[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/9/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Apr 8 20:46:36 PDT 2014
Tom Edsall on McCutcheon <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60250>
Posted on April 8, 2014 8:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60250>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Important NYT opinion column
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/opinion/the-high-cost-of-free-speech.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>.
Tom links to my SCOTUSBlog post, "Does the Chief Justice not Understand
Politics, or Does He Understand it all too Well?
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/symposium-does-the-chief-justice-not-understand-politics-or-does-he-understand-it-all-too-well/>"
It's not every day I'm called more cynical than Richard Posner.
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"Miss. preparing to use new voter ID law"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60247>
Posted on April 8, 2014 8:00 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60247>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Gannett reports.
<http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20140408/NEWS01/304080033/Miss-preparing-use-new-voter-ID-law>
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Blacks and Early Voting, in Ohio and Wisconsin"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60245>
Posted on April 8, 2014 7:56 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60245>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT letter to the editor
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/opinion/blacks-and-early-voting-in-ohio-and-wisconsin.html?ref=opinion>
from NAACP Ohio and Wisconsin leaders.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter registration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
NYT Letters to the Editor on David Brooks McCutcheon Column
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60243>
Posted on April 8, 2014 7:55 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60243>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/opinion/money-politics-and-the-justices.html?ref=opinion>
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How Low Will Dick Morris Go? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60241>
Posted on April 8, 2014 7:53 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60241>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This low.
<http://thehill.com/opinion/dick-morris/203019-dick-morris-investigate-2012-vote-fraud>
Didn't realize he was a member of the fraudulent fraud squad.
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Posted in fraudulent fraud squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
What a Shock!: "John Roberts Gets the Parties Started"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60239>
Posted on April 8, 2014 7:43 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60239>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico reports:
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/john-roberts-supreme-court-mccutcheon-republican-party-105503.html>
Insiders are dreaming up how to maximize a recent Supreme Court
ruling that frees up some big donors to give even more.
A prominent idea: create a new class of donors who contribute a
total of six- or seven-figures to each of three party committees and
spread cash to endangered lawmakers. In exchange, the big-money
givers would get something of an "all access pass" that comes with
perks from the big three national committees, like face time with
top officials.
Of course Roberts told us that this wouldn't happen, or that the FEC or
Congress would easily fix it.
Yeah right.
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/symposium-does-the-chief-justice-not-understand-politics-or-does-he-understand-it-all-too-well/>
And don't delude yourselves. Many Democratic party operatives are
/delighted/ with /McCutcheon./
P.S. Someone should collect all the statements from the deregulationists
who said getting rid of aggregate limits is no big deal and it wouldn't
lead to multi-million dollar checks and the emergence of soft money.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme
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Two Panels on Voting Rights May 2 at LA Law Library as Part of Law
Week <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60236>
Posted on April 8, 2014 7:00 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60236>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Looking forward to participating in this:
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Posted in voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>, Voting Rights Act
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"Government Brief Cites McCutcheon Case In Defending FEC's
Requirements for PACs" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60234>
Posted on April 8, 2014 6:51 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60234>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=44415475&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0e8w1u4z2&split=0>:
"Supreme Court precedents, including the court's most recent campaign
finance ruling in McCutcheon v. Fed. Election Comm'n, consistently have
supported requirements for public disclosure of campaign money,
government attorneys argued in a brief
<http://www.fec.gov/law/litigation/freespeech_fec_opp_brief.pdf> filed
with the high court (Free Speech v. FEC, U.S., No. 13-772, brief filed
4/4/14)."
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"How to Clean Up American Elections"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60232>
Posted on April 8, 2014 6:46 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60232>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ganesh Sitaraman writes
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/clean-up-elections-with-peoples-pledge-105492.html#.U0SlbMeT6N8>
for Politico.
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"RNC chairman: Strike down all contribution limits"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60230>
Posted on April 8, 2014 6:44 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60230>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
That's
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04/08/rnc-chairman-strike-down-all-contribution-limits/>more
like it.
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"Stay issued on subpoenas in NC election law case "
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60228>
Posted on April 8, 2014 1:31 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60228>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP reports.
