[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/14/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Jun 14 08:13:21 PDT 2013
"NJ court: Special US Senate election in Oct. OK"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51622>
Posted on June 14, 2013 8:10 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51622> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://news.yahoo.com/nj-court-special-us-senate-election-oct-ok-000249398.html?pt=BureoF3GVB>:
A special U.S. Senate election to replace the late Democratic Sen.
Frank Lautenberg can be held in October, as it was scheduled by
Republican Gov. Chris Christie, a state court ruled Thursday.
The ruling could be appealed. And while it keeps an election on
course it does not seem likely to chill criticism of the popular
governor for how he chose to replace Lautenberg, the Senate's oldest
member, who died last week at age 89.
I have posted the opinion here
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/GRILLO-GOVERNOR-CHRISTIE-26-10-13.doc>.
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"'Hastert Rule' Pushed by Insurgent Republicans"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51619>
Posted on June 14, 2013 8:07 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51619> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call reports.
<http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/hastert-rule-pushed-by-insurgent-republicans/>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, political parties
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68> | Comments Off
"The IRS and the Question of Intent"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51616>
Posted on June 14, 2013 8:03 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51616> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bob Bauer blogs. <http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2013/06/irs-intent/>
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and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
Two from Bloomberg BNA on IRS Mess
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51613>
Posted on June 13, 2013 10:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51613>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Cummings: Don't Halt Probe of IRS
EO Applications, But Leave White House Out
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/display/link_res.adp?lt=email&fname=A0D9H8X8D5&lf=eml&emc=mpdm:mpdm:110>
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) June 13 said he does not want the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee to end its investigation of
the Internal Revenue Service's handling of conservative groups'
application for exemption,...
Exempt Organizations
New Limits on Political Spending
Of 501(c)(4)s Considered for Tax Reform
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/display/link_res.adp?lt=email&fname=A0D9H8X8G3&lf=eml&emc=mpdm:mpdm:111>
The Senate Finance Committee outlined ideas June 13 for revamping the
Internal Revenue Code's provisions dealing with tax-exempt and
charitable organizations, including the possibility of limiting
political activities of tax-exempt...
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"More Analysis on Iowa Right to Life v. Tooker: Less Disclosure,
Future Litigation" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51609>
Posted on June 13, 2013 9:57 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51609> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://iowaappeals.com/more-analysis-on-iowa-right-to-life-v-tooker-less-disclosure-future-litigation/>,
at On Brief.
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"Actors Make Videos in Push for Campaign Finance Reform"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51607>
Posted on June 13, 2013 9:56 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51607> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/actors-make-videos-in-push-for-campaign-finance-reform/?src=recg>
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"Voting Rights after Shelby County v. Holder (Webcast)"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51604>
Posted on June 13, 2013 9:53 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51604> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fantastic Brookings event
<http://www.brookings.edu/events/2013/07/01-voting-rights-shelby-holder>July
1 with a great line-up. So sorry I had to decline an invitation to this
because of a conflict. At least I'll be able to watch the webcast.
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"How Art Pope killed clean elections for judges in North Carolina"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51601>
Posted on June 13, 2013 9:50 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51601> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This item
<http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/06/how-art-pope-killed-clean-elections-for-judges-in-.html>appears
at Facing South.
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"D.C.-based groups bombarded state high court races with ads"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51598>
Posted on June 13, 2013 9:46 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51598> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Extensive CPI report
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/06/13/12793/dc-based-groups-bombarded-state-high-court-races-ads>.
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"Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler wrong to use state funds
for trip, ethics commission rules"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51595>
Posted on June 13, 2013 1:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51595> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /Denver Post/ reports
<http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23453397/colorado-secretary-state-scott-gessler-wrong-use-state>.
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Eighth Circuit Upholds Iowa Corporate Campaign Contribution Ban,
Upholds Some, Strikes Down Other Disclosure Rules As Applied to
Certain Groups <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51592>
Posted on June 13, 2013 10:07 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51592>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
You can read the opinion in /Iowa Right to Life, Inc. v. Tooker/ at this
link <http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/13/06/121605P.pdf>. As to the
disclosure rules struck down, the court held that certain reporting
requirements could not be applied to groups who do not have as their
major purpose the influencing of elections.
