Monthly Archives: June 2015

Linda Greenhouse on #SCOTUS Term, and Evenwel in the Next

June 11, 2015, 7:39 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT: Last month, the court accepted another case without a split among the lower courts. Evenwel v. Abbott challenges the inclusion of noncitizens among those who are to be counted for the purpose of redistricting. The case reflects a cynical… Continue reading

“Elections supervisors call out Secretary of State Ken Detzner”

June 11, 2015, 7:33 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Woah: Pasco elections supervisor Brian Corley, the association’s new president, noted that Detzner in private meetings said he was enthusiastic about voter registration but would have to check with Gov. Rick Scott, but then later told reporters he never… Continue reading

“Weak Internet Security Leaves U.S. Elections Agency Vulnerable to Hackers, Reports Find”

June 11, 2015, 7:31 amfederal election commissionRick Hasen

WSJ on FEC.

“‘Desperate’ at the FEC Part II: The Risks of Unintended Consequences”

June 11, 2015, 7:28 amcampaign finance, federal election commissionRick Hasen

Ravel-Weintraub petition may backfire. Bauer makes the case.

“Arizona Republicans Planning Redistricting Push After SCOTUS Decision”

June 11, 2015, 7:24 amElections Clause, redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Reid Wilson for the Morning Consult: The U.S. Supreme Court is nearing a decision over the constitutionality of independent commissions created to draw district lines, but lawmakers in Arizona aren’t waiting for the outcome to start radically redrawing the state’s… Continue reading

“Campaign Preview? Clinton and Christie Spar Over Early Voting in New Jersey”

June 11, 2015, 7:23 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Yael Bromberg blogs.

“It’s PAC Season: Time to Put Up a Firewall, Attorneys Say”

June 10, 2015, 4:11 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Campaigns & Elections.

“Top aide to Fla. ex-congressman will plead guilty to breaking election law”

June 10, 2015, 2:18 pmcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Miami Herald: “A former campaign manager for onetime Democratic Congressman Joe Garcia plans to plead guilty Thursday in Miami federal court to financing a tea party candidate in a scheme to siphon votes from his Republican nemesis.”

Former Rep. Henry Waxman Already a Lobbyist? For T-Mobile?

June 10, 2015, 2:06 pmlobbyingRick Hasen

Whodathunkit?

Claims of Hasidim Against Village of Bloomingburg Partially Survive Motion to Dismiss

June 10, 2015, 12:40 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Here is the federal court order. More from JTA. I’ve been following this set of cases because of allegations of voter fraud as well as voting discrimination as a group of Hasidim try to take over a small municipality in… Continue reading

“Challenges Implementing Federal Automatic Voter Registration”

June 10, 2015, 11:57 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Derek the Muller raises good points, but all of them could be dealt with in the unlikely event we got down to the details of such a plan.

“One Governor’s Audacious, Unprecedented Effort To Use Personal Wealth To Re-Create The Legislature”

June 10, 2015, 11:46 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Sacha Feinman for Think Progress on Illinois’s Governor Rauner.

“Active Avoidance: The Modern Supreme Court and Legal Change”

June 10, 2015, 11:36 amstatutory interpretation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

New article by Neal Katyal and Thomas Schmidt in the Harvard Law Review, with a response by Caleb Nelson. Here is how Katyal and Schmidt situate their work in relation to other recent work on the avoidance canon, including my… Continue reading

“New Voting Rights Litigation Summary from CLC Shows Growing Voter Dilution and Suppression Efforts Since Supreme Court’s Shelby County Decision”

June 10, 2015, 11:27 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: Over the past few years, efforts to dilute and suppress minority voting rights or to restrict the vote for partisan gain have spiked dramatically. Racially-discriminatory voting laws have been passed in states and municipalities across the country, particularly… Continue reading