[EL] more news 9/5/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Sep 5 13:14:47 PDT 2014
"Teachout, Wu sue state Democrats over pro-Cuomo mailers"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65052>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 1:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65052>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politics on the Hudson
<http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2014/09/05/teachout-wu-sue-state-democrats-over-pro-cuomo-mailers/>:
An attorney for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's primary challenger is seeking to
put a halt to pro-Cuomo spending by the state Democratic Committee.
Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout's campaign is due in state
Supreme Court in Manhattan this afternoon to seek a temporary
restraining order that would prevent the state's Democratic
operation from funding mailers supporting Cuomo and running mate
Kathy Hochul in this Tuesday's primary election. (Several Democratic
Committee-funded mailers have already gone out to primary voters.
<http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/08/with-a-focus-on-primary-state-democrats-mail-for-cuomo-and-hochul/>)
The Teachout campaign cites section 2-126 of the state Election Law:
a ban on spending party money on any one candidate in a primary
election.
Read the pleading
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/238775689/Teachout-v-NYSDC-et-al>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,primaries
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
"House of Cads: Legislators and the Disqualification Clause"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65050>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 12:35 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65050>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Stern
<http://www.pointoforder.com/2014/09/02/house-of-cads-legislators-and-the-disqualification-clause/>:
So I have now read Benjamin Cassady's "You've Got Your Crook, I've
Got Mine
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2447970>," 32
Quinnipiac L. Rev. 209 (2014), to which Professor Tillman's article
<http://www.pointoforder.com/2014/08/24/tillman-on-the-disqualification-clause/> responds.
Cassady makes the case that the Constitution's Impeachment and
Disqualification Clauses do not apply to federal legislators. Much
of the article is devoted to explaining why this result makes sense
as a policy matter: basically that a crooked legislator is not as
dangerous as a crooked judge or executive official and that voters
should be able to "pardon" a crooked legislator by returning her to
office with full knowledge of her misdeeds.
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"Democrats Just Put a GOP Senate Seat in Jeopardy---And Republicans
Want to Suppress the Vote to Save It"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65048>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 12:08 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65048>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
John Judis and Brian Beutler write
<http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119340/pat-roberts-senate-race-could-turn-vote-suppression>in
TNR.
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In #MSSEN, McDaniel Appealing Election Challenge to State Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65046>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 12:01 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65046>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here.
<http://www.clarionledger.com/story/politicalledger/2014/09/05/mcdaniel-appeal-lawsuit/15138543/>
Wow it is so late to be doing this. When you look at how expedited
these things usually are, these delays here are pretty unprecedented.
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,recounts
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>
"Appeals court decision keeps GOP candidate off ballot"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65044>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 11:37 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65044>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Houston Chronicle
<http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/houston/article/Appeals-court-decision-keeps-GOP-candidate-off-5734836.php?cmpid=twitter-premium&t=49cdd879ad9fd4adcc>:
"An appeals court has ruled that forged signatures will keep a candidate
off the November ballot, a decision the Pasadena justice of the peace
hopeful said she will appeal. But unless Leonila Olivares-Salazar gets
some kind of decision from the Texas Supreme Court within days, voters
will not see the Republican candidate's name."
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"The Democrat is stuck on the ballot in Kansas. How much of the vote
will he take?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65042>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 11:33 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65042>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Aaron Blake writes
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/05/the-democrat-is-stuck-on-the-ballot-in-kansas-despite-withdrawing-how-much-of-the-vote-will-he-steal/>for
/The Fix./
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"Will Texas Get Away With Discriminating Against Voters?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65040>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 10:54 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65040>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ari Berman writes
<http://www.thenation.com/blog/181433/will-texas-get-away-discriminating-against-voters#>for
/The Nation./
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Posted inelection 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>
In #KSSEN, Daily Kos Suggests Democrats Replace Taylor with "Pat
Roberts" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65038>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 10:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65038>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Cute
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/04/1327221/-Republican-official-rules-Democrat-must-stay-on-ballot-while-Roberts-rests-at-home-in-Virginia?detail=facebook>.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
#LASEN Court Rejects Challenge to Senator Landrieu's
Residency/Qualifications <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65036>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 8:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65036>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
So reports
<https://twitter.com/AP_Ken_Thomas/status/507910389951389698>AP's Ken
Thomas on Twitter.
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"Kansas' Kobach won't let Dem Senate candidate quit"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65034>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 8:07 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65034>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Steve Benen writes <http://on.msnbc.com/1qkgOjK>for Maddow Blog.
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"One More Time: Ohio Likely to Appeal Order Expanding Early Voting"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65032>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 8:00 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65032>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Doug Chapin blogs.
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/09/one_more_time_ohio_likely_to_a.php>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Erasing History One Forgotten Political Expenditure at a Time"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65030>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 7:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65030>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres Spelliscy blogs.
<http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/09/187843/erasing-history-one-forgotten-political-expenditure-time>
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New Letter from Former ACLU Leaders Supports Campaign Spending
Limits <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65028>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 7:49 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65028>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fromthe letter
<http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/Former_ACLU_Leader_Letter_2014.pdf>:
We believe that the Supreme Court's campaign finance decisions from
Buckley to Citizens United to McCutcheon are based on three
fallacies. First, the Court wrongly equates spending unlimited sums
of money with pure speech. We agree that campaign spending is a mix
of speech and conduct. At reasonable spending levels, the speech
element predominates, rendering unreasonably low campaign spending
levels (like the absurdly low spending levels in
Buckley) unconstitutional. But there comes a point where the conduct
element of unlimited spending predominates, permitting
content-neutral regulation of massive electoral spending to preserve the
ideal of political equality at the heart of American democracy, and
to protect the public from the corruption risks associated with vast
political spending.
Second, the Court improperly distinguishes between political
contributions and expenditures. Under the Court's reasoning,
contributions given directly to candidates may be limited, but
independent spending may not be. Given the courting by candidates of
big independent spenders since the Citizens United decision, it's
clear this distinction makes little sense. Massive contributions and
massive independent expenditures each buy undue influence.
Third, the Court has failed to recognize that political equality is
a compelling interest that justifies reasonable limits on massive
political spending. Rather than interpreting the First Amendment as
assuring everyone a reasonable opportunity to be heard, the Court
(and the National ACLU) has turned the First Amendment on its head
by guaranteeing the wealthy an expensive set of stereo speakers and
leaving the average citizen with a bad case of laryngitis. Most
Americans would find it preposterous to allot more time in a debate
to the speaker with the most money. Yet, that is precisely how our
campaign finance system functions today.
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"Will early voting rules in Ohio produce the next Bush v. Gore?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65026>
Posted onSeptember 5, 2014 7:44 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65026>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jonathan Adler:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/04/will-early-voting-rules-in-ohio-produce-the-next-bush-v-gore/> "Each
party seeks rules that make it more likely that its own voters are more
likely to go to the polls, and (unlike in prior times) they now have the
data to hone their approach. Particularly where, as here, the relevant
changes are relatively small, I have a hard time crediting the argument
that there are larger principles at stake, and an even harder time
accepting that (absent evidence of impermissible motivation, such as
racial animus) that these sorts of changes are unconstitutional."
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