[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/14/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Sat Dec 14 13:59:16 PST 2013
"No sign Rep. Bobby Rush paid rent for South Side office;
contributions helped bankroll his church, wife"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57458>
Posted on December 14, 2013 1:55 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57458>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Chicago Sun-Times reports
<http://www.suntimes.com/news/24190987-761/no-sign-rep-bobby-rush-paid-rent-for-south-side-office-contributions-helped-bankroll-his.html>.
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"Judge sends Arizona, Kansas voter citizenship suit back to US
Election Assistance Commission" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57456>
Posted on December 14, 2013 1:37 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57456>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/state/judge-sends-arizona-kansas-voter-citizenship-suit-back-to-us-election-assistance-commission>:
A federal judge has sent back to federal elections officials a
request by Kansas and Arizona to force modifications in a national
voter registration form so the states can fully enforce
proof-of-citizenship requirements.
U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren on Friday sent the states' lawsuit
back to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, with instructions
that the commission has to have a final decision by Jan. 17.
There is zero chance the EAC will have a decision by that date, given
that the commissionlacks any commissioners
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/12/12/13993/kill-election-assistance-commission>who
could act.
As Justice Scalia wrote in the Inter-tribal
<http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Arizona_v_Inter_Tribal_Council_of_Ariz_Inc_133_S_Ct_2247_186_L_Ed>case;
The EAC currently lacks a quorum-indeed, the Commission has not a
single active Commissioner. If the EAC proves unable to act on a
renewed request, Arizona would be free to seek a writ of mandamus to
"compel agency action unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed."
5 U.S.C. §706(1) . It is a nice point, which we need not resolve
here, whether a court can compel agency action that the agency
itself, for lack of the statutorily required quorum, is incapable of
taking. If the answer to that is no, Arizona might then be in a
position to assert a constitutional right to demand concrete
evidence of citizenship apart from the Federal Form.
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"Protests Aim at One Man Who Moved North Carolina to the Right"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57454>
Posted on December 14, 2013 1:32 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57454>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/us/protests-aim-at-one-man-who-moved-state-to-right.html?ref=politics>
on Art Pope protests.
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"Florida Supreme Court rules lawmakers can be forced to testify in
redistricting court fight" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57451>
Posted on December 14, 2013 1:22 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57451>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Orlando Sentinel
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/blogs/political-pulse/os-florida-supreme-court-rules-lawmakers-can-be-forced-to-testify-in-redistricting-court-fight-20131213,0,1682150.post>:
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Friday
<http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/2013/sc13-949.pdf>
that state lawmakers can be forced to testify and turn
over documents related to whether they intentionally redrew
political maps for partisan gain last year.
The fight between voting-rights groups such as the League of Women
Voters of Florida and the Legislature stems from 2010 constitutional
amendments adopted by voters that specify lawmakers couldn't base
their decisions when re-drawing congressional and legislative
districts on the desire for political gain.
Specifically, the Fair Districts amendments outlawed drawing new
lines with the intent to favor or disfavor incumbents or political
parties.
The groups challenging last year's maps say that is exactly what
happened --- and have been battling in courts since spring 2012 over
whether they can compel lawmakers and their staff to testify under
oath and turn over draft versions of the maps that might shed light
on their intentions.
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Final Version Now Posted of "The 2012 Voting Wars, Judicial
Backstops, and the Resurrection of Bush v. Gore"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57449>
Posted on December 14, 2013 1:18 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57449>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
You can download it here
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2182857>. The
entire /George Washington Law Review/ symposium issue in which this
article will appear should post in the next few days.
Here is the abstract for my piece:
In 2000, some scholars predicted the Supreme Court's controversial
equal protection holding in Bush v. Gore that the state could not
arbitrarily value one person's vote over that of another might be
used to force states to improve their election processes through
litigation. In the ensuing years, Bush v. Gore had not fulfilled
that promise. Scholars debated when, if ever, the case could apply
beyond the narrow facts of a statewide recount with inconsistent
counting standards, but the courts seemed uninterested: the Supreme
Court has failed to cite the case for any proposition, and the few
lower courts which relied upon the case as precedent to create
better and fairer voting conditions were overturned or limited. By
2007, I lamented the "untimely death" of Bush v. Gore.
