[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/13/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Jun 13 09:00:08 PDT 2014
<http://electionlawblog.org/>
"'Ready for Hillary' is spending money like crazy"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62340>
Posted on June 13, 2014 8:56 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62340>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Fix reports.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/13/ready-for-hillary-is-already-spending-a-ton-of-dough-on-2016/>
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Thad Cochran apparently didn't know that Eric Cantor lost"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62338>
Posted on June 13, 2014 8:56 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62338>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mark this
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/13/thad-cochran-apparently-didnt-know-that-eric-cantor-lost/>as
the moment Cochran lost his last bid to keep his seat.
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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"I'm a Democrat and I helped the tea party unseat Eric Cantor"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62336>
Posted on June 13, 2014 8:51 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62336>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Brian Umana
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/13/im-a-democrat-and-i-helped-the-tea-party-unseat-eric-cantor/>:
"he truth is that Cantor's electoral demise did not occur overnight. It
was the culmination of more than four years of grass-roots organizing,
from both the right /and/ the left, to unseat him. Behind the scenes,
Cantor opponents who otherwise had little ideological common ground
cooperated in his demise. I know, because I helped engineer it."
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"People move to places that fit their politics. And it's helping
Republicans." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62333>
Posted on June 13, 2014 8:39 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62333>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Fix reports.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/13/people-move-to-places-that-fit-their-politics-and-its-helping-republicans/>
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Posted in redistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
"Arizona Congressional Race Devolves Into War Over Hispanic
Surnames" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62331>
Posted on June 13, 2014 8:38 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62331>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bizarre Weigel story.
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/06/12/arizona_congressional_race_devolves_into_war_over_hispanic_surnames.html>
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"Corporate Distress and Lobbying: Evidence from the Stimulus Act"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62327>
Posted on June 13, 2014 8:37 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62327>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2014/06/13/corporate-distress-and-lobbying-evidence-from-the-stimulus-act/#more-63906>:
*Editor's Note:* The following post comes to us from Manuel Adelino
<http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty_research/faculty_directory/adelino/>
of the Finance Area at Duke University, and Serdar Dinc
<http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/dinc-serdar>
of the Department of Finance and Economics at Rutgers University.
In our paper, Corporate Distress and Lobbying: Evidence from the
Stimulus Act
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2360103>,
forthcoming in the /Journal of Financial Economics/, we contribute
to the long literature on corporate behavior in distress, as well as
to studies of the consequences of financial distress. Using the
financial crisis in 2008 as a negative shock to nonfinancial firms'
financial conditions, we document a novel fact on the relation
between firms' financial health and their lobbying activities. We
compare the lobbying activities of firms before and after the onset
of the crisis and find that firms with weak financial health---as
measured by their CDS spread---lobby more. This result is robust to
controlling for such firm-specific variables as size, profitability,
and market-to-book ratio, all the firm characteristics that remain
unchanged during the short window before and during the passage of
the stimulus act, sector-wide time trends, and the adoption of
different time windows for comparison in the
difference-in-differences framework.
Interestingly, weaker firms decrease their capital investments in
this period while increasing their spending for lobbying, which
suggests a shift from productive activities to rent seeking, as
discussed in Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny (1991, 1993). Such shifts
to rent seeking are costly to the economy, but much of those costs
are incurred by the whole economy rather than by particular
rent-seeking firms. Hence, estimates of financial distress costs in
the corporate finance literature are unlikely to fully capture the
costs of rent seeking attributable to the deteriorating financial
health of firms.
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"Voters Bill of Rights might miss November ballot"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62325>
Posted on June 13, 2014 8:34 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62325>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Cincinnati Enquirer:
<http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/06/12/voters-bill-rights-might-miss-november-ballot/10381325/>"An
effort to put a voting-rights amendment on Ohio's November ballot will
"go all the way up to the wire," the organizer said Thursday,
acknowledging Democratic candidates may miss out on the turnout benefit
a voting-related ballot issue would bring."
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Another IRS Abuse; Lois Lerner's office sent confidential taxpayer
data to the FBI." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62323>
Posted on June 12, 2014 2:12 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62323>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ Opinion <http://online.wsj.com/articles/another-irs-abuse-1402404794>:
In a Monday letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John
Koskinen <http://topics.wsj.com/person/K/John-Koskinen/1061>, Reps.
Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) and Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) of the House
Oversight Committee reveal still another IRS abuse of conservatives.
In October of 2010, apparently without a court order, the IRS sent
21 computer disks containing 1.1 million pages of tax-return
documents to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to the
Justice Department, the massive data dump included public returns
from non-profit groups but also taxpayer information that by law the
IRS is required to keep confidential. Reps. Issa and Jordan ask in
their letter
<http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-06-09-DEI-Jordan-to-Koskinen-IRS-DOJ-Disks-tax-exempt-applications.pdf>for
information relating to the preparation and transmittal of the data.
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and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
Election Law Prof Jocelyn Benson Named Dean of Wayne State Law
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62321>
Posted on June 12, 2014 12:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62321>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Congrats
<http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2014/06/jocelyn-benson-named-permanent-dean-of-wayne-state-law.html>,
Jocelyn!
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Posted in election law biz <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=51>
"Judge orders new election in Weslaco's District 5?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62317>
Posted on June 12, 2014 10:50 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62317>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Judge agrees
<http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/judge-orders-new-election-in-weslaco-s-district/article_60063c28-f253-11e3-a917-001a4bcf6878.html>
there were more illegal votes than the margin of victory in Texas city
election. Not sure about the nature of the illegal votes from this story.
UPDATE: Here's
<http://www.krgv.com/news/judge-orders-new-election-in-weslaco-city-commission-race/>
a bit more detail: "The suit noted 23 people registered as voters at a
single address just before the election...Some of the disallowed ballots
were cast by voters claiming Rivera's childhood home as their address.
