[EL] job opportunities at the Brennan Center

Tue Sep 24 14:44:24 PDT 2013

All:

I am writing to announce democracy law-related job opportunities at the Brennan Center.  We recently posted three positions-for an experienced lawyer to work on money in politics issues, an experienced lawyer to work on voting issues, and an individual who need not be a lawyer to help run legislative campaigns.  The links for the job postings are here:

*         Counsel (Voting): http://brennancenter.theresumator.com/apply/87d7ou/Counsel-Democracy-Program-Voting.html

*         Counsel (Money in Politics): http://brennancenter.theresumator.com/apply/80RbIU/Counsel-Democracy-Program-Money-In-Politics.html

*         Campaign Manager: http://brennancenter.theresumator.com/apply/JxlAAQ/Campaign-Manager-Democracy-Program.html

We welcome applicants from this listserv, as well as any candidates listserv members identify as promising.  Thank you very much!

Wendy R. Weiser
Director, Democracy Program
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10013
(646) 292-8318 (direct)
(212) 463-7308 (fax)
www.brennancenter.org

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:52 AM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/24/13

"A Moveable Court"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55457>
Posted on September 24, 2013 7:48 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55457> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Pam Karla<http://www.bostonreview.net/karlans-court/windsor-shelby-scotus>n in Boston Review on DOMA and the VRA.
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Posted in Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
"The next Citizens United could affect campaign spending in the states"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55455>
Posted on September 24, 2013 7:44 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55455> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/09/24/the-next-citizens-united-could-affect-campaign-spending-in-the-states/>.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"The Opacity of 'Transparency'"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55453>
Posted on September 24, 2013 7:34 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55453> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2013/09/the-opacity-of-transparency/> on David Keating v. Sen. Durbin.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Trader Lost Millions Betting on Romney"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55451>
Posted on September 24, 2013 7:33 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55451> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Political Wire<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/09/23/trader_lost_millions_betting_on_romney.html>:" A new academic paper<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2322420> digging into presidential betting in the final weeks of the 2012 election finds that a single trader lost between $4 million and $7 million placing a flurry of Intrade bets on Mitt Romney - perhaps to make the Republican nominee's chance of victory appear brighter," the Wall Street Journal<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/09/23/one-big-trader-lost-millions-betting-on-romney-study-finds/> reports."
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Posted in campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"Citizen and lobbyist access to Members of Congress: Who gets and who gives?"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55449>
Posted on September 24, 2013 7:32 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55449> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Brodbeck, Matthew T Harrigan and Daniel A Smith have written this article <http://www.palgrave-journals.com/iga/journal/v2/n3/abs/iga201311a.html> in Interest groups & Advocacy 2, 323-342 (October 2013) | doi:10.1057/iga.2013.11.  Here is the abstract:

