[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/27/13

Fri Sep 27 07:29:39 PDT 2013

    Supreme Court Partially to Blame for U.S. Polarizaton?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55505>

Posted on September 27, 2013 7:18 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55505>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Garrett Epps makes the case 
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/the-supreme-courts-hands-arent-clean-in-our-national-nightmare/280014/>.

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

    "The Court Case That Pivots on What 'Corrupt' Really Means"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55503>

Posted on September 27, 2013 7:14 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55503>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lessig 
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/26/the-court-case-that-pivots-on-what-corrupt-really-means.html> 
on McCutcheon.

And MORE 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/26/elizabeth-warren-supreme-court_n_3997916.html> 
on his conversation with Elizabeth Warren.

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

    "U.S. Court May Rule Quickly on PAC Bid To Waive N.Y. Limit Before
    Mayoral Election" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55501>

Posted on September 26, 2013 8:36 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55501>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg BNA 
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=36772832&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0e2a9q3p4&split=0>: 
A "federal judge has set a streamlined schedule to hear a challenge to 
New York state contribution limits, which could lead to a prompt ruling 
on whether the limits apply to a political action committee (PAC) 
backing a Republican candidate in the Nov. 5 New York City mayoral 
election (New York Progress and Prot. PAC v. Walsh, S.D.N.Y., Civil No. 
13-6769, filed 9/25/13). Arguments about a motion for a preliminary 
injunction in the case will be heard Oct. 8 in a federal district court 
in Manhattan, according to a Sept. 26 order by Judge Paul Crotty of the 
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York."

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

    "Citizens United II? Background Memo: Supreme Court Challenge to
    Aggregate Contribution Limits Could Radically Reshape the Financing
    of Federal Elections" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55499>

Posted on September 26, 2013 8:33 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55499>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CLC 
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/images/McCutcheon_v_FEC_Background_Memo_-_Website_9-26-13.pdf>.

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    "A Brief History of the Supreme Court and Contribution Limits on
    Individuals" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55497>

Posted on September 26, 2013 8:30 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55497>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fred Wertheimer writes 
<http://www.democracy21.org/inside-the-courts/press-releases-inside-the-courts/from-buckley-to-mccutcheon-a-brief-history/>.

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

    "Misreading Like a Lawyer: Cognitive Bias in Statutory
    Interpretation" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55495>

Posted on September 26, 2013 8:26 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55495>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jill Anderson has posted this draft 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2293145>on SSRN 
(forthcoming /Harvard Law Review/). Here is the abstract:

    Statutory interpretation dilemmas arise in all areas of law, where
    we often script them as scenes of conflict between a statute's
    literal text and its animating purpose. This article argues that,
    for an important class of disputes, this supposed discord between
    text and purpose is an illusion. In fact, lawyers are overlooking
    ambiguities of literal meaning that align well with statutory
    purpose. The form of ambiguity in question inheres not in individual
    words, but at the level of the sentence. What triggers a split in
    readings are verbs that linguists classify as "opaque," which are
    perfectly common in legal texts: intend, impersonate, endeavor, and
    regard are among them. In ordinary speech we resolve their dual
    readings unconsciously and without difficulty. In law, however, our
    failure to notice multiple readings of ambiguous language has left a
    trail of erroneous judicial determinations and doctrinal incoherence
    across a broad swath of law, from disability rights to white collar
    crime to identity fraud to genocide. Drawing on examples from these
    areas, this Article uses the tools of formal semantics to expose the
    ambiguity of opaque constructions and to make visible the family
    resemblance among the ways we misinterpret them. It then turns to
    the question of why lawyers misread and what we can do about it. The
    converging literatures of language development and the psychology of
    reasoning suggest an answer. When we analyze opaque sentences
    explicitly as statutory interpretation requires (as opposed to
    spontaneously in conversation), we may be particularly vulnerable to
    cognitive bias. Factors peculiar to law tend to amplify and
    propagate this bias instead of dampen and contain it, but they may
    also point the way toward more sophisticated legal reading.

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Posted in statutory interpretation <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=21>

    "The John Kasich Re-election Protection Act"?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55493>

Posted on September 26, 2013 8:22 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55493>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Controversy 
<http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201309252218/NEWS010801/309250187&nclick_check=1> 
over a bill regulating minor parties in Ohio.

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Posted in ballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>, third 
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    Jim Bopp Out, New Lawyer In, in McCutcheon Campaign Finance Case at
    Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55491>

Posted on September 26, 2013 9:33 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55491>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tony Mauro reports. 
<http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/09/breaking-republicans-tap-new-talent-to-argue-key-campaign-case.html>

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

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