[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/10/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Apr 10 08:34:03 PDT 2015
“Insane” Hillary Clinton Fundraising Push Coming?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71653>
Posted onApril 10, 2015 8:15 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71653>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Daily Beast.
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/10/hillary-to-launch-campaign-this-weekend-with-insane-fundraising-push.html>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-to-announce-2016-run-for-president-on-sunday.html?ref=politics&_r=0>
But even as Mrs. Clinton attempts to set aside her celebrity and
offer herself as a fighter for ordinary voters, her finance team and
the outside groups supporting her candidacy have started collecting
checks in what is expected to be a $2.5 billion effort, dwarfing the
vast majority of her would-be rivals in both parties.
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Political Wire Finds the Election Law Quote of the Year
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71651>
Posted onApril 10, 2015 8:14 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71651>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
But for Taegen is is only theQuote for the Day
<http://politicalwire.com/2015/04/10/quote-of-the-day-898/>:
“He goes, ‘Hey, man, what are you in for?’ I go, ‘Campaign-finance
violation.’ He goes, ‘What the fuck does that mean?’”
— Dinesh D’Souza, quoted byVanity Fair
<http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/dinesh-dsouza-video-life-after-conviction>,
on a conversation with his cellmate on his first night in prison for
committing campaign fraud.
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“Reflecting a racial shift, 78 counties turned majority-minority
since 2000″ <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71648>
Posted onApril 10, 2015 7:55 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71648>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pew Research Center
<http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/08/reflecting-a-racial-shift-78-counties-turned-majority-minority-since-2000/>.
See alsothis graphic.
<http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2015/04/FT_15.04.02_minMajorityMap.png>
FT_15.04.02_minMajorityMap
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(h/tWonk Wire) <http://wonkwire.com/2015/04/10/chart-of-the-day-311/>
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Federal Court to WI Chief Justice Abrahamson: Follow Federal Rules
for TROs <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71646>
Posted onApril 10, 2015 7:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71646>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This <http://media.jrn.com/documents/chieftroorder.pdf>is somewhat
surprising. As I tell my Remedies students, it is well established that
under both constitutional law (seeCarroll v. Princess Anne
<http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=393&invol=175>)
and FRCP 65, one cannot get a temporary restraining order without giving
notice to the other party unless you have a darn good reason for not
giving notice (such as that the person would do the very thing you are
trying to constrain before a court could issue a TRO). Under Rule 65,
one also must certify what efforts, if any, one has made to give notice
to the other side in seeking an ex parte TRO. Judge Abrahamson, seeking
to delay a voter amendment which would remove her as Chief Justice and
substitute a chief Justice election instead, went to federal court but
did not give notice or provide any reason for not giving notice. (There
is no good reason, especially because the amendment won’t be in effect
and certified until April 29.)
This is not a ruling on the merits, and the Chief Justice could well win
on the merits (an issue about which I don’t have a strong opinion). But
I find the litigation tactic of not giving notice odd and counterproductive.
(More at theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel)
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/judge-declines-to-immediately-halt-chief-justice-amendment-b99478645z1-299256001.html>.
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“A Checkbox On Your Tax Return Helped Kill Public Campaign Funding”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71644>
Posted onApril 10, 2015 7:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71644>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
FiveThirtyEight reports.
<http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/a-checkbox-on-your-tax-return-helped-kill-public-campaign-funding/>
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“Super PACs move to forefront of 2016 campaigns”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71642>
Posted onApril 10, 2015 7:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71642>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fredreka
Schouten<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/04/09/super-pacs-forefront-of-presidential-campaigns/25522659/>for
USA Today.
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“Second Fiddles, in a Tribute to Buckley”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71640>
Posted onApril 10, 2015 7:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71640>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer blogs.
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/04/second-fiddles-tribute-buckley/>
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Heather Gerken, Vampire Slayer <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71638>
Posted onApril 10, 2015 7:37 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71638>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Or something
<http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/parenting/2015/04/10/as-a-daughter-becomes-a-teenager-a-mother-becomes-a-vampire-novelist/?referrer=>like
that.
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Posted inelection law biz <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=51>
“Supreme Court declines to weigh in on voter eligibility
legislation” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71636>
Posted onApril 9, 2015 9:16 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71636>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Concord Monitor:
<http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/16447437-95/supreme-court-declines-to-weigh-in-on-voter-eligibility-legislation> “The
New Hampshire Supreme Court is declining to weigh in on the
constitutionality of a bill that would tie a person’s voting domicile to
motor vehicle law – for now, at least.”
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“New York Board of Elections Must Close LLC Loophole”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71634>
Posted onApril 9, 2015 2:43 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71634>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://www.brennancenter.org/press-release/new-york-board-elections-must-close-llc-loophole>:”After
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State legislature failed to pass the
most needed ethics and campaign finance reforms this spring, the Board
of Elections must close a corporate loophole that allows wealthy donors
to bypass campaign limits and donate millions of dollars in state
elections, urged the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and
the law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP in aletter
<https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/BOE_LLC_Loophole_040915.pdf>Thursday.”
See alsothis Larry Norden oped
<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/lawrence-norden-close-gaping-campaign-finance-loophole-article-1.2179398>.
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“Don’t Let Ferguson Turnout Numbers Fool You. America, We Have a
Problem.” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71632>
Posted onApril 9, 2015 10:03 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71632>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Rob Richie blogs.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-richie/dont-let-ferguson-turnout_b_7033638.html>
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“Why Did Ted Cruz Supporters Create Four Super PACs?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71630>
Posted onApril 9, 2015 9:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71630>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Keating blogs.
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2015/04/09/the-four-pro-cruz-super-pacs/>
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“In Accepting Bitcoin, Rand Paul Raises Money and Questions”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71628>
Posted onApril 9, 2015 9:21 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71628>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eric Lichtblau
reports<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/us/politics/in-accepting-bitcoin-rand-paul-raises-money-and-questions.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0>for
the NYT.
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“New Report Examines Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens United Era'”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71626>
Posted onApril 9, 2015 8:56 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71626>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://www.pfaw.org/press-releases/2015/04/new-report-examines-supreme-court-s-citizens-united-era>:
“A newreport
<http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/supreme-court-citizens-united-era-century-after-lochner-era-roberts-court->released
today by People For the American Way Foundation explores the extreme
pro-corporate jurisprudence of the Supreme Court in recent years,
identifying parallels to the Court’s infamous/Lochner/era a century ago.
“The Supreme Court in the/Citizens United/Era
<http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/supreme-court-citizens-united-era-century-after-lochner-era-roberts-court->”
by PFAW Foundation Senior Fellow Jamie Raskin explores how the Roberts
Court’s right-wing majority has established a precedent for privileging
corporations over individuals, allowing corporations to enjoy the rights
of the people while reducing the rights that people have against
corporations.”
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