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    Audio Posted of Shelby County Oral Argument
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47936>

Posted on March 1, 2013 10:28 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47936> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can listen (and read the tea leaves) here 
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio_detail.aspx?argument=12-96>.

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    "Windsor Brief: DOMA Affects Campaign Finance Laws"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47933>

Posted on March 1, 2013 9:06 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47933> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release via email:

    Members of Caplin & Drysdale's <http://www.capdale.com/> Political
    Law Group <http://www.capdale.com/political_activity_law> filed
    today a friend-of-the-court brief
    <http://www.capdale.com/files/8201_12-307%20bsac%20Former%20FEC%20Officials.pdf>
    for a bipartisan group of former Federal Election Commission
    officials in /U.S. v. Windsor/, the high-profile U.S. Supreme Court
    case that challenges the Defense of Marriage Act's (DOMA)
    constitutionality.

    The Brief
    <http://www.capdale.com/files/8201_12-307%20bsac%20Former%20FEC%20Officials.pdf>
    describes how DOMA, when superimposed on to federal campaign finance
    law, legally bars married gays and lesbians from political
    expression and association opportunities that are afforded to other
    married citizens.  Specifically, DOMA has the following
    discriminatory effects on First Amendment rights:

      * ·*Married gay and lesbian candidates who run for federal office
        may not fund their campaigns using personal resources that are
        available to other married candidates. */This is important,
        since over 40% of the 3,061 congressional candidates during the
        2012 election cycle relied on personal resources to fund their
        campaigns./

      * ·*Individuals in same-sex marriages may not attend certain
        political meetings or interact with certain political groups
        that are open to other married citizens.*

    Trevor Potter <http://www.capdale.com/tpotter>, who leads the firm's
    Political Law Group <http://www.capdale.com/political_activity_law>
    and signed the amicus brief as a former FEC Chair, remarked: "Sexual
    orientation should never affect any American's First Amendment right
    to free speech and association. Because of DOMA, though,
    discrimination is embedded in the very rules that shape political
    involvement.  The Brief informs the Court of this fact to aid its
    deliberations on the constitutionality of DOMA." /Windsor/ is
    scheduled to be heard before the Supreme Court on March 27, 2013.

    All amici signed in their individual capacities and not on behalf of
    any client or group.  Organizational names are listed for
    identification purposes only.  The six former Federal Election
    Commission officials who signed the friend-of-the-court brief are:

  *

        ·*Craig Engle*, former FEC legal counsel and current head of the
        Political Law Group at Arent Fox;

  *

        ·*Kenneth Gross*, former FEC legal counsel and current head of
        current head of the Political Law Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate,
        Meagher & Flom;

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        ·*Robert Lenhard*, former FEC Chair/Commissioner and current
        Political Law attorney at Covington & Burling;

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        ·*Lawrence Noble*, former long-time FEC General Counsel and
        current president of Americans for Campaign Reform;

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        ·*Trevor Potter*, former FEC Chair/Commissioner and current head
        of the Political Law Group at Caplin & Drysdale; and

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        ·*Scott Thomas*, former FEC Chair/Commissioner and current head
        of the Political Law Group at Dickstein Shapiro.

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    "What the Voting Rights Act Argument Was Really About"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47931>

Posted on March 1, 2013 9:05 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47931> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bryan Tyson, who worked for Rep. Lynn Westmoreland during the 2006 VRA 
reauthorization, penned this oped 
<http://www.insideradvantagegeorgia.com/storylink_31_1323.aspx>.

Rep. Westmoreland and I were strange bedfellows 
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/013542.html>back in 2006, when he 
(a conservative Republican) pushed my proposal to have "proactive 
bailout" added to the 2006 legislation.

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