[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/3/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Dec 2 20:39:01 PST 2014
"One last try: Senate Dems push campaign finance reform"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68767>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 8:27 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68767>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/senate-democrats-campaign-finance-reform-113275.html?hp=r1_3>:
"Senate Democrats are making one last try to bring their chamber's
campaign finance records into the 21st century, but their effort to
attach to it a critical government funding bill will likely require them
to make concessions to Republicans to succeed....One such proposal that
Republicans have floated as a trade-off would relax some coordination
rules between political parties and outside groups and effectively
override existing spending limits for coordinated spending between
political parties and candidates."
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"Rand Paul seeks re-election, mum on presidency"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68765>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 8:20 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68765>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /Courier-Journal /reports.
<http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/rand-paul/2014/12/02/rand-paul-seeking-re-election-senate-maybe/19779059/>
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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"The Problem with Online Voter Registration"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68763>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 2:49 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68763>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lloyd Leonard blogs
<http://lwv.org/blog/problem-online-voter-registration>for the LWV.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voter registration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
"APS Dark Money Man Kirk Adams Named Gov-Elect Ducey's Chief of
Staff" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68761>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 2:49 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68761>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Arizona's Politics
<http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2014/12/aps-dark-money-man-kirk-adams-named-gov.html>:
After an election campaign marked by the surreptitious dark money
bankrolling by Arizona's largest utility -- Arizona Public Service
("APS"), you might be surprised to see Gov.-Elect Doug Ducey name
one of APS' dark money managers as his incoming Chief of Staff. Or,
you might not.
Ducey today named former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams to be his
first Chief of Staff when he takes over the 9th floor next month.
Since an unsuccessful run for Congress in 2012, Adams has been
tightly connected with political consultant Sean Noble AND has
helped APS semi-secretly oppose net metering when the Arizona
Corporation Commission was wrestling with it last year.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
Paul Clement Brief for Arizona in SCOTUS Redistricting Case Filed
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68759>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 2:29 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68759>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work/AZ%20Brief%20for%20Appellant.pdf>.
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Posted incitizen commissions
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=7>,Elections Clause
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>,redistricting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
"Michigan Electoral College 'Reform' and the National Popular Vote"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68757>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 1:57 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68757>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Rob Richie blogs
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-richie/michigan-electoral-colleg_b_6257256.html>.
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Posted inelectoral college <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>
Must-Read: "Lear Jet Justice in West Virginia? A 'Circus
Masquerading as a Court'" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68755>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 1:51 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68755>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Brian Ross and Matt Mosk
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/lear-jet-justice-west-virginia-circus-masquerading-court/story?id=27291436&singlePage=true>for
ABC News:
As a $90 million jury verdict was wending its way to the West
Virginia Supreme Court, the lawyer handling the nursing home abuse
case did more than prepare appellate briefs and ready himself for
oral arguments. He was, critics said, pulling every lever available
to him to try to give his client an edge outside the legal system
--- lining up thousands of dollars in campaign contributions for the
court's chief justice and negotiating a private deal to buy a $1.3
million Lear Jet from her husband.
When the nursing home case finally reached the state's high court
earlier this year, Chief Justice Robin Jean Davis wrote the majority
opinion upholding the jury verdict for the client of lawyer Michael
Fuller, though lowering the final payout to just over $40 million.
The cut for Fuller's firm: more than $17 million --- one of the
largest payouts he's ever secured.
Davis never disclosed the airplane deal, telling ABC News she was
under no obligation to do so because it involved her husband, and
not her. But ethics experts have questioned that assertion.
"This does not look good for the rule of law," said James Sample, an
expert on judicial ethics at Hofstra University Law School. "A
million-dollar sale of an airplane while litigation involving the
lawyer who purchases the airplane is pending before the court?
Absolutely no question. It's proper to disclose, and it is improper
to not disclose."
"This is a circus masquerading as a court," Sample said.
Read the whole thing.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,judicial elections
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>
"Fresh Round of Controversies for IRS"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68753>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 12:20 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68753>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eliza Newlin Carney
<http://blogs.rollcall.com/beltway-insiders/fresh-round-of-controversies-for-irs-scandal/>reports
for Roll Call.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,tax law
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
Permanent Election Day Registration for Illinois?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68751>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 11:19 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68751>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The following announcement arrived via email:
The Voting Rights Project of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law fielded hundreds of calls about Election Day
Registration (EDR) on its November 4th Election Protection Hotline
and collected nearly 300 exit surveys from voters who used EDR.
Today it released a report, Illinois Embraces EDR
<http://www.clccrul.org/node/35871>, produced in partnership with
JustVote and SAAPRI.
The report finds that there is strong demand for EDR in Illinois to
ensure equal access to the polls, and that, if made permanent, the
state should devote more resources to EDR. It also shows that 0.25%
of voters used EDR, and so it can have electoral significance in a
state where the state treasurer's race was decided by 0.26% of the vote.
The Illinois state legislature is voting on whether to adopt
permanent EDR this week.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voter registration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
"Mitch McConnell Rider Could Roll Back Campaign Finance Laws"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68749>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 11:03 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68749>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Paul Blumenthal reports
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/01/mitch-mcconnell-campaign-finance_n_6251380.html?utm_hp_ref=politics>for
HuffPo.
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"If The Supreme Court Reads This Study, It Could End Partisan
Gerrymandering Forever" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68747>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 8:10 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68747>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ian Millhiser writes.
<http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/01/3597643/this-study-could-end-the-worst-kinds-of-gerrymandering-if-the-supreme-court-took-the-time-to-read-it/>
I was surprised to see no mention of Voting Rights Act requirements in
drawing these districts.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
"Zephyr Teachout Tackles Corporate Corruption"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68745>
Posted onDecember 2, 2014 8:04 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68745>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ reports.
<http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2014/12/01/zephyr-teachout-tackles-corporate-corruption/>
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