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On Jan 10, 2014, at 3:09 PM, "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>> wrote:

Breaking: Supreme Court Takes Case Involving False Campaign Speech<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57863>
Posted on January 10, 2014 12:06 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57863> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Today the Court issued an orde<http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/011014zr_bp24.pdf>r granting cert in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus.

The cert. petition <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/SBA_Cert_Petition.pdf> raises two questions, the second of which is substantive on the question of false campaign speech laws:

Did the Sixth Circuit err by holding, in direct conflict with the Eighth Circuit, that state laws proscribing “false” political speech are not subject to pre-enforcement First Amendment review so long as the speaker maintains that its speech is true, even if others who enforce the law
manifestly disagree?

Marcia Coyle’s preview of this case<http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleSCI.jsp?id=1202615481907&kw=Campaign%20Lies%20Are%20Common%2C%20But%20Are%20They%20Actionable%3F&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20130814&src=EMC-Email&pt=Supreme%20Court%20Brief%20Headlines&slreturn=20140010150405> is here. It is not clear to me that the Court in this case is going to reach the merits of the constitutionality of laws barring false campaign speech (the Court may instead simply say that courts have to decide such challenges). But if the Court reaches the merits, I believe the Court is likely to hold at least some state laws barring false campaign speech unconstitutional. I’ve addressed the issues of the constitutionality of limits on campaign lies after US v. Alvarez in A Constitutional Right to Lie in Campaigns and Elections?<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2151618>

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Posted in campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“NAACP Expands Election Law Challenge; Lawsuit now includes Hispanics, end of early registration”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57861>
Posted on January 10, 2014 10:04 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57861> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Carolina Journal reports.<http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=10754>

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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Hacking attempt draws congressional investigation of FEC”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57859>
Posted on January 10, 2014 9:59 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57859> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI reports.<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/01/10/14089/hacking-attempt-draws-congressional-investigation-fec>

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Posted in chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, federal election commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
“N.C. wants voting law emails kept secret”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57857>
Posted on January 10, 2014 9:58 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57857> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

MSNBC<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/nc-wants-voting-law-emails-kept-secret>: “North Carolina is asking a federal judge to keep secret Republican state lawmakers’ communications as they pushed through the nation’s most restrictive voting law last summer.”

As I’ve explained in this recent essay<http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/127/january14/forum_1022.php>, the attempt to bail in North Carolina under section 3 of the VRA requires proof of racially discriminatory intent, intent which could be in those emails.

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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“It’s Bigger Than Voter ID”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57855>
Posted on January 10, 2014 9:56 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57855> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brentin Mock blogs<http://www.demos.org/blog/1/10/14/its-bigger-voter-id> at Demos.

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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“How Lobbyists Still Fly Through Loopholes; Even after the Abramoff reforms, companies and countries looking to sway Congress find ways to ply lawmakers with fancy overseas trips.”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57853>
Posted on January 10, 2014 7:40 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57853> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Shane Goldmacher writes<http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-lobbyists-still-fly-through-loopholes-20140110> for National Journal.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Proposed ethics reforms for Virginia don’t go far enough”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57851>
Posted on January 10, 2014 7:37 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57851> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo editorial.<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/proposed-ethics-reforms-for-virginia-dont-go-far-enough/2014/01/08/75f60c0e-77e5-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html>

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Posted in chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, conflict of interest laws<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>, ethics investigations<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=42>
Bauer on Public Citizen on McCutcheon<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57849>
Posted on January 10, 2014 7:35 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57849> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here.<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/01/fundraising-and-corruption-in-the-arguments-about-mccutcheon/>

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

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