[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/14/14

Tue May 13 21:21:52 PDT 2014

    "The State of Voting Rights in America"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60968>

Posted on May 13, 2014 9:18 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60968>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

[bumping to the top--see some of you in Chicago tomorrow!]

I'm looking forward to participating inthis event 
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-state-voting-rights-in-america-tickets-11433352465?ref=ecal> 
at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics on May 14 (the 
event's video will be posted on the Institute's website soon after the 
event).  Here is a description:

    Is President Obama correct when he says, "the right to vote is
    threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting
    Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago"? The Institute of
    Politics welcomes a panel of leading experts, analysts, and
    advocates to look at these key questions: How have voting rights
    evolved over the past 50 years? What is the impact of last year's
    Supreme Court ruling regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965? And
    what is the status of the current bipartisan legislation in Congress?

    Panelists include *Myrna Perez*, Deputy Director at The Brennan
    Center, *Roger Clegg*, President and General Counsel at The Center
    for Equality, *Richard Hasen*, Professor of Law and Political
    Science at the University of California-Irvine, and *Tanya Clay
    House*, Public Policy Director at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil
    Rights Under Law. The discussion will be moderated by /The New
    Yorker's/ *Jeffrey Toobin.*

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The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, Voting Rights Act 
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    2014 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, & Tokaji: Election Law Cases
    and Materials Coming in July <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61460>

Posted on May 13, 2014 9:13 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61460>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The 2014 Supplement to the 5th edition of /Election Law--Cases and 
Materials 
<http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611631784/Election-Law-Fifth-Edition> 
/will be downloadable without cost for any professors adopting the 
casebook and for their students some time in July. The Supplment will be 
up-to-date through the end of the Supreme Court's October 2013 term. It 
will include coverage of the Supreme Court's campaign finance case, 
/McCutcheon v. FEC/, and the /Susan B. Anthony /false speech case. The 
supplement will also consider developments in Voting Rights Act 
litigation after the Supreme Court's /Shelby County/ case as well as 
cover litigation over citizenship and other state registration and 
voting requirements under the Elections Clause following the Supreme 
Court's opinion last term in /Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council. /

You will find the supplement when it is available posted on the Election 
Law casebook page 
<http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611631784/Election-Law-Fifth-Edition> 
at Carolina Academic Press. (Instructors wishing a review copy or a 
teacher's manual can request these items on that page as well).  Here is 
a description of the Fifth Edition, which was published in 2012:

    The first edition of /Election Law/ was the first modern casebook
    on the subject of election law. Now in its fifth edition, the
    leading election law casebook covers the right to vote and voter
    turnout, legislative districting, the Voting Rights Act, racial
    gerrymandering cause of action, ballot propositions, constitutional
    rights and obligations of political parties, bribery, regulation of
    campaign speech, campaign finance, and election administration.

    The streamlined and student-friendly fifth edition of /Election
    Law/ fully covers developments in election law in the 2012 election
    season including: extensive coverage of /Citizens United/, super
    PACs, and other campaign finance developments; emerging issues in
    voting rights and redistricting, including coverage of the Texas
    redistricting and voter identification cases; and new coverage of
    issues in judicial elections. It will continue to include
    perspectives from law and political science, and is appropriate in
    both law and political science courses. The extensive campaign
    finance coverage makes the book appropriate for a campaign finance
    seminar as well.

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Posted in pedagogy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=23>

    Rand Paul Sees "Nothing Wrong" with Voter ID But Worried Talking
    About It Will Cost His Party Votes
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61458>

Posted on May 13, 2014 4:45 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61458>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Speaking 
<http://therightscoop.com/rand-paul-to-hannity-there-is-nothing-wrong-with-voter-id-lets-just-not-emphasize-it-as-much/>to 
Sean Hannity:

    :No I agree, there's nothing wrong with it. To see Eric Holder
    you've got to show your drivers license to get in the building. So I
    don't really object to having some rules for how we vote. I show my
    drivers license every time I vote in Kentucky...and I don't feel
    like it is a great burden. So it's funny that it got reported that way.

    But I do mean what I said, that Republicans need to be aware that
    there is a group of voters that I'm trying to court and that we
    should be trying to court who do see it as something directed
    towards them. So that's why what I've been trying to emphasize is
    not voter-ID, but trying to emphasize that I would like to give
    people back the right to vote if they committed a youthful
    non-violent crime and have served their time. I think you do get a
    second chance in life. I believe in redemption as a Christian. And I
    think also the law should allow people who committed youthful crimes
    to get their voting rights back....

