[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/17/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Dec 16 20:48:36 PST 2014
"Walmart PAC Funded by Charity for Employees"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69235>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 8:35 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69235>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Demos
<http://www.demos.org/blog/12/16/14/walmart-pac-funded-charity-employees>:
"Walmart isunder scrutiny
<http://www.citizen.org/documents/fec-walmart-complaint.pdf> after
claims that their political action committee is using illegal methods to
persuade employees to donate to its PAC. The complaint, filed with the
FEC, alleges that Walmart is breaking federal election law by matching
employee donations to Walmart's PAC with a donation to a charity owned
by Walmart."
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"Senate abruptly wraps up, capping least productive Congress in
modern history" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69233>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 8:20 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69233>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/another-republican-upends-the-senates-year-end-plans/2014/12/16/127292d8-8559-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html>:
The least-productive Congress in modern history drew to an abrupt
close late Tuesday as the U.S. Senate extended dozens of expired tax
breaks but failed to renew a federally backed terrorism insurance
program supported by big businesses and major sports leagues.
Democrats controlling the Senate also secured agreements from
Republicans to confirm at least six dozen of President Obama's
nominees to serve as federal judges, agency bosses and on myriad
government boards, a last-minute coup for the White House since most
of the picks faced tougher odds next year once Republicans take full
control of Capitol Hill.
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Posted inlegislation and legislatures
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>,political parties
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,political polarization
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>
"Ecuador Family Wins Favors After Donations to Democrats"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69231>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 8:15 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69231>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Expect this fascinating NYT
story<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/world/americas/ecuador-isaias-obama-campaign-robert-menendez-hillary-clinton.html?ref=politics>to
get some play:
The Obama administration overturned a ban preventing a wealthy,
politically connected Ecuadorean woman from entering the United
States after her family gave tens of thousands of dollars to
Democratic campaigns, according to finance records and government
officials.
The woman, Estefanía Isaías, had been barred from coming to the
United States after being caught fraudulently obtaining visas for
her maids. But the ban was lifted at the request of the State
Department under former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton so
that Ms. Isaías could work for an Obama fund-raiser with close ties
to the administration.
It was one of several favorable decisions the Obama administration
made in recent years involving the Isaías family, which the
government ofEcuador
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ecuador/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> accuses
of buying protection from Washington and living comfortably in Miami
off the profits of a looted bank inEcuador
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ecuador/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>.
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"Every Election Is the Most Expensive Election. Or Not."
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69229>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 8:10 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69229>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT's The UpShot.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/upshot/every-election-is-the-most-expensive-election-or-not.html?ref=politics&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
Breaking: Senate Confirms 3 Commissioners to the Election Assistance
Commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69221>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 7:53 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69221>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
After years of the United States Election Assistance Commission having
NO commissioners, tonight in a flurry of activitythe Senate
confirmed<http://democrats.senate.gov/2014/12/16/nominations-agreed-to-by-consent-and-voice-votes/#.VJD-24rF-fJ>the
following three members of the EAC: Thomas Hicks, Matthew Masterson, and
Christy McCormick.
These are two Republican-chosen commissioners and one Democrat. It takes
three votes for any significant action on the commission. People in the
know have high hopes for these three commissioners (a fourth nominee,
Matthew Butler, has not yet had a chance for a hearing, after Myrna
Perez withdrew). We will see.
I detail the dysfunction of the EAC in/The Voting Wars
<http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300198248/ref=asap_B0089NJCR2?ie=UTF8>/,
and as Irecently remarked <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68528>: "there
was a time when a few courageous EAC commissioners could have made the
Commission something to get above the partisan sniping. But they were
shut down and that moment regrettably has passed." The Republican House
has voted to defund the agency, and there is great mistrust of the
agency from some Republicans. Perhaps things will be better this time
around. The agency has some important functions to fulfill, especially
related to approval of voting technology and collection of election
related data.
We can always hope.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Election Assistance Commission
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"En Banc 9th Circ. Questions Initiative Secrecy"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69219>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 7:43 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69219>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Courthouse News Service
<http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/12/16/en-banc-9th-circ-questions-initiative-secrecy.htm>reports
on a lively oral argument in a case involving a purported right of
initiative proponents to be anonymous. Emily Hogin offeredthis extensive
analysis <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68569>of the case in an ELB
guest post.
