[EL] McCutcheon amicus

Sun Jul 28 12:38:12 PDT 2013

Ah, nothing like the persuasiveness of an ad hominem argument.
Actually, this attack is even arms-length distance ad hominem, but the intent is the same.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Maurer <wmaurer at ij.org>
To: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
Cc: law-election at UCI.edu <law-election at uci.edu>
Sent: Sat, Jul 27, 2013 4:15 pm
Subject: Re: [EL] McCutcheon amicus

I do have to say, if anyone is qualified to talk about corruption and its causes, and losing faith in democracy, it's Monica Conyers husband.

Seriously, does being in office in perpetuity make one so utterly lacking in self awareness?

Bill

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On Jul 27, 2013, at 10:56 AM, "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

“Obama is Right to Mess with Texas”
Posted onJuly 27, 2013 10:53 amby Rick Hasen

Alec MacGillis writes for the New Republic.

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“House Committee Chair Blasts FEC For Failing to Act on Enforcement Issue” 
Posted onJuly 27, 2013 10:52 amby Rick Hasen

Bloomberg BNA: “House Administration Committee Chairman Candice Miller (R-Mich.) in a July 26 statement criticized the Federal Election Commission’s failure to vote on an enforcement manual guiding staff in the FEC Office of General Counsel (OGC).”

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“Pennsylvania’s Proportional Electoral Vote Allocation Proposal: A Nationwide Analysis” 
Posted onJuly 27, 2013 10:48 amby Rick Hasen

New FairVote report.

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“Larson, Brady, Conyers Sign Amicus Brief Urging SCOTUS to Uphold Contribution Limits” 
Posted onJuly 27, 2013 10:47 amby Rick Hasen

Press release: “Today,Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01), Chairman of the Task Force on Election Reform, joinedRanking Member Robert A. Brady (PA-01) of the Committee on House Administration, andRanking Member John Conyers Jr. (MI-13) of the House Judiciary Committee, in submittingan Amicus brief to the Supreme Court regarding the upcoming McCutcheon v. FEC case. The three leading members were joined on the brief by 82 fellow members of the House of Representatives in urging the Court to uphold portions of the “McCain-Feingold” Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. This act restricted the total dollar amount of aggregate contributions a donor may make to candidate committees and other non-candidate political entities, such as political parties and PACs.”

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“Time to Mess with Texas”
Posted onJuly 27, 2013 10:45 amby Rick Hasen

Eric Lewis writes forThe New Yorker.

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“Eric Holder Takes the Fight for Voting Rights to Texas”
Posted onJuly 27, 2013 10:43 amby Rick Hasen

Time reports.

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“North Carolina Republicans slammed over ‘suppressive’ voting bill” 
Posted onJuly 27, 2013 10:41 amby Rick Hasen

The Guardian reports.

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“North Carolina: First in Voter Suppression”
Posted onJuly 26, 2013 1:24 pmby Rick Hasen

David Firestone blogs for NYT’s “Taking Note” editorial blog.

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“And the Shenanigans Begin”
Posted onJuly 26, 2013 1:08 pmby Rick Hasen

Must-read Joey Fishkin poston post-Shelby County developments.

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Could Justice Ginsburg Really Have Believed Congress Would Fix the VRA in 2009? 
Posted onJuly 26, 2013 9:16 amby Rick Hasen

Josh Blackman poses the question on Twitter following my earlier post.  And I think this piece in American Prospect byHeather Gerken from 2009 shows the answer is yes, though it was a longshot:

Finally, it’s possible that the cavalry might come to Section 5′s rescue, in the form of a congressional solution. The oral argument in April already prompted one prominent scholar toact before the Court issued its decision. And it’s hard not to read the decision as a shot across the bow, giving members of Congress a chance to fix the problem before the Court fixes it for them. A number of commentators — including American Prospect Online guest bloggers — have come up with potential fixes, ranging fromallowing civil-rights groups to “opt in” to the Voting Rights Act tocreating a national right to vote, from requiring local officials to consider the impact of their decisions onparticipation rates to proactive bailout. Many of these proposals draw on conversations begun at a conference hosted by the Tobin Project and the American Law Institute on elections research and reform in February 2009 or build upon work done for the leading collection of scholarship on Section 5′s renewal gathered here.
Depending on Congress to save the day means betting on a long shot. Congress is powerful, but it’s a lumbering giant, one that often requires a fairly sizeable crisis to get it to budge. Whether the Supreme Court’s implicit threat is enough of a prod remains to be seen. But that, of course, is just what makes for a good cliffhanger.

More on 2009 thinking in my 2010 piece for Supreme Court review on NAMUDNO and Citizens United.

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“Holder Asks For Federal Voting Oversight In Texas”
Posted onJuly 26, 2013 9:00 amby Rick Hasen

Carrie Johnson reports for NPR’s Morning Editionabout what AG Holder’s decision means for the chances of a post-Shelby Voting Rights Act fix in Congress.

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“For Abbott, a Legal Fight and a Political Bonanza”
Posted onJuly 26, 2013 8:47 amby Rick Hasen

The Texas politicsof bail in.

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“The potential impact of one voting change in Durham, N.C.”
Posted onJuly 26, 2013 8:46 amby Rick Hasen

Don Taylor blogs.
And an update.

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DOJ Makes Second Filing in Texas “Bail-In” Voting Rights Dispute
Posted onJuly 26, 2013 8:39 amby Rick Hasen

Lyle Denniston:

Thursday evening, the Justice Department filed two documents in the Washington case.  In one, Justice Department lawyers said they do not object to a new request by Texas to dismiss that case in view of the legislature’s enactment of new maps to replace the 2011 districts.   The government said that, since Texas has no plans to implement the 2011 maps, there was no need for that court to rule further upon that case.
In the second, and more important, document filed by the government in Washington, it argued that the San Antonio case was a better lawsuit in which to decide whether to apply the Section 3 remedy and put Texas back under a preclearance duty.  There are procedural questions, that filing argued, about whether the intervening challengers have a right to put forth a Section 3 plea in a case in which they are not the ones who had sued.  That is not an issue in San Antonio, it said..
The papers filed in Washington were submitted just ahead of a Friday deadline for new filings in that case.

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