Updates | The Week of January 15, 2018
The White House announced that it would disband the Election “Integrity” Commission led by Vice President Pence and Kris Kobach (ACLU, Politico).
- A Democratic member of the Commission said the White House had preordained results in mind for the Commission’s conclusions on voter fraud (WaPo).
- The White House says Commission data will be destroyed (WaPo, Politico).
- Read the court filing making this announcement here.
- Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, a member of the Commission, calls for its documents to be released to the public (Who.What.Why.).
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s election security unit said it has no immediate plans to probe allegations of electoral fraud, despite President Trump’s announcement that he was giving the issue to the agency (Reuters).
The Supreme Court has a chance to redeem itself on voting rights next week when it hears a case about whether states can purge people from the voter rolls for not voting, writes Karen Hobert Flynn of Common Cause in The Washington Post.
The Solicitor General changes course from prior administrations and supports Ohio’s argument that voters should be removed from voter rolls for not voting (SCOTUSblog).
- Read the oral argument transcript here.