[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/14/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Mar 13 22:35:07 PDT 2013
"Obama Rallies Supporters and Donors to Keep His Campaign Agenda
Alive" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48373>
Posted on March 13, 2013 10:29 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48373>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/us/politics/obama-rallies-supporters-to-support-his-agenda.html?ref=politics&_r=0>
/ OFA.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
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"Club for Growth Leads Conservative Charge, Sometimes at
Republicans" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48371>
Posted on March 13, 2013 10:28 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48371>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT's "The Caucus" reports
<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/club-for-growth-leads-conservative-charge-sometimes-at-republicans/?ref=politics>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political
polarization <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68> | Comments Off
What Do Barnes, Biskupic, Chemerinsky, Estrada, Liptak, and NeJaime
Have in Common? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48368>
Posted on March 13, 2013 10:25 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48368>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
They are the panelists at the 3rd Annual UCI Law Supreme Court Term in
Review even
<http://www.law.uci.edu/events/supreme_court_term_review_2013.html>t,
July 19. RSVPs will open in May and the event wlll be webcast. I'll be
moderating.
Should be a well informed and entertaining panel to discuss what is
shaping up to be another blockbuster year at the Supreme Court!
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"New court filing: Documents were deleted from GOP redistricting
computers" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48366>
Posted on March 13, 2013 10:21 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48366>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
JS Online
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/new-court-filing-documents-were-deleted-from-gop-redistricting-computers-0p9530v-197833071.html>:
Documents were deleted from state redistricting computers last year
even after a lawyer for the Legislature told lawmakers' aides to
preserve all records on the computers, according to documents filed
Wednesday in federal court.
Nine hard drives were recently given to groups suing the state
because of questions about whether legislators and their attorneys
had turned over all the documents they had been ordered to provide.
One of the nine hard drives was unreadable and the outside of it was
dented and scratched, which suggested its metal housing had been
removed, according to affidavits in the case.
In addition, some of the hard drives had a program installed on them
that could remove electronic data and hide the fact that files had
been deleted, according to the filing. So far, however, a computer
expert has not been able to determine if the program was actually used.
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CCP's Joe Trotter Considers OFA and Reform
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48363>
Posted on March 13, 2013 10:17 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48363>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/12/trotter-obama-and-ofa-no-more-keeping-appearances/>,
in the /Washington Times/.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
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"Adam Liptak on Equality of States: The Implications for Shelby
County" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48361>
Posted on March 13, 2013 10:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48361>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Gans blogs
<http://theusconstitution.org/text-history/1875/adam-liptak-equality-states-implications-shelby-county>.
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"The Congressman, the Safari King, and the Woman Who Tried to Look
Like a Cat" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48358>
Posted on March 13, 2013 1:58 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48358>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mother Jones report
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/iccf-conservation-caucus-congress-environment-nonprofit>,
with the subhead: "How did the chair of the House ethics committee end
up on a corporate-backed African safari? Meet the shadowy nonprofit that
throws some of DC's finest junkets."
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Richard Epstein on Shelby County <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48355>
Posted on March 13, 2013 11:45 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48355>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Mirage of Racism
<http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/142306>:
"Under the VRA as it currently stands, we have too much federal
intervention too soon, for too long, and for too little cause. The
Supreme Court should strike the VRA down and let Congress return to the
drawing board for something better."
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Did IG Conclude Obama DOJ a "Far Better Steward" of Voting Rights
Section than Bush DOJ? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48350>
Posted on March 13, 2013 8:33 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48350>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
That's Adam Serwer's reading
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/justice-department-civil-rights-division-inspector-general-report>of
the report, but not mine <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48325>. (The
issue is not whether Obama DOJ /in fact/ was a better steward, but
rather what did the IG conclude.)
Update: Adam Serwer clarifies
<https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/311862985289240577> that this is
his opinion of the evidence, not his characterization of the IG's
conclusions. Sorry for my confusion.
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"Internal Report Blasts DOJ Civil Rights Unit"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48347>
Posted on March 13, 2013 8:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48347>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Josh Gerstein
<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/internal-report-blasts-doj-civil-rights-unit-88770.html>
does a great job describing key points in the IG report.
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"Financing Elections and 'Appearance of Corruption': Citizen
Attitudes and Behavior in 2012? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48344>
Posted on March 13, 2013 8:03 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48344>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Molly Walker Wilson has posted this draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2231695> on SSRN.
Here is the abstract:
As political spending reaches new highs in the 2012 election cycle,
and as the controversy surrounding wealthy donors and interest
groups grows, polls demonstrate a surge of cynicism among Americans
who profess a belief that the American political system is corrupt.
The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United made possible
the most recent expansion of political spending. In this case, the
question was whether allowing corporations and unions to spend
unlimited amounts of money on political advertising would result in
corruption or the appearance of corruption. The majority on the
Court determined that it would not. Many observers have disputed the
majority's conclusion with respect to corruption; the effect on the
appearance of corruption has received far less attention. This
Article focuses on this latter question, arguing that there is a
growing appearance-of-corruption problem in American politics. The
2012 election cycle saw a modest growth in small donor giving and
volunteerism, but voter turn-out was down from the previous two
presidential elections. Meanwhile, polls reveal that more than ever,
Americans' believe that money is corrupting the political process.
This Article explains the connection between the Court's recent
campaign finance decisions and the current disillusionment of the
American public. The Article also explains why data from the 2012
election likely underestimates the problem, and why the
repercussions of our appearance-of-corruption problem are likely to
grow if the law continues to permit unchecked political campaign
spending.
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