[EL] legislation news 4/19/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Apr 19 08:03:40 PDT 2013
"How the ban on earmarks killed the gun bill"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49436>
Posted on April 19, 2013 7:54 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49436>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Fix
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/19/how-the-ban-on-earmarks-killed-the-gun-bill/>:
Washington used to be a place where lawmakers openly traded votes
for both concrete and symbolic concessions from the executive
branch, whether it was a project in a member's district or simply
the president's presence at a specific event.
But the press, watchdog groups and many politicians began demonizing
this practice and now, appropriations bills are free of the
so-called "earmarks
<http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-06/politics/35442262_1_congressional-earmarks-congressional-knowledge-stock-act>"
that eased the passage of everything from the North American Free
Trade Agreement under President Bill Clinton to prescription drug
coverage for seniors under President George W. Bush.
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"Romney strategist: We were two years behind Obama"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49433>
Posted on April 19, 2013 7:47 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49433>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Campaigns & Elections reports
<http://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/367992/romney-strategist-we-were-two-years-behind-obama.thtml>.
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No More Twitter Campaign Ban in Japan
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49431>
Posted on April 19, 2013 7:46 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49431>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here
<http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/19/national/diet-oks-internet-election-campaigns/#.UXFYmoLR2zs>.
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and social protests <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=58> | Comments Off
"Major Colo. election changes get 1st OK by House"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49428>
Posted on April 18, 2013 7:43 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49428>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP reports
<http://www.denverpost.com/colorado/ci_23053352/major-colo-election-changes-up-debate>.
Follow @IvanJourno if you care about what's happening with Colorado
election law.
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The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter registration
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"A Simple Plan to Drastically Improve Voting, Stop Fraud, and Save
Money" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49425>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:54 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49425>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Trevor Potter
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-simple-plan-to-drastically-improve-voting-stop-fraud-and-save-money/275074/>:
The best hope for reform is with registration reforms at the state
level, says the lawyer for John McCain's 2008 campaign and Stephen
Colbert's super PAC.
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Caperton v. Massey Lives! <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49422>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:51 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49422>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Whodathunk it? <http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201304180082>
The Virginia Supreme Court of Virginia ruled unanimously that Hugh
Caperton and his coal companies --- Harman Mining and Sovereign Coal
Sales --- can pursue a lawsuit against the former A.T. Massey Coal
Co. in a Virginia circuit court.
In a 27-page opinion
<http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/1121046.pdf>
released on Thursday morning, Virginia's top court ruled the civil
lawsuit can proceed. The same lawsuit was dismissed by the West
Virginia Supreme Court three times.
"The [West Virginia] court determined that a forum selection clause
in an agreement between the parties required that the suit be
brought in Virginia," the Virginia Supreme Court noted in its 5-0
decision.
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"Scalia's latest: Unethical or merely appalling?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49420>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:47 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49420>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AFJ blogs
<http://afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/scalias-latest-unethical-or-merely.html>
on the Justice's recent statements about the Voting Rights Act.
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More Political Dysfunction <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49417>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:45 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49417>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I've posted a revised draft of my article, "Political Dysfunction and
Constitutional Change,
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2243798>" on SSRN.
The article has already provoked some interesting reactions from Eric
Alterman
<http://www.thenation.com/article/173775/more-bs-about-both-sides?rel=emailNation#>,
Jonathan Bernstein
<http://www.salon.com/2013/04/06/the_republican_party_is_officially_broken/>,
and Seth Masket
<http://www.psmag.com/politics/united-states-united-kingdom-politics-parliament-54769/>.
I plan to write more about this soon.
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"A national popular vote would make every vote for president count"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49414>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:39 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49414>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Retired Oregon Chief Justice Paul de Muniz has written this oped
<http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/04/a_national_popular_vote_would.html>.
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"US Senate Succumbs to NRA Protection Racket: Filibuster Assures
Easy Access to Guns for Criminals, Mentally Ill People and
Terrorists" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49412>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:38 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49412>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Richard Painter, President Bush's ethics czar, has this post
<http://www.legalethicsforum.com/blog/2013/04/us-senate-succumbs-to-nra-protection-racket-filibuster-assures-easy-access-to-guns-for-criminals-lun.html>at
the Legal Ethics Forum.
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"'All the President's Men Revisited': Watergate again, but not just
a nostalgia trip" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49409>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49409>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/all-the-presidents-men-revisited-watergate-again-but-not-just-a-nostalgia-trip/2013/04/17/c6f41066-a6ac-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html?hpid=z4>on
new documentary.
