[EL] ELB & Leg News and Commentary 8/20/14

Wed Aug 20 08:13:32 PDT 2014

    “The Fascinating Recent History of Political Primary ‘Meddling’”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64471>
Posted on August 20, 2014 7:53 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64471> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

The Fix has this story
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/19/the-fascinating-recent-history-of-political-primary-meddling/>
on a pro-Begich Super PAC’s spending against Dan Sullivan, who won
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/dan-sullivan-takes-lead-alaska-gop-senate-race-25047289>
yesterday’s Republican U.S. Senate primary in Alaska, and other allegations
of “meddling.”
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“N.Y. Poll: Government Corruption a Problem”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64466>

Posted on August 20, 2014 7:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64466> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Shocking
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/poll-andrew-cuomo-lead-110179.html?hp=l9>,
I know.
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 “House Throws Cold Water on Ice Challenge”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64464>
Posted on August 20, 2014 7:20 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64464> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Politico reports
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/house-throws-cold-water-on-ice-challenge-110157.html?hp=l8>:
“The Committee on House Administration is advising members that posting
videos on  official accounts of lawmakers participating in the viral
charity challenge is a violation of House rules.”  But that, of course,
didn’t stop former Pres. George W. Bush or his challenge to former Pres.
Clinton
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/george-w-bush-ice-challenge-clinton-110182.html?hp=l7>
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 Talk About the Criminalization of Politics
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64462>
Posted on August 20, 2014 7:08 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64462> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

USA Today has this gallery of politician mugshots
<http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/08/18/rick-perry-indictment-politicians-mugshots/>,
to go along with Rick Perry’s
<http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/19/rick-perry-mug-shot-arrest/> yesterday.
You’ll no doubt remember Tom Delay’s
<http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/08/18/rick-perry-indictment-politicians-mugshots/xxx-_tom-delay-jpg-a-clj-usa-tx/#main>,
but my favorite is the Traficant
<http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/08/18/rick-perry-indictment-politicians-mugshots/traficantmug/#main>
.

On a more serious – and rather dissonant, to my ears – note, the gallery
also includes John Lewis’s 1961 mugshot
<https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/486142489527844865/photo/1> for
using a whites-only restroom in Mississippi.
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Posted in bribery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>, chicanery
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 Election Law @ Moritz is 10 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64460>
Posted on August 20, 2014 6:53 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64460> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Hard to believe, especially for us here in Columbus, but Election Law @
Moritz <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/index.php> has now
been in business for a decade – 10 years and one month, to be exact
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/2004/040720.php>.  To
celebrate, our website will be getting a facelift along with some new
content for the 2014 election season, so stay tuned.
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 “Why Rick Perry May Be Out of Luck” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64458>
Posted on August 20, 2014 6:44 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64458> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Jeff Toobin’s New Yorker piece
<http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/rick-perry-may-luck> runs counter
to the emerging conventional wisdom <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64420>.
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 “Judge Prods IRS for Details on Effort To Recover Missing Lois Lerner
E-Mail” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64456>
Posted on August 20, 2014 6:34 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64456> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

BNA reports
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=51746855&vname=mpebulallissues&fcn=1&wsn=1&fn=51746855&split=0>
($) that “U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan’s Aug. 14 order gave the IRS
until Aug. 22 to come up with further details on what it did to retrieve
e-mail from the malfunctioning computer of Lois Lerner, who is at the heart
of a quarrel between Congress and the Obama administration over scrutiny of
Tea Party organizations.”  The Washington Times has this story
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/17/judge-orders-irs-to-turn-over-more-info-on-lerners/>
.
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 Mayday PAC Spending in Arizona House Democratic Primary
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64454>
Posted on August 20, 2014 6:27 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64454> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Arizona’s Politics blog says
<http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2014/08/first-watch-online-ad-by-mayday-pac.html>
Mayday PAC is spending $80K for an online ad touting CD7 candidate Ruben
Gallego as “committed to fixing a corrupt system for funding campaigns.”
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 McDonnell’s Macbeth Defense <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64452>
Posted on August 20, 2014 6:18 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64452> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

