[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/10/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Jul 10 08:52:11 PDT 2012
"Has SCOTUS OK'd campaign dirty tricks?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36739>
Posted on July 10, 2012 8:51 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36739> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I have just written this oped
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78342.html>for /Politico/.
It begins:
An obscure procedural order
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/11-535.htm>
issued the day after the Supreme Court's decision
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf> to
uphold President Barack Obama's health care law got lost in the
saturated media coverage of the health ruling and the palace
intrigue over whether Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote
<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57464549/roberts-switched-views-to-uphold-health-care-law/>
and alienated his conservative colleagues
<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57468202/discord-at-supreme-court-is-deep-and-personal/>.
Without comment or dissent, the justices declined to hear
Minnesota's appeal of a federal appeals court ruling
<http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/11/04/101558P.pdf> in /281 Care
Committee v. Arneson --- /holding that Minnesota's law banning false
campaign speech about ballot measures is likely unconstitutional
<http://www.volokh.com/2011/04/29/eighth-circuit-holds-that-even-lies-are-constitutionally-protected-unless-theyre-fraudulent-or-defamatory-or-unless-the-restriction-is-narrowly-tailored-to-a-compelling-state-interest/>
under the First Amendment. The result could be even nastier
campaigns and more political dirty tricks.
Minnesota had asked the Supreme Court to hold its petition until the
court decided United States v. Alvarez
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-210d4e9.pdf>, the
so-called "Stolen Valor" case. The court decided /Alvarez/ the same
day as health care, striking down as a free speech violation a
federal law making it a crime to falsely claim to be a recipient of
the Congressional Medal of Honor.
/Alvarez /casts considerable doubt over when, if ever, states can
take actions to combat false campaign statements and campaign dirty
tricks --- including lying about the location of a polling place or
the voting date. The court could have used the /281 Care Committee/
case to clear up the muddle next term. But it just denied the petition.
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"What's the Board of Elections Going to Do About that Elephant?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36737>
Posted on July 10, 2012 8:44 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36737> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Capital New York reports
<http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/07/6134025/whats-board-elections-going-do-about-elephant>.
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"Political Spending by Unions Far Exceeds Direct Donations"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36735>
Posted on July 10, 2012 8:42 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36735> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Absolute must-read WSJ report
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304782404577488584031850026.html>,
which once again shows why campaign finance disclosure is so important.
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"Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win--and Now
Protect--Voting Rights in U.S." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36732>
Posted on July 10, 2012 8:35 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36732> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The video
<http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/10/civil_rights_icon_rep_john_lewis>
is at Democracy Now!.
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"Governor Brewer won't oppose 'top two primary' initative"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36729>
Posted on July 10, 2012 8:32 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36729> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest
<http://www.kjzz.org/content/1207/governor-brewer-wont-oppose-top-two-primary-initative>
from Arizona.
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"U.S. District Court in Ohio Rules Ohio Secretary of State Jon
Husted is Still Bound by Consent Decree on Provisional Ballots
Agreed to by Previous Secretary of State"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36726>
Posted on July 10, 2012 8:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36726> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ballot Access News
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/07/10/u-s-district-court-in-ohio-rules-ohio-secretary-of-state-jon-husted-is-still-bound-by-consent-decree-on-provisional-ballots-agreed-to-by-previous-secretary-of-state/>:
"Why would anyone of good intent want to disallow a provisional ballot
that was cast in the wrong place in a building, but in the correct
building, if the mistake is not the voter's fault?"
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"Beware in Comparing Fundraising Figures"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36723>
Posted on July 10, 2012 8:04 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36723> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Political Wire reports
<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/07/10/beware_in_comparing_fundraising_figures.html>.
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House Democrats on Administration Committee Issue Minority Report:
''The Most Expensive Seat in the House: The State of Our Campaign
Finance System" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36720>
Posted on July 10, 2012 7:53 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36720> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The report begins in this document
<http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112hrpt571/pdf/CRPT-112hrpt571.pdf>
at page 25.
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"Murky campaign-finance laws depend on 'honor system,' expert says"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36717>
Posted on July 10, 2012 7:47 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36717> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This item
<http://www.wisconsinreporter.com/murky-campaign-finance-laws-depend-on-honor-system-expert-says>appears
at the Wisconsin Reporter.
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Where Do Ohio Provisional Ballots Come From?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36715>
Posted on July 10, 2012 7:46 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36715> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pew delves
<http://www.pewstates.org/research/analysis/provisional-ballots-in-ohio-part-2-85899404079>
into the data.
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"Pennsylvania Pays Romney Bundler's Lobbying Firm To Publicize Voter
ID Law" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36712>
Posted on July 10, 2012 7:44 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36712> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
TPMreports
<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/pennsylvania_voter_id_chris_bravacos_bravo_group_romney_ad.php?ref=fpblg>.