<http://www.news-record.com/news/north_carolina_ap/article_451dc9df-0dcb-58c2-9fb5-8b87ed1d86b9.html>
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Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"The Hounding of Brendan Eich Gives New Cover to Defenders of Dark
Money" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60226>
Posted on April 8, 2014 1:30 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60226>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Important piece
<http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117307/brendan-eichs-resignation-mozilla-gives-new-cover-dark-money>
from Alec MacGillis.
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"McConnell Doubts Individual Campaign Finance Limits Will Go Away"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60224>
Posted on April 8, 2014 1:20 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60224>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call reports
<http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/mcconnell-doubts-individual-campaign-finance-limits-will-go-away/>.
I don't think he's the only one calling the shots on this though.
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Demos Explainer on McCutcheon <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60222>
Posted on April 8, 2014 1:03 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60222>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Guide for the Perplexed.
<http://www.demos.org/publication/what-mccutcheon-v-fec>
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"Judge Rules Delaware Disclosure Law Unconstitutional"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60220>
Posted on April 8, 2014 12:58 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60220>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CCP:
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2014/04/08/judge-rules-delaware-disclosure-law-unconstitutional/>"A
federal court today issued an order
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SLR-Order-08apr20141.pdf>
barring enforcement
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Order-Granting-MPI.pdf>
of a recently adopted Delaware law that would have forced a group that
publishes non-partisan voter guides to violate its members' privacy."
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"Rich People Will Always Beat Campaign Finance Restrictions"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60218>
Posted on April 8, 2014 12:55 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60218>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Steve Chapman
<http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/07/rich-people-will-always-beat-campaign-fi>writes
for /Reason./
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"Shelby and Section 3: Pulling the Voting Rights Act's Pocket
Trigger to Protect Voting Rights after Shelby County v. Holder"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60216>
Posted on April 8, 2014 12:51 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60216>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Paul Wiley has postedthis draft student note
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2421605> on SSRN
(forthcoming, /Washington and Lee Law Review/). Here is the abstract:
The Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder presents
voting rights advocates with a difficult challenge: finding an
effective substitute for the preclearance regime struck down by the
Court. The best possible alternative may live within the Voting
Rights Act itself in Section 3(c)'s "pocket trigger." Section 3(c)
permits a federal court to retain jurisdiction and preclear a
jurisdiction's changes to its voting procedures upon a finding of a
constitutional violation. By relating more closely to current
conditions in a specific locality, Section 3(c) preclearance avoids
many of the problems the Court identified in NAMUDNO and Shelby County.
This Note analyzes the history of Voting Rights Act litigation and
suggests a more expansive use of Section 3(c) preclearance to
continue federal oversight of election procedures.
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All My McCutcheon Commentary in One Place
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60214>
Posted on April 8, 2014 10:47 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60214>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Courtesy <http://www.law.uci.edu/news/faculty/hasen_040214.html> of @UCILaw:
* The Guardian
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/supreme-court-fight-for-voting-rights>
* Daily Journal (PDF)
<http://www.law.uci.edu/news/in-the-news/2014/djournal_hasen_040814.pdf>
* Reuters
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/04/07/opening-the-political-money-chutes/>
* SCOTUSBlog
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/symposium-does-the-chief-justice-not-understand-politics-or-does-he-understand-it-all-too-well/>
* Slate <http://slate.me/1oqLlN0>
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"McCutcheon and Corruption in America"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60212>
Posted on April 8, 2014 9:13 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60212>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Harvard University Press blog
<http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2014/04/mccutcheon-and-corruption-in-america-zephyr-teachout.html>:
In /Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to
Citizens United/
<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050402>,
Teachout reminds us that the particularly demanding notion of
corruption represented by that early gifts rule is central to
American law and democracy. This notion of corruption, she explains,
is not limited to the blatant bribes and explicit quid pro quo to
which Chief Justice Roberts referred in this week's /McCutcheon v.
FEC/
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/mccutcheon-v-federal-election-commission/>
ruling, and Justice Kennedy in /Citizens United/
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission/>
before that. The foundational American understanding of corruption
encompassed emotional, internal, psychological relationships in an
effort to protect the morality of interactions between official
representatives of government and private parties, foreign parties,
or other politicians.
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Marty Lederman Goes Into the Weeds on Standing and Ripeness Issues
in Susan B. Anthony False Speech SCOTUS Case
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60210>
Posted on April 8, 2014 9:00 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60210>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A very helpful primer
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/dewine-v-dewine-with-the-united-states-somewhere-in-between/>,
at SCOTUSBlog.
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