The NYT reports
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/us/bob-mcdonnell-corruption-trial-virginia.html?ref=politics&_r=0>:
 ”To save Bob McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia, his defense
lawyers appear intent on humiliating him. The once-rising Republican star
is now portrayed as an amiable innocent at sea amid stronger women who
either led him astray or failed to rescue him.”
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Posted in bribery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>, chicanery
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 Election Year Guide for Houses of Worship and Candidates
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64450>
Posted on August 20, 2014 6:10 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64450> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

The press release
<http://www.interfaithalliance.org/the-news/press-releases/607-interfaith>
begins: “During a campaign season in which houses of worship are facing
increased scrutiny from the IRS over political entanglements, Interfaith
Alliance has released a set of election year guides for houses of worship
and candidates.”
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 “Federal court holds off on Walker probe release”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64447>
Posted on August 19, 2014 4:53 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64447> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports
<http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Federal-court-holds-off-on-Walker-probe-release-5699068.php>
.
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Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
 ‘Voter Registration in Ferguson Called ‘Disgusting’”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64445>
Posted on August 19, 2014 3:59 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64445> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read Juliet Lapidos
<http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/takingnote/2014/08/19/voter-registration-in-ferguson-called-disgusting/>at
NYTs’ Taking Note ed blog.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
 “Formidable Lawyer at Center of Perry Prosecution”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64443>
Posted on August 19, 2014 3:58 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64443> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Michael McCrum <http://www.texastribune.org/2014/08/18/mccrum-story/>, the
special prosecutor in the Perry case, is not a partisan hack.
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Posted in chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
 Mandatory Voting for Businesses in Australia?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64441>
Posted on August 19, 2014 3:10 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64441> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Unfortunately Not the Onion
<http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/08/australia_businesses_get_to_vote_sydney_conservatives_want_it_to_be_required.html?wpsrc=fol_tw>
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Posted in voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
 Court Denies Republican/Libertarian Party Request for Three Judge Court in
Challenge to Candidate Contribution Limits
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64437>
Posted on August 19, 2014 2:20 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64437> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here is the opinion
<https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2014cv0837-20> in *Rufer
v. FEC.*

The issues will be certified to the en banc D.C. Circuit after limited
factual finding by the trial court.

Three judge courts get direct appeal to the Supreme Court. So this ruling
makes it somewhat less likely we will see a full ruling from the Supreme
Court in this challenge to base political party contribution limits.

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 7th Circuit to Hear Oral Argument in Wisconsin Voter ID Case September 12
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64434>
Posted on August 19, 2014 1:13 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64434> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here is the order.
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/7th-frank-oa.pdf>
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 “The Wrongheaded Case Against Texas Gov. Rick Perry”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64432>
Posted on August 19, 2014 11:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64432> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo editorial.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-wrong-headed-case-against-texas-gov-rick-perry/2014/08/18/23ab1a9a-2706-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html>
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Posted in chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
 “U.S. court sides with Philly cops fighting ban on political contributions”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64430>
Posted on August 19, 2014 11:16 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64430> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News
<http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/71751-us-court-sides-with-philly-cops-fighting-ban-on-political-contributions>
from PA:

A decision <http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/131516p.pdf> by a U.S.
appeals court could give the Philadelphia police union increased political
clout.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled Monday that the city’s
ban on political contributions by police violates the First
Amendment. Other city employees including firefighters, who successfully
challenged a similar ban, are allowed to make contributions.

(h/t How Appealing <http://howappealing.law.com/081914.html#057422>).
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 “Improving California’s Vote-by-Mail Process: A Three-County Study”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64428>
Posted on August 19, 2014 11:12 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64428> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New report
<http://www.calvoter.org/issues/votereng/votebymail/study/findings.html?utm_source=081914_CVF-NEWS&utm_campaign=CVF-NEWS_081914&utm_medium=email>
from the CA Voter Foundation.
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 Revised Version of Jill LePore Article on Teachout, Campaign Finance
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64426>
Posted on August 19, 2014 8:15 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64426> by *Rick
Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Now <http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/crooked-dead> at the New
Yorker.
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Daniel P. Tokaji

Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law

The Ohio State University | Moritz College of Law

55 W. 12th Ave. | Columbus, OH 43210

614.292.6566 | tokaji.1 at osu.edu
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