I've been engaging (and sometimes tangling) with my worthy opponent Jim
Bopp for many years. But I've never heard him referred to as "The Big
Bopper" before.
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"Colorado District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction & Temporary
Restraining Order in Challenge to Electioneering Communications
Disclosure Provisions" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69217>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 4:34 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69217>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here.
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2732:december-16-2014-colorado-district-court-denies-preliminary-injunction-a-temporary-restraining-order-in-challenge-to-electioneering-communications-disclosure-provisions&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>
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"State high court to take up Doe cases centered on Walker's
campaign" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69215>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 4:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69215>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/state-high-court-to-take-up-doe-cases-centered-on-walkers-campaign-b99410356z1-286023391.html>
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted three cases stemming
from a long-running John Doe investigation of fundraising and
spending by Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and conservative groups
backing him.
The court was unanimous in agreeing to take the cases, but Chief
Justice Shirley Abrahamson and Justice David Prosser wrote
separately to say they did not want to combine the cases.
I have never seen anappellate briefing
order<http://www.thewheelerreport.com/wheeler_docs/files/1216wsc.pdf>as
complex as this one. Perhaps for this reason Justice Prosser and Chief
Justice Abrahamson, usually at odds, were aligned in expressing doubts
about consolidating five John Doe related cases for purposes of briefing
and oral argument.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,chicanery
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
"Constitution Check: How much secrecy does the First Amendment give
to political donors?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69211>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 2:19 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69211>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lyle Dennistnn blogs
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2014/12/constitution-check-how-much-secrecy-does-the-first-amendment-give-to-political-donors/>.
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"Texas: Judge in Voting Rights Case Made 'Winners Out of Clear
Losers'" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69209>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 2:07 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69209>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BLT
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/home/id=1202679727367/Texas-Judge-in-Voting-Rights-Case-Made-Winners-Out-of-Clear-Losers?mcode=1202615432600&curindex=1&back=NLJ&slreturn=20141116170539>:
"Lawyers for the state of Texas have accused a federal district judge of
wrongfully awarding 'a consolation prize' of more than $1 million in
attorney fees to groups that challenged the state's redistricting plans."
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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
My Academic Articles 2011-2012 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69205>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 1:51 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69205>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Moving these off the Sidebar as well.
Fixing Washington
<http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/december12/Book_Review_9410.php>,
126/Harvard Law Review/550 (2012)
What to Expect When You're Electing: Federal Courts and the Political
Thicket in 2012 <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2020767>,/Federal Lawyer/, (2012)
Chill Out: A Qualified Defense of Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws in
the Internet Age <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1948313>, 27/Journal of Law
and Politics/557 (2012)
Lobbying, Rent Seeking, and the Constitution
<http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/lobbying-rent-seeking-and-constitution>,
64/Stanford Law Review/191 (2012)
Anticipatory Overrulings, Invitations, Time Bombs, and Inadvertence: How
Supreme Court Justices Move the Law, 61/Emory Law Journal/779 (2012)
<http://www.law.emory.edu/fileadmin/journals/elj/61/61.4/Hasen.pdf>
Teaching Bush v. Gore as History
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1898755>, 56/St.
Louis University Law Review/665 (2012) (symposium on teaching election law)
The Supreme Court's Shrinking Election Law Docket: A Legacy of Bush v.
Gore or Fear of the Roberts Court? <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1780508>,
10/Election Law Journal/325 (2011)
/Citizens United/and the Orphaned Antidistortion Rationale
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1737938>, 27/Georgia
State Law Review/989 (2011) (symposium on/Citizens United/)
The Nine Lives of Buckley v. Valeo
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1593253>, inFirst
Amendment Stories
<http://www.amazon.com/First-Amendment-Stories-Law/dp/1599417758>,
Richard Garnett and Andrew Koppelman, eds., Foundation 2011)
The Transformation of the Campaign Financing Regime for U.S.
