[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/21/11

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Wed Dec 21 04:45:19 PST 2011


Interesting story re Romney Super PAC and the coordination issue.
 
 
_Click  here: Former FEC head: Romney could tell PAC to stop ads | Campaign 
2012 |  Washington Examiner_ 
(http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/former-fec-head-romney-could-tell-pac-stop-ads/26825
1)  
 
I agree with Trevor on the narrowness of the anti-coordination requirement, 
 but I have always been perplexed by whether a candidate can ask an 
independent  group not to run an ad.  Trevor says ok.  Jim

 
 
In a message dated 12/21/2011 12:18:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rhasen at law.uci.edu writes:

 
_“Johnson Will Run for  Libertarian Nomination”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26873)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 9:15 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26873)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
Political Wire _reports_ 
(http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/12/20/johnson_will_run_for_libertarian_nomination.html) . 
 
 
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_“More Trouble for  Election Law”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26870)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 9:13 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26870)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
The Herald Tribune (Sarasota, Fla.) offers _this  editorial_ 
(http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20111220/OPINION/111219524/2198/OPINION?Title=More-tr
ouble-for-election-law) . 
 
 
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_Picture Worth 1,000  Words Dept._ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26865)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 9:05 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26865)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_WaPo_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/poll-paul-as-third-party-candidate-could-doom-gop-in-2012/2011/12/13/gIQAvviF6O_blog
.html) : 
 (http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Paulspoilerchart2.png)  
 
 
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_“Arizona Redistricting  Nears Endgame”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26862)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 9:03 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26862)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
Roll Call _reports_ 
(http://www.rollcall.com/news/arizona_redistricting_nears_endgame_new_map-211212-1.html) . 
 
 
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_redistricting_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6)   | Comments Off 

 
_“GOP Voter Suppression  Plan: Seven Tactics To Block Your Vote in 2012″_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26859)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 9:00 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26859)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
Steven Rosenfeld _has  written_ 
(http://www.alternet.org/rights/153509/gop_voter_suppression_plan:_seven_tactics_to_block_your_vote_in_2012?page=entire)
  this piece for AlterNet. 
 
 
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Posted in _election  administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) , 
_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60)   | Comments Off 

 
_“Wis Dems File  Rebuttal To GOP Lawsuit Against Recall Procedures”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26856)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 4:55 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26856)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
TPM _reports_ 
(http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/wis-dems-file-rebuttal-to-gop-lawsuit-against-recall-procedures.php?ref=fpnewsfeed) . 
 
 
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_“Gingrich Heads to  Virginia for Ballot Push”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26853)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 4:41 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26853)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_The  Caucus_ 
(http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/gingrich-heads-to-virginia-for-ballot-push/?partner=rss&emc=rss) : “The Virginia 
presidential primary is not until March 6, but _Newt  Gingrich_ 
(http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/candidates/newt-gingrich?inline=nyt-per)  is 
suddenly veering off the campaign trail and heading there  Wednesday with urgent 
business: get on the ballot. The deadline is  Thursday.” 
 
 
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_Blog Layout  Changes_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26850)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 4:17 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26850)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
I have cleaned up and updated the blog roll, links to scholarship,  
archives, etc.  Things are reorganized and streamlined to include more  recent 
articles and information.  Please let me know if you see any  broken links, 
errors, etc.  Also, if you have suggestions for additions  or changes, I would 
be happy to hear them. 
Thanks as always for reading.  And happy holidays! 
 
 
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_My Scholarly  Publications 2011 and Forthcoming 2012_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26847)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 4:13 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26847)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000  to the Next Election Meltdown_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=22990)  (Yale University Press, coming summer  2012) 
Election Law–Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 5th ed. coming  
summer 2012) (with Dan Lowenstein and Dan Tokaji) 
_The  Glannon Guide to Torts: Learning Torts Through Multiple-Choice 
Questions and  Analysis_ 
(http://www.amazon.com/Glannon-Guide-Torts-Multiple-Choice-Questions/dp/1454804041)  (Aspen Publishers 2d ed. 2011) 
Chill Out: A Qualified Defense of Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws in the  
Internet Age, Journal of Law and Politics (forthcoming 2012) _(draft 
available)_ (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1948313)  
Lobbying, Rent Seeking, and the Constitution, 64 Stanford Law  Review 
(forthcoming 2012) _draft  available_ 
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1734428) ) 
Anticipatory Overrulings, Invitations, Time Bombs, and Inadvertence: How  
Supreme Court Justices Move the Law, Emory Law Journal (forthcoming  2012) 
_(draft  available)_ 
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1750398)  
Teaching Bush v. Gore as History, St. Louis University Law Review  
(forthcoming 2012) (symposium on teaching election law) (_draft available_ 
(http://ssrn.com/abstract=1898755) ) 
The Supreme Court’s Shrinking Election Law Docket: A Legacy of Bush v. Gore 
 or Fear of the Roberts Court?, Election Law Journal (forthcoming  2011) 
(_draft available_ (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1780508) ) 
_Citizens  United and the Orphaned Antidistortion Rationale_ 
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1737938) , 27 Georgia  State Law 
Review 989 (2011) (symposium on Citizens United) 
_The Nine  Lives of Buckley v. Valeo_ 
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1593253) , in _First  Amendment Stories_ 
(http://www.amazon.com/First-Amendment-Stories-Law/dp/1599417758) , Richard Garnett and Andrew 
Koppelman, eds., Foundation  2011) 
_The  Transformation of the Campaign Financing Regime for U.S. Presidential 
 Elections_ (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1505527) , 
in _The Funding of  Political Parties_ 
(http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415580014/)  (Keith Ewing, Jacob Rowbottom, and Joo-Cheong Tham,  
eds., Routledge 2011) 
_Judges as  Political Regulators: Evidence and Options for Institutional 
Change_ (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1577268) , in 
_Race,  Reform and Regulation of the Electoral Process_ 
(http://www.amazon.com/Regulation-Electoral-Cambridge-Democracy-ebook/dp/B005252LBO) , (Gerken, 
Charles, and Kang  eds., Cambridge 2011) 
_Citizens  United and the Illusion of Coherence_ 
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1620576) , 109 Michigan Law Review 581  (2011) 
 
