[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/19/14

Mon May 19 07:25:45 PDT 2014

    "Courts to decide whether John Doe a useful tool or unfair witch
    hunt" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61589>

Posted on May 19, 2014 7:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61589>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel / 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/courts-to-decide-whether-john-doe-a-useful-tool-or-unfair-witch-hunt-b99270492z1-259745971.html>reports. 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/courts-to-decide-whether-john-doe-a-useful-tool-or-unfair-witch-hunt-b99270492z1-259745971.html>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, 
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    "Here's how to put everyday citizens in charge of financing
    campaigns" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61586>

Posted on May 19, 2014 7:19 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61586>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Rep. Sarbanes guest blog 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/05/19/heres-how-to-put-everyday-citizens-in-charge-of-financing-campaigns/> 
at "The Monkey Cage." He responds to Seth Masket.

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

    "Judges and Justice for Sale" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61584>

Posted on May 19, 2014 7:18 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61584>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT editorial. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/opinion/judges-and-justice-for-sale.html?_r=0>

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Posted in judicial elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>

    "Chilling Election Message to Tea Party Is Business Goal"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61582>

Posted on May 19, 2014 7:15 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61582>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-19/chilling-election-message-to-tea-party-is-business-goal.html?alcmpid=> 
on the Chamber's campaign strategy.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, 
campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, political parties 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

    "Oligarchy Enshrined: Why the Supreme Court's McCutcheon ruling is
    good news for the super-rich and bad news for progressive Democrats"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61580>

Posted on May 19, 2014 7:14 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61580>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Cover story at /In These Times./ 
<http://inthesetimes.com/article/16662/oligarchy_enshrined>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme 
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    Two from Ellen Katz <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61577>

Posted on May 19, 2014 7:12 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61577>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Hobby Lobby and the Pathology of Citizens United 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2437958> 
(forthcoming Duke J. Constitutional Law and Public Policy).  Abstract:

    This Essay explores a distinct way Citizens United v. Federal
    Election Commission promises to influence pending challenges to the
    Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), and a host of
    cases to come. Specifically, the way Citizens United approached
    precedent will likely affect, and radiate well beyond, the current
    ACA challenges. Citizens United read a number of prior decisions to
    adopt rules those decisions deliberately chose not to espouse. While
    this is not an entirely new move for the Court, the contribution of
    Citizens United was to normalize this disconcerting stance. The
    Roberts Court seems increasingly comfortable approaching precedent
    just as it did in that case. This Essay identifies this move as a
    consistent practice across a number of decisions, and explains why
    it is cause for deep concern.

Election Law's Lochnerian Turn 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2419510> 
(forthcoming Boston University Law Review), Abstract:

    Part of a discussion on electoral "dysfunction," this Essay suggests
    that the Roberts Court has come to view a good deal of contemporary
    electoral regulation as impermissibly redistributive. The Court,
    moreover, sees the type of political participation displaced by many
    contemporary regulations as a neutral baseline against which to
    gauge challenged regulations rather than itself the product of
    affirmative regulation. Put differently, this Essay presses the
    claim that the present Court confronts contemporary efforts to
    regulate the electoral process much like the Lochner Court
    approached progressive wage and hour legislation a century ago. It
    suggests that much of what the Roberts Court has been up to in the
    electoral arena may be explained by the dominant understanding of
    the Lochner era.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme 
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, theory 
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    "The 'Smear' Campaigners: Candidates attacked for work as lawyers,
    judges." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61575>

Posted on May 19, 2014 7:10 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61575>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/NLJ / 
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202655576750?kw=The%20%27Smear%27%20Campaigners&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20140519&src=EMC-Email&pt=Daily%20Headlines&slreturn=20140419100651>reports 
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202655576750?kw=The%20%27Smear%27%20Campaigners&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20140519&src=EMC-Email&pt=Daily%20Headlines&slreturn=20140419100651>.

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

    For Remedies Geeks Only <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61573>

Posted on May 19, 2014 7:09 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61573>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important Supreme Court opinion today in Petrella v. 
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. 
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-1315_ook3.pdf> (the 
/Raging Bull/) case on the doctrine of "laches" in copyright law.

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Posted in Remedies <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=57>

    "Supreme Court's money debacle: The truth behind Dems' campaign
    finance amendment" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61571>

Posted on May 19, 2014 7:04 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61571>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/Salon / 
<http://www.salon.com/2014/05/16/supreme_courts_money_debacle_the_truth_behind_dems_campaign_finance_amendment/>reports 
<http://www.salon.com/2014/05/16/supreme_courts_money_debacle_the_truth_behind_dems_campaign_finance_amendment/>.

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    "Senator: Governor, commissioner trying to oust him"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61569>

Posted on May 18, 2014 12:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61569>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP 
<http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/senator-governor-commissioner-trying-to-oust-him/article_6bac76d9-15ed-5fda-9355-7d201fa49aeb.html>:

    A Republican Senate leader claims in recently filed court documents
    that Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, the commissioner of political
    practices and two others conspired to remove him from office by
    accusing him of breaking campaign laws.

    Commissioner Jonathan Motl has filed a civil action against Senate
    Majority Leader Art Wittich that says Wittich coordinated with and
    took illegal corporate contributions from the conservative group
    Western Tradition Partnership in the 2010 election campaign.

    If a judge upholds Motl's findings, Wittich of Bozeman could be
    removed from office and struck from the 2014 ballot.

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    "Billionaire Expands Activism to Senate Races"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61566>

Posted on May 17, 2014 2:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61566>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/politics/billionaire-expands-activism-to-senate-races.html?_r=0&referrer=>: 
"Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist, recently contributed $5 
million to a 'super PAC' 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/campaign_finance/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>dedicated 
to keeping Democrats in control of the United States Senate, cementing 
his alliance with the party as the 2014 campaign swings into high gear."

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    "Get your geek on: Florida's redistricting trial could hinge on
    (gasp!) statistics" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61564>

Posted on May 17, 2014 2:39 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61564>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/Orlando Sentinel /report. 
<http://touch.orlandosentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80226191/>

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