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"The GOP's crime against voters" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36710>
Posted on July 10, 2012 7:43 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36710> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eugene Robinson
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-the-gops-crime-against-voters/2012/07/09/gJQAopcCZW_story.html>:
"Spare us any more hooey about 'preventing fraud' and 'protecting the
integrity of the ballot box.' The Republican-led crusade for voter ID
laws has been revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many
likely Democratic voters as possible, with poor people and minorities
the main targets."
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"Cabinet Members a Super PAC No-Show"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36707>
Posted on July 9, 2012 9:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36707> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call:
<http://www.rollcall.com/issues/58_2/Cabinet-Members-an-Obama-Super-PAC-No-Show-215978-1.html>
'Senior White House adviser David Plouffe is the only member of
President Barack Obama's administration to attend a fundraiser for a
pro-Obama super PAC so far, despite an announcement in February that
White House officials and Cabinet members would participate."
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"Fixing Washington" -- Revised <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36702>
Posted on July 9, 2012 9:09 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36702> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I have posted on SSRN a substantially revised version
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2017026> of my
review essay, forthcoming in the December 2012 issue of the Harvard/Law
Review/, considering Larry Lessig's and Jack Abramoff's books on money,
lobbying, campaign finance and politics. The new version includes a more
extended discussion of problems with polarization, including whether the
suggestions of Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein to fix Washington are likely
to work. (My Slate piece on the Ornstein/Mann suggestions is here.
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/05/thomas_mann_and_norman_ornstein_s_ideas_won_t_solve_washington_s_gridlock_.html>)
Here's the abstract of the review essay.
This Essay reviews recent books about lobbying, campaign finance,
and the problems of Washington by Lawrence Lessig and Jack Abramoff.
Together, Lessig and Abramoff offer a convincing critique of how
lobbying skews public policy and can harm the United States. The
books demonstrate that lobbyist fixers can thwart the public
interest, especially by blocking or altering legislation on issues
which lack salience with the general public but which mean a great
deal for the individuals players with the most at stake. Although it
is tempting to focus on Abramoff's admittedly illegal behavior, both
books illustrate that much of the problem of money, politics, and
lobbying stems from what is legal, not illegal. Indeed, although
both Abramoff and Lessig present the problem as one of "corruption,"
the real concern is less with exchanges of dollars for political
favors and more with the decline in national economic welfare which
occurs thanks to lobbyist-facilitated rent-seeking. Lessig also
appears concerned with political inequality, although he distances
himself from egalitarian arguments for reform. Defining the problem
as one other than corruption, however, threatens reform's
constitutionality in a post-Citizens United world.
While the critiques of the Washington status quo are well made, both
books offer incomplete reform agendas and an unconvincing path to
enacting reform. Much of what is wrong with Washington has nothing
to do with money in politics. Instead partisan gridlock and the
divergence of legislative action from the apparent public interest
emerges from the highly partisan and ideological nature of Congress
and the presidency; the breakdown of civility and an era of "gotcha"
politics; and structural impediments to enacting legislation, such
as the Senate filibuster and changes in the House committee
structure. The current trend of toxic politics and inadequate
institutions to channel such politics arose not from an outsized
influence of money on politics but from a variety of sources,
including the party realignment in the South following the civil
rights movement and the resurgence of partisan media (and now social
media).
Even if the authors' complete reform agendas were enacted and the
amount of rent-seeking legislation procured by lobbying
significantly curbed, it is far from clear that Washington would be
"fixed." Lessig, for example, claims that money has prevented both
left and right from getting their agendas passed. It is hard to see
that money has been the primary stumbling block to enacting
simultaneously competing agendas. When it comes to the high
salience, big legislative questions such as immigration reform, the
primary barriers to reform are partisanship and vetogates, not the
role of money. In the rare circumstance when major legislative
reform does pass, as in the case of health care reform, the passage
of legislation further fuels partisan recriminations.
Nor is it clear that the kinds of fundamental campaign finance
reforms which Lessig advocates stand any realistic chance of being
enacted under current political conditions. Lessig acknowledges the
hard road ahead, but even so he still seems overly optimistic. For
example he suggests there is a 10 percent chance that a call for a
constitutional convention to amend the Constitution to allow new
campaign finance and lobbying reform could succeed. But the same
partisan, sclerotic politics which would make reform of money in
politics only a partial solution to broken Washington would also
make the chances of calling a constitutional convention to enact a
reform agenda much slimmer than one-in-ten. Fixing Washington may
have to await widespread scandal or a societal shift which
alleviates the partisanship currently gripping national politics.