 
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_My Scholarly Articles  2004-2007_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26841)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 3:31 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26841)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
More blog cleaning up. Older articles listed below the fold.
_Continue reading →_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26841#more-26841)  
 
 
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_My 2011 Opeds and  Commentaries_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26835)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 3:02 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26835)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
As the year winds to a close, here are the opeds and commentaries I’ve  
written in the last year. 
_Will  Foreigners Decide the 2012 Election? The Extreme Unintended 
Consequences of  Citizens United, The New Republic (online), Dec. 6, 2011_ 
(http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/98162/citizens-united-foreign-money)  
_Disenfranchise  No More_ 
(http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/disenfranchise-no-more/?ref=opinion) , New York Times, Nov. 17, 2011 
_A Democracy  Deficit at Americans Elect?_ 
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67965.html) , Politico, Nov. 9, 2011 
_Super-Soft  Money: How Justice Kennedy paved the way for ‘SuperPACS’ and 
the return of  soft money_ 
(http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/10/citizens_united_how_justice_kennedy_has_paved_the_way_f
or_the_re.single.html) , Slate, Oct. 25, 2012 
_The  Arizona Campaign Finance Law: The Surprisingly Good News in the 
Supreme  Court’s New Decision_ 
(http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/90834/arizona-campaign-finance-supreme-court) , The New Republic (online), June 27,  2011 
_New  York City as a Model?_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/06/27/the-court-and-the-future-of-public-financing/new-york-city-as-a-model-for-
campaign-finance-laws) , New York Times Room for Debate, June 27,  2011 
_A Cover-Up, Not a Crime. Why the Case  Against John Edwards May Be Hard to 
Prove_ (http://www.slate.com/id/2296188/) , Slate, Jun. 3,  2011 
_Wisconsin Court  Election Courts Disaster_ 
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52683.html) , Politico, Apr. 11, 2011 
_Rich Candidate Expected to Win  Again_ (http://www.slate.com/id/2289193/) 
, Slate, Mar. 25, 2011 
_Health Care and  the Voting Rights Act_ 
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48832.html) , Politico, Feb. 4, 2011 
_The FEC is as Good as Dead_ (http://www.slate.com/id/2282257/) ,  Slate, 
Jan. 25, 2011 
_Let Rahm Run!_ (http://www.slate.com/id/2282287/) , Slate,  Jan. 24, 2011 
 
 
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_My Opeds and  Commentaries 2006 – 2009_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26830)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 2:49 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26830)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
Cleaning up the blog. Below the fold are my opeds from the 2006-2009  period
_Continue reading →_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26830#more-26830)  
 
 
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_NPR Listeners Support  Left-Leaning Constitutional Reform Agenda All About 
Election Law_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26825)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 1:41 pm_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26825)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
NPR listeners voted online on _constitutional  amendments_ 
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/12/20/144016912/we-the-people-npr-readers-would
-ratify-four-new-amendments?ft=1&f=1014&sc=tw)  they would prefer (or not–
an interesting list).  What did  they want? “As of Dec. 20, you’ve voted to 
abolish the Electoral College, to  limit campaign contributions from 
corporations, to deny corporations the  rights of citizens and to prohibit members 
of Congress from lobbying once they  leave office. In our un-scientific 
sampling, ‘ratification’ required the  support of two-thirds of voters. (You 
can still add your vote _here_ 
(http://www.npr.org/2011/12/14/143648941/interactive-join-our-constitutional-convention) .)” 
I would love to have FOX News readers vote on the same polling  questions. 
 
 
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_’94 Quote from Romney  on Money in Politics Makes Him Sound Like Radical 
Reformer_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26820)  
Posted  on _December 20, 2011 10:15 am_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26820)  by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_Romney channeling_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26805)  his finest  Fred 
Wertheimer: “But these kinds of associations between money and politics  in 
my view are wrong.  And for that reason I would like to have campaign  
spending limits. And to say we are not going to spend more than this in  certain 
campaigns, in a campaign for Senator or U.S. Representative and so  forth 
because otherwise I think you have money playing far too important a  role. I 
also would abolish PACs. You probably have one. I don’t like  them.  I don’
t like the influence of money whether it is business, labor,  or any other 
group– I do not like them.” 
 
 
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