A funny thing happened during 2012. The voting wars which had ensued
since 2000 manifested themselves in a host of restrictive election
rule changes passed in the name of fraud prevention and
administrative convenience mostly by Republican legislatures and
implemented by Republican election administrators. Democrats, the
Department of Justice, and reform groups resisted the overreach,
litigating over many of these changes. The results of this
litigation was a mixed bag. For example, courts approved some voter
identification laws, rejected others, and put Pennsylvania's and
Wisconsin's laws on hold for this election season but perhaps not
beyond that. Overall, it appeared that in the most egregious cases
of partisan overreach, courts were serving, often with surprising
unanimity, as a judicial backstop.
In Ohio, one of the twin epicenters (along with Florida) of the 2012
voting wars, two important cases relied in part on Bush v. Gore to
expand voting rights. In one case, a conservative panel of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit --- a court
which had shown itself bitterly divided along party and ideological
lines on election issues in 2008 --- unanimously held that Ohio's
disenfranchisement of voters for voting in the wrong polling
location because of poll worker error violated the equal protection
clause. In the other case, another Sixth Circuit panel held that
Ohio's contraction of the early voting period to exclude the weekend
before the election, for all voters except certain military voters,
violated the equal protection clause under Bush v. Gore. The court
so held despite the fact that Ohio provided 23 days of early voting
and for the first time sent all Ohio voters a no-excuse absentee
ballot application. This latter ruling was at best a major stretch
of Bush v. Gore and existing precedent.
The story of the 2012 voting wars is a story of Republican
legislative and to some extent administrative overreach to contract
voting rights, followed by a judicial and public backlash. The
public backlash was somewhat expected --- Democrats predictably made
"voter suppression" a key talking point of the campaign. The
judicial backlash, and the resurrection of Bush v. Gore in the Sixth
Circuit, was not. The judicial reaction, from liberal and
conservative judges and often on a unanimous basis, suggests that
courts may now be more willing to act as backstops to prevent
egregious cutbacks in voting rights and perhaps to do even more to
assure greater equality and fairness in voting. However, it is
possible that this trend will reverse in future elections.
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"Texas Wouldn't Let This Afghanistan Vet Vote in the Last
Presidential Election" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57447>
Posted on December 14, 2013 1:15 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57447>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/Mother Jones /
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/texas-voter-law-signature-afghanistan-veteran>reports.
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/texas-voter-law-signature-afghanistan-veteran>
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military voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=48>
Audio Now Available of this Week's Joint CA Legislative Hearing on
the Federal Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57445>
Posted on December 14, 2013 1:07 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57445>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here <mms://media.senate.ca.gov/2013-12-12-Joint-Elections>.
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Posted in Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
"Subsidizing Democracy: How Public Funding Changes Elections and How
It Can Work in the Future" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57443>
Posted on December 14, 2013 1:04 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57443>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Miller has publishedthis book
<http://www.amazon.com/Subsidizing-Democracy-Funding-Changes-Elections/dp/0801452279>
with Cornell University Press.
In the wake of /Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission/
(2010), the case that allowed corporate and union spending in
elections, many Americans despaired over the corrosive influence
that private and often anonymous money can have on political
platforms, campaigns, and outcomes at the federal and state level.
In /McComish v. Bennett/ (2011), the Supreme Court declared
unconstitutional the matching funds feature of so-called "Clean
Elections" public financing laws, but there has been no strong
challenge to the constitutionality of public funding as such. In
/Subsidizing Democracy/, Michael G. Miller considers the impact of
state-level public election financing on political campaigns through
the eyes of candidates. Miller's insights are drawn from survey data
obtained from more than 1,000 candidates, elite interview testimony,
and twenty years of election data. This book is therefore not only
an effort to judge the effects of existing public election funding
but also a study of elite behavior, campaign effects, and the
structural factors that influence campaigns and voters.
