[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/10/14

Thu Apr 10 07:38:26 PDT 2014

    "Why voting rights is the Democrats' most important project in 2014?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60325>

Posted on April 10, 2014 7:33 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60325>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Fix reports. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/10/why-voting-rights-is-the-democrats-most-important-project-in-2014/>

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

    What Does Movement on the EAC Nominees Mean?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60323>

Posted on April 10, 2014 7:31 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60323>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Doug Chapin games it out. 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/04/light_at_the_end_of_the_tunnel.php>

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Election Assistance Commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>, The 
Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    "What Newly Released Docs Tell Us About the IRS and How It Handles
    Dark Money Groups" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60321>

Posted on April 10, 2014 7:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60321>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

If you read one thing on the latest IRS revelations, make it this 
<http://www.propublica.org/article/what-newly-released-docs-tell-us-about-the-irs-and-how-it-handles-dark-mone> 
from ProPublica.

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and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

    "House passes measure to void election-spending rule"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60319>

Posted on April 10, 2014 7:27 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60319>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ohio 
<http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/09/house-passes-measure-void-election-spending-rule/7523199/>: 
"Companies, nonprofits and unions wouldn't have to disclose when they 
pay for an election advertisement, and corporations with state contracts 
would be allowed to spend money on elections, under a provision that 
passed the Ohio House Wednesday."

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

    "Most Senators Overseeing the Comcast-Time Warner Deal Have Taken
    Money From Both" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60317>

Posted on April 10, 2014 7:26 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60317>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/Mother Jones / 
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/senate-judiciary-comcast-time-warner-money>reports 
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/senate-judiciary-comcast-time-warner-money>.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, 
conflict of interest laws <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>

    Bauer Responds on My Appearance of Corruption Piece
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60315>

Posted on April 10, 2014 7:25 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60315>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bob writeshere 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/04/appearance-corruption-aftermath-mccutcheon/> 
about my recent Reuters Opinion 
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/04/07/opening-the-political-money-chutes/>piece. 
He may be surprised to learn I agree with much of his critique.  As I'll 
have to flesh out at another time, I was defending the appearance issue 
less on the merits and more as a kind of intellectual crutch that the 
Court has used given evidentiary proof problems. I've been quite 
skeptical of appearance arguments as a whole across the Court's election 
law jurisprudence.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme 
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    "King may switch sides and join the Republicans after midterms"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60313>

Posted on April 10, 2014 7:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60313>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/The Hill: / 
<http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/203161-king-may-flip-to-gop-in-2015>"Sen. 
Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats, will decide after 
the midterm elections whether to switch sides and join the Republicans."

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

    Harvard Law and Policy Review Publishes Symposium Issue: Elections
    In America <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60311>

Posted on April 9, 2014 7:53 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60311>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Volume 8-1 of the HLPR <http://harvardlpr.com/>.

*Symposium: Elections in America*

  * Foreword
    <http://www3.law.harvard.edu/journals/hlpr/files/2014/03/Sarbanes.pdf>,
    /Congressman John P. Sarbanes & Raymond O'Mara III/
  * Three Wrong Progressive Approaches (and One Right One) to Campaign
    Finance Reform
    <http://www3.law.harvard.edu/journals/hlpr/files/2014/03/Hasen.pdf>,
    /Richard L. Hasen /
  * Free at Last: Rejecting Equal Sovereignty and Restoring the
    Constitutional Right to Vote
    <http://www3.law.harvard.edu/journals/hlpr/files/2014/03/Blacksher-and-Guinier-.pdf> ,
    /James Blacksher & Lani Guinier /
  * Responding to Shelby County: A Grand Election Bargain
    <http://www3.law.harvard.edu/journals/hlpr/files/2014/03/Tokaji.pdf>, /Daniel
    P. Tokaji/
  * Redistricting Reform and the California Citizens Redistricting
    Commission
    <http://www3.law.harvard.edu/journals/hlpr/files/2014/03/Ancheta.pdf>,
    /Angelo N. Ancheta
    /

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, 
redistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>, Voting Rights Act 
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    "G.O.P. Seeks Investigation Of Ex-Official From I.R.S."
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60306>

Posted on April 9, 2014 7:39 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60306>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/us/politics/republicans-seek-criminal-inquiry-of-former-irs-official-lois-lerner.html?ref=politics>

    House Republicans on Wednesday formally asked Attorney General Eric
    H. Holder Jr. to begin a criminal investigation of Lois Lerner, the
    former Internal Revenue Service official caught up in the scandal
    over political targeting of Tea Party groups.

