[EL] More news and commentary 12/9/20

Wed Dec 9 14:34:56 PST 2020

Carter Phillips Bipartisan Heavy Hitters Brief in Texas Case before SCOTUS: “the Constitution does not make this Court the multidistrict litigation panel for trials of presidential election disputes”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119464>
Posted on December 9, 2020 2:32 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119464> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Great framing.<https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163237/20201209155924009_2020-12-9%20Texas%20Scotus%20Amici%20Brief-%20FINAL.pdf>
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It Appears That Trump’s Motion to Intervene in Bogus Texas Lawsuit to Overturn the Result of the Election Was Ghost-Written By Lawyer for Texas<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119462>
Posted on December 9, 2020 2:28 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119462> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Justices will not be amused<https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1336795297456869377>:
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“How the Supreme Court Can Swiftly Dispose of the Texas Lawsuit Seeking to Overturn the Election”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119460>
Posted on December 9, 2020 1:15 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119460> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ilya Somin<https://reason.com/volokh/2020/12/09/how-the-supreme-court-can-swiftly-dispose-of-the-texas-lawsuit-seeking-to-overturn-the-election/> at Volokh:

Yesterday, the state of Texas filed a lawsuit essentially asking the Supreme Court to reverse the outcome of the presidential election in four key swing states—Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, thereby potentially giving Donald Trump a second term he failed to win at the ballot box. The case has been roundly denounced by legal commentators as utterly lacking in merit. Prominent election law scholar Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119395> summarizes some of its defects and concludes that it may be the “the dumbest case I’ve ever seen filed on an emergency basis at the Supreme Court.” Co-blogger Jonathan Adler<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119395> points out a variety of procedural flaws in the case. David Post<https://reason.com/volokh/2020/12/09/more-on-statistical-stupidity-at-scotus/> highlights its reliance on bogus statistical “analysis.”

However, because this case is a lawsuit filed by one state against others, it falls within the Court’s “original jurisdiction”—the narrow set of cases that can be filed directly in the Supreme Court, without first being considered by lower courts. Therefore, the justices may not be able to reject it in the same way as they just refused to hear a GOP lawsuit<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/08/supreme-court-wont-hear-trump-allies-challenge-pennsylvania-vote/6483060002/> seeking to overturn the result in Pennsylvania.

At the same time, however, there is precedent for the Court dispensing with state vs. state original jurisdiction lawsuits without a full hearing or opinion. In 2016, that’s exactly what the Court did with a lawsuit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma seeking to force neighboring Colorado to rescind its legislation legalizing marijuana under state law<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/03/21/supreme-court-dismisses-nebraska-oklahoma-lawsuit-against-pot-legalization-in-colorado/>. The justices disposed of the Nebraska-Oklahoma lawsuit in a one-sentence order<https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/032116zor_h3ci.pdf>. Here it is in all its glory:

The motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied.

Nothing prevents the Supreme Court from doing the same thing with the Texas case (which some other red states might sign on to<https://www.newsweek.com/alabama-louisiana-ags-want-join-texas-election-lawsuit-against-battleground-states-1553392>)….

In a dissent<https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/032116zor_h3ci.pdf> joined by Justice Alito, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the Court lacks the authority to dispense with original jurisdiction cases in such a cursory fashion. I think he makes some good points, particularly that—unlike with virtually all other cases—courses within the exclusive original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court cannot be heard by lower federal courts, so SCOTUS is the only possible venue for them. But Thomas recognized that the Court’s disposition of the marijuana legalization case was backed by longstanding precedent, under which the justices often dismiss bogus original jurisdiction cases without full consideration on the merit…

Since the Court issued this 6-2 ruling in 2016, three new justices have been appointed by Trump, including Neil Gorsuch who filled the seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia a few weeks before the Oklahoma-Nebraska case was decided. If all three of the new justices support Thomas’ position, the Court might not be able to dispose of the Texas case quite as easily. But even in that event, it could still deal with it in a short per curiam opinion, and does not necessarily have to go through extensive briefing and oral argument. There is no statute or constitutional rule<https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/will-supreme-court-decide-some-cases-without-oral-arguments> requiring the latter.