It's a two-bed, one-bath home."
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Posted in chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, election
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"What if you throw an election and no one shows up? It's bad for
democracy, but is low turnout bad for elections officials?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62315>
Posted on June 12, 2014 10:08 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62315>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
That's the lead story in this week's Electionline Weekly.
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"Thank you for endorsing my non-campaign through the super PAC I
didn't authorize and won't able to coordinate with!"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62313>
Posted on June 12, 2014 9:26 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62313>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Nick Confessore paraphrasing
<https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/477123170731061248> Hillary
Clinton
<http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/us/politics/a-chicago-homecoming-for-clinton-on-her-book-tour.html?ref=politics&_r=1&referrer=>.
Ken Vogel's "Big Money
<http://www.amazon.com/Big-Money-Suspicious-Ultra-Rich-Hijacking/dp/1610393384>"
also nicely describes how Romney helped with his Super PAC while it was
still legal for him to cooperate with it.
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"The Fix: Americans are twice as polarized as they were in 1994 on 8
out of 10 issues" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62311>
Posted on June 12, 2014 8:48 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62311>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Aaron Blake writes
<http://washingtonpost.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c5adbd4783d227c40313eb002&id=97411bac46&e=131b1e424f>.
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"State GOP chairman says committee has gathered evidence of voter
fraud in June 3 election" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62309>
Posted on June 12, 2014 8:36 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62309>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Will be interesting
<http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/06/state_gop_chairman_says_commit.html>
to see if any of these pan out.
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Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Don't Blame Steakhouses for Cantor's Fall"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62307>
Posted on June 12, 2014 8:34 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62307>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Open Secrets
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/06/dont-blame-steakhouses-for-cantors-fall/?utm_source=CRP+Mail+List&utm_campaign=7f2681205e-Newsletter_6_12_20146_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9df8578d78-7f2681205e-206469445>:
"So was Cantor doomed to lose by his high-rolling, Washington insider
spending habits
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/06/dave-versus-goliath-by-the-numbers/>?
Probably not. Cantor's expenditures aren't so different from other
big-time fundraisers, most of whom cruise through their primary every year."
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
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"Reversing Citizens United" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62305>
Posted on June 12, 2014 8:30 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62305>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Gans
<http://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2014/06/12/reversing-citizens-united/10364275/%5D>
oped:
Do we need a constitutional amendment to overturn Roberts' court
rulings that have eviscerated our nation's campaign finance laws and
opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate spending? That question
was front and center last week as senators gathered for a historic
hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in which both Majority
Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell testified. The
answer may well be yes. And it is unquestionably the case that the
Constitution is the American people's charter, and they have the
right to undo Supreme Court decisions that violate fundamental
constitutional principles.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
AALS Election Law Section Call for Papers
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62303>
Posted on June 12, 2014 8:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62303>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Via Josh Douglas:
Dear Election Law Colleagues,
The brand-new AALS Section on Election Law is issuing a Call for
Papers to select two panelists for its inaugural program at the 2015
AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The Section's program will
be on Sunday, January 4, 2015, from 2:00-3:45. The title of the
program is "T*he Voting Rights Act at 50.*" The two panelists
selected from the Call for Papers will join an all-star cast
including Pam Karlan, Chris Elmendorf, and Kareem Crayton, to
discuss the topic.
Selected papers will be published in the Election Law Journal. The
deadline to submit is *Friday, September 5*. Finished papers or
substantially completed drafts are preferred, although you may
submit an abstract so long as you will be able to complete the paper
in time for the AALS Annual Meeting in January.
To submit, or if you have any questions, please email Josh Douglas
at joshuadouglas at uky.edu <mailto:joshuadouglas at uky.edu>.
Here is the full program description:
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights
Act into law. During the signing ceremony, President Johnson
referred to the Act as "one of the most monumental laws in the
entire history of American freedom." Over the past fifty years, the
Supreme Court has issued numerous decisions on various aspects of
the Voting Rights Act, Congress has amended it several times, and it
remains an important component of public debate. This panel -- the
first programming for the new AALS Section on Election Law -- will
explore the many facets of that debate. The panel will analyze the
current issues regarding voting rights, from the Supreme Court's
recent invalidation of the Section 4 coverage formula in its /Shelby
County/ decision -- essentially rendering Section 5 inoperable -- to
Congress's consideration of a Voting Rights Act Amendment, to the
report of the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election
Administration. Part of this inquiry will include a discussion of
whether we have reached the ideals President Johnson aspired to 50
years ago when he signed this Act, and where we should go from here
in protecting and effectuating the right to vote. The papers from
this program will appear in the Election Law Journal.
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"An expert on congressional primaries weighs in on Cantor's loss"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62301>
Posted on June 12, 2014 8:27 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62301>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Robert Boatwright
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/12/the-expert-on-congressional-primaries-weighs-in-on-cantors-loss/>
talks to the Monkey Cage.
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Posted in political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,
political polarization <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>, primaries
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
Judicial Candidates Have No Constitutional Right for Party Label on
Ballot <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62299>
Posted on June 12, 2014 7:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62299>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Following up on this post <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62273>, see
this opinion
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/library/documents/OhioCouncil8Opinion061114.pdf>
in /Ohio Council 8 AFSCME v. Brunner
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/library/documents/OhioCouncil8Opinion061114.pdf>./
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Posted in judicial elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>,
political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political
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"Political Polarization in the American Public; How Increasing
Ideological Uniformity and Partisan Antipathy Affect Politics,
Compromise and Everyday Life" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62297>
Posted on June 11, 2014 9:33 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62297>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Very important Pew report
<http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/>,
with some very revealing graphics and statistics.
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