[EL] McCutcheon amicus

Sun Jul 28 15:05:46 PDT 2013

Ad uxorem de hominem?

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On Jul 28, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Craig Holman <holman at aol.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jul 27, 2013, at 10:56 AM, "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
> 
>> “Obama is Right to Mess with Texas”
>> 
>> Posted on July 27, 2013 10:53 am by Rick Hasen
>> Alec MacGillis writes for the New Republic.
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>> Posted in The Voting Wars, Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
>> “House Committee Chair Blasts FEC For Failing to Act on Enforcement Issue”
>> 
>> Posted on July 27, 2013 10:52 am by 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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>> Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
>> “Pennsylvania’s Proportional Electoral Vote Allocation Proposal: A Nationwide Analysis”
>> 
>> Posted on July 27, 2013 10:48 am by Rick Hasen
>> New FairVote report.
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>> Posted in electoral college | Comments Off
>> “Larson, Brady, Conyers Sign Amicus Brief Urging SCOTUS to Uphold Contribution Limits”
>> 
>> Posted on July 27, 2013 10:47 am by Rick Hasen
>> Press release: “Today, Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01), Chairman of the Task Force on Election Reform, joined Ranking Member Robert A. Brady (PA-01) of the Committee on House Administration, and Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (MI-13) of the House Judiciary Committee, in submitting an 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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>> Posted in campaign finance | Comments Off
>> “Time to Mess with Texas”
>> 
>> Posted on July 27, 2013 10:45 am by Rick Hasen
>> Eric Lewis writes for The New Yorker.
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>> Posted in The Voting Wars, Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
>> “Eric Holder Takes the Fight for Voting Rights to Texas”
>> 
>> Posted on July 27, 2013 10:43 am by Rick Hasen
>> Time reports.
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>> Posted in The Voting Wars, Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
>> “North Carolina Republicans slammed over ‘suppressive’ voting bill”
>> 
>> Posted on July 27, 2013 10:41 am by Rick Hasen
>> The Guardian reports.
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>> Posted in The Voting Wars | Comments Off
>> “North Carolina: First in Voter Suppression”
>> 
>> Posted on July 26, 2013 1:24 pm by Rick Hasen
>> David Firestone blogs for NYT’s “Taking Note” editorial blog.
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>> Posted in The Voting Wars, Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
>> “And the Shenanigans Begin”
>> 
>> Posted on July 26, 2013 1:08 pm by Rick Hasen
>> Must-read Joey Fishkin post on post-Shelby County developments.
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>> Posted in The Voting Wars, Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
>> Could Justice Ginsburg Really Have Believed Congress Would Fix the VRA in 2009?
>> 
>> Posted on July 26, 2013 9:16 am by Rick Hasen
>> Josh Blackman poses the question on Twitter following my earlier post.  And I think this piece in American Prospect by Heather 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 to act 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 from allowing civil-rights groups to “opt in” to the Voting Rights Act to creating a national right to vote, from requiring local officials to consider the impact of their decisions on participation 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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>> Posted in Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
>> “Holder Asks For Federal Voting Oversight In Texas”
>> 
>> Posted on July 26, 2013 9:00 am by Rick Hasen
>> Carrie Johnson reports for NPR’s Morning Edition about what AG Holder’s decision means for the chances of a post-Shelby Voting Rights Act fix in Congress.
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>> Posted in Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
>> “For Abbott, a Legal Fight and a Political Bonanza”
>> 
>> Posted on July 26, 2013 8:47 am by Rick Hasen
>> The Texas politics of bail in.
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>> Posted in Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
>> “The potential impact of one voting change in Durham, N.C.”
>> 
>> Posted on July 26, 2013 8:46 am by Rick Hasen
>> Don Taylor blogs.
>> And an update.
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>> Posted in voter registration, Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
>> DOJ Makes Second Filing in Texas “Bail-In” Voting Rights Dispute
>> 
>> Posted on July 26, 2013 8:39 am by 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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>> Posted in Voting Rights Act | Comments Off
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