[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/1/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Aug 1 08:24:05 PDT 2013
<http://electionlawblog.org/>
"Clinton Campaign-in-Waiting in Super-PAC Passes Rivals"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53828>
Posted on August 1, 2013 8:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53828>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports
<http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-07-31/clinton-campaign-in-waiting-inside-super-pac-bigger-than-rivals>.
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"CREDO Mobile and Citizens United: Why I can't take most 'reformers'
seriously" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53825>
Posted on August 1, 2013 8:16 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53825>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sean Parnell blogs
<http://blog.heartland.org/2013/08/credo-mobile-and-citizens-united-why-i-cant-take-most-reformers-seriously/>.
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"Mistrial in Mississippi Case Over Mayoral Election"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53822>
Posted on August 1, 2013 7:41 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53822>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/us/mistrial-in-mississippi-case-over-mayoral-election.html?ref=us>"Two
months ago, the voters of Hattiesburg, Miss., tried to pick a mayor, but
the outcome became the subject of a court battle that resulted in a
mistrial on Tuesday."
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18> |
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"Democrats Seize Super PAC Crown" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53819>
Posted on August 1, 2013 7:40 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53819>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI reports.
<https://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/08/01/13104/democrats-seize-super-pac-crown>
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"In Senate, Arm-Twisting and Vote-Changing Lead to a Confirmation"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53817>
Posted on August 1, 2013 7:38 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53817>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/us/politics/in-senate-arm-twisting-and-vote-changing-lead-to-a-confirmation.html?ref=politics&_r=0>.
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"South Dakota Debates Need, Cost for Native American Vote Centers"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53814>
Posted on August 1, 2013 7:36 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53814>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A ChapinBlog.
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2013/08/south_dakota_debates_need_cost.php>
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"Liberal Groups Lead in Money Race"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53812>
Posted on August 1, 2013 7:35 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53812>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/liberal-fundraising-2014-2016-elections-95031.html?hp=l3>:
Democrats and liberals --- traditionally more skeptical about the
role of big money and mega-donors in politics --- beat Republicans
in the outside money battle for the first half of the year.
Groups backing Democratic candidates and causes in 2014 and 2016 all
posted robust fundraising numbers, as did organizations supporting
President Barack Obama's top second-term priorities, according to a
POLITICO review of campaign finance reports filed Wednesday.
Conservative groups --- accustomed to dominating the outside money
game --- underperformed expectations with lackluster hauls.
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"IRS fails to release political groups' financial filings"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53810>
Posted on August 1, 2013 7:33 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53810>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI:
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/08/01/13101/irs-fails-release-political-groups-financial-filings>
Mid-year campaign finance reports publicly posted by the Federal
Election Commission on Wednesday revealed hundreds of political
groups' 2013 finances.
But there's a glaring gap in the picture.
The Internal Revenue Service
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/search?query=irs#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=irs&gsc.page=1>
failed to release hundreds of mandatory filings by so-called 527
political organizations <http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/basics.php>
it --- not the FEC --- regulates.
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Links to All 19 McCutcheon Amicus Briefs
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53807>
Posted on July 31, 2013 9:03 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53807> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Winger <http://www.ballot-access.org/?p=35045>'s got 'em.
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"Obama's Scheme to Take Over Texas"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53804>
Posted on July 31, 2013 8:05 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53804> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Greg Abbott, Texas's AG and a gubernatorial candidate, has written this
oped
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/30/obamas-scheme-to-take-over-texas/>for
the Washington Times. It concludes:
On top of that, putting states like Texas back under federal
oversight is unnecessary to protect voting rights. Although the
Supreme Court has ended the preclearance requirement, the
protections of the Voting Rights Act still apply. Anyone claiming
discrimination by a state voting law can sue in federal court. In
fact, that is exactly what has happened in the Texas redistricting
litigation, where the Obama administration injected itself. If the
courts find that a state law violates the Voting Rights Act, the law
will not be enforced. These lawsuits cost the aggrieved voter
nothing. There is a sizable cottage industry of lawyers who gladly
take any legitimate --- and many illegitimate --- cases at no charge
to the aggrieved voter.
After the Shelby County decision, the Voting Rights Act still works.
It just no longer imposes an onerous and costly preclearance
requirement that disrupts the state-federal balance of power
enshrined in the Constitution. Instead of allowing the Voting Rights
Act to work in a way the Constitution allows, the Obama
administration is sowing racial divide to score cheap political
points. The president is using the legal system as a sword to wage
partisan battles rather than a shield to protect voting rights. This
overreaching action undermines the Voting Rights Act and the rule of
law. Texas will not tolerate it. So far, neither will the Supreme Court.
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"Key GOP super PACs see drop in donations this year"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53801>
Posted on July 31, 2013 8:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53801> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
USA Today reports
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/31/american-crossroads-conservative-victory-project-slow-fundraising-karl-rove/2605927/>.
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"Conservative super PACs log modest hauls in first half of the year"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53798>
Posted on July 31, 2013 4:37 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53798> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/31/conservative-super-pacs-log-modest-hauls-in-first-half-of-the-year/>
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Justice Ginsburg Gives Another Interview, Calls Conservative
Majority "Activist" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53796>
Posted on July 31, 2013 4:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53796> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
USA Today
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/31/ginsburg-female-justices-no-shrinking-violets-/2606239/>'s
Richard Wolf gets the quote: "The court has the reputation of being
conservative, but if you take activism to mean readiness to strike down
laws passed by Congress, I think the current court will go down in
history as one of the most active courts in that regard."
