[EL] more news 10/30/14

Smith, Brad BSmith at law.capital.edu
Fri Oct 31 08:26:29 PDT 2014 

So Democrat Jones announces he is running for Senate, and states plainly, "I don't agree with most of my party on campaign finance reform. I oppose amending the constitution, and I oppose the DISCLOSE Act." Larry Lessig says, "This will hurt Jones in getting the Democratic nomination. Mayday PAC will support Jones' opponent."

That's "buy[ing] the candidate's policy decisions"?

Isn't that more accurately called "opposing a candidate you disagree with"?

"Right to Life will oppose candidates who support abortion rights. Support for abortion rights will hurt a candidate in Republican primaries." That's bribery?


Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

614.236.6317

http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx

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To: Svoboda, Brian (Perkins Coie)
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Subject: Re: [EL] more news 10/30/14

To acquire candidate Smith's silence or opposition to the carbon tax by paying for ads supporting candidate Smith or by promising to pay for ads attacking him.

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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Svoboda, Brian (Perkins Coie) <BSvoboda at perkinscoie.com<mailto:BSvoboda at perkinscoie.com>> wrote:
The universal unconscious scores again, because this discussion comes while I am reading Dan Lowenstein’s “When Is a Campaign Contribution a Bribe?”, republished in Heffernan and Kleinig’s Private and Public Corruption. It seems to me that Professor Lowenstein’s five hypotheticals would provide a useful framework for this debate. Perhaps the listserv’s monthly robo email could include a hyperlink to Professor Lowenstein’s article, which never seems to go out of season.

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu>] On Behalf Of Smith, Brad
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Subject: Re: [EL] more news 10/30/14

You have a curious interpretation of "buy."

You seem to be exactly the kind of person I was referring to.


Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

614.236.6317<tel:614.236.6317>

http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx

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The President of AFP seems to confirm that big spending for a candidate (or the threat of big spending against a candidate) is in fact to buy the candidate's policy decisions.

In NYT today<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/why-republicans-keep-telling-everyone-theyre-not-scientists.html?ref=todayspaper%20>:

Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, said his group intends to aggressively work against Republicans who support a carbon tax or regulations in the 2016 presidential primary campaigns. “They would be at a severe disadvantage in the Republican nomination process,” Mr. Phillips said. “We would absolutely make that a crucial issue.”

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Smith, Brad <BSmith at law.capital.edu<mailto:BSmith at law.capital.edu>> wrote:
This actually strikes me as pretty tame compared to what I've seen, so maybe the future is now.

But it is a shame that over the years so many have labored so hard to convince Americans that if someone contributes to an officeholder's campaign, it is proof that the officeholder is bought and that the officeholder's decisions are not based on the merits, the officeholder's ideology, or the perceived desires of constituents, but simply the wishes of donors.


Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

614.236.6317<tel:614.236.6317>

http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx

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Apologies if this<http://www.iagreetosee.com/portfolio/republicans-spending-oust-groovy-judge-pat-joyce/?utm_expid=75724171-4.BszejjW6RMeHyvjzhd7TGw.0&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D2%26ved%3D0CCcQFjAB%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.iagreetosee.com%252Fportfolio%252Frepublicans-spending-oust-groovy-judge-pat-joyce%252F%26ei%3DRZ9SVJq3JtX_yQSUw4DgBQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNF-VgTyYb_g2mLuoL36cxqDZUb2Pw%26sig2%3DQLsHDOuK-t-67ruAQca8wA%26bvm%3Dbv.78597519%2Cd.aWw?&version=a> has already been posted, but I thought you might like to see the future of judicial campaigns, as played out today in a judicial election in Cole County, Mo. This one is obviously very ugly, and there is still time yet before the election.

