[EL] more news 2/15/13

Fri Feb 15 11:33:22 PST 2013

    Ellen Katz on Shelby County Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47330>

Posted on February 15, 2013 11:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47330> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/02/shelby-county-v-holder-why-section-2-matters/>at 
SCOTUSBlog.

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    If the Supreme Court Agrees to Hear the Two Pending Campaign Finance
    Cases... <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47328>

Posted on February 15, 2013 10:54 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47328> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

the order won't come 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/02/todays-orders-no-grants-yet/> before 
Tuesday at 9:30 am.

If I had to make a prediction, I'd predict that the Court takes 
theMcCutcheon <http://electionlawblog.org/?s=mccutcheon>case involving 
the aggregate contribution limit but not the Danielczyk 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?s=danielczyk>case, about the 
constitutionality of the ban on direct corporate contributions to 
candidates. McCutcheon is coming up on appeal and not cert, and a 
decision to not hear the case counts as a ruling on the merits. Also, 
there's no circuit split on the corporate contribution case, and there's 
a strong anti-circumvention argument against allowing corporate 
contributions: an individual could easily evade the individual 
contribution limits through setting up an unlimited number of 
corporations to make additional contributions.

How confident am I in this prediction about what the Court will do? Not 
very.

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    "When Campaign Contributions are a Crime"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47325>

Posted on February 15, 2013 9:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47325> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jonathan Adler blogs 
<http://www.volokh.com/2013/02/15/when-campaign-contributions-are-a-crime/> 
about an interesting Sixth Circuit opinion 
<http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/13a0040p-06.pdf> written by 
Judge Sutton.

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    ACS Issue Brief on Shelby County <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47322>

Posted on February 15, 2013 8:45 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47322> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it here 
<http://www.acslaw.org/publications/issue-briefs/the-voting-rights-act-is-in-jeopardy-but-it-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-a-close-look-at-s>.

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    Is OFA Breaking Its Own Rules About Getting Involved in Elections?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47319>

Posted on February 15, 2013 8:31 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47319> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

That's the charge in the Weekly Standard. 
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/promoting-candidate-obama-group-runs-afoul-irs-rules-its-own-promise_700450.html?page=1>   
(They also raise an IRS claim, which seems not to fly given what 
everyone else is doing.)

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    Verrilli and Adegbile will Argue for Constitionality of VRA in
    Shelby Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47315>

Posted on February 15, 2013 8:25 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47315> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

So reports Ari Berman 
<https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/302449397332058112>.

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    "Over 200 organizations ask Census Bureau to develop solutions to
    'prison gerrymandering'" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47312>

Posted on February 15, 2013 8:19 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47312> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release: 
<http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2013/02/14/feb2013letter/>"Today, 
more than 200 civil rights, voting rights and criminal justice 
organizations sent a letter 
<http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/letters/feb2013.html> calling on 
the U.S. Census Bureau to seize a timely opportunity to research 
alternative ways to count incarcerated people in the decennial Census."

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    "Nate Silver defends contested post; His decision to omit outside
    spending still leads to an incomplete analysis"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47310>

Posted on February 15, 2013 8:17 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47310> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This item 
<http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/nate_silver_defends_contested_post.php> 
appears at the Columbia Journalism Review.

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