[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/10/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Apr 9 20:33:29 PDT 2013
"F.B.I. Looking Into Allegations That McConnell's Campaign Was
Wiretapped" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49193>
Posted on April 9, 2013 8:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49193> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/us/politics/fbi-looking-into-allegations-that-mcconnells-campaign-was-wiretapped.html?ref=politics>
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was looking into
allegations by Senator Mitch McConnell
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/mitch_mcconnell/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
of Kentucky that political opponents bugged his campaign headquarters.
Mr. McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, blamed the
"political left" for an anonymous recording of a meeting at his
campaign headquarters that appeared on the Web site of Mother Jones
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/mitch-mcconnell-ashley-judd-secret-tape-senate>,
a liberal magazine, on Tuesday morning. The recording captures Mr.
McConnell and his aides outlining possible attacks on potential
opponents, especially the actress Ashley Judd.
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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, chicanery
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"Russia Takes Legal Action Against Election Monitors"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49190>
Posted on April 9, 2013 8:23 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49190> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/world/europe/russia-brings-charges-against-election-monitors.html>.
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Colorado Still Ground Zero in Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49187>
Posted on April 9, 2013 8:20 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49187> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Denver Post:
<http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22989500/colorado-bill-offers-more-mail-ballots-election-day>
Democrats are expected to introduce a sweeping elections bill
Wednesday that would allow residents to register to vote through
Election Day, and send mail ballots to every voter, according to a
draft of the bill obtained by The Denver Post.
The measure is expected to launch another partisan battle under the
gold dome, as Republican leaders, including Secretary of State Scott
Gessler, say the legislation would lead to voter fraud.
North Carolina
<http://www.wnct.com/story/21924600/bills-aim-to-change-voting-in-our-state-both-parties-fired-up>
may give Colorado a run for its money for partisan acrimony over changes
to election rules.
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Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> |
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"Inside Bush v. Gore" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49184>
Posted on April 9, 2013 8:13 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49184> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I just received my advanced copy of former Florida Chief Justice Charley
Wells memoir
<http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Bush-Florida-Government-Politics/dp/0813044758>
of the 2000 Florida controversy. I blurbed this book and enjoyed it very
much. The one thing that's missing---by design--is any description of
the Court's internal deliberations during those fateful days when the
world did not know who would be the next American President.
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"Reid not ready to move on changing filibuster rule on nominations"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49182>
Posted on April 9, 2013 8:11 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49182> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NBC
<http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/09/17674713-reid-not-ready-to-move-on-changing-filibuster-rule-on-nominations>:
Continuing an uneasy standoff with Republicans on filibusters of
President Barack Obama's nominees to the federal courts and to
executive branch positions, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
indicated Tuesday he isn't quite ready to pull the trigger on
changing Senate rules to curb or abolish such filibusters.
A move by Reid to change Senate filibuster rules by a simple
majority vote -- sometimes called the "nuclear option" -- would
spark a major battle with Senate Republicans.
MORE
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/reid_downplays_nuclear_option_threat_on_judges-223834-1.html>
from Roll Call.
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Fight Between Institute for Justice and Washington Public Disclosure
Commission Over Legal Representation as Contributions
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49179>
Posted on April 9, 2013 7:52 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49179> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Steve Klein
<http://wyliberty.org/feature/another-chilling-step-in-campaign-finance-disclosure/>
offers his perspective.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> |
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"DOJ Official Testifies on 'Significant Challenges' in Campaign
Finance Investigations, Prosecutions"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49177>
Posted on April 9, 2013 7:50 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49177> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BLT
<http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/04/doj-official-testifies-on-significant-challenges-in-campaign-finance-investigations-prosecutions-.html>:
"The U.S. Justice Department is 'hampered' from uncovering corruption
and enforcing campaign finance laws in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme
Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a top
prosecutor testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill."
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Department of Justice <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26> | Comments Off
"The Voting Rights Act Becomes More Vital By the Day"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49174>
Posted on April 9, 2013 1:12 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49174> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Andrew Cohen blogs
<http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/voting-rights-act-becomes-more-vital-day>.
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Posted in Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, Voting
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"Debate Over Allowing Secretly Indicted Nelson Castro To Twice Run
For Re-Election" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49172>
Posted on April 9, 2013 1:11 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49172> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYDN
<http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/04/debate-over-allowing-secretly-indicted-nelson-castro-to-twice-run-for-re-elect>:
"The decision by federal and Bronx prosecutors to allow government mole
Nelson Castro to twice run for re-election to the Assembly while
secretly under indictment has raised some eyebrows. Several lawmakers
and state government officials questioned whether the voters in Castro's
Bronx district were best served by not knowing their assemblyman was
indicted in 2009 on felony perjury charges in a voter fraud case when he
ran again in 2010 and last year."
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"FEC Stoops to a New Low, or a Mountain out of a Molehill?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49170>
Posted on April 9, 2013 1:10 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49170> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Keating
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2013/04/08/fec-stoops-to-a-new-low-or-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill/>:
The Campaign Legal Center's Paul Ryan recently charged
<http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=515:the-failure-to-enforce-commission-reaches-a-new-low>
that the FEC stooped "to a new low" because the agency failed to
hound a mysterious robocaller who allegedly spoke to voters without
a disclaimer and perhaps failed to report the spending in an
uncompetitive Republican Party primary. Ryan based these charges on
Commissioner Ellen Weintraub's four page legal analysis
<http://eqs.nictusa.com/eqsdocsMUR/13044331493.pdf> of the case.
We don't know the reasons why the GOP Commissioners did not vote to
pursue the matter. It could be that they simply decided it wasn't
worth it.
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"Citizen Center Sues Town of Center to Overturn Flawed Election"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49167>
Posted on April 9, 2013 1:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49167> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Press release
<http://www.thecitizencenter.org/blog/2013/4/9/citizen-center-sues-town-of-center-to-overturn-flawed-electi.html>:
"**Citizen Center filed an election contest yesterday as a co-plaintiff
seeking to set aside the March 19 Center, Colorado, special recall
election. The suit focuses on breakdowns in critical election procedures
and a surprising violation of voters' constitutional rights to cast a
secret ballot."
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"The Right Kind of Reform" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49165>
Posted on April 9, 2013 1:06 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49165> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fred Wertheimer
<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/ny-set-to-reformcampaign-finance-89765.html?hp=l6>:
"The indictments last week of a New York state senator and five other
New York politicians in an alleged bribery scandal once again focused
the public spotlight on the dangers of influence money in the political
system."
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