The presence of publicly funded candidates in elections, Miller
reports, results in broad changes to the electoral system, including
more interaction between candidates and the voting public and
significantly higher voter participation. He presents evidence that
by providing neophytes with resources that would have been
unobtainable otherwise, subsidies effectively manufacture quality
challengers. Miller describes how matching-funds provisions of Clean
Elections laws were pervasively manipulated by candidates and
parties and were ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court. A
revealing book that will change the way we think about campaign
funding, /Subsidizing Democracy/ concludes with an evaluation of
existing proposals for future election policy in light of Miller's
findings.
I've blurbed this book and recommend it.
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"Political Activity, Lobbying Laws and Gift Rules Guide, 3d,
2013-2014 ed." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57441>
Posted on December 14, 2013 1:00 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57441>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Trevor Potter and Matthew Sanderson edit.
<http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Treatises/Political-Activity-Lobbying-Laws-and-Gift-Rules-Guide-3d-2013-2014-ed/p/100206238>
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"Politics to the Extreme: American Political Institutions in the
Twenty-First Century" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57439>
Posted on December 14, 2013 12:52 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57439>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly are editors of this new volume
<http://us.macmillan.com/politicstotheextreme/ScottAFrisch>. Here is
the table of contents:
Foreword; Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein
Introduction; Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly
PART I: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF PARTISAN POLARIZATION
1. Appropriations to the Extreme: Partisanship and the Power of the
Purse; Geoffrey W. Buhl, Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly
2. The Gingrich Senators, the Tea Party Senators, and Their Effect
on the U.S. Senate; Sean Theriault
3. The Weaponization of Congressional Oversight: The Politics of the
Watchful Eye, 1947-2010; David C.W. Parker and Matthew Dull
4. Party Polarization, Member Incivility, and Legislative
Productivity: A Two-Dimensional Perspective on Conflict and
Moderation in Congress; Lawrence C. Dodd and Scot Schraufnagel
5. Let's Play Hardball: Congressional Partisanship in the Television
Era; Douglas Harris
6. Profile Politics: Examining Polarization through Congressional
Member Facebook Pages; José Marichal
7. Necessary and Damaging: Presidential Base Electoral Strategies
and Partisan Polarization; Lara Brown
8. A Polarizing Supreme Court? Judicial Decisions in a Red/Blue
America; Kevin J. McMahon
PART II: BRIDGING THE PARTISAN DIVIDE
9. Growing Apart: 'Civilista' Attempts to Bridge the Partisan Rift;
Frank Mackaman
10. Can Polarization be Mitigated? California's Experiment with the
Top-Two Primary; Seth Masket
11. How to Turn Democrats and Republicans into Americans; Mickey Edwards
I was a the Cal. State Channel Islands event from which these papers are
drawn. Highly recommended.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization
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"Americans for Responsible Leadership Wholly Funded by Koch-Linked
Group" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57437>
Posted on December 13, 2013 1:13 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57437>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
More great reporting
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/12/americans-for-responsible-leadership-wholly-funded-by-koch-linked-group.html>from
Open Secrets.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
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Is Blagojevich's Conviction Going to Get Overturned by 7th Circuit?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57435>
Posted on December 13, 2013 1:09 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57435>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sure sounds like it
<http://www.suntimes.com/24350376-761/appellate-judges-lob-tough-questions-about-blagojevich-prosecution.html>.
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"Fairfax Shows Transparency Done Right in #VAAG Recount"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57433>
Posted on December 13, 2013 7:59 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57433>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Open Virginia Law blogs
<http://www.openvirginialaw.com/2013/12/fairfax-transparency-in-vaag-recount/>.
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Lessig Distances Himself from Represent.Us on "Corruption" and
Campaign Finance Reform <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57430>
Posted on December 13, 2013 7:54 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57430>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Regular readers know of my concerns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57127> about
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57262>how Represent.Us is trying to both
sell its campaign finance reform plan as "anti-corruption" and confusion
over whether the group means old style corruption or Lessig's
"dependence corruption" (which I see as a a kind of equality
argument--though Larry doesn't).