In addition, I doubt that there will be a majority in favor of reversing longstanding precedent in this field. In an age of grandstanding state AGs, the Court might be inundated with numerous bogus state vs. state lawsuits if all had to be given full consideration, and thereby got the attendant “free” publicity.
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“Trump’s Challenges to Election Results Face End of the Legal Road”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119458>
Posted on December 9, 2020 11:07 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119458> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nicely done WSJ recap<https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-challenges-to-election-face-end-of-the-legal-road-11607518944?mod=politics_lead_pos6>.
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On a 4-3 Vote NOT on Party Lines, Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Latest Attempt to Litigate Over Presidential Election Results<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119456>
Posted on December 9, 2020 11:04 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119456> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Very interesting and scholarly dispute<https://courts.michigan.gov/Courts/MichiganSupremeCourt/Clerks/RecentCourtOrders/20-21%20Orders/162286%202020-12-09%20or.pdf> between the concurring opinion by Justice Clement and dissenting opinion by Justice Viviano over how to properly adjudicate election disputes in Michigan. Maybe the legislature will weigh in with rules before 2024.
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Another PA Case Bites the Dust, Leaving Only the Texas Case Challenging the State’s Results<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119453>
Posted on December 9, 2020 9:55 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119453> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest.<https://twitter.com/jeremyrroebuck/status/1336723628965113859?s=20>
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A Sidney Powell Sleight-of-Hand on Claims of Manipulation of Electronic Voting Systems? (Or What Happened to the Keshavarz-Nia Statement)<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119451>
Posted on December 9, 2020 9:23 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119451> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A reader passes along the following, which I have not had a chance to independently verify. Happy to hear any corrections or additions:

 Background:

As you know, President Trump’s former attorney Sidney Powell filed her so-called “Kraken” lawsuits in district courts in Georgia and Michigan on November 25. It is widely assumed that Powell included in both complaints a sworn statement by cyber-security expert Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia, who concluded that widespread manipulation of electronic voting systems caused hundreds of thousands of votes cast for Trump to be transferred to Biden.

And as you surely know, in the two weeks since Powell filed those lawsuits, the Keshavarz-Nia statement spread rapidly throughout social media, where it has generally been hailed as credible evidence that the election was compromised.

What the Public Doesn’t Know:

Contrary to widespread assumptions, the Keshavarz-Nia statement<https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.19.pdf> was not part of either of the the lawsuits heard by the courts. In the Georgia case<https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18694655/pearson-v-kemp/>, the statement was never filed with the court. And in the Michigan case<https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18693929/king-v-whitmer/>, the statement was initially filed but was removed four days later when the original complaint was replaced by an amended version from which any reference to Keshavarz-Nia had been omitted. Powell neglected to inform the court, press, or public that the Keshavarz-Nia statement was never filed in Georgia and was removed from the Michigan case. As of yet, these sleight-of-hand maneuvers have received no press attention (to my knowledge) and appear to have gone undetected by the public. Consequently, without ever facing the scrutiny of judges or opposing counsel, Powell scored a rather big victory in the court of public opinion by fooling many into believing that a cyber-security expert risked perjuring himself in testifying that the election was stolen from Trump.
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Should Justice Barrett Have Recused Herself in the Rep. Kelly Emergency Petition Seeking to Throw Out Pennsylvania’s Electoral College Votes? What About in the Pending Texas Case?<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119447>
Posted on December 9, 2020 8:21 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119447> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I raise this as a question, as I am not an expert in judicial ethics. But I did think (and argued<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=117015>) that Justice Barrett should recuse in any Trump-related election litigation.

Trump was not a party in the ridiculous Kelly litigatio<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119401>n, but he was the clear beneficiary of the attempt to disenfranchise PA’s voters. The same applies for the pending Texas case<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119443>.

Would be interested in hearing from judicial ethics experts as to what the Justice should do in these cases.

And, to be clear, her recusal will not matter for the outcome of either case.
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Must-Read Trip Gabriel: “Even in Defeat, Trump Tightens Grip on State G.O.P. Lawmakers”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119445>
Posted on December 9, 2020 8:16 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119445> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/us/politics/trump-pennsylvania-electoral-college.html>:<nyt:>

Last week, allies of President Trump accused Republican leaders in Pennsylvania of being “cowards” and “liars” and of letting America down.

Mr. Trump himself called top Republicans in the General Assembly in his crusade to twist the arms of officials in several states and reverse an election he lost. The Pennsylvania lawmakers told the president they had no power to convene a special session to address his grievances.

But they also rewarded his efforts: On Friday, the State House speaker and majority leader joined hard-right colleagues — whom they had earlier resisted — and called on Congress to reject Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 81,000-vote victory in Pennsylvania.

The extraordinary intervention by the president, and the willingness of some top party leaders to abet his effort to subvert an election, demonstrates how Mr. Trump’s sway over elected Republicans is likely to endure after he leaves office and how his false claims of a “rigged” 2020 vote may inflame the party base for years to come.

Courts across the country have summarily thrown out Mr. Trump’s claims of a stolen election. But 64 Republicans in the General Assembly signed a letter<http://www.pahousegop.com/Display/SiteFiles/1/2020/120420CongressElection2020B.pdf> last week urging Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to reject the state’s Electoral College votes for Mr. Biden.

Kim Ward, the Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, said the president had called her to declare there was fraud in the voting. But she said she had not been shown the letter to Congress, which was pulled together hastily, before its release.

