[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/17/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Apr 17 07:17:08 PDT 2015
The Great Bagel Compromise of 2015 at the FEC
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71805>
Posted onApril 17, 2015 7:13 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71805>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Oy <http://t.co/TpFMRgI50s>. The Commissioners can’t even agree on what
to serve to celebrate (?) the FEC’s 40th anniversary.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,federal
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
“The Looming Pay-To-Play Problem” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71803>
Posted onApril 17, 2015 7:11 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71803>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs.
<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/looming-pay-play-problem>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
2015 Election Law — Cases and Materials Supplement
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71801>
Posted onApril 17, 2015 7:07 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71801>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
For instructors who use Lowenstein, Hasen, & Tokaji,Election Law—Cases
and Materials
<http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611631784/Election-Law-Fifth-Edition>(5th
ed. 2012): There will be a printed 2015 Supplement, available in early
August (proofs will be available sooner throughthe publisher
<http://www.caplaw.com/>). The ISBN for book ordering is 978-1-61163-815-8.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,pedagogy
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=23>
“House quietly passes tax exemption for megadonors; Major
contributors like the Koch brothers and Tom Steyer would get a break
on gift taxes to secretive non-profit groups”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71799>
Posted onApril 17, 2015 6:57 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71799>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico reports.
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/house-quietly-passes-tax-cut-for-megadonors-117067.html#ixzz3XXCA1lxN>
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and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
“Lawmakers denounce Florida elections chief a second time”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71797>
Posted onApril 16, 2015 4:38 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71797>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Miami Herald
<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article18717132.html>:
Gov. Rick Scott’s elections chief faced open hostility from Senate
Republicans for a second time Thursday for opposing a bipartisan
bill to allow online voter registration by 2017.
Testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Secretary of
State Ken Detzner said that he doesn’t have a plan to implement the
change and is worried about having to coordinate with 67 counties
while his agency and the state highway safety department upgrade
their databases — which are the backbone of the system used to
verify voters’ identities.
To placate Detzner, lawmakers pushed back the start of the online
registration system to October 2017. But he’s still fighting a way
to offer a new option to make it easier to register to vote that’s
favored by every election supervisor, most legislators and the
League of Women Voters.
Hard as it is to believe, Florida made things worse when it got rid of
Secretaries of State elected in partisan elections (remember Katharine
Harris?) and moved to make the position more political as a
gubernatorial appointee.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Hillary Clinton Will Take Lobbyist Contributions
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71795>
Posted onApril 16, 2015 3:52 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71795>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico.
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-campaign-to-accept-lobbyist-donations-117057.html>
But she will stillfeed red meat
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/hillary_clinton_and_campaign_finance_the_democratic_front_runner_s_suggestion.html>to
Democratic activists by calling for an amendment to overturn Citizens
United.
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“What We Get Wrong About Lobbying and Corruption”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71793>
Posted onApril 16, 2015 2:57 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71793>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lee
Drutman<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/04/16/what-we-get-wrong-about-lobbying-and-corruption/>at
The Monkey Cage.
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“Texas Photo ID Law Blocks Legitimate Voters”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71791>
Posted onApril 16, 2015 2:44 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71791>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jonathan Brater
<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/texas-photo-id-law-blocks-legitimate-voters>writes
for the Brennan Center.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Bexar County successfully tests email ballots for military members;
After almost a decade of attempts, county finds the one that works”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71789>
Posted onApril 16, 2015 2:37 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71789>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
That’s the lead story in this week’sElectionline Weekly.
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>
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“Hillary Clinton’s Bad Campaign Finance Ideas; She’s right that
money in politics is a problem. But suggesting a constitutional
amendment is foolish.” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71787>
Posted onApril 16, 2015 12:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71787>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I have writtenthis piece
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/hillary_clinton_and_campaign_finance_the_democratic_front_runner_s_suggestion.html?wp_login_redirect=0>for
/Slate. /It begins:
People are deservedly angry about the unprecedented flow of money
into our elections. On Wednesday a postal worker literally risked
his lifeto land a gyrocopter
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/16/wonkbook-gyrocopter-pilot-lands-at-capitol-to-protest-money-in-politics/>near
the U.S. Capitol to protest the Supreme Court’s decision in/Citizens
United/
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/10/citizens_united_how_justice_kennedy_has_paved_the_way_for_the_re.html>.
The group 99Rise keeps risking jail time by sneaking into the
Supreme Court andsurreptitiously filming
<http://thehill.com/policy/technology/237713-protesters-release-video-of-supreme-court-outburst>protesters’
outbursts in open court against decisions that have construed the
First Amendment to prohibit most limits on money in politics.
So it is understandable that Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton is trying to harness some of that progressive energy
by announcing that campaign finance reform is one of the “four big
fights
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/238808-clinton-calls-for-constitutional-amendment-on-campaign>”
that her campaign will emphasize. But Clinton’s early call for a
constitutional amendment to fix campaign finance problems is
counterproductive and will only make things worse
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Rick Hasen
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UC Irvine School of Law
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