Thanks to Justin for filling in the last few days. So. Much. News. … Continue reading
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A Ninth Circuit panel today unanimously reversed a lower court decision barring California’s collection of IRS Form 990 Schedule B, which lists the top contributors to 501c3 organizations. This was an as-applied claim by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation and … Continue reading
And Shana Tovah. It’s Justin: I’ll be at the helm of the blog for a day or two. Please send your news (and your hate mail) my way for the next 48 hours. … Continue reading
NYT: In a further sign of the sprawling nature of the Justice Department’s effort to collect voting records in North Carolina, prosecutors demanded eight years of information from the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles, according to a copy of the subpoena obtained … Continue reading
Bloomberg: Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether anyone in the Trump Organization violated campaign-finance laws, in a follow-up to their conviction last month of Michael Cohen, according to a person familiar with the matter. The inquiry, not previously reported, … Continue reading
Release: Inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census is likely to increase the costs and compromise census accuracy, according to a report released today by Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross Jr.’s … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
Klobuchar asking Kavanaugh now about voting rights and the myth of widespread voter fraud. Kavanaugh says he reads @rickhasen’s blog, where “there is discussion of this issue.” Won’t comment further on the existence of voter fraud. — Kira Lerner (@kira_lerner) … Continue reading
This is huge. The US Attorney for EDNC postpones #ncpol election subpoena compliance until January 2019. @rickhasen @HHHElections @AriBerman @vbauerlein https://t.co/5I2phVnBHR — Gerry Cohen (@gercohen) September 6, 2018 This is the right call, and shows some good faith on … Continue reading
[Bumping to the top] Looking forward to doing this: Gerrymandering and the New Supreme Court: Where Do We Go From Here? Date: Thursday, September 6, 2018 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET Format: Webinar DESCRIPTION: The webinar will discuss … Continue reading
Between Regulation and Legislation Call for Papers for Special Issue of The Theory and Practice of Legislation Guest Editors: Nir Kosti, David Levi-Faur, Guy Mor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem We live in an age in which different … Continue reading
AP: A grand jury must be convened to investigate whether Republican gubernatorial candidate and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach intentionally failed to register voters in 2016, the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled. The court’s one-page opinion was released Friday … Continue reading
BuzzFeed: The state of Georgia has blocked all foreign internet traffic to its online voter registration site, BuzzFeed News has learned, a move that would do little to deter hackers but blocks absentee voters. The site, registertovote.sos.ga.gov, is accessible only to … Continue reading
News and Observer: A three-judge panel has expanded Gov. Roy Cooper’s authority to make certain appointments, the latest step in a separation-of-powers struggle that began when then-Gov. Pat McCrory sued the General Assembly in 2016. Cooper sued in May 2017 … Continue reading
KC Star: Nearly eight months after President Donald Trump disbanded his election integrity commission because it was tangled up in lawsuits over its request for voters’ personal data, the information has been destroyed and the cases have been dismissed. Trump’s administration notified … Continue reading
You can find the opinion here. Usually review of three-judge courts goes right to the Supreme Court. This case fits into a rare exception. … Continue reading
The latest from NC. … Continue reading
Mark Joseph Stern for Slate. … Continue reading
four: it really is historically significant that two large southern states have viable, competitive black nominees for governor that seek to represent and enhance the voting influence of black people in their respective states — b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 29, … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
Bruce Cain and I are very happy with the two panels we’ve put together for this year’s annual meeting on behalf of the Law and Political Process Study Group: California Election Reform: Has It Improved Representation and Participation? Fri, August … Continue reading
Unreal: President Trump warned evangelical leaders Monday night that Democrats “will overturn everything that we’ve done and they’ll do it quickly and violently” if Republicans lose control of Congress in the midterm elections. Speaking to the group in the State … Continue reading
Joan Biskupic for CNN. … Continue reading
Might it be connected to the partisan gerrymandering order from yesterday? Maybe now North Carolina Republican leaders want to get these cases resolved and ballots printed to forestall a court ordered redistricting to solve the partisan gerrymandering problem https://t.co/m7d7F1rhjG — … Continue reading
Charlotte Observer Editorial Board. … Continue reading
Celeste Katz for Glamour. … Continue reading
In case any of you getting ready for teaching missed the Foundation Press notice that was distributed to all election-law academics a while back, the 2018 Supplement can be found here for our casebook, The Law of Democracy (Issacharoff, Karlan, … Continue reading
John McCain was an American hero who served his country with dignity and honor. While I often did not agree with his position on issues and many of his political views, he was a straight shooter and patriot who did … Continue reading
Politico: Sen. John McCain held his seat in the Senate for nearly 32 years. After McCain’s death Saturday, it will fall to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to name his successor. State law gives Ducey, a Republican, the power to fill … Continue reading
John Myers for the LAT: Two indisputable truths await the Southern California constituents of Rep. Duncan Hunter on election day in November: The indicted Republican lawmaker will remain on the ballot, and there won’t be any way for voters to … Continue reading
Aside from the potential of getting us into a war, this is the greatest danger of the Trump presidency: the attack on the rule of law. … Continue reading
Real stand up guy. … Continue reading
CNN: In a meeting that lasted less than 60 seconds, a Georgia board of elections voted down a plan Friday to close seven of a majority-black county’s nine polling places ahead of November’s midterm elections. Critics had said the plan … Continue reading
NYT: The Manhattan district attorney’s office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior company officials in connection with Michael D. Cohen’s hush money payment to an adult film actress, according to two officials with knowledge … Continue reading
Yahoo: A bill that would have significantly bolstered the nation’s defenses against electoral interference has been held up in the Senate at the behest of the White House, which opposed the proposed legislation, according to congressional sources.The Secure Elections Act, introduced by Sen. … Continue reading
AP: The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement … Continue reading
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes. … Continue reading
WaPo: Whoops. What the Democratic National Committee this week thought was an attempted hack of its valuable voter file turned out to be a security test organized by a state party, unbeknownst to the national organization. The committee on Tuesday … Continue reading
I‘ve been talking to a lot of reporters today about whether AMI/National Enquirer and its leaders could be liable for campaign finance violations, given their role in paying money to keep Trump mistresses quiet. I explained that the issue is … Continue reading
AP: The plea deal reached by Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen has laid bare a relationship between the president and the publisher of the National Enquirer that goes well beyond the tabloid’s screaming headlines. Besides detailing the tabloid’s involvement … Continue reading
Adam Liptak for the NYT. … Continue reading
Important WSJ account. … Continue reading
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs. … Continue reading
Let's remember that campaign finance violations are only crimes if the violator knows they are unlawful. With that mind, I thought it would be interesting to see if #individual1 had heard about the John Edwards trial… https://t.co/hIvXBjZlK9 — Brian Galle … Continue reading
J.H. Snider has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The State Con-Con Papers is a collection of J.H. Snider’s essays on the history, democratic function, and politics of the periodic state constitutional convention referendum, which is mandated … Continue reading
Adam Liptak and Jim Rutenberg for the NYT: Although there is no explicit prohibition in the Constitution against indicting a president, the Justice Department has long taken the position that sitting presidents are not subject to criminal prosecution. That would … Continue reading