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu>] On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
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Subject: [EL] more news 10/30/14

“Messing With Texas Again: Putting It Back Under Federal Supervision”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67669>
Posted on October 30, 2014 12:40 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67669> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have written this piece <http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/messing-with-texas-voter-id> for TPM Cafe. It begins:

Readers of the entire 147-page opinion<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/20141009-TXID-Opinion.pdf> issued earlier this month by a federal district court striking down Texas’s strict voter identification law as unconstitutional and a violation of the Voting Rights Act might have been too exhausted to realize that the opinion’s very last sentence may be its most important. The court ended its opinion with a dry statement promising a future hearing on “plaintiffs’ request for relief under Section 3(c) of the Voting Rights Act.” That hearing, however, has the potential to require Texas to get federal approval for any future voting changes for up to the next decade, and to make it much more difficult for the state to pass more restrictive voting rules. It may be much more important than the ruling on the voter ID law itself.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“McDonnell team sought mistrial over juror’s ouster, expressed concern about alternate”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67667>
Posted on October 30, 2014 12:30 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67667> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports.<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mcdonnell-team-sought-mistrial-over-jurors-ouster-expressed-concern-about-alternate/2014/10/30/d3f3d1c2-6053-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html>
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Posted in bribery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>
“Ginsburg Was Right: Texas’ Extreme Voter ID Law Is Stopping People From Voting”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67665>
Posted on October 30, 2014 12:24 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67665> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

HuffPo reports.<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/texas-voter-id_n_6076536.html?utm_hp_ref=tw>
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“50,000 Missing Georgia Voter-Registration Applications? Nothing to See Here”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67663>
Posted on October 30, 2014 12:20 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67663> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Daily Beast reports.<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/30/50-000-missing-georgia-voter-registration-applications-nothing-to-see-here.html?via=desktop&source=twitter>
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter registration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
“Argument preview: Racial gerrymandering, partisan politics, and the future of the Voting Rights Act”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67661>
Posted on October 30, 2014 12:07 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67661> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have written an extensive preview for SCOTUSBlog<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/argument-preview-racial-gerrymandering-partisan-politics-and-the-future-of-the-voting-rights-act/> of a pair of cases the Supreme Court will hear at a November 12 oral argument. The issues are complex but very important and I’ve tried to lay it out so that someone not in the election law field can understand what’s at stake.  The preview begins:

The Supreme Court has long ignored Justice Felix Frankfurter’s warning to stay out of the political thicket. It regularly hears challenges<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/perry-v-perez/> to redistricting cases<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/arizona-state-legislature-v-arizona-independent-redistricting-commission/?wpmp_switcher=desktop> (not to mention lots<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/mccutcheon-v-federal-election-commission/> of other types<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/crawford-v-marion-county-election-bd/> of election<http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Roberts-order-Lux-9-30-101.pdf> cases<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/susan-b-anthony-list-v-driehaus/>), raising issues from the one-person, one-vote<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/001449.html> rule to vote dilution<http://www.scotusblog.com/2006/06/comments-on-lulac-v-perry/> under the Voting Rights Act, to racial<http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1992/1992_92_357> and partisan<http://www.scotusblog.com/2006/06/texas-redistricting-counting-the-votes/> gerrymandering claims. The Court’s decision to hear a part of a challenge to Alabama’s state legislative redistricting plan enacted after the 2010 census (in Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/alabama-legislative-black-caucus-v-alabama/> and Alabama Democratic Conference v. Alabama<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/alabama-democratic-conference-v-alabama/>, set for argument on November 12) brings all of these issues together in a seemingly technical but high-stakes case, showing the artificiality of separating issues of race and party in redistricting, offering a bold role reversal in political parties’ use of racial gerrymandering claims, and offering a surprising new threat to the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.


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“State election officials opt to delay election in Bobby Harrell’s old House seat”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67659>
Posted on October 30, 2014 10:06 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67659> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Following up on this post<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67649>, the South Carolina state election board is delaying the election<http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141030/PC1603/141039960?fb_comment_id=fbc_521814574587702_521834871252339_521834871252339#f35ae82f9c> and Democrats intend to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“In Michigan, Spending Big Money to Stop Big Money”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67657>
Posted on October 30, 2014 9:45 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67657> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT First Draft<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/10/30/?entry=3977&_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-share>: “Now, with Election Day nearing, Mayday is pinning its hopes on Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District, where Representative Fred Upton, a Republican who is the chairman of the influential Energy and Commerce Committee and was once deemed a safe incumbent, is facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from Paul Clements, a Democrat. In a race that was on no one’s radar a month ago, Mayday is now the biggest outside spender.”
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“Horse. Stable Door. Too Late”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67655>
Posted on October 30, 2014 9:24 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67655> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Gronke<http://blogs.reed.edu/earlyvoting/commentary/non-citizen-voting-and-why-political-scientists-who-are-publicly-engaged-may-need-an-editor/> on the non-citizen voting controversy and Jesse Richman’s most recent comments on it which try to pull back from some of its bolder claims.
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“CFI Releases Analysis of Money in State Elections”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67653>
Posted on October 30, 2014 9:07 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67653> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New release<http://cfinst.org/Press/PReleases/14-10-30/CFI_Releases_Analysis_of_Money_in_State_Elections.aspx>, with these subheads:

