[EL] more news 3/7/12

Thu Mar 8 06:45:17 PST 2012

This is a very curious headline by Rick:

_Corporations, Unions  Want FEC to LOOSEN Campaign Finance Regs. Further_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31180)  

    There are FEC regulations that are based  exclusively on 441b that CU 
struck down with respect to expenditures in  connection with  a federal 
election.  Since FEC regulations must have  statutory authority, then any 
regulations whose sole statutory authority is 441b  is invalid and should be 
repealed.  How is this "loosing campaign finance  regs further?"  These 
regulations are already invalid because of CU. Jim  Bopp

In a message dated 3/7/2012 6:03:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rhasen at law.uci.edu writes:

_Voter ID is Coming to  Pennsylvania_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31195) 

Posted  on _March 7, 2012 2:27 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31195)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

State senate just passed the bill. Details to come. 
UPDATE: Details _here_ 
(http://blogs.mcall.com/capitol_ideas/2012/03/senate-passes-voter-id-bill.html)   and _here_ 
(http://www.postcrescent.com/usatoday/article/38742027?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s) . 

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Posted in _election  administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) , 
_fraudulent fraud  squad_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8) , _The Voting 
Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) , _voter id_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9)   | Comments Off 

_“Black lawmakers’  effort to expand early voting is rejected in Senate”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31192)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 1:08 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31192)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

The Miami Herald _reports_ 
(http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/03/black-lawmakers-effort-to-expand-early-voting-is-rejected-in-senate.htm
l) . 

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Posted in _election  administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) , 
_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60)   | Comments Off 

_DOJ Making Section 5  Objections in Two Texas Counties_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31190)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 1:07 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31190)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

Texas Redistricting _has  the details_ 
(http://txredistricting.org/post/18839744901/doj-objects-to-galveston-county-redistricting) . 

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Posted in _redistricting_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6) , _Voting 
Rights Act_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15)   | Comments Off 

_Paging Dan  Lowenstein_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31186)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 12:50 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31186)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

_Lawmaker  Accused of Bribing Opponent to Step Aside_ 
(http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/03/07/lawmaker_accused_of_bribing_opponent_to_step_aside.h
tml) . 

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Posted in _bribery_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54) , _campaigns_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59) , _chicanery_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12)   | Comments Off 

_“Wisconsin Attorney  General J.B. Van Hollen to appeal judge’s ruling to 
stop state’s voter ID  law”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31183)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 12:41 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31183)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

AP _reports_ 
(http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20120307/APC010401/120307112/Wisconsin-Attorney-General-J-B-Van-Hollen-appeal-voter-ID-ruling-judge?od
yssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE) . 

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Wisconsin%20Attorney%20General%20J.B.%20Van%20Hollen%20to%20appeal%20judge’s%20ruling%20to%20stop%20state’s%20voter%20ID%20law”&description=) 

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_Corporations, Unions  Want FEC to LOOSEN Campaign Finance Regs. Further_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31180)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 11:37 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31180)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

_Politico  Influence_ 
(http://www.politico.com/politicoinfluence/0312/politicoinfluence213.html) : 
ACTIVISTS URGE FEC ACTION ON CITIZENS UNITED:  Conservative and labor 
groups alike urged the FEC to act  swiftly to roll back rules that limit 
political spending, our own  Robin Bravender is reporting live from the FEC’s 
chambers.  The FEC conducted a public hearing Thursday on its plans to officially  
eliminate the rules that were made obsolete by the Supreme Court’s  
Citizens United decision, although it has already  announced it wouldn’t enforce 
them. 
Conservative attorney Jim Bopp blasted the panel for  taking so long to 
overhaul its rules after the high court threw out  restrictions on corporate 
and labor unions’ spending on political ads. And  he urged the panel to think 
big as it attempts to eliminate its old rules.  In the wake of Citizens 
United, “now, the presumption is freedom,”  he said. “That is, corporations and 
labor unions can do anything they want  in terms of influencing a federal 
election, unless it is subject to a  specific statutory provision.” Labor 
attorney Laurence  Gold, representing the AFL-CIO, cautioned the  panel against 
writing new rules to restrict unions’ get-out-the-vote  activity beyond what
’s required by campaign finance law. “We believe your  final rules ought 
not to be imposing restrictions that aren’t there,” Gold  said.
UPDATE: A fuller Politico report is _here_ 
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73742.html) . 