Today Larry posted this piece
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/13/congress-can-be-corrupt-without-corrupt-people.html>
in the/Daily Beast/, which includes the following:
Represent.US <https://represent.us/> is an activist organization
fighting corruption in Washington. It has created (with the help of
Trevor Potter <http://www.capdale.com/tpotter>, a Republican, and
former Chairman of the FEC, Jack Abramoff
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff>, a Republican and
former lobbyist, and me, a former Republican, with the word "former"
strongly emphasized) the American Anti-Corruption Act
<http://anticorruptionact.org/>, perhaps the most ambitious reform
proposal to address the "corruption" in Washington in a hundred years.
But what is the "corruption" that the AA Act means to reform? Though
at times, Represent.US has followed the McCain line---attacking the
system of corruption that has evolved within DC---in its most recent
work, the group has become positively McConnell-esque---except that
unlike McConnell, Represent.US actually believes there is widespread
corruption in the quid pro quo sense, while McConnell (and I for
that matter) believe there is not.
Congressman Jim Himes <http://himes.house.gov/> (D-CT) is
Represent.US's latest target. This former Goldman Sachs partner has
frustrated many progressives by working hard to deregulate Wall
Street. In a completely tasteless online ad
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWnJr_amf_A&noredirect=1> sponsored
by Represent.US, a fake lobbyist approaches Himes at an event
carrying a bag full of cash. He opens his conversation by thanking
Himes for "taking the lead" on the Wall Street deregulation bills.
Himes responds that "Well, I don't hear that often." But then the
fake lobbyist "accidentally" spills wads of cash onto the floor.
Himes, appropriately enough, walks away from the fake lobbyist
without saying a word. Security quickly escorts the fake lobbyist
out of the event.
This ad is wrong, because its conception of corruption is wrong. Jim
Himes is not "corrupt" in the sense that McConnell means. He works
within a corrupt system, in the sense that McCain tried to explain.
Within that system, members must fund their campaigns in ways that
certainly destroys the integrity of the system. But this isn't the
cash-for-favors culture of the Gilded Age. The "system," as McCain
had explained, certainly destroys the "integrity" of Congress.
Quoting Webster's, McCain rightly argues that "corruption" means
"the impairment of integrity, virtue or moral principle." But you
don't need to allege quid pro quo bribery to prove that the
"integrity" of Congress has been impaired. What you need are a pair
of eyes, or a paycheck that doesn't depend upon the survival of the
existing system.
Now unclear to me: is McCainian "institutional corruption" the same as
"dependence corruption"/equality or is it something else entirely?
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"Special elections: They mostly just waste money"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57428>
Posted on December 13, 2013 7:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57428>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Great sense
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-levinson-voter-apathy-term-liimits-20131213,0,4219430.story#axzz2nN2JrSQU>
from Jessica Levinson in the /LA Times./
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Payment by the Signature Figures into Nassau County Police Scandal
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57426>
Posted on December 13, 2013 7:46 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57426>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/nyregion/nassau-police-leader-resigns-after-inquiry-into-an-arrest.html>
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Hey, I'm Now a Member of the Scholars Strategy Network
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57424>
Posted on December 13, 2013 7:45 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57424>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Check it out. <http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/scholar-profile/416>
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"Tempers Flare as New Rules Strain Senate"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57422>
Posted on December 13, 2013 7:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57422>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/us/politics/senate-confirms-georgetown-law-professor-to-powerful-appeals-court.html?hp&_r=1&>
on the post-nuclear Senate.
It actually does not seem as bad to me as the apocalyptic predictions,
but we are only at the beginning.
And who knows if Republicans will blow up the rest of the filibuster
when they are next in the majority with a Republican president?