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Quote of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36700>
Posted on July 9, 2012 9:04 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36700> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
"We could lose if this continues"
--Ann Marie Habershaw
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/us/romney-again-outdoes-obama-in-fund-raising.html?_r=1&hp>,
Obama campaign chief operating officer, in email to supporters, about
the fundraising gap between Republicans and Democrats.
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"Discriminatory Texas Voter ID Law Challenged in Federal Court"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36697>
Posted on July 9, 2012 5:09 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36697> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ari Berman writes
<http://www.thenation.com/blog/168784/discriminatory-texas-voter-id-law-challenged-federal-court#>
for /The Nation/.
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"Shelley Berkley faces formal ethics investigation"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36694>
Posted on July 9, 2012 3:50 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36694> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/shelley-berkley-faces-formal-ethics-investigation/2012/07/09/gJQANky3YW_blog.html>:
"The House Ethics Committee <http://ethics.house.gov> has voted
unanimously to launch a formal investigation into allegations that Rep.
Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
<http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/B001231> used her
position to benefit the financial interests of her husband --- a blow to
her candidacy in one of the nation's most competitive Senate contests."
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"Texas Defends Voter ID Law" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36691>
Posted on July 9, 2012 2:52 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36691> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Can't wait for the audio from Pam Fessler's NPR report
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/07/09/156513782/justice-department-texas-face-off-in-court-over-voter-id-law?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter>
to post.
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"Fox Guest's Voter ID Law Defense: 'Voting Is A Privilege'"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36688>
Posted on July 9, 2012 2:25 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36688> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This item
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/07/09/fox-guests-voter-id-law-defense-voting-is-a-pri/187020>
appears at Media Matters.
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"WATCH: Joe Conason Discusses Anonymous Corporate Donations On
'Morning Joe'" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36684>
Posted on July 9, 2012 2:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36684> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://www.nationalmemo.com/watch-joe-conason-discusses-anonymous-corporate-donations-on-morning-joe/>.
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"DOJ, Texas Fight at Trial Over Voter ID Law"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36682>
Posted on July 9, 2012 2:23 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36682> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BLT reports
<http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2012/07/doj-texas-fight-at-trial-over-voter-id-law-.html>.
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"Judge's decision points Gov. Brown's tax initiative toward top
spot" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36679>
Posted on July 9, 2012 11:58 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36679> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LA Times
<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/07/jerry-brown-tax-initiative-ruling-ballot-position.html>:
"A Sacramento Superior Court judge Monday dismissed a challenge from
initiative proponent Molly Munger, who had sought to ensure her tax
measure appeared before one backed by Gov. Jerry Brown on the November
ballot. Judge Michael Kenny dismissed Munger's claim, saying her
attorneys were asking him to 'essentially micromanage the registrar's
office.' He agreed to delay the ruling until 5 p.m. Monday to give
Munger's legal team a chance to appeal."
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"New York: Adriano Espaillat Concedes (Again) to Charlie Rangel"
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Posted on July 9, 2012 11:47 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36676> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call reports
<http://atr.rollcall.com/new-york-espaillat-concedes-to-rangel/>.
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Gerstein Report on the Opening of the Texas Voter ID Trial
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Posted on July 9, 2012 11:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36673> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Must read <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78242.html>.
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"Texas to test 1965 voting rights law in court"
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Posted on July 9, 2012 10:17 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36670> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Reuters reports.
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/08/us-usa-texas-voter-idUSBRE86706W20120708>
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"No ID? The Marginal Cost Of Voting In Pennsylvania"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36667>
Posted on July 9, 2012 10:13 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36667> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dan Filler blogs.
<http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2012/07/the-marginal-cost-of-voting-in-pennsylvania-1.html>
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"Romney Outraises Obama by Half in June"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36663>
Posted on July 9, 2012 9:11 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36663> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT's The Caucus
<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/romney-raised-106-million-in-june/?hp>:
*'*Mitt Romney
<http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/candidates/mitt-romney?inline=nyt-per>
and the Republican National Committee
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/republican_national_committee/index.html?inline=nyt-org>
easily outraised President Obama and the Democrats in June, pulling in
$106.1 million, a substantial increase in Mr. Romney's fund-raising pace
and a sign of the growing competitiveness of the battle for campaign
dollars against President Obama
<http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/candidates/barack-obama?inline=nyt-per>,
who raised $71 million during the same period. The campaign did not
release a breakdown for how much was raised by Mr. Romney's campaign,
which can accept checks of no larger than $2,500 for the general
election, and the Republican National Committee, which can accept checks
more than 10 times that size, along with tens of thousands of dollars
more per donor that is forwarded to state parties."
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"On the Frontlines: Advocates Respond to Voter ID Laws"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36660>
Posted on July 9, 2012 8:08 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36660> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This item
<http://bolderadvocacy.org/blog/on-the-frontlines-advocates-respond-to-voter-id-laws>
appears on the Bolder Advocacy blog.
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