More from On Brief
<http://iowaappeals.com/breaking-eighth-circuit-strikes-down-part-of-iowa%E2%80%99s-election-laws-as-unconstitutional/>,
Iowa's Appellate Blog.
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"Police raid Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez's mayoral campaign in
absentee ballot fraud investigation"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51589>
Posted on June 13, 2013 9:47 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51589> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /Miami Herald/ reports.
<http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/13/3449321/police-raid-miami-commissioner.html>
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Quote of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51586>
Posted on June 13, 2013 9:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51586> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
"It doesn't matter who wins. It matters that they win by a lot."
--Retiring Clark County (Nev.) Clerk Larry Lomax, in a must-read "first
person" profile
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly> in
ElectionLine Weekly, offering his version of the Election
Administrator's prayer
<http://politicaldictionary.com/words/election-administrators-prayer/>.
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"Federal election reform commission to hold hearing in Miami"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51583>
Posted on June 13, 2013 8:12 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51583> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Miami Herald reports
<http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/12/3447392/federal-election-reform-commission.html#.UbnffuJm9Kw.twitter>.
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As We Wait for the Supreme Court to Decide the Shelby County Voting
Rights Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51577>
Posted on June 13, 2013 7:57 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51577> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
....here is some of my writing about the case if you want to get up to
speed:
What's Lost if the Voting Rights Falls?
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/01/voting_rights_act_what_s_lost_if_the_supreme_court_kills_it.html>
(/Slate/)
If the Court Strikes Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/01/30/if-the-court-strikes-section-5-of-voting-rights-act/>
(Reuters)
Who Controls Voting Rights?
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/26/who-controls-voting-rights/>
(Reuters)
I organized this symposium
<http://www.reuters.com/subjects/voting-rights>at Reuters. SCOTUSBlog
<http://www.scotusblog.com/category/special-features/the-court-and-the-voting-rights-act/>
also ran an excellent symposium. ACS has this Shelby County resource
page <http://www.acslaw.org/voting-rights>.
And for those who wish to go back in time: My first writing on the
issues in the /Shelby County /case was in 2005, in writing edited by
Chris Geidner: Congressional Power to Renew the Preclearance Provisions
of the Voting Rights Act after Tennessee v. Lane
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=561241>. My 2006
testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the serious
constitutional questions with renewing the act without making any
changes is here
<http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=e655f9e2809e5476862f735da1137d6e&wit_id=e655f9e2809e5476862f735da1137d6e-1-3>.
My article analyzing what was likely to happen after the Supreme Court
raised constitutional questions in the NAMDNO case appeared in the 2010
/Supreme Court Review/ (contrasting NAMUDNO with /Citizens United/) in
Constitutional Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance by the Roberts Court.
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436669>
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"Camp Says IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups Did Not Originate in
Cincinnati" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51574>
Posted on June 13, 2013 7:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51574> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=32305108&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0d9h5m9h8&split=0>:
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) June 12
said the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea party and other
conservative groups applying for tax exemptions did not originate in
Cincinnati.
Where the targeting originated has become an increasing point of
contention among lawmakers interviewing IRS employees for their
involvement in inappropriately lumping together the groups'
applications for special scrutiny by name.
Camp said he knows the targeting did not begin in Cincinnati
"because of the testimony we've gotten."
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Latest Law Professor Blog Rankings
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51571>
Posted on June 13, 2013 7:06 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51571> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Courtesy of Paul Caron
<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/06/law-prof-blog.html>.
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"It's Time for the SEC to Regulate Political Spending By Public
Companies" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51568>
Posted on June 13, 2013 7:03 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51568> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lisa Gilbert writes
<http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/time-sec-regulate-political-spending-public-companies-202544912.html>
for Yahoo!.
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