Presidential Elections
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1505527>, inThe
Funding of Political Parties
<http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415580014/>(Keith Ewing,
Jacob Rowbottom, and Joo-Cheong Tham, eds., Routledge 2011)
Judges as Political Regulators: Evidence and Options for Institutional
Change <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1577268>,
inRace, Reform and Regulation of the Electoral Process
<http://www.amazon.com/Regulation-Electoral-Cambridge-Democracy-ebook/dp/B005252LBO>,
(Gerken, Charles, and Kang eds., Cambridge 2011)
/Citizens United/and the Illusion of Coherence
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1620576>, 109
Michigan Law Review 581 (2011)
Articles 2004-2007 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26841>
Articles from 2008-2010 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51743>
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"How Stephen Colbert Schooled Americans in Campaign Finance"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69203>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 1:02 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69203>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Trevor Potter reflects
<http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=586:how-stephen-colbert-schooled-americans-in-campaign-finance>.
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"Assembly Speaker Says He's 'Open' To Replacing GAB With Partisan
Elections Board" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69201>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 12:59 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69201>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest
<http://www.wpr.org/assembly-speaker-says-hes-open-replacing-gab-partisan-elections-board>from
Wisconsin.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"FairVote Submits Comment Supporting Petition for More Inclusive
Candidate Debates" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69199>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 12:56 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69199>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here.
<http://www.fairvote.org/research-and-analysis/blog/more-inclusive-debates-/>
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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,third parties
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=47>
My Opeds and Commentaries 2012-2013
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69191>
Posted onDecember 16, 2014 7:37 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69191>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I am moving them off the sidebar as I spruce things up around here.
[links fixed]
Voter Suppression's New Pretext
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/opinion/voter-suppressions-new-pretext.html>,/New
York Times/, Nov. 15, 2013
Making a Federal Case Out of It: How Democrats May Win the Virginia
Attorney General's Race
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/11/virginia_attorney_general_s_race_how_democrats_could_win.html>,/Slate/,
Nov. 11, 2013
Why Judge Posner Changed His Mind on Voter ID Laws
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/23/why-judge-posner-is-right-on-voter-id-laws.html>,/Daily
Beast/, October 23, 2013
The Next Citizens United?
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/09/campaign_finance_at_the_supreme_court_is_mccutcheon_v_fec_the_next_citizens.html>,/Slate/,
Sept. 30, 2013
Why Was Tom DeLay's Conviction Tossed?
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/09/tom_delay_s_conviction_reversed_on_appeal.html>,/Slate/,
Sept. 19, 2013
Supreme Error: North Carolina's New Voter Suppression Law Shows Why the
Voting Rights Act is Still Necessary
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/08/north_carolina_s_speedy_vote_suppression_tactics_show_exactly_why_the_voting.html>,/Slate/,
Aug. 19, 2013
Holder's Texas-Sized Gambit: Will It Save the Voting Rights Act?
<http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202613130666&>,/National
Law Journal/, Aug. 5, 2013
Will the GOP's North Carolina End Run Backfire?
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/24/will-the-gop-s-north-carolina-end-run-backfire.html>,/The
Daily Beast/, July 24, 2013
Court Due to Make a Second Trip Down the Aisle
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/07/15/court-due-to-make-second-trip-down-the-aisle/>,/Reuters
Opinion/, July 16, 2013
"Are the Liberal Justices Savvy or Suckers? They are playing to beat
John Roberts at his long game
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/07/are_the_liberals_on_the_supreme_court_savvy_or_suckers.html>,/Slate/,
July 1, 2013
The Chief Justice's Long Game
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/opinion/the-chief-justices-long-game.html>,/New
York Times/, June 25, 2013
What's Taking the Supreme Court So Long?
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/21/what-s-taking-the-supreme-court-so-long.html>,/Daily
Beast/, June 21, 2013
The Supreme Court Gives States New Weapons in the Voting Wars
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/17/the-supreme-court-gives-states-new-weapons-in-the-voting-wars.html>,/Daily
Beast/, June 17, 2013
It's About the Disclosure, Stupid: The larger failing behind the
terrible IRS treatment of Tea Party groups
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/the_irs_tea_party_scandal_the_lesson_is_better_campaign_finance_disclosure.html>,/Slate/,
May 14, 2013
Same-Sex Marriage: Court on the Couch
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/03/26/same-sex-marriage-court-on-the-couch/>,/Reuters
Opinion/, Mar. 26, 2013
The Voting Wars Within: Is the Justice Department Too Biased to Enforce
the Voting Rights Act?