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_“Can Caucuses Be  Defended?”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31178)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 11:35 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31178)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

Scott LeMieux _weighs in_ 
(http://prospect.org/article/can-caucuses-be-defended)  on  the _Hasen_ 
(http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/02/congress_should_kill_the_republican_and_democratic_state_ca
ucuses_and_mandate_primaries_instead_.html) /_Bernstein_ 
(http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/101404/bernstein-caucuses-primaries)   debate. 

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Posted in _political parties_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25) ,  
_primaries_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32)   | Comments Off 

_“Congratulations  Government Employees, You Might Soon Be Able To Run For 
Office”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31175)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 10:47 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31175)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

_It’s  about time_ 
(http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/hatch_act_modernization.php)  to modernize the Hatch Act in this way. 

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_“Wisconsin judge who  blocked photo ID law for April 3 vote signed 
petition to recall Wisconsin Gov.  Scott Walker”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31172)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 10:06 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31172)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

AP _reports_ 
(http://www.htrnews.com/article/20120307/MAN0101/303080036/Update-Judge-who-blocked-photo-ID-law-vote-signed-Walker-recall-petition?odyssey
=nav|head) .  I find the judge’s signing of the recall petition troubling, 
even if it is not  grounds for recusal in this case. The judge certainly has 
a right to vote, but  this kind of public political activity can undermine 
confidence in the  judiciary’s impartiality. 

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ker”&description=) 

Posted in _judicial elections_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19) ,  
_recall elections_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=11)   | Comments Off 

_“Trutanich paid for  YouTube views of D.A. campaign videos”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31169)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 9:34 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31169)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

_LA  Times: _ 
(http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-new-trutanich-20120304,0,5353416,full.story) “An unlikely Internet sensation has struck it big 
on YouTube:  Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich. Two polished videos 
promoting his run  for district attorney last month show Trutanich driving the 
gritty streets of  Los Angeles telling war stories from his days as a 
prosecutor: being shot at  by a street gang and sending a killer to death row. 
Within days, the videos  amassed 725,000 views on YouTube, with the most 
popular clip leaping past any  campaign video from GOP presidential candidates 
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich or  Rick Santorum. A Trutanich news release 
trumpeted the videos’ popularity as  showcasing ‘broad support behind Trutanich’s 
candidacy from a vast online and  grass-roots audience.’ But the campaign 
statement left out a key detail: It  paid for many of those YouTube views. 
After The Times questioned the video’s  view count, Trutanich’s campaign 
acknowledged that it had hired an online  marketing firm to drum up views by 
aggressively advertising the videos across  the Internet. The Los Angeles firm 
said it was paid to generate 150,000 to  250,000 views but that a huge online 
audience then followed naturally.” 

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Posted in _chicanery_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12) , _social media 
and social  protests_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=58)  | Comments Off 

_“Court’s Map Could  Push New York Legislature to Act”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31166)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 9:25 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31166)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

_Roll  Call:_ 
(http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_105/Court_Map_Could_Push_New_York_Legislature_to_Act-212921-1.html) “A federal judge unexpectedly 
tightened the redistricting vice  on the deadlocked New York state Legislature 
this week, pushing the body to  come up with a compromise or cede the redraw 
to an apolitical observer. The  release of a court-drawn draft map by U.S. 
Magistrate Judge Roanne Mann late  Monday surprised the Albany political 
establishment — she wasn’t expected to  release a map until next week — and 
added immense pressure to the  Democratic-held Assembly and Republican-held 
state Senate to draw new  Congressional lines.” 

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_Voters Appeal Decision  Rejecting Challenge to Senator Lugar’s Indiana 
Residency_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31162)  
Posted  on _March 7, 2012 8:23 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31162)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

See _here_ (http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/lugar-press.pdf) 
. 

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Posted in _campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59) , _residency_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=38)   | Comments Off 
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