Asked if she would have signed it, she indicated that the Republican base expected party leaders to back up Mr. Trump’s claims — or to face its wrath.

“If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’” she said about signing the letter, “I’d get my house bombed tonight.”

A major issue facing Republicans everywhere, including those in Pennsylvania — where open seats for governor and the U.S. Senate are on the ballot in 2022 — is whether the party will put forward Trump-aligned candidates in future races. The president lost Pennsylvania, but Republicans made down-ballot gains in two statewide races and picked up seats in the legislature.

“Those who are continuing to beat on this drum that the election was rigged are trying to appease Trump’s base and get their support early on,” said State Representative Ryan Bizzarro, a member of the Democratic leadership.
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Supreme Court Asks For Responses in Texas Bonkers Lawsuit By Tomorrow; Trump Tweets He Will Intervene. This Will All Amount to Nothing<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119443>
Posted on December 9, 2020 8:08 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119443> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here’s the docket.<https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22o155.html> [corrected link]

Trump tweeted<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1336668083822473221> that he’s intervened and sought to distanc<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1336666810742149120?s=20>e himself from the unanimous loss<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119401> at the Supreme Court yesterday by Rep. Kelly.

I explained here<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119395> and to the NY Time<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/us/politics/texas-files-an-audacious-suit-with-the-supreme-court-challenging-the-election-results.html>s why the Texas lawsuit will meet the same fate.
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“Christopher Krebs sues Trump campaign, lawyer Joe diGenova for defamation”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119441>
Posted on December 9, 2020 7:57 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119441> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/chris-krebs-sues-trump-campaign-digenova/2020/12/08/61a68a30-389a-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html>

The former top U.S. cybersecurity official responsible for securing November’s presidential election sued the Trump campaign and one of its lawyers for defamation Tuesday, asserting that they conspired to falsely claim the election was stolen, attack dissenting Republicans and fraudulently reap political donations.

Christopher Krebs, who was fired<https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-fires-dhs-election-official/2020/11/17/97d3fa5c-251c-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_3> Nov. 17 by President Trump after he refuted the president’s claims of widespread election fraud, singled out comments made almost two weeks later by attorney Joseph diGenova, who said Krebs should face the same punishment inflicted on those convicted of treason because he had asserted that the 2020 election was the most secure in history.

“He should be drawn and quartered,” diGenova said on the outlet Newsmax<https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/11/10/newsmax-fox-news-trump-tweets/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4>, a third defendant. “Taken out at dawn and shot.”

He also labeled Krebs an “idiot” and a “class-A moron” during the segment, which unleashed a flood of social media comments that left Krebs, his wife and several of their young children in fear for their lives, according to the lawsuit.

At one point, according to the lawsuit, the Krebs’s 10-year-old child asked: “Daddy’s going to get executed?”
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VoteBeat: “The coming fight over the future of voting”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119439>
Posted on December 9, 2020 7:49 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119439> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Votebeat:<https://mailchi.mp/45ead036038d/the-roundup-the-president-wants-to-scapegoat-black-and-latino-voters-for-his-loss-3590724?e=a9353a15c4>

The extraordinary 2020 election served as a grand experiment in voting and tested local governments in myriad ways. The next general elections likely won’t take place during a pandemic, but some expanded access to the vote could be here to stay.

In this special issue of our newsletter, Votebeat reporters take stock of efforts in state legislatures to make some of this year’s voting changes permanent and to fix the flaws that 2020 exposed. The prospects for these reforms vary from state to state, depending on who holds power in the statehouse. …

Subscribe to the newsletter here.<https://votebeat.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=bf22e174f97c26a6b228ee80e&id=58d9e450db>
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“Meet the man at the center of a shadowy multimillion-dollar ‘scam PAC’ network”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119437>
Posted on December 9, 2020 7:41 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119437> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roger Sollenberger<https://www.salon.com/2020/12/09/meet-the-man-at-the-center-of-a-shadowy-multimillion-dollar-scam-pac-network/> for Salon:

A super PAC<https://www.salon.com/2020/11/19/the-brief-confused-life-of-a-super-pac-scam-that-tried-to-pose-as-a-breast-cancer-charity/> that claims to advocate for wounded veterans raised millions of dollars this year<https://www.salon.com/2020/08/20/former-trump-strategist-steve-bannon-arrested-on-charges-of-defrauding-border-wall-donors/>, but spent only $18,000 of it on political activity. The rest of the money was spun off to administrative and marketing services, including to three companies belonging to one person — a former long-shot Democratic congressional candidate, self-published author, certified nutrition-label reader and serial hustler in East Tennessee named Alan Bohms.

