[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/28/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Oct 27 21:06:28 PDT 2014
"Are Our Courts for Sale?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67494>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 9:04 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67494>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Joe Nocera NYT column
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/opinion/joe-nocera-are-our-courts-for-sale.html?ref=opinion&_r=0>.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,judicial elections
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Tenth Circuit Panel Issues Opinion Explaining Earlier Disclosure
Order in CU v. Gessler <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67492>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 8:15 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67492>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
You can find the majority and dissentat this link
<http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/14/14-1387.pdf>.
I do not understand why this is an unpublished opinion. Seems to cover
some important and novel issues with an interesting discussion and
thoughtful disent.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Reader View: Historic errors may disenfranchise thousands ---
including me" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67490>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 8:10 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67490>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Brian Sweeney
<http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/reader-view-historic-errors-may-disenfranchise-thousands-including-me/article_03fb1d6b-1ebe-5d2d-89de-781b8bf81a39.html>on
voter registration problems in New Mexico.
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"Kansas spent more than $34,000 on Senate-race litigation"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67488>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 3:00 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67488>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bryan Lowry reports
<http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article3405373.html>.
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"CMD Files IRS Complaint Against Wisconsin Club for Growth"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67486>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 2:42 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67486>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/10/12640/cmd-files-irs-complaint-against-wisconsin-club-growth>:
"The Center for Media and Democracy has filed a complaint with the
Internal Revenue Service alleging that the Wisconsin Club for Growth
lied to the IRS in 2011 and 2012, violated its tax-exempt status by
operating as a political committee, and operated primarily for the
private partisan benefit of the Republican Party, rather than for any
sort of 'social welfare.'"
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"IRS Official Fights Video Depo, Citing Fear of Harassment"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67484>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 2:38 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67484>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BLT
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/blog-of-legal-times/id=1202674697236/IRS-Official-Fights-Video-Depo-Citing-Fear-of-Harassment?mcode=1383246464404&curindex=0>:
"An Internal Revenue Service employee caught up in the controversy over
tax-exempt groups wants a federal judge to block a subpoena for her
videotaped testimony. The official, Holly Paz, cites privacy and safety
fears."
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Posted intax law and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
Putin Doesn't Like Our Electoral College
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67482>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 1:22 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67482>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
That
kind<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/24/putin-attacks-u-s-electoral-college-system-there-is-no-democracy-there/>of
makes me like it more.
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Posted inelectoral college <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>
"Voting Laws in the 21st Century" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67479>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 1:17 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67479>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Last week Dan Tokaji and I did a 30-minute webinar for the Center for
State Governments.
You can now listen via the archivehere
<http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/content/voting-laws-21st-century?utm_source=Follow+up+%22Voting+Laws+in+the+21st+Century%22+eCademy&utm_campaign=Web+Follow+up%2C+Voting+Laws+eCademy+10.27.14&utm_medium=email>.
We discussed voting litigation in a number of places this election,
including Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona and Kansas.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Methodological challenges affect study of non-citizens' voting"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67477>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 10:01 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67477>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Tesler blogs
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/27/methodological-challenges-affect-study-of-non-citizens-voting/>at
the Monkey Cage. See also my earlier post,About that Monkey Cage Item on
Non-Citizen Voting, Calm Down <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67451>.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
"Pentagon watchdogs scrutinize states' push toward online voting"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67475>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 9:58 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67475>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
McClatchy reports.
<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/10/26/244742_pentagon-watchdogs-scrutinize.html?sp=/99/104/463/&rh=1>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,internet voting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=49>,voting technology
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>
"Supreme Court, With Terse Orders, Has Judges and Lawyers Reading
Tea Leaves" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67473>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 9:56 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67473>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Great Adam Liptak Sidebar.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/us/supreme-court-with-terse-orders-has-judges-and-lawyers-reading-tea-leaves.html?ref=politics&_r=0>
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Posted inSupreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
"In Defense of the Montana Experiment"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67469>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 8:33 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67469>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Thomas Leeper blogs. <http://thomasleeper.com/2014/10/montana-experiment/>
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
"The New World of Voter Suppression"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67466>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 8:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67466>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Extensive LAT editorial.
