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Tue May 14 08:19:13 PDT 2013

What a shameful column by Toobin.

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On May 14, 2013, at 11:10 AM, "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>> wrote:

Toobin on the IRS Mess<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50324>
Posted on May 14, 2013 8:07 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50324> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New Yorker: <http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/05/irs-scandal-tea-party-oversight.html>

It is certainly true that the I.R.S., and every other part of the government, should be evenhanded in how it applies the law, regarding liberal and conservative groups alike. If left-leaning organizations were disguising their true purposes to obtain 501(c)(4) status, the I.R.S. should have turned them down, too. And there will also be questions about how the Service, which is an independent agency, answered questions from Congress.

But let¡¯s be clear on the real scandal here. The columnist Michael Kinsley has often observed that the scandal isn¡¯t what¡¯s illegal¡ªit¡¯s what¡¯s legal<http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/03/10/time/kinsley.html>. It¡¯s what society chooses not to punish that tells us most about the prevailing ethical standards of the time. Campaign finance operates by shaky, or even nonexistent, rules, and powerful players game the system with impunity. A handful of I.R.S. employees saw this and tried, in a small way, to impose some small sense of order. For that, they¡¯ll likely be ushered into bureaucratic oblivion.

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¡°Jon Stewart Slams Obama on IRS Scandal¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50321>
Posted on May 14, 2013 8:01 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50321> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Political Wire reports.<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/05/14/jon_stewart_slams_obama_on_irs_scandal.html>

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¡°IRS mess adds to campaign finance free-for-all¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50318>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:45 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50318> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports.<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/irs-mess-adds-to-campaign-finance-free-for-all-91300.html?hp=t2_s>

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¡°Can Initiatives Be Used to Regulate the Manner of Selecting Presidential Electors, and Can Initiative Proponents Defend in Federal Court?¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50315>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:44 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50315> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Vik Amar has posted this draft<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2261893> on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

We have now had more than a century to assess America¡¯s initiative device, and the Progressive movement of which it was an outgrowth. Beginning with South Dakota in 1898, close to two dozen states (almost all of them west of the Mississippi) have incorporated the initiative and/or referendum into their state constitutions. Today, many states ¡ª including California, Washington, Oregon and Colorado ¡ª transact some of their most important and high-profile legislative business via direct democracy.

There is a wealth of scholarship analyzing the interface between state law direct democracy devices and the U.S. Constitution. Yet most of it has focused on a few aspects of the federal Constitution. In particular, there has been significant work done on the interplay between direct democracy and: (1) Article IV¡¯s Republican Guarantee Clause; (2) the First Amendment¡¯s freedoms of speech and petition; and (3) the Fourteenth Amendment¡¯s commands of process and equal protection.

In this Essay I examine two questions of recent and looming importance concerning the way state law initiatives interact with two other important aspects of the U.S. Constitution: Article II¡¯s delegation to state ¡°legislatures¡± of the power to prescribe the method of appointing electors to the so-called electoral college, and Article III¡¯s requirement that federal courts limit themselves to resolving only ¡°cases¡± and ¡°controversies.¡± In particular, I examine: (1) whether states can join the National Popular Vote Compact (NPVC) ¡ª an attempt to move the country a long way in the direction of a national popular presidential election ¡ª via initiatives rather than statutes adopted by state legislatures; and (2) whether and when official proponents (i.e., drafters and signature gatherers) of initiatives should be allowed to defend those initiatives against constitutional challenges in federal court, when the elected representatives who ordinarily defend state laws against constitutional attack ¨C usually the Attorney General and/or Governor ¡ª decline to defend. I argue that the case against NPVC participation by initiative is relatively weak, and that states thus should be able to join the NPVC via the initiative. I also argue, using California¡¯s Proposition 8 (a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage) as a case study, that although states can (and should) empower initiative proponents to defend in federal court when elected representatives decline to do so, there are important federal limits that federal courts ought to enforce regarding the circumstances under which proponents ought to be permitted federal standing to defend.

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¡°IRS, union mum on employees held accountable in ¡®sin¡¯ of political targeting¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50313>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:42 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50313> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports.<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/irs-union-mum-on-employees-held-accountable-in-sin-of-political-targeting/2013/05/13/aa33060a-bbfe-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html>

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¡°IRS official Lois Lerner becomes face of scandal over targeting of conservative groups¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50311>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:41 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50311> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports.<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/irs-official-lois-lerner-becomes-face-of-scandal-over-targeting-of-conservative-groups/2013/05/13/065e1d82-bc01-11e2-a31d-a41b2414d001_story.html>

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¡°IRS nonprofit division overloaded, understaffed; 2012 banner year for nonprofit applications¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50307>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:40 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50307> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important CPI report.<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/05/14/12660/irs-nonprofit-division-overloaded-understaffed>

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¡°Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to Investigate Conservative Tax-Exempt Groups¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50304>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:39 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50304> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Atlantic reports<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/congress-put-pressure-on-the-irs-to-investigate-conservative-tax-exempt-groups/275814/>.

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¡°How IRS Review of U.S. Nonprofits Erupted Into Scandal¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50301>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:32 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50301> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports.<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-14/how-irs-review-of-u-s-nonprofits-erupted-into-scandal.html?alcmpid=politics>

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¡°IRS Focus on Tea Parties Stirs Dissent on Health Care Law¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50299>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:31 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50299> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-14/irs-focus-on-tea-parties-stirs-dissent-on-health-care-law.html?alcmpid=politics>.

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¡°The IRS Tea Party Scandal, Explained¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50297>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:29 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50297> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Andy Kroll writes<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/irs-tea-party-scandal-congress-nonprofit-obama> for Mother Jones.