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2013 Election Law Casebook Supplement Coming This Summer
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49406>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:32 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49406>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This is a post for instructors who will be teaching a course on Election
Law in the fall. Dan Tokaji and I will soon begin work on the 2013
supplement toLowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji, Election Law--Cases and
Materials
<http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611631784/Election-Law-Fifth-Edition>
(5th ed. 2012). The edition will be posted free online for use by
instructors (and their students) who assign the casebook.
The Supreme Court's expected decisions in the /Shelby County/ case
involving the constitutionality of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
and the argument coming next term in the campaign finance case of
/McCutcheon v. FEC/ are among the developments we expect to cover in the
2013 supplement.
If you are an instructor, use the link above to request a free review
copy of the casebook.
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Quote of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49404>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:21 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49404>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
"Bribery isn't what it once was," said an official with one of the major
gun-control groups. "The government has no money. Once upon a time you
would throw somebody a post office or a research facility in times like
this. Frankly, there's not a lot of leverage."
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/gun-control-vote-obamas-biggest-loss-90244_Page3.html#ixzz2QrdLyfbv
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Harvard Law Review Developments Issue Discusses Danielczyk Corporate
Contributions Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49401>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:17 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49401>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/april13/Recent_Case_9467.php>
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"Your Civil Rights Division is a Rat's Nest"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49399>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:16 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49399>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Rep. Frank Wolf stays classy
<http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/04/holder-gets-stormy-reception-from-house-panel-162073.html>
at Eric Holder hearing.
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Tom Perez Labor Confirmation Hearing Turns to DOJ Voting Division
Controversies <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49397>
Posted on April 18, 2013 5:14 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49397>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/labor-tom-perez-faces-gop-heat-90284.html>
BLT
<http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/04/perez-challenged-at-confirmation-hearing.html?kw=Perez%20Challenged%20at%20Confirmation%20Hearing&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20130418&src=EMC-Email&pt=Legal%20Times%20Afternoon%20Update>
Reuters <http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE93H1CX20130418?irpc=932>
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"In Poll, Most New Yorkers Say Corruption Is a Big Problem"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49394>
Posted on April 17, 2013 9:57 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49394>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/corruption-is-seen-as-a-major-problem-in-new-york-state-poll-shows/>
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"NC poll finds support for voter ID drops with more information
about alternatives, impact of laws"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49391>
Posted on April 17, 2013 9:18 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49391>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Facing South blogs
<http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/04/nc-poll-finds-support-for-voter-id-drops-with-more-information-about-alternatives-impact-of->.
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"Justice Scalia's Latest 'Racial Entitlement' Remark"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49389>
Posted on April 17, 2013 9:17 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49389>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Spencer Overton blog
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/spencer-overton/justice-scalias-latest-ra_b_3103845.html>s.
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"Did Scalia Tip His Hand In Major Voting Rights Case?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49386>
Posted on April 17, 2013 1:41 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49386>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
@TPM reports
<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04/scalia-tips-his-hand-voting-rights-act.php>.
My earlier coverage is here
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49355&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electionlawblog%2FuqCP+%28Election+Law%29>.
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"Grass Roots Outgrown" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49383>
Posted on April 17, 2013 8:53 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49383>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eliza Newlin Carney <http://www.cq.com/doc/weeklyreport-4255865> for CQ
Weekly (behind paywall):
Organizing for Action, President *Barack Obama * 's advocacy group,
is on the spot as liberal activists denounce his plan to trim Social
Security benefits. Progressive leaders are already deeply divided
over the group, with some hailing Organizing for Action --- the
tax-exempt successor to the campaign operation Organizing for
America --- as a welcome new ally, and others calling for it to shut
down. Obama's budget proposal to give Social Security recipients
smaller cost-of-living increases based on what's known as the
chained consumer price index puts OFA on a collision course with
many of its own grass-roots volunteers.
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"Top Iowa Elections Official: Pass Voter ID So The GOP Can Kill
Abortion Rights And Marriage Equality"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49380>
Posted on April 17, 2013 8:38 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49380>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Think Progress blogs
<http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/17/1879111/matt-schultz-voter-id/?mobile=nc>.
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"Data shows fewer lack photo IDs" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49378>
Posted on April 17, 2013 8:32 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49378>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://www.journalnow.com/news/state_region/article_97a75a12-a700-11e2-88bb-001a4bcf6878.html>
from North Carolina: "New data from the State Board of Elections show
far fewer voters lack photo identification than critics of a voter ID
bill suggest. The new information roughly halves the potential number of
registered voters without photo ID from the 612,000 in a January report
to about 318,000....Ray Starling, the general counsel for Speaker Thom
Tillis, argues the number is likely even less because about 115,000 of
those identified in the latest analysis have not voted in the last five
elections."
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Nun on the run? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49375>
Posted on April 17, 2013 7:25 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49375>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Perhaps i'm misinterpreting this headline
<http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201304161258/NEWS0107/304160065&nclick_check=1>
in this voter fraud case.
