{"id":12572,"date":"2018-04-06T14:53:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/friday-grab-bag\/"},"modified":"2018-04-06T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:53:31","slug":"friday-grab-bag","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/friday-grab-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Grab Bag"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12572","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[149,169,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is on the Trump administration\u2019s endangered species list this morning amid more revelations about his ethical lapses and turmoil in the agency.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pruitt\u2019s latest problem is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/05\/business\/epa-officials-questioned-scott-pruitt.html?emc=edit_nn_20180406&amp;nl=morning-briefing&amp;nlid=7858423020180406&amp;te=1&amp;mtrref=undefined&amp;gwh=75448E09333666527BCA42561C96A030&amp;gwt=pay\">Le New York Times<\/a>\u00a0report that at least five senior officials at the EPA were demoted or given administrative punishments after they raised questions about his management and travel expenses.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Trump put in a good word for Pruitt, who is popular with the president\u2019s political base, as reporters quizzed him Thursday during a flight on Air Force One. But White House officials refuse to comment on the EPA administrator\u2019s future and Pruitt continues to draw flak for working out a sweetheart lease \u2013 $50 per night \u2013 on the Washington condominium he called his D.C. home for several months last year. His landlord there was the wife of an energy lobbyist and contributor to Pruitt in the EPA boss\u2019s former capacity as Oklahoma\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out this Pruitt poster, photographed outside another Capitol Hill residence this morning.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pruitt-poster-4-06-300x279.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>AZ Says No to Disclosure\r\n<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Republican legislators in Arizona are giving a middle-finger salute to residents of Tempe, the home of Arizona State University and a progressive enclave in the usually red state.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The online magazine\u00a0<b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/04\/05\/arizona-republicans-fight-to-protect-dark-money-donors-from-voters\/\">Salon reports<\/a><\/strong><\/b>\u00a0that after a ballot initiative to require the public disclosure of any group spending more than $1,000 on a local election won the support of 91 percent of Tempe voters, the GOP-led legislature promptly passed a bill blocking enforcement of the requirement.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. Doug Ducey, whose election in 2014 was fueled in part by millions of dollars spent on his behalf by groups that hide their donors, is expected to sign the legislation.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salon notes that the Arizona bill is part of an unfortunate pattern in which conservative state legislators are acting to overrule the decisions of local elected officials in more progressive urban and suburban areas. In Arizona\u2019s case, state legislators apparently believe it\u2019s just fine to hide the identities of people who\u2019re trying to influence votes and curry favor from elected officials.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>FL Judge takes on Gov. Scott<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Declaring \u201cthis court does not play games,\u201d a federal judge in Florida has ordered Gov. Rick Scott and his Cabinet to overhaul the state\u2019s process for restoring voting rights to people who\u2019ve completed their prison terms.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Rather than comply with the requirements of the United States Constitution, defendants continue to insist they can do whatever they want with hundreds of thousands of Floridians\u2019 voting rights and absolutely zero standards,\" U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker wrote in\u00a0<b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/f\/?id=00000162-950e-d788-af66-bdffed580000\">an opinion released on Wednesday<\/a><\/strong><\/b>. \"They ask this Court to stay its prior orders.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"No.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Florida is among the nation\u2019s toughest states when it comes to restoring the rights of those who\u2019ve completed their prison terms. An estimated 1.5 million Floridians are disenfranchised because of past felony convictions. Ex-offenders who want to vote must wait for up to seven years after being released to apply for restoration of their rights. Applications go to a board that includes the governor and his Cabinet and handles only about 100 requests per year.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The board currently has a backlog of 10,000 applications,\u00a0<b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/Blogs\/archives\/2018\/04\/05\/federal-judge-claps-back-hard-after-florida-challenges-ruling-on-felons-voting-rights\">Orlando Weekly<\/a><\/strong><\/b>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judge Walker has given the governor until April 26 to come up with a better system; Scott has appealed to the 11<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup>\u00a0Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>A Victory for Common Sense<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nebraska\u2019s legislature is showing off some midwestern common sense, killing \u2013 for the eighth year in a row \u2013 a state constitutional amendment that would require state voters to provide a photo ID before casting their ballots.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/news\/for-eighth-year-voter-id-amendment-defeated-in-legislature\/article_c37ed2e7-9242-58d4-9fbd-648eab411cec.html\">Omaha World-Herald<\/a>\u00a0reports this morning that supporters of the proposed amendment failed Thursday to marshal the votes needed to end debate and move the amendment forward.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least 18 states already require or ask voters to produce a photo ID to vote. The laws have become increasingly popular as President Trump and other Republican leaders have argued that they\u2019re needed to protect against voter fraud.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But a series of studies, ordered by Republicans and Democrats alike, have concluded that the kind of voter impersonation that IDs would detect is essentially nonexistent in U.S. elections. Voting rights activists contend that the ID requirements are a not-so-subtle way to depress voter participation among young voters, minorities, the elderly, and disabled \u2013 groups that are less likely to have the required identification and which tend to prefer Democratic candidates.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid considerable fanfare, Trump last year created a commission to take yet another look at the phantom problem. The panel was disbanded in January after state election officials rebelled against its request that they tap registration records to supply a variety of personal information about registered voters.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Friday Grab Bag - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/friday-grab-bag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday Grab Bag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/friday-grab-bag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/friday-grab-bag\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/friday-grab-bag\/\",\"name\":\"Friday Grab Bag - 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