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"Release -- Culberson-Rokita Bill Empowers States to Fight Voter
Fraud" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53793>
Posted on July 31, 2013 4:23 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53793> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Press release
<http://rokita.house.gov/press-release/release-culberson-rokita-bill-empowers-states-fight-voter-fraud>:
"Reps. John Culberson (TX-07) and Todd Rokita (IN-04) recently
introduced H.R. 2829, the Restoring Important Voting Eligibility
Requirements to the States Act of 2013, or the RIVERS Act. The RIVERS
Act restores the states' Constitutional power to protect the integrity
of their voter rolls. The bill reinforces the congressional intent of
the National Voting Rights Act and allows individual states to determine
the eligibility of voters."
This is a response to the /Arizona v. Inter Tribal/ case
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/arizona-v-the-inter-tribal-council-of-arizona-inc/>
recently decided by the Supreme Court.
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Buckley v. Valeo and McCutcheon <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53790>
Posted on July 31, 2013 3:32 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53790> by
Richard Pildes <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=7>
I had not read in many years the discussion in /Buckley /upholding the
aggregate contributions cap now at issue in the /McCutcheon /case.
Turns out the entire discussion in /Buckley's/ otherwise massive opinion
//is one paragraph long. That makes it easy to reproduce, so I thought
I would. In a general section of the opinion entitled "Contribution
Limitations," here is the entire discussion:
4. The 25,000 Limitation on Total Contributions During any Calendar Year
In addition to the $1,000 limitation on the nonexempt contributions
that an individual may make to a particular candidate for any single
election, the Act contains an over-all $25,000 limitation on total
contributions by an individual during any calendar year. §
608(b)(3). A contribution made in connection with an election is
considered, for purposes of this subsection, to be made in the year
the election is held. Although the constitutionality of this
provision was drawn into question by appellants, it has not been
separately addressed at length by the parties. The over-all $25,000
ceiling does impose an ultimate restriction upon the number of
candidates and committees with which an individual may associate
himself by means of financial support. But this quite modest
restraint upon protected political activity serves to prevent
evasion of the $1,000 contribution limitation by a person who might
otherwise contribute massive amounts of money to a particular
candidate through the use of unearmarked contributions to political
committees likely to contribute to that candidate, or huge
contributions to the candidate's political party. The limited,
additional restriction on associational freedom imposed by the
over-all ceiling is thus no more than a corollary of the basic
individual contribution limitation that we have found to be
constitutionally valid.
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"As San Diego mayor heads for therapy, city faces big mess"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53785>
Posted on July 31, 2013 3:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53785> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The CS Monitor reports
<http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0731/As-San-Diego-mayor-heads-for-therapy-city-faces-big-mess-video>,
quoting Josh Spivak of the excellent Recall Elections Blog.
<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/>
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"A Critical Look at Holder's Texas 'Gambit'"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53781>
Posted on July 31, 2013 3:03 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53781> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ Law Blog
<http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/07/31/a-critical-look-at-holders-texas-gambit/>:
Dusting off a little-used section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
Attorney General Eric Holder made headlines last weekwhen he asked a
federal court
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324110404578627692123727574.html> in
San Antonio to take back control of Texas's voting rules.
The move is thought to be a prelude to a broader battle with
Republican states following a landmark Supreme Court ruling that
gave GOP regions more autonomy over their election laws.
But Mr. Holder's fight with Texas may not be worth it
<http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202613130666&>, at
least according to University of California-Irvine law professor
Richard Hasen <http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/>, an
electoral law expert who supports tougher voting-rights protections.
The best thing that can be said about the Justice Department's legal
strategy is that it's better than nothing, he said.
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Quote of the Day from Jonathan Bernstein
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53778>
Posted on July 31, 2013 2:51 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53778> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
"It made for dramatic CSPAN-2 watching, at least until the long wait for
the flight from North Dakota began."
--Senate Deal Holds [
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/07/31/senate-deal-holds/>on
filibuster]
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Gans on Bauer on Gans on Bauer on Lessig...or Something Like That
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53775>
Posted on July 31, 2013 1:12 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53775> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://theusconstitution.org/text-history/2174/basic-difference-between-campaign-contributions-and-expenditures-reply-bob-bauer>.
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"Another Citizens United--But This Time We'll Win"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53772>
Posted on July 31, 2013 11:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53772>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Liz Kennedy
<http://www.demos.org/blog/7/31/13/another-citizens-united%E2%80%94-time-we%E2%80%99ll-win>
responds to Jeff Toobin
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/07/supreme-court-another-citizens-united-but-worse.html>
on McCutcheon.
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Colbert on Senate Finance Committee Accepting Secret Suggestions on
Drafting Tax Reform Legislation <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53764>
Posted on July 31, 2013 9:28 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53764> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Watch
<http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/428208/july-30-2013/the-word---secrets---laws>.
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Humility Dep't: Sen. Cruz Edition <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53761>
Posted on July 31, 2013 9:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=53761> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Hilarious Colbert
<http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/428209/july-30-2013/ted-cruz-s-humble-portrait>.
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