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"SEC's Non-Decision Decision on Corporate Political Activity a
Policy and Political Mistake" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57420>
Posted on December 13, 2013 7:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57420>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
John Coates
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2013/12/13/secs-non-decision-decision-on-corporate-political-activity-a-policy-and-political-mistake/>:
The SEC's recent decision to take disclosure of political activities
off the SEC's agenda is a policy mistake, as it ignores the best
research on the point, described below, and perpetuates a key
loophole in the investor-relevant disclosure rules, allowing large
companies to omit material information about the politically
inflected risks they run with other people's money. It is also a
political mistake, as it repudiates the 600,000+ investors who have
written to the SEC personally to ask it to adopt a rule requiring
such disclosure, and will let entrenched business interests focus
their lobbying solely on watering down regulation mandated under the
Dodd-Frank Act and the 2012 securities law statute, rather than
having also to work to influence a disclosure regime.
The connection between political activity and investor concerns is
directly reflected in the /Wall Street Journal'/s own editorializing
on the topic, e.g., here
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303734204577468443488066430>,
where the /WSJ/ repeats one study's finding that political activity
can increase shareholder returns by 2 to 5% per year. The /WSJ/ does
not acknowledge that other studies reach different
conclusions---that political activity can be harmful, and its
effects vary significantly from firm to firm and over time---but
regardless of which study's results are correct, the materiality of
such activity to shareholders is clear, even by the lights of the /WSJ/.
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Election Law Journal 12:4 --- The Law of Deliberative Democracy
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57409>
Posted on December 13, 2013 7:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57409>by Dan Tokaji
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>
The new issue of Election Law Journal is now out
<http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/elj/12/4>. It features a symposium on
the Law of Deliberative Democracy, guest co-edited by Ron Levy and
Graeme Orr. The table of contents appears below:
The Party Line: Crossing Boundaries, by Daniel P. Tokaji & Paul Gronke
*SYMPOSIUM*
The Law of Deliberative Democracy: Seeding the Field, by Ron Levy
*ARTICLES*
*Deliberating About Rules*
Deliberate About, Not In, Elections, by Dennis F. Thompson
Deliberative Democracy and Electoral Management Bodies: The Case of
Australian Electoral Commissions, by Joo-Cheong Tham
*Deliberating in Elections*
Second-Best Deliberative Democracy and Election Law, by Yasmin Dawood
Deliberation and Electoral Law, by Graeme Orr
Deliberation and Mass Media Communication in Election Campaigns, by
Jacob Rowbottom
Deliberative Democracy and Compulsory Voting, by Lisa Hill
The Incompatible Treatment of Majorities in Election Law and
Deliberative Democracy, by James A. Gardner
*Popular Deliberation*
Deliberation by the People Themselves: Entry Points for the Public
Voice, by James Fishkin
Using Electoral Law to Construct a Deliberative Referendum: Moving
Beyond the Democratic Paradox, by Stephen Tierney
Worth Talking About?: Modest Constitutional Amendment and Citizen
Deliberation in Australia, by Paul Kildea
This is my last issue as co-editor. Paul Gronke will be sole editor for
Volume 13. The next issue of ELJ, guest
co-edited by Michael Halberstam, will focus on lobbying and campaign
finance <http://baldycenter.info/conferences/lobbying-and-campaign/>.
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"North Carolina voting changes to go on trial in 2015?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57407>
Posted on December 12, 2013 8:43 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57407>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Reuters reports
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/13/us-usa-northcarolina-voting-idUSBRE9BB19120131213>.
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The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, Voting Rights Act
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"New Obama Advisor Brings Corporate Ties"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57404>
Posted on December 12, 2013 8:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57404>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/us/politics/new-obama-adviser-brings-corporate-ties.html?ref=politics>:
"Mr. Podesta, named a senior adviser to President Obama, is not
currently a lobbyist and therefore does not have to worry about the
Obama administration's self-imposed ban on hiring lobbyists to
administration jobs. But he will nonetheless arrive at the White House
after having run an organization [, the Center for American Progress,]
that has taken millions of dollars in corporate donations in recent
years and has its own team of lobbyists who have pushed an agenda that
sometimes echoes the interests of these corporate supporters."
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