    The Ways and Means Committee's 23-to-14 vote along party lines was
    the latest move by Republicans to refocus attention on the I.R.S.
    controversy, and it was the first of two actions the House is
    expected to take this week to demand that federal prosecutors look
    more deeply into Ms. Lerner's conduct.

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Posted in tax law and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

    "U.S. Attorney Criticizes Cuomo's Closing of Panel"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60304>

Posted on April 9, 2014 7:37 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60304>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/nyregion/us-attorney-criticizes-cuomos-closing-of-panel.html>:

    Less than two weeks after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/andrew_m_cuomo/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
    abruptly shut down a commission he had formed to investigate
    political corruption in New York State, the United States attorney
    in Manhattan is sharply questioning the governor's decision and is
    taking possession of all of the panel's case files, according to
    letters sent to the commission's members on April 3 and again on
    Wednesday afternoon.

    The move by the United States attorney, Preet Bharara
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/preet_bharara/index.html?inline=nyt-per>,
    amounted to an unusual rebuke of Mr. Cuomo, a former prosecutor
    himself, who swept into office four years ago promising to clean up
    what many have called a culture of corruption in Albany.

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Posted in chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

    "Clinton: Voting limits derail civil rights"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60302>

Posted on April 9, 2014 7:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60302>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This time 
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/203164-clinton-rips-supreme-court-republicans-on-voting-rights#ixzz2yRcd2y7f>it's 
Bill.

Here' 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/clinton-chides-the-supreme-court-for-decision-on-voting-rights/2014/04/09/ce6ccc18-c053-11e3-9ee7-02c1e10a03f0_video.html>s 
the video of the President talking about /Shelby County.
/He seems to say that he wants to use social security cards as id.

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

    Canadian Fraudulent Fraud Squad Member Pulls Back
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60300>

Posted on April 9, 2014 5:55 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60300>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CBC reports. #TheVotingWars-Eh? 
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/thomas-mcinnis-tory-senator-pulls-back-from-voter-fraud-allegation-1.2604545>"A 
Conservative senator is pulling back after he seemed to suggest he knew 
of thousands and thousands of cases of voter fraud in Halifax and 
Dartmouth, N.S."

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Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    "Mike Ellis: Talk of illegal fundraising, attack ads was
    hypothetical" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60298>

Posted on April 9, 2014 5:51 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60298>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Gannett 
<http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/article/20140409/SPJ010401/304090340/Mike-Ellis-Talk-illegal-fundraising-attack-ads-hypothetical> 
from Wisconsin:

    Secretly recorded remarks by state Sen. Mike Ellis about illegal
    fundraising and attack ads were hypothetical, Ellis told
    Post-Crescent Media on Wednesday.

    The comments were captured on video at a Madison hotel bar by
    Project Veritas, a New York-based group aimed at "exposing
    dishonesty and self-dealing."

    Ellis said the video caught him "blowing off steam" and thinking of
    ways to combat special interest groups. He said he learned the day
    after the video was filmed that his idea would be illegal.

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chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

    "Obama to highlight Democrats' growing voting rights push"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60296>

Posted on April 9, 2014 5:11 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60296>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports. 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/obama-democrats-voting-rights-push-105533.html?hp=l9>

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Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    "Darrell Issa says emails suggest Elijah Cummings prompted IRS
    targeting of True the Vote" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60292>

Posted on April 9, 2014 3:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60292>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Washington Examiner /reports. 
<http://washingtonexaminer.com/darrell-issa-says-emails-suggest-elijah-cummings-prompted-irs-targeting-of-true-the-vote/article/2547007>

UPDATE. More stories:

WSJ 
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303910404579490041470592588?mg=reno64-wsj>

National Review 
<http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/375429/issa-accuses-cummings-colluding-irs-eliana-johnson>

Politico 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/republicans-seek-criminal-probe-of-irs-official-105531.html?hp=f1>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law 
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

    McCutcheon Cartoon of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60290>

Posted on April 9, 2014 3:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60290>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Via Michael Li. <http://t.co/9puUpDg5wn>

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    "The 5 Most Absurd Quotes in McCutcheon v FEC Decision"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60288>

Posted on April 9, 2014 2:31 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60288>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Common Cause blog 
<http://www.commonblog.com/2014/04/09/the-5-most-absurd-quotes-in-mccutcheon-v-fec-decision/>.

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    "Hillary Clinton knocks Supreme Court's campaign finance decisions"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60286>

Posted on April 9, 2014 2:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60286>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CNN reports 
<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/04/09/hillary-clinton-knocks-supreme-courts-campaign-finance-decisions/>.

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    Jacob Sullum on Justice Breyer's McCutcheon Dissent
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60284>

Posted on April 9, 2014 1:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60284>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/09/free-speech-vs-the-collective>, 
at Reason.

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