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/03/justice_department_s_inspector_general_report_is_the_voting_rights_section.html>,/Slate/,
Mar. 18, 2013
Who Controls Voting Rights?
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/26/who-controls-voting-rights/>,/Reuters
Opinion/, Feb. 26, 2013
After Scalia: Don't Give Up on Campaign Finance Reform, However Hopeless
It Seems Now
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/02/campaign_finance_reform_when_scalia_leaves_the_supreme_court.html>,/Slate/,
Feb. 21, 2013
If the Court Strikes Down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/01/30/if-the-court-strikes-section-5-of-voting-rights-act/>,/Reuters
Opinion/, Jan. 30, 2013
Democrats, Don't Freak Out! Why Fear that Republicans Will Gerrymander
the Electoral College are Overblown
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/01/republican_plans_for_electoral_college_reform_democrats_shouldn_t_worry.html>,/Slate/,
Jan. 25, 2013
Big Money Lost, But Don't Be Relieved
<http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/opinion/hasen-outside-political-money/index.html?iref=allsearch>,/CNN
Opinion/, Nov. 9, 2012
A Better Way to Vote: Nationalize Oversight and Control
<http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/11/08/does-our-voting-system-need-to-be-fixed/nationalize-oversight-and-control-of-elections>,/NY
Times, "Room for Debate" blog/, Nov. 9, 2012
Election Day Dispatches Entry 5: Black Panthers, Navy Seals, and
Mysterious Voting Machines
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/features/2012/election_day_2012/presidential_election_election_day_controversies_are_the_new_normal.html>,/Slate/,
Nov. 6, 2012
Behind the Voting Wars, A Clash of Philosophies
<http://www.sacbee.com/2012/11/03/4958430/republicans-have-pursued-election.html>,/Sacramento
Bee/, Nov. 4, 2012
How Many More Near-Election Disasters Before Congress Wakes Up?
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/30/how-many-more-near-election-disasters-before-congress-wakes-up.html>,/The
Daily Beast/, Oct. 30, 2012
Will Bush v. Gore Save Barack Obama? If Obama Narrowly Wins Ohio, He Can
Thank Scalia and the Court's Conservatives
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/10/campaign_2012_will_obama_win_ohio_thanks_to_bush_v_gore.html>,/Slate/,
Oct. 26, 2012
Will Voter Suppression and Dirty Tricks Swing the Election?
<http://www.salon.com/2012/10/22/will_voter_suppression_and_dirty_tricks_swing_the_election/singleton/>,/Salon/,
Oct. 22, 2012
Is the Supreme Court About to Swing Another Presidential Election? If
the Court Cuts Early Voting in Ohio, It Could Be a Difference Maker in
the Buckeye State
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/10/if_the_supreme_court_cuts_early_voting_in_ohio_it_could_swing_the_state.html>,/Slate/,
Oct. 15, 2012
Election Truthers: Will Republicans Accept an Obama Election Victory?
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/10/will_republicans_accept_if_barack_obama_defeats_mitt_romney_.html>,/Slate/,
Oct. 9, 2012
Wrong Number: The Crucial Ohio Voting Battle You Haven't Heard About
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/10/ohio_voter_laws_the_battle_over_disenfranchisement_you_haven_t_heard_about_.html>,/Slate/,
Oct. 1, 2012
Litigating the Vote
<http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202568878820&slreturn=20121103171823>,/National
Law Journal/, Aug. 27, 2012
Military Voters as Political Pawns
<http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/aug/19/tp-military-voters-as-political-pawns/>,/San
Diego Union-Tribune/, August 19, 2012
Tweeting the Next Election Meltdown: If the Next Presidential Election
Goes into Overtime, Heaven Help Us. It's Gonna Get Ugly
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/08/twitter_and_other_social_media_will_make_the_next_close_presidential_election_much_worse_than_florida_in_2000_.html>,/Slate/,
Aug. 14, 2012
A Detente Before the Election
<http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/a-dtente-before-the-election/?ref=opinion>,/New
York Times/, August 5, 2012
Worse Than Watergate: The New Campaign Finance Order Puts the Corruption
of the 1970s to Shame
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/07/campaign_finance_after_citizens_united_is_worse_than_watergate_.html>,/Slate/,
July 19, 2012
Has SCOTUS OK'd Campaign Dirty Tricks?