    Like I say, I think both sides have made mistakes in...this issue.
    But it's mainly in presentation and perception, not in reality. In
    the sense that, if Republicans are going to go around the country
    and this becomes a central theme and issue, you have to realize,
    rightly or wrongly, it is being perceived by some --- and this is
    the point I was making and I think it's still a valid point, that
    I'm trying to go out and say to African Americans 'I want your vote
    and the Republican Party wants your vote'. If they perceive, rightly
    or wrongly, that showing their ID is an attempt to get them not to
    vote because they perceive it in the lineage of a time when it truly
    did happen through poll taxes and questioning to try and prevent
    people, if they perceive it that way, we have to be aware that the
    perception is out there and be careful about not so overdoing
    something that we further alienate a block of people we need to attract.

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

    On His Way Out Door, LA Supervisor Yarosavsky Proposes Electronic
    Filing of Campaign Reports <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61456>

Posted on May 13, 2014 3:46 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61456>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-county-campaign-finance-20140513-story.html>.

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

    "Wayne County clerk: I won't allow Conyers on August primary ballot"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61454>

Posted on May 13, 2014 3:28 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61454>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Detroit Free Press /reports 
<http://www.freep.com/article/20140513/NEWS05/305130116/John-Conyers-Cathy-Garrett-signatures>.  
Let's see what happens after the lawsuit.

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Posted in ballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>, campaigns 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, petition signature gathering 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=39>

    "Begich Could Benefit From a Ballot Initiative Bounce"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61451>

Posted on May 13, 2014 8:20 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61451>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call <http://atr.rollcall.com/begich-alaska-ballot-initiative/>:

    Alaska Sen. Mark Begich is all of a sudden the likely beneficiary of
    a legislative blunder that may send more voters to the polls this fall.

    Begich's midterm electorate is expected to expand as a result of the
    Republican-controlled state Legislature's failure to gavel out
    <http://www.adn.com/2014/04/21/3434564/session-goes-into-overtime-with.html>
    by its April 20 deadline, an error --- or conscious decision,
    depending on whom you ask --- that has been the talk of Alaska
    political circles for the past few weeks. It automatically shifted
    to the general election three ballot initiatives on marijuana, the
    minimum wage and the environment --- issues that could draw to the
    polls voters more likely to also support the Democratic incumbent.

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democracy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=62>

    "The earmark end-around? Pork-barrel is out, reviews of military
    ladder options are in." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61448>

Posted on May 13, 2014 7:30 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61448>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-earmark-end-around-pork-barrel-is-out-reviews-of-military-ladder-options-are-in/2014/05/12/045b7618-d782-11e3-aae8-c2d44bd79778_story.html>.

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

    "WACHOB: Amend the First Amendment to curb political speech?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61446>

Posted on May 13, 2014 7:28 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61446>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Luke Wachob 
<http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/12/wachob-amend-the-first-amendment/> 
has written this /Washington Times /oped.

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

    "FCC Chair Tom Wheeler taking 'seriously' complaint about political
    advertisers" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61443>

Posted on May 13, 2014 7:27 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61443>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This item 
<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/05/12/fcc-chair-tom-wheeler-taking-seriously-complaint-about-political-advertisers-transparency-fail/> 
appears at the Sunlight Foundation's blog.

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    "Top Six Facts in the Walker Dark Money Criminal Probe"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61441>

Posted on May 13, 2014 7:25 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61441>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brendan Fischer blogs 
<http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12475/scottwalker-john-doe-darkmoney-sixthings>.

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    "Contractor Giving Soars 28% in Bid to Block Defense Cuts"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61439>

Posted on May 13, 2014 7:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61439>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-13/contractor-giving-soars-28-in-bid-to-block-defense-cuts.html?alcmpid=>.

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    "'Fixing' campaign finance is only making it worse"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61437>

Posted on May 13, 2014 7:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61437>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Seth Masket 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/05/12/fixing-campaign-finance-is-only-making-it-worse/> 
writes the Monkey Cage.

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    "The Media Ignore IRS Scandal" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61435>

Posted on May 13, 2014 7:20 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61435>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Caron USA Today column 
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/05/12/president-obama-irs-scandal-watergate-column/8968317/>.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law 
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

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