The organization, called American Wounded Veterans PAC, bears hallmarks of what campaign finance watchdogs<https://www.salon.com/2020/10/30/watchdog-files-complaint-accusing-trumps-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-of-campaign-finance-crimes/> call a “scam PAC”<https://publicintegrity.org/politics/las-vegas-police-pacs-william-pollock/> — a for-profit fundraising vehicle that professes to advocate for a cause but makes no clear promise on how it will spend the money raised, and in reality intends to keep most of it, or pay it out to affiliated contractors.
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“State of Michigan preparing to intervene in Antrim County lawsuit alleging voter fraud”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119435>
Posted on December 9, 2020 7:39 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119435> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Detroit Free Press<https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/09/state-michigan-intervene-antrim-county-suit-alleging-vote-fraud/6504764002/>:

The state of Michigan is preparing to intervene in a lawsuit alleging fraud in Antrim County as the small GOP stronghold in northern Michigan is emerging as a last hope for allies of President Donald Trump seeking to cast doubts on the outcome of the Nov. 3 presidential election.

As chief election officer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is concerned about allegations in the lawsuit that the county’s election results were “somehow influenced by fraud or the purported rigging of the … tabulators,” Assistant Attorney General Heather Meingast said in a Tuesday email to an attorney pursuing the lawsuit. Benson “is considering intervening in this case as a party defendant.”

Well-publicized errors in the unofficial election results<https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/06/antrim-county-vote-glitch-software-update/6194745002/> Antrim County sent to the state of Michigan on election night made it appear that Democrat Joe Biden received more votes than Trump, when in fact Trump had won the county by nearly 4,000 votes.

The errors were corrected and Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy, a Republican, took responsibility, According to a court filing, Guy made an error Oct. 23 when she updated ballot information to include a Mancelona Township candidate who had been inadvertently omitted from the ballot.

Instead of updating the ballot information for all precincts, Guy only updated the ballot information in Mancelona Township. The resulting mismatch in the ballot information for various county precincts caused some results to be transposed when the unofficial results were posted, but the results for each precinct, preserved both in the form of paper ballots and print-outs from each tabulator, were accurate, the county said in a Dec. 1 court filing.
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“NV Supreme Court denies Trump campaign lawsuit seeking overturn of presidential election” (This happened, last night, within the safe harbor)<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119433>
Posted on December 9, 2020 7:36 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119433> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nevada Independent<https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/nv-supreme-court-denies-trump-campaign-lawsuit-seeking-overturn-of-presidential-election>:

The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled unanimously<https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20421618/supreme-court-order_trump-election-contest.pdf> to dismiss an appeal filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign seeking to overturn the state’s presidential election results.

Members of the court wrote in a 6-0 opinion published late Tuesday that the Trump campaign had failed to show any serious errors or flaws in Carson City District Court Judge James Russell’s order last week that would warrant a reversal. Russell’s order denied the campaign’s election contest lawsuit amid findings that the campaign had not backed up its claims of mass voter fraud throwing the state’s presidential election results into doubt.

The three page order states that the Trump campaign failed to identify any direct “unsupported factual findings” in Russell’s order that it wished to challenge under the appeal, and the court itself has “identified none.”

“To prevail on this appeal, appellants must demonstrate error of law, findings of fact not supported by substantial evidence, or an abuse of discretion in the admission or rejection of evidence by the district court,” members of the court wrote in their order. “We are not convinced they have done so.”
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“With case pending in state court, Wisconsin is only state to miss election safe-harbor deadline”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119431>
Posted on December 9, 2020 7:33 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119431> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel/AP:<https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/08/wisconsin-only-state-miss-election-safe-harbor-deadline/6496378002/?for-guid=b1fa6aa6-67c1-11ea-add6-0ea48be01751&utm_source=jsonline-Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_term=hero>

Wisconsin faces another effort seeking to overturn the Nov. 3 presidential election — this time in the U.S. Supreme Court — as the state becomes the only one in the nation to miss a federal deadline to finalize its election results.

But a unanimous decision by the nation’s highest court on Tuesday to reject a similar lawsuit over Pennsylvania’s election outcome<https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/08/supreme-court-wont-hear-trump-allies-challenge-pennsylvania-vote/6483060002/> signals to President Donald Trump and his allies that their efforts to invalidate Wisconsin votes likely won’t succeed.
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“Republican Sen. Pat Toomey calls Trump’s campaign to overturn Pennsylvania election ‘completely unacceptable’”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119429>
Posted on December 9, 2020 7:31 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119429> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Philly Inquirer reports.<https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pat-toomey-pennsylvania-election-results-trump-20201208.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20email%2012-9-20&utm_content=Morning%20email%2012-9-20+CID_ecda3f2ddc76f180351fef5414ac0ff2&utm_source=newsletter_edit&utm_term=what%20else%20he%20feels%20has%20gone%20wrong%20with%20trust%20in%20our%20electoral%20system%20Toomey%20unloads%20it%20all>
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