Monthly Archives: June 2019
“Oregon joins interstate pact to ignore Electoral College”
7th Circuit, In Brief, Unanimous Opinion, Rejects Challenge to Cook County, Illinois Ballot Access Requirements
Federal District Court in Census Citizenship Question Case Won’t Decide If DOJ Officials Lied About Purpose of Question—Until After the Supreme Court is Expected to Rule.
These developments make it much harder for plaintiffs to get any new factual findings before the Supreme Court rules in the census case.
16. Judge Furman says he sees "no reason to rush this process" before #SCOTUS reaches it decision… Continue reading
“Texas ditched its botched voter roll review but has signaled it hasn’t closed its criminal inquiry”
Alexa Ura for the Texas Tribune:
When former Secretary of State David Whitley launched a review of the Texas voter rolls for supposed noncitizens, his office marked almost 100,000 voters for two reviews — one by county officials to question… Continue reading
ACLU Files Sharp Letter in District Court (with Copy to Supreme Court) Responding in Census Citizenship Case
Letter:
The link will bring you to the rest of the letter.
Today’s Must Read: “Federal investigators to examine equipment from 2016 N.C. election amid renewed fears of Russian hacking”
Washington Post:
It was a single phrase, offered without elaboration, in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report: In August 2016, hackers working for Russian military intelligence “installed malware on the company network” of an unnamed voter registration technology vendor… Continue reading
“Russia’s manipulation of Twitter was far vaster than believed”
Politico:
Russia’s infamous troll farm conducted a campaign on Twitter before the 2016 elections that was larger, more coordinated and more effective than previously known, research from cybersecurity firm Symantec out Wednesday concluded.The Internet Research Agency campaign may not… Continue reading
“Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering”
Michael Kang has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Boston College Law Review). Here is the abstract:
We live in hyperpartisan times. Democrats and Republicans have not been so bitterly divided along partisan lines since Reconstruction, nor so aggressively hostile… Continue reading
“Russia Could Unleash Fake Videos During Election, Schiff Says”
“Robin Vos won’t have to testify in Wisconsin gerrymandering case for now, and may not have to at all”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos won’t have to sit for a deposition in Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case in the short term — and might escape having to testify entirely. A panel of appeals judges blocked a lower court order Tuesday… Continue reading
“A Double Blow to Disenfranchisement”
Daniel Nichanian for The Appeal:
Colorado and Nevada adopted new laws this week that will restore people’s voting rights as soon as they are released from incarceration, as opposed to doing so at later stages of the legal system (if… Continue reading
DOJ’s John Gore Said in His Deposition That One of the Purposes of Collecting Citizenship Data on the Census Forms is To Let States Draw Districts with Equal Numbers of Eligible Voters (Which Hurts Hispanics and Democratic Voters)
The other day I tweeted this:
This is a key point and shows that whether or not DOJ borrowed from Hoefeller, the motivation was to allow states to engage in redistricting based on voter eligible persons, which would dilute… Continue reading
“Emails show Texas governor requested the voter purge that used flawed data”
San Antonio Express News:
In an August 2018 email from John Crawford, a top official of the driver’s license division at the Texas Department of Public Safety, to an employee, Crawford said DPS had run data of licensed drivers to… Continue reading