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LA Mayoral Candidates¡¯ ¡°Money Trap¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50294>
Posted on May 13, 2013 8:03 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50294> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jim Newton<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-newton-column-mayor-campaign-spending-20130513,0,1530977.column>:

There are good reasons for most of the city¡¯s campaign finance laws. Individual contribution limits are intended to keep a single donor from purchasing the support of a candidate. Public financing is intended to level the playing field between incumbents and challengers. Limits on gifts help deter graft.

But Los Angeles has one regulation that doesn¡¯t show up in many other places, and it doesn¡¯t make much sense: Candidates who raise money for an election cannot carry that money over if they fail to win in the first round and face a runoff for the same office. What that¡¯s meant in this election cycle is that both Councilman Eric Garcetti<http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/eric-garcetti-PEPLT007524.topic> and Controller Wendy Greuel<http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/wendy-greuel-PEPLT007594.topic>, who spent years raising money for the first round of the campaign for mayor, had to start all over when they made the runoff.

Because of the law, at the very moment a mayoral campaign gets serious and voters tune in, candidates have to return to the unpleasant business of begging for money. Immediately after winning the first round in the mayor¡¯s race, for instance, Garcetti darted off to Washington for fundraisers. And Greuel turned to stalwart supporters to post 82 donations in 72 hours, all at the maximum amount of $1,300 ¡ª for a total of $106,000.

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¡°IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50291>
Posted on May 13, 2013 7:53 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50291> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Pro Publica:<http://www.propublica.org/article/irs-office-that-targeted-tea-party-also-disclosed-confidential-docs>

The same IRS office that deliberately targeted<http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/irs-apologizes-for-inappropriately-targeting-conservative-political-groups-in-2012-election/2013/05/11/ea5d5790-ba0e-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html> conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year<http://www.propublica.org/article/what-karl-roves-dark-money-nonprofit-told-the-irs>.

The IRS did not respond to requests Monday following up about that release, and whether it had determined how the applications were sent to ProPublica.

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NYT Editorial on IRS Mess<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50288>
Posted on May 13, 2013 7:50 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50288> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ed Board:<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/white-house-under-fire-it-condemns-irs-audits.html?ref=opinion>

The Internal Revenue Service was absolutely correct to look into the abuse of the tax code by political organizations masquerading as ¡°social welfare¡± groups over the last three years. The agency¡¯s mistake ¡ª and it was a serious one ¡ª was focusing on groups with ¡°Tea Party¡± in their name or those criticizing how the country is run.

The I.R.S. should have used a neutral test to scrutinize every group seeking a tax exemption for ¡°social welfare¡± activity ¡ª Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal. Any group claiming tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(4) of the internal revenue code can collect unlimited and undisclosed contributions, and many took in tens of millions. They are not supposed to spend the majority of their money on political activities, but the I.R.S. has rarely stopped the big ones from polluting the political system with unaccountable cash.

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¡°Conservative Outlets Reported On IRS Tea Party Targeting In 2012¡å<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50286>
Posted on May 13, 2013 7:49 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50286> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

HuffPo reports<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/the-blaze-right-side-news_n_3267786.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=Politics>.

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¡± I.R.S. Ignored Complaints on Political Spending by Big Tax-Exempt Groups¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50283>
Posted on May 13, 2013 7:40 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50283> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/politics/irs-ignored-complaints-on-political-spending-by-big-tax-exempt-groups-watchdog-groups-say.html?pagewanted=1&ref=politics>:

Over the last two years, government watchdog groups filed more than a dozen complaints with the Internal Revenue Service<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/internal_revenue_service/index.html?inline=nyt-org> seeking inquiries into whether large nonprofit organizations like those founded by the Republican political operative Karl Rove<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/karl_rove/index.html?inline=nyt-per> and former Obama administration aides had violated their tax-exempt status by spending tens of millions of dollars on political advertising.

The I.R.S. never responded.

During the same period, the agency singled out dozens of Tea Party<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/tea_party_movement/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>-inspired groups that had applied for I.R.S. recognition, officials acknowledged on Friday, subjecting them to rounds of detailed questioning about their political activities. None of those groups were big spenders on political advertising; most were local Tea Party organizations with shoestring budgets.

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¡°IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50281>
Posted on May 13, 2013 5:35 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50281> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-denounces-reported-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups/2013/05/13/a0185644-bbdf-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html>: ¡°Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.¡±

Meanwhile, since this scandal broke, I can¡¯t get this TV theme song<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2drv0joKUcA> out of my head.

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¡°Senate Democrats demanded stricter IRS standards for tax-exempt groups¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50278>
Posted on May 13, 2013 5:03 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50278> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports.<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/05/13/senate-democrats-demanded-stricter-irs-standards-for-tax-exempt-groups/>

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¡°Scandal Could Change How IRS Regulates Political Groups¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50275>
Posted on May 13, 2013 4:25 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50275> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NLJ reports<http://www.law.com/corporatecounsel/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1368353630017&Scandal_Could_Change_How_IRS_Regulates_Political_Groups&slreturn=20130413192431>.

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¡°There Is No Good Fix for the IRS Tea Party Problem¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50272>
Posted on May 13, 2013 3:45 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50272> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Barro<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-13/there-is-no-good-fix-for-the-irs-tea-party-problem.html> for Bloomberg View.

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¡°IRS Scandal Could Blunt Potency Of Campaign Finance Reform¡±<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50270>
Posted on May 13, 2013 3:45 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50270> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BuzzFeed reports<http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/irs-scandal-could-blunt-potency-of-campaign-finance-reform>.

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