[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/3/14

Mon Mar 3 08:31:20 PST 2014

    "Process 'Reboot' Aims to End Senate Gridlock"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59189>

Posted on March 3, 2014 8:26 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59189>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/us/politics/process-reboot-aims-to-end-senate-gridlock.html?ref=politics&_r=0>: 
"Senate leaders, responding to a groundswell of anger among the rank and 
file in both parties to the recent breakdown in procedure, will try a 
new trick to unstick the upper chamber."

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Posted in legislation and legislatures 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, political parties 
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

    "Residency questions dog many California legislators"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59187>

Posted on March 3, 2014 8:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59187>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SacBee reports 
<http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/28/6198996/residency-questions-dog-many-california.html>.

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, residency 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=38>

    "Felony allegations cost California Democrats their super majority"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59185>

Posted on March 3, 2014 8:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59185>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Reid Wilson reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/03/felony-allegations-cost-california-democrats-their-super-majority/> 
for WaPo.

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Posted in chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, legislation 
and legislatures <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>

    Jost on Justice Thomas and Oral Argument
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59183>

Posted on March 3, 2014 8:20 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59183>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

If not disgraceful, a disservice 
<http://jostonjustice.blogspot.com/2014/03/justice-thomass-disrespecting-silence.html>.

Jost uses Citizens United to argue that oral argument matters (though 
wasn't it J. Alito and not the Chief who made the banning books comment?)

My own thoughts on this controversy here 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58961>.

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Posted in Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    "A million of us have no vote in Albany"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59181>

Posted on March 3, 2014 8:13 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59181>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jerry Goldfeder 
<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/million-vote-albany-article-1.1706939>: 
"Because of 11 legislative vacancies, approximately 1.1 million New 
Yorkers are not represented in the New York State Assembly, and another 
630,000 residents have no state senator. Although voters usually go to 
their local elected officials to solve community problems and to pass 
legislative fixes, perhaps the absence of a voice in Albany hasn't hit 
their radar yet. Budgetary discussions are heating up, however --- so it 
is just a matter of time."

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    Quote of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59178>

Posted on March 2, 2014 12:00 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59178>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

"The Karl Rove thing is out...the Koch thing is in."

---Anonymous donor quoted in Nick Confessore's must-read piece 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/us/politics/big-money-donors-demand-larger-say-in-party-strategy.html?hp&_r=0> 
in today's NYT on the changing nature of donations to Super PACs and its 
impact on political parties.

This party problem has been driven in part by the Supreme Court's 
favoring of outside groups over parties, something which, as I suggested 
in my Washington Post Outlook piece, 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-next-citizens-united-could-bring-more-corruption--but-less-gridlock/2014/02/21/a190d1c6-95ab-11e3-afce-3e7c922ef31e_story.html> 
may change soon with McCutcheon.

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polarization <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

    "Kasich signs voting, scooter-parking bills into law"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59175>

Posted on March 1, 2014 4:16 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59175>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201402281659/NEWS010801/302280083>from 
Ohio.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    Lessig Keynote at Stetson Campaign Finance Conference
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59173>

Posted on March 1, 2014 4:05 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59173>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Watch 
<http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/78203377963/keynote-from-symposium-at-stetson-law-school>.

Around the 37 minute mark Larry addresses my debate with him about 
whether "dependence corruption" is an equality argument.  I sense some 
movement there.

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    Kmiec Campaign Website Updated <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59171>

Posted on March 1, 2014 4:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59171>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

So reports 
<http://joshblackman.com/blog/2014/02/28/kmiec-for-congress-now-accepting-donations-without-any-disclosures/> 
Josh Blackman.

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