[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/18/13

Mon Nov 18 07:58:17 PST 2013

    "Reconsidering Citizens United as a Press Clause Case"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56807>

Posted on November 18, 2013 7:57 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56807>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Professor (and former Judge) Michael McConnell's piece on Citizens 
United has now been published in final form in the Yale Law Journal. 
<http://yalelawjournal.org/the-yale-law-journal/essay/reconsidering-citizens-united-as-a-press-clause-case/>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme 
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    Josh Blackman on My Recent Work on Race, Party and Voting Rights
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56805>

Posted on November 18, 2013 7:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56805>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

He blogs her 
<http://joshblackman.com/blog/2013/11/17/hasen-on-race-and-party/>e, 
discussing my NY Times oped 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/opinion/voter-suppressions-new-pretext.html?_r=0> 
from Saturday and my forthcoming HLRF piece,Race or Party? How Courts 
Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North 
Carolina and Elsewhere. 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2353068>

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    Open Secrets Website Has a Remodel
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56803>

Posted on November 18, 2013 7:51 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56803>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Check it out! <http://www.opensecrets.org/>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    "GOP group money down, hints at donor uncertainty"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56801>

Posted on November 18, 2013 7:50 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56801>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-groups-giving-less-hints-donor-uncertainty>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    "Attorney general race thrusts provisional ballot into spotlight"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56799>

Posted on November 18, 2013 7:47 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56799>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://news.fredericksburg.com/newsdesk/2013/11/16/attorney-general-race-thrusts-provisional-ballot-into-spotlight/?repeat=w3tc> 
from Virginia.

See also Josh Douglas, Va AG: When Voters Don't Decide 
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/11/18/va-ag-when-voters-dont-decide/>

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, election 
administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, recounts 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>

    "House Democrats cite high cost to state in preemptive strike on
    photo ID laws" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56797>

Posted on November 18, 2013 7:43 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56797>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2013/11/house_democrats_cite_high_cost.html> 
from Ohio.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    "Goodman Strives for Cooperation at FEC But Predicts Some
    Differences Will Remain" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56795>

Posted on November 18, 2013 7:42 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56795>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg BNA 
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=38228592&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0e3h0c9p6&split=0>:

    A spirit of cooperation has come to the Federal Election Commission,
    according to newly arrived Republican Commissioner Lee Goodman.

    Goodman, the FEC vice chairman, told Bloomberg BNA in a Nov. 15
    interview that he has been working with Democratic colleagues to
    hammer out compromises on advisory opinions adopted during the first
    weeks of his tenure because he recognizes how important such rulings
    are to guide the regulated political community's understanding of
    campaign finance laws.
    But, that doesn't mean there will be agreement on everything at the
    newly reconstituted FEC, said Goodman, who serves as the
    commission's vice chairman. He said he still expects some
    disagreements over enforcement cases and possible new regulations,
    such as a long-awaited FEC rulemaking to implement recent major
    court rulings.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    "ALEC Floats Legislation Chipping Away At The 17th Amendment"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56793>

Posted on November 18, 2013 7:39 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56793>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

HuffPo reports. 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/15/alec-17th-amendment_n_4281729.html>

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Posted in legislation and legislatures <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>

    Mara Liasson Drinks the Open Primary/Redistricting Commission
    Kool-Aid <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56791>

Posted on November 18, 2013 7:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56791>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Like Adam Nagourney <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56093> before 
her,NPR's Mara Liasson 
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/11/18/245824883/states-aim-to-cure-hyper-partisanship-with-primary-changes> 
manages to do a story on whether open primary and redistricting reform 
in California cures hyperpartisanship without quoting the political 
scientists (such as Seth Masket, Thad Kousser and others) who actually 
study this stuff and finds that, at least thus far, these reforms are 
not having the effect of producing more moderate candidates.

As for the claims that such systems stop gridlock, give me a Congress 
with 2/3 Republicans and a Republican president, or 2/3 Democrats with a 
Democratic president, and I will show you a Congress that has no problem 
with gridlock. That's pretty much the situation in California right now.

It is fine to suggest that the results are too early to know for sure, 
but you should not ignore the early evidence which so far contradicts 
your thesis.

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Posted in political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, 
political polarization <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

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