsifying-records-conceal-work-foreign-agent>:

 In addition to violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Zuberi is charged in a criminal information with tax evasion and making almost $1 million in illegal campaign contributions that included funneling money from foreign entities and individuals to influence U.S. elections….

  In relation to the campaign finance charge, Zuberi agreed to plead guilty to a charge of violating the Federal Election Campaign Act in 2015 by making conduit contributions in the names of other people, reimbursing contributions made by others, and being reimbursed for contributions he made. In his plea agreement, Zuberi admits that over a five-year period – 2012 through 2016 – he made or solicited more than $250,000 in illegal campaign contributions.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

NC: “Latest redistricting process led to much fairer maps, analysis shows”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107767>
Posted on October 22, 2019 1:03 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107767> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WRAL:<https://www.wral.com/latest-redistricting-process-led-to-much-fairer-maps-analysis-shows/18703971/>

The General Assembly’s mad scramble last month to redraw nearly half of the state’s House and Senate districts under a tight court deadline appears to have produced something new for North Carolina – fair maps.
That’s according to a new analysis by WRAL News, which used a technique developed by Duke University mathematicians<https://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/video/17346839/> to compare the performance of the newly proposed districts to thousands of computer-generated potential maps. The new maps still show more Republicans elected statewide. But the proposed districts would likely mean more Democratic wins than previous maps, which a three-court panel of judges ruled unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders just last month<https://www.wral.com/judges-order-another-redraw-of-nc-voting-maps-say-legislative-districts-too-partisan/18609222/>.
Yet Democrats still aren’t completely happy with the latest round of mapmaking, which they say carried forward inherent bias from previous iterations and didn’t go far enough to improve the redistricting process.
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Posted in redistricting<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

Lawsuit to Watch Over North Carolina Congressional Districts Remanded Back to State Court for Partisan Gerrymandering Claim<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107765>
Posted on October 22, 2019 11:57 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107765> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This case could have implications for 2020, and is now back on track<https://twitter.com/Dan_F_Jacobson/status/1186708621796823040>:
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Great news from our NC gerrymandering case -- the federal court just sent the case back to state court after the NC Republican leaders frivolously tried to move the case to federal court (despite having just got SCOTUS to hold that federal courts can't hear these claims!).
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FEC Commissioner Hunter Pens Oped Attacking Fellow Commissioner Weintraub, Calls for Both of Them to Be Replaced<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107763>
Posted on October 22, 2019 6:37 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107763> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico oped.<https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/22/fec-ellen-weintraub-campaign-finance-law-229872>
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Posted in federal election commission<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

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