Members of Congress grant access to outsiders as a means of alleviating uncertainty over policies and elections. For those seeking access to Congress, a key factor determining their success is the appearance of usefulness, namely, the perceived ability to provide a Member of Congress with some resource that he or she desires. These resources come in a variety of forms, including votes, campaign contributions, policy expertise and public credibility. Given these assumptions, who is granted access to Congress, and which members are more likely to grant it? Previous studies have found a direct relationship between organization or Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions and access to Members of Congress, measured by the amount of contact. Some have gone a step further, finding that, while PACs play an indisputable role in access, the real driver is constituency, or at least salience to the district or state from which the Member of Congress hails. Here, we present the results of an experiment conducted in the spring and summer of 2010, in which one of the authors called the offices of each member of the Senate, first as a private citizen and then as a registered federal lobbyist, and requested a meeting with each senator to discuss a health care bill that had been languishing in committee for some time. Unsurprisingly, the registered lobbyist experienced a clear advantage over the ordinary citizen, securing 27 meetings compared to just 7 as a citizen. The lobbyist was granted more access in other measurable categories, although party affiliation or campaign contributions had little effect. While previous studies have found strong PAC contribution and constituency effects on access, one important fact stands out from our experience: only 8 of the 100 Senate offices asked whether the lobbyist had an interest in the senator's state, and only 4 of the 27 who granted meetings did so. Perhaps the assumption that a lobbyist, whether in- or out-of-state, is a potential source of campaign funds is strong enough to override the constituency effect, but we found no compelling evidence that membership on relevant committees or a past reliance on health sector or lobbyist contributions drove access. Rather, it appears as if 'lobbyist' simply works as a magic word when requesting access to a Member of Congress, with power beyond the borders of a state or district. Although the results of our experiment are limited, they do suggest that several questions about citizen and lobbyist access to Congress remain and need to be addressed, especially given the normative assumption that Members of Congress should represent the people they serve.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, legislation and legislatures<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, lobbying<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
"Getting to a clean CR: A tour of the Senate's parliamentary weeds"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55447>
Posted on September 23, 2013 7:37 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55447> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The indispensable Sarah Binder.<http://themonkeycage.org/2013/09/20/getting-to-a-clean-cr-a-tour-of-the-senates-parliamentary-weeds/>
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Posted in legislation and legislatures<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, political parties<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>
"Exclusive-IRS Offers True The Vote Tax Exempt Status, Files to Dismiss Lawsuit"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55445>
Posted on September 23, 2013 7:24 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55445> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Breitbart<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/23/Exclusive-IRS-offers-True-The-Vote-tax-exempt-status-in-bid-to-keep-lawsuit-from-proceeding>: "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has offered election integrity group True The Vote<http://www.truethevote.org/> its tax-exempt status in what appears to be a bid to keep the group from proceeding with discovery on its lawsuit against the agency, Breitbart News has learned exclusively."
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Campaign funding and affirmative action come back before the Supreme Court"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55442>
Posted on September 23, 2013 7:18 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55442> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This article<http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/campaign_funding_and_affirmative_action_come_back_before_the_supreme_court/> appears in the new issue of the ABA Journall
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
"Federal Election Commission Gets New Blood"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55440>
Posted on September 23, 2013 5:43 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55440> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI reports<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/09/23/13454/federal-election-commission-gets-new-blood>. (Headline feeds into the "FEC as vampires" theme, no?)
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal election commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
"Officials: Voting rights legislation would have trouble passing Congress"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55438>
Posted on September 23, 2013 5:41 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55438> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Gazette.net: <http://www.gazette.net/article/20130923/NEWS/130929722/-1/officials-voting-rights-legislation-would-have-trouble-passing&template=gazette> "Despite the Montgomery County Council's support for a resolution asking Congress to reinstate part of a federal regulation meant to protect voting rights for more Americans, such a measure would have a hard time passing into law, according to several members of Maryland's congressional delegation who came to Rockville on Monday to support it. The resolution proposed by Council President Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring and supported by the other eight council members requests that Congress restore Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, passed in 1964, which requires certain states and local jurisdictions to have their proposed changes to voting laws reviewed by the U.S. Justice Department for potential discriminatory effects."
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Posted in Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
Lois Lerner Retires from IRS<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55434>
Posted on September 23, 2013 12:16 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55434> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/lois-lerner-retires-irs-97217.html>.

A Democratic congressional aide said the IRS was moving toward terminating Lerner after completing an investigation into her role in the targeting controversy.

The IRS found that Lerner mismanaged her department and was "neglectful of duty" but found no evidence of political bias, the aide said.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, election law biz<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=51>, tax law and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
Ravel and Goodman Confirmed as FEC Commissioners<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55432>
Posted on September 23, 2013 12:06 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55432> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports.<http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/09/senate-confirms-obamas-fec-nominees-173305.html>
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal election commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
"Reforming California's Initiative Process"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55429>
Posted on September 23, 2013 11:52 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55429> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Looks like an interesting PPIC event <http://www.ppic.org/main/event.asp?i=1392> on October 24 in Sacramento.
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Posted in direct democracy<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=62>

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