Nearly Two-Thirds of the Candidates’ 2012 Money in the Median State Came from PACs or from $1,000+ Donors; Small Donors Gave 16%

Less than 1% of Adults in the Median State Gave any Money at All to a Candidate for State Office
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Lava!<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67651>
Posted on October 30, 2014 9:05 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67651> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

and other things that can mess up an election administrator’s election day, via Electionline Weekly.<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
Fight in South Carolina Over Replacing Resigning House Speaker on Ballot<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67649>
Posted on October 30, 2014 7:21 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67649> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here<http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141030/PC1603/141039975/1031/palmetto-sunrise-decision-on-harrell-district-house-race-today> and here.<http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141029/PC1603/141029303?fb_action_ids=887859377892337&fb_action_types=og.comments>
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“Danger Zone: A Supreme Court Misstep On Voting Rights”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67647>
Posted on October 30, 2014 7:19 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67647> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Linda Greenhouse NYT column<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/opinion/a-supreme-court-misstep-on-voting-rights.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region>.
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“Keep On Drillin’? Santa Barbara Prepares To Vote On Oil Future”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67644>
Posted on October 30, 2014 7:14 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67644> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NPR’s Kirk Siegler <http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/359894342/keep-on-drillin-santa-barbara-prepares-to-vote-on-oil-future?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=morningedition&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2054> on big money being spent on a local ballot measure.
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“The S.E.C. and Political Spending”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67642>
Posted on October 30, 2014 7:10 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67642> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT editorial.<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/opinion/the-sec-and-political-spending.html?_r=2>
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“Ethics commission approves dark money regulation”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67640>
Posted on October 30, 2014 7:09 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67640> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

San Antonio Express News<http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Ethics-commission-approves-dark-money-regulation-5856838.php>:

Texas’ campaign finance regulator is set to shine a light on secret spending in state elections.

The Texas Ethics Commission, in a unanimous vote Wednesday, approved a new regulation to require politically active nonprofits to disclose donors if they spend more than 25 percent of their annual budget on politicking.
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“Beth White Hoist on Her Own Petard”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67638>
Posted on October 30, 2014 7:06 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67638> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Robbin Stewart.<http://ballots.blogspot.com/2014/10/beth-white-hoist-by-own-petard-httpwww.html>  More here.<http://ballots.blogspot.com/2014/10/placeholder-for-post-to-write-tomorrow.html>
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“How Canadian Corporations are Tipping the Scales in US Politics”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67636>
Posted on October 30, 2014 7:05 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67636> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Globe and Mail reports.<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/how-canadian-corporations-are-tipping-the-scales-in-us-politics/article21357759/>
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“Election Analysis Blog Launched”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67634>
Posted on October 30, 2014 7:02 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67634> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release<http://www.law.uky.edu/index.php?nid=247>:

The University of Kentucky College of Law Election Law Society, a law student organization, and election law professor, Joshua A. Douglas, announce the first of its kind at UK – an Election Analysis Blog. http://www.uky.edu/electionlaw/

Professor Douglas, the Robert G. Lawson and William H. Fortune Associate Professor of Law, and students from the Election Law Society will provide live analysis on legal issues surrounding the election as results pour in across the Commonwealth and the nation. They will field questions from the general public and media and provide ongoing commentary on any legal issues that may arise.

There have already been significant lawsuits in the past few weeks – about Kentucky’s 300-foot ban on electioneering around a polling site, allegations of false campaign advertising, voter ID laws, and more – that will impact Election Day. The U.S. Senate race in Kentucky between Alison Lundergan Grimes and Mitch McConnell is one of the most expensive – and potentially one of the closest – in the country. UK’s Election Analysis Blog will chronicle it all.

Good luck to Josh Douglas and the students at UK.  They join the great State of Elections<http://stateofelections.com/> blog at William and Mary whose law students do a consistently excellent job.
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Paul Blumenthal<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/sandra-fluke-election_n_6070726.html> reports for HuffPo.
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