Monthly Archives: March 2019

“Biggest GOP field since 2012 to compete in North Carolina’s 9th district primary”

March 16, 2019, 11:53 amcampaignsRick Hasen

News & Observer: Like the election fraud controversy itself, the special election will attract national attention. Some analysts say it could be a preview of 2020 in what once again is expected to be a swing state, as well… Continue reading

“Ted Cruz campaign inaccurately reported loans from Goldman Sachs, Citibank loans, FEC says”

March 16, 2019, 11:51 amcampaign finance, federal election commissionRick Hasen

WaPo reports.

Stacey Abrams Now Troublingly Claims She Did Win Her Election (After Earlier Saying Kemp Was The Legal, Though Perhaps Not Legitimate, Winner)

March 16, 2019, 11:14 amchicaneryRick Hasen

This is troubling: https://twitter.com/adamkelsey/status/1106284755610488833 If Abrams actually has now said that she *did* win her election, this is different (and more troublesome) than what she has said in the past. (That Kemp was the legal winner, whether or not legitimate,… Continue reading

“Victory in Mississippi: Federal Appeals Court Rules State Must Redraw State Senate District Voting Lines”; Copy of 5th Circuit Order

March 16, 2019, 11:05 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Release from the Laywers’ Committee via email: Last night, a federal appeals court ordered Mississippi officials to redraw district lines for a state senate district in the Mississippi Delta, leaving undisturbed the finding by federal district judge Carlton Reeves that… Continue reading

North Carolina: “No voter ID approval for 12 UNC campuses, including Chapel Hill”

March 16, 2019, 10:56 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

WRAL: Student IDs from a dozen University of North Carolina schools, including UNC-Chapel Hill, didn’t get the signoff they needed Friday for students to use them at the polls during the 2020 elections.With a deadline in state law passing,… Continue reading

Oral Advocates Announced for Partisan Gerrymandering SCOTUS Arguments March 26

March 15, 2019, 2:50 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

From the hearing list:

Breaking: Supreme Court in Census Citizenship Case Adds Constitutional Question (Enumeration Clause) to the Ongoing Briefing in the Case

March 15, 2019, 12:25 pmcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Hansi Lo Wang: https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1106636579815260160 As to why the Court did this now, see my earlier post, DOJ Will Ask SCOTUS to Bypass 9th Circuit, and Hear Second Census Citizenship Question Case with NY Case at April 23 Oral Argument.

“Small-dollar donors could hold the balance in 2020”

March 15, 2019, 8:10 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Kate Ackley for Roll Call.

“Documents shed light on Russian hacking of Democratic Party leaders”

March 14, 2019, 8:21 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Documents unsealed Thursday in a lawsuit have shed new light on how hackers breached Democratic Party email accounts before the 2016 election.The documents include a forensic analysis by a former top official in the FBI’s cybercrime division, which… Continue reading

9th Circuit Panel Struggles with Constitutionality of Federal Ban on Foreign Contributions in State and Local Elections

March 14, 2019, 8:15 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen

Josh Gerstein for Politico: The federal government’s claim that it has the authority to ban foreigners from voting and donating in state and local elections prompted sharp questioning from a federal appeals court panel this week.Three 9th Circuit judges heard… Continue reading

“What if top vote-getter became president? Plan would bypass Electoral College”

March 14, 2019, 8:07 pmelectoral collegeRick Hasen

SF Chronicle: A national effort to bypass the Electoral College and pick the president by popular vote — which may or may not be constitutional — is picking up new support and moving closer to success.Governors in Colorado, New… Continue reading

“Election Law and White Identity Politics”

March 14, 2019, 7:36 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Joshua Sellers has posted this draft on SSRN (Fordham Law Review). Here is the abstract: The role of race in American politics looms large in several election law doctrines. Regretfully, though, these doctrines’ analyses of race, racial identity, and… Continue reading

“Bipartisan Support for Popular Political Reform Evaporates in Congress”

March 14, 2019, 7:33 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Kevin Johnson: Of course Democrats shouldn’t be criticized for their high profile embrace of reform, nor blamed for the fact that, as Rick Hasen states it, “fundamental changes” are needed “in the platform and electoral strategy of the Republican Party”… Continue reading

“Trump issues warning to opponents: ‘It would be very bad’ if his military, police and biker supporters got ‘tough’”

March 14, 2019, 10:13 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Daniel Dale for The Toronto Star: U.S. President Donald Trump has issued what seems to be a warning of armed pushback against his political opponents, telling a right-wing website on Monday that “it would be very bad, very bad” if… Continue reading

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