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"House GOP slams Justice Department as racist, mismanaged; Sheila
Jackson Lee pushes back" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49373>
Posted on April 17, 2013 7:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49373>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Houston Chronicle reports
<http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2013/04/house-gop-slams-justice-department-as-racist-mismanaged-sheila-jackson-lee-pushes-back/>.
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"How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49368>
Posted on April 16, 2013 9:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49368>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NPR
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496734/how-congress-quietly-overhauled-its-insider-trading-law>:
To understand how the law changed, I asked Holman to meet me in the
basement of the Cannon House Office Building.
"This is where the public records are kept, for those who can handle
traveling to Washington, D.C.," Holman explained.
That's right. If you want to look up the financial disclosure forms
filed by high-level congressional staffers --- say, to find out
whether they've been using the privileges of their positions to make
well-timed stock trades --- you have to come to this office.
Holman showed me how it works. You have to enter your name and
address into a computer, and then you can search. But you have to
know the name of the person you are searching for. If he or she has
filed a financial disclosure form, it will come up as a PDF, which
you can print at a cost of 10 cents a page.
"The database itself is almost meaningless," says Holman. He says
the only option for those who want to get a comprehensive look at
what some 2,900 staffers have filed is to review the cases one by
one. "And that's just too big a job for anybody to do."
The STOCK Act was supposed to make this task significantly easier.
Records for members of Congress, the executive branch and their
staffs were supposed to be posted online in a searchable, sortable
and downloadable format.
If you wanted to see who traded health care stock just before a
committee acted on a health care bill, it would be easy. No trips to
the basement required.
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"Florida Senate Republicans crack down on foreign-language
interpreters for voting" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49365>
Posted on April 16, 2013 8:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49365>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Marc Caputo
<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/04/florida-senate-cracks-down-on-foreign-language-interpreters-for-voting.html>:
Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old North Miami voter who became a
symbol of Florida's elections woes, could again find it tough to
cast a ballot now that the Republican-controlled state Senate voted
Tuesday to keep a crack down on foreign-language interpreters at the
polls.
The Senate maintained the last-minute measure on what appeared to be
a party-line voice vote while debating a bill designed to reverse
the effects of an election law that helped create long lines and
suppress the vote in 2012.
Two questions: (1) This is the new outreach to Latino voters? (2) This
is the response to make lines /shorter/ at the polls in Florida?
I expect a successful federal lawsuit against such a provision if it
gets included in a new Florida election law.
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"Levin Promises to Investigate 501(c)(4)s Using Secret Money to Fund
Campaigns" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49360>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:57 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49360>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=30373624&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0d7k5h8b7&split=0>:
"One of retiring Sen. Carl Levin's (D-Mich.) last objectives in Congress
will be to investigate the use of secret money to fund political
campaigns, with the Internal Revenue Service on the hot seat."
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"In Defense of Citizens United" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49357>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:51 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49357>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Judge/Professor Michael McConnell has postedthis draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2241682>on SSRN
(forthcoming Yale Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
Citizens United v. FEC is one of the most reviled decisions of the
Supreme Court in recent years. The President of the United States
denounced it to the Justices' faces at his 2011 State of the Union
address. His 2008 opponent, John McCain, called it "the worst
decision ever." The Democratic Party is pledged to reverse it by
constitutional amendment if necessary. Prominent newspapers
attribute to it virtually every excess of the campaign finance
system, whether or not the practices were authorized by the decision
or would have been lawful even without it. It has become shorthand
for corporate domination of politics. It has few defenders among
legal scholars. I believe it is time for a more balanced evaluation.
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Justice Scalia, Commenting on Pending Case, Calls Voting Rights Act
"Racial Preferment" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49355>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:50 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49355>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jess Bravin
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324345804578427023243667626-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwNjExNDYyWj.html>:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told university students that
key provisions of the Voting Rights Act had evolved from an
emergency response to racial discrimination in 1965 to an "embedded"
form of "racial preferment" that would likely continue indefinitely
unless the court acts to end them.
Justice Scalia, speaking Monday night at the University of
California Washington Center, elaborated on remarks he made in
February during Supreme Court arguments over the act's Section 5,
which requires states and localities that historically discriminated
against minority voters to obtain federal approval to change
election procedures.
Section 5 functions as a racial entitlement because the federal
government doesn't take a similar interest in protecting the voting
rights of white people from racial discrimination, Justice Scalia said.
The remarks are not much different from what Justice Scalia said at oral
argument
<http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/03/20/scalia-calls-voting-rights-act-racial-entitlement/>
in the /Shelby County/ case, but I find it pretty remarkable that he'd
make these comments off the bench while /Shelby County /remains pending.
