[EL] Note of...Tension in AP Piece on Supreme Court?

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Sun Oct 21 20:18:06 PDT 2012


It is true that I do link to pieces on my blog which relate to the 
Supreme Court more broadly and not to election law.  A few years ago we 
had a discussion on the list whether I should stop sending my posts to 
the list given that a small portion are tangential.  If I recall the 
outcome of the discussion, most listserv readers wanted the convenience 
of getting my posts to the list even if there were some posts which 
could be somewhat off-topic.  But the idea is that general list 
discussion (as opposed to items in my blog posts) would focus on the 
business of election law.

We could reopen that discussion I suppose, and I'm happy to consider not 
sending out my blog posts directly to the list any longer, but I suggest 
we wait until after election day to undertake that discussion if there 
is interest.

What I do not want (and what I hear others do not want) is general 
discussion on the list which strays from the topic of election law.





On 10/21/12 4:08 PM, Steve Hoersting wrote:
> Just in from dinner.
>
> The point of the video is to take to task Justices who might be 
> inclined to focus on anything other than the Constitution when making 
> rulings.
>
> Such is fair game when done by Jeffrey Rosen, Katrina vanden Heuval, 
> Dahlia Lithwick, Jeffrey Toobin and others from the Left. Such posts 
> regularly make it to the list.
>
> And the Progressive public-relations approach to Constitutional 
> results is fair game, and posted to the list, when dissected by 
> Richard Pildes.
>
> I see no reason this cannot be done from the Right,
>
> Steve
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu 
> <mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Even putting aside the fundraising appeal (and I think donating to
>     an ideological cause is different from a newspaper subscribe
>     button), Steve's video may be related to the election, but not to
>     election law.
>     I don't believe it is appropriate for the list.
>
>
>
>
>     On 10/21/12 12:38 PM, JBoppjr at aol.com <mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com> wrote:
>>     There has a fundraising appeal/on/ the page, but Steve linked to
>>     the page to refer to the video.  Geeze, there is "subscriber"
>>     info on most newspaper pages that I see linked to on this
>>     listserv.  Jim
>>     In a message dated 10/21/2012 1:53:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>     blandsberg at PACIFIC.EDU <mailto:blandsberg at PACIFIC.EDU> writes:
>>
>>         It doesn’t *border *on a fundraising appeal.  It *is* a
>>         fundraising appeal.  It contains this box:
>>
>>         Support this Video & Help Preserve the Constitution!
>>
>>         Top of Form
>>
>>         Description: pixel Aftermath of Appeasement
>>
>>         Bottom of Form
>>
>>         Brian K. Landsberg
>>
>>         Distinguished Professor and Scholar
>>
>>         Pacific McGeorge School of Law
>>
>>         3200 Fifth Avenue, Sacramento CA 95817
>>
>>         916 739-7103 <tel:916%20739-7103>
>>
>>         *From:*law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
>>         <mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu>
>>         [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] *On
>>         Behalf Of *Steve Hoersting
>>         *Sent:* Sunday, October 21, 2012 9:36 AM
>>         *To:* Rick Hasen
>>         *Cc:* law-election at uci.edu <mailto:law-election at uci.edu>
>>         *Subject:* Re: [EL] Note of...Tension in AP Piece on Supreme
>>         Court?
>>
>>         The Court's tilt has everything to do with the listserv so
>>         long as campaign finance and voting rights cases are working
>>         their winding their way up -- and they are.
>>
>>         And if it is appropriate for Jeffrey Rosen and Jeff Toobin to
>>         comment on the Court from the Left, I see no reason it cannot
>>         be done from a Libertarian perspective or the Right.
>>
>>         Steve
>>
>>         On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Rick Hasen
>>         <rhasen at law.uci.edu <mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>         This seems to me to be bordering on a fundraising appeal,
>>         which is not appropriate for this list.  It also has very
>>         little to do with the subject of this listserv.
>>
>>         Thanks.
>>
>>         Rick
>>
>>         On 10/21/12 6:15 AM, Steve Hoersting wrote:
>>
>>             Last Wednesday, Rick wondered whether AP reporting
>>             indicates we've yet to see all of the aftermath of the
>>             Court's last term.
>>
>>             http://electionlawblog.org/?p=41906
>>
>>
>>             I've asked a similar question, reduced to this fictional
>>             video.
>>
>>             http://rightsolutions.org/projects/609-2/
>>
>>             -- 
>>             Stephen M. Hoersting
>>             @Hoersting
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>>
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>>
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>>         Stephen M. Hoersting
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>     UC Irvine School of Law
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> Stephen M. Hoersting
>

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Rick Hasen
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