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78342.html>,/Politico/, July
10, 2012
End the Voting Wars: Take our elections out of the hands of the partisan
and the incompetent
<http://hive.slate.com/hive/how-can-we-fix-constitution/article/end-the-voting-wars>,/Slate/,
June 13, 2012
Citizens: Speech, No Consequences
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76919.html>,/Politico/, May
31, 2012
Is Campaign Disclosure Heading Back to the Supreme Court? Don't expect
to see Karl Rove's Rolodex just yet
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/05/don_t_get_too_excited_about_promises_of_imminent_campaign_finance_disclosure__1.html>,/Slate/,
May 16, 2012
Unleash the Hounds: Why Justice Souter should publish his secret dissent
in Citizens United
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/05/citizens_united_justice_david_souter_s_dissent_in_the_supreme_court_s_momentous_campaign_finance_case_.html>,/Slate/,
May 16, 2012
Why Washington Can't Be Fixed; And is about to get a lot worse
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/05/thomas_mann_and_norman_ornstein_s_ideas_won_t_solve_washington_s_gridlock_.html>,/Slate/,
May 9, 2012
Let John Edwards Go! Edwards may be a liar and a philanderer, but his
conviction will do more harm than good
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/04/john_edwards_should_not_be_prosecuted_for_campaign_finance_violations_.html>,/Slate/,
April 23, 2012
The Real Loser of the Scott Walker Recall? The State of Wisconsin
<http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/102563/scott-walker-recall-election-wisconsin-governor-labor-union>,/The
New Republic/, April 13, 2012
A Court of Radicals: If the justices strike down Obamacare, it may have
grave political implications for the court itself
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/03/supreme_court_and_obamacare_will_the_court_s_conservatives_strike_down_the_affordable_care_act_.html>,/Slate/,
March 30, 2012
Of Super PACs and Corruption
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74336.html>,/Politico/, March
22, 2012
Texas Voter ID Law May Be Headed to the Supreme Court
<http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/12/3804285/hasen-texas-voter-id-law-may-be.html>,/Fort
Worth Star-Telegram/, Mar. 13, 2012
"The Numbers Don't Lie: If you aren't sure Citizens United gave rise to
the Super PACs, just follow the money
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/03/the_supreme_court_s_citizens_united_decision_has_led_to_an_explosion_of_campaign_spending_.html>,/Slate/,
Mar. 9, 2012
Stephen Colbert: Presidential Kingmaker?
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73607.html>,/Politico/, Mar.
5 2012
Occupy the Super PACs; Justice Ginsburg knows the Citizens United
decision was a mistake. Now she appears to be ready to speak truth to
power
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/02/justice_ruth_bader_ginsburg_is_ready_to_speak_out_on_the_danger_of_super_pacs_.html>,/Slate/,
Feb. 20, 2012
Kill the Caucuses! Maine, Nevada, and Iowa were embarrassing. It's time
to make primaries the rule
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/02/congress_should_kill_the_republican_and_democratic_state_caucuses_and_mandate_primaries_instead_.html>,/Slate/,
Feb. 15, 2012
The Biggest Danger of Super PACs
<http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/09/opinion/hasen-super-pacs/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20rss%2Fcnn_topstories%20%28RSS%3A%20Top%20Stories%29>,
CNN Politics, Jan. 9, 2012
This Case is a Trojan Horse
<http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/01/05/should-foreign-money-be-allowed-to-finance-us-elections/bluman-v-fec-is-a-trojan-horse>,/New
York Times/"Room for Debate" blog, Jan. 6, 2012 (forum on/Bluman v. FEC/)
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Congrats (I think!) to Election Law prof Jim Gardner,named interim dean
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