UPDATE:It gets worse
<http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/04/16/scalia-speaks-part-i-justice-tips-hand-on-fcc-case-vote/>,
as Justice Scalia appears to tip his hand on how he's voting in an
upcoming case.
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Campbell Debate on Campaign Finance Reform
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49352>
Posted on April 16, 2013 1:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49352>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Details <http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/campbell/programs/Upcoming_Debate/>:
April 18, 2013
U.S. Navy Memorial Naval Heritage Center
Washington D.C.
5:45 PM
This Assembly Believes the Current System of Campaign Finance Is
Broken
*For the proposition* *Against the proposition*
*Marc Elias
*Partner, Perkins Coie, general counsel, Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign,
general counsel, Dodd 2008 primary campaign, lead counsel, Franken 2008
recount *David Mason
*Senior Vice President, Aristotle, former Commissioner and Chair,
Federal Election Commission
*Robert Edgar
*President, Common Cause, former General Secretary of the National
Council of the Churches of Christ, former Member of Congress (D-Pa.).
*Benjamin Barr
*Counsel, Wyoming Liberty Group, counsel in Carey v. FEC and Free Speech
v. FEC.
/*Space is limited and registration is required*/
*Please register here <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5ZWD6G3>*
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Sam Bagenstos Defends DOJ, Tom Perez
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49348>
Posted on April 16, 2013 1:33 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49348>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Testimony here
<http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/04162013_2/Bagenstos%2004162013.pdf>.
You can find links to the other witness testimony at the House hearing
at this link
<http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/hear_04162013_2.html>.
UPDATE: Watch this exchange
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q127wuWffVo#%21>
between Rep. Gowdy and Prof. Bagenstos about the South Carolina
preclearance process and whether career attorneys were overruled in the
case.
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"SEC: More than 500,000 Calls for Corporate Spending Disclosure"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49345>
Posted on April 16, 2013 11:18 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49345>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports
<http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2013-04-16/sec-more-than-500000-calls-for-corporate-spending-disclosure/>.
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"In Political Campaigns, Do You Get What You Pay For?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49342>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:38 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49342>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
i missed this extensive Tom Edsall piece
<http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/in-political-campaigns-do-you-get-what-you-pay-for/?smid=tw-share>
from last week.
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"Americans love government --- as long as it's their own"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49340>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:27 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49340>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Aaron Blake
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/15/americans-love-government-as-long-as-its-their-own/>:
Congress and the federal government continue to struggle with
historically low approval ratings, as Americans grow tired of
gridlock in Washington and hold both major parties in low regard.
But when it comes to government in general, Americans are actually
pretty darn happy.
A significant majority of Americans continue to view their state and
local governments in a positive light, according to a new poll from
the Pew Research Center
<http://www.people-press.org/2013/04/15/state-govermnents-viewed-favorably-as-federal-rating-hits-new-low/>. The
poll shows 57 percent approve of their state government, while 63
percent like their local government. That contrasts starkly with the
28 percent who view the federal government favorably --- a new low
for those numbers in Pew polls.
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"GOP issues critical report of labor secretary nominee Perez"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49337>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:23 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49337>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-issues-critical-report-of-labor-secretary-nominee-perez/2013/04/15/d822488a-a62a-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_story.html>:
"Republican lawmakers sharply criticized Thomas Perez, the nominee for
labor secretary, in a report Sunday over what they said was a
questionable deal he brokered while serving as head of the Justice
Department's Civil Rights Division. The 63-page report, issued after
months of investigation, is certain to provide fodder for Republicans
seeking to challenge Perez at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday."
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"How conservatives invented 'voter fraud' to attack civil rights"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49334>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:20 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49334>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Gary May excerpt
<http://www.salon.com/2013/04/14/how_conservatives_invented_voter_fraud_to_attack_civil_rights/singleton/?google_editors_picks=true>
at Salon of forthcoming book, Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights
Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018467/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1ZA3WTBK5C6PPVZ8Y39H&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1389517282&pf_rd_i=507846>.
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"Bob Perry, Big Backer of 'Swift Boat' Ads, Dies at 80?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49331>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:14 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49331>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/us/politics/bob-perry-swift-boat-ad-backer-dies-at-80.html?ref=politics&_r=0>
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OFA, Which Won't Take Lobbyist Money, Registers as Lobbyist
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49328>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:11 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49328>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Free Beacon reports <http://freebeacon.com/lobbying-for-action/> (via
Eric Brown
<http://politicalactivitylaw.com/2013/04/16/todays-political-law-links-41613/>).
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" Mile-High Melee Continues: New Colorado Bill Divides SoS, Clerks"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49325>
Posted on April 16, 2013 7:08 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49325>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Doug Chapin blogs
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2013/04/mile-high_melee_continues_new.php>.
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