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-votingrights-20141027-story.html>
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Judge Kopf Continues to Make Inappropriate Remarks; Time for Him to
Retire <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67463>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 8:10 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67463>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Federal judge Richard Kopf, whotold the Supreme
Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63487>toshut the fuck up
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63457>, commented favorably on theample
chest
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/richard-kopf-blog-post-attire> of a
lawyer in his courtroom, and attacked Professor Bainbridge
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63457> andDahlia
Lithwick<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67439>with intemperate
remarks,now says
<http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2014/10/27/guilty-pleasure/>I'm a
"highbrow" scold who has "never made a living trying cases." He writes:
In my post, The evisceration of Dahlia Lithwick
<http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2014/10/25/the-evisceration-of-dahlia-lithwick/>,
I referred to Ms.Lithwick as being "very bright." Among a lot of
other things, I also added: " Lithwick can be a tiresome scold.
Taking her down several begs is a good thing if you care about
intellectual rigor and the national legal commentariat." I "pimped"
Scott Greenfield's incisive critique off Lithwick's comparison of
the Court's First Amendment jurisprudence to other Constitutional
values that she evidently holds more dear.
Rick Hansen, a law professor and blogger, responded with a post
entitled, "Judge Kopf Calls Dahlia Lithwick a 'Tiresome Scold.
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67439>'" Professor Hansen's first
sentence reads this way "Keeping it classy
<http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2014/10/25/the-evisceration-of-dahlia-lithwick/>,
as usual. <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63487> (More
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63070>here
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63457>.)." Subsequently, Michelle
Olsen ?@AppellateDaily chimed in
<https://twitter.com/AppellateDaily/status/526064324528590849>,
writing, among other things, "To show my cards, I find honest
criticism (à la @ScottGreenfield) helpful, rooting for
'evisceration' of a 'scold," weird.'" In response, Professor Hansen
wrote <https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/526572906206089216>,
"Not just weird, but sexist" and in a second tweet, "But we should
expect this from judge who writes about 'ample chests' of lawyers
arguing before him."
I confess to taking guilty pleasure in annoying law professors who
have never made their living trying cases and who dictate manners to
others when a fellow "highbrow" is grilled. Now, I both admit and
realize that "guilty pleasure" is the "distillation of all the worst
qualities of the middlebrow
<http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/against-guilty-pleasure>."
But, unlike Professor Hansen, I have never thought of myself otherwise.
*/RGK/*
It would have been nice if he spelled my name right or knew that I
practiced (and occasionally continue to practice) law, most recentlyon
the team winning this appea
<http://horvitzlevy.com/news/news.cfm?type=Recent%20Win&id=746>l against
Lisa Kudrow. If anything I'm one of those professors who lives too much
in the real world and not enough in the realm of high theory. But that's
beside's the point.
His intemperate rantings on his blog demean the federal judiciary and
indicate that the judge has lost his judgment. It is time for him to retire.
UPDATE:Apparently drafting appellate briefs
<http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2014/10/27/update-hansen-hasen-and-my-bad-sorta/>and
engaging in oral argument (I've argued before the Ninth Circuit and CA
Supreme Court, for example) don't count as real lawyering to Judge Kopf.*//*
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"Profs Bumble Into Big Legal Trouble After Election Experiment Goes
Way Wrong" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67461>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 7:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67461>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Those Stanford/Dartmouth researchers
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/montana-election-mailer-state-seal-stanford-dartmouth-professors>messing
with a Montana judicial election may be in real trouble.
Myearlier <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67350>coverage.
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67398>
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"Entry Points for a Conversation about Campaign Finance"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67459>
Posted onOctober 27, 2014 7:20 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67459>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer blogs.
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/10/entry-points-conversation-campaign-finance/>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
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