[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/11/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Aug 11 08:00:48 PDT 2015
ELB Podcast, Episode #1: Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75203>
Posted onAugust 11, 2015 7:51 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75203>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I am pleased to bring you the first episode of The ELB Podcast, a new
project in which I will offer occasional interviews with those making
news or conducting research on election issues in the run-up to the 2016
elections. The podcast is now available onSoundcloud
<https://soundcloud.com/rick-hasen/elb-podcast-episode-1-ari-berman-give-us-the-ballot>,
with subscriptions via iTunes coming shortly. I welcome your feedback on
whether you like this new feature, what you’d like to see changed, and
topics to potentially cover.
For my first episode, I interview author Ari Berman about his new
book,Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in
America
<http://www.amazon.com/Give-Us-Ballot-Struggle-America/dp/0374158274/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1439304257&sr=1-1&keywords=give+us+the+ballot+the+modern+struggle+for+voting+rights+in+america>.
As I wrote atSlate
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/how_to_save_the_voting_rights_act_voting_rights_shouldn_t_rely_on_parsing.html>,
Berman’s book masterfully tells the story of the five-decades of the
Voting Rights Act, which turns 50 next week.
Among the topics we discussed: how do voting rights pioneers like John
Lewis see today’s fights over voting rules? How much have things changed
since 1965? Are today’s voting wars more about race or party? Why has
the struggle for Latino voting rights received comparatively little
attention? What is the potential for court intervention snf political
change over restrictive voting rules?
You can read excerpts of Ari’s bookhere
<http://www.thenation.com/article/how-the-2000-election-in-florida-led-to-a-new-wave-of-voter-disenfranchisement/>andhere
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/give-us-the-ballot-expanding-the-voting-rights-act/399128/>,
and check out hisrecent NY Times oped
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/opinion/why-the-voting-rights-act-is-once-again-under-threat.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region>.
Listenhere
<https://soundcloud.com/rick-hasen/elb-podcast-episode-1-ari-berman-give-us-the-ballot>or
click below.
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“Kansas Proof-Of-Citizenship Fight Continues As State Seeks To
Manage ‘Suspense List'” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75222>
Posted onAugust 11, 2015 7:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75222>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Doug Chapin
<http://editions.lib.umn.edu/electionacademy/2015/08/11/kansas-proof-of-citizenship-fight-continues-as-state-seeks-to-manage-suspense-list/>:
The State of Kansas’ proof-of-citizenship law has been a constant
source of controversy since it was enacted in 2011, in part because
it has resulted in a “suspense list” of more than 30,000 voters
statewide who have registered to vote but yet to show documentary
proof of citizenship. The controversy is about to kick up another
notch as Secretary of State Kobach seeks to adopt new regulations
that would allow the state to trim the list of people who have not
responded.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“Study: Law Discouraged More Than Those Without Voter ID”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75220>
Posted onAugust 11, 2015 7:37 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75220>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Texas Tribune
<http://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/06/study-law-discouraged-more-those-without-voter-id/>:
Texas’ strict voter identification requirements kept many would-be
votersin a Hispanic-majority congressional district from going to
the polls last November — including many who had proper IDs — a new
survey shows.
And the state’s voter ID law – coupled with lackluster voter
education efforts – might have shaped the outcome of a congressional
race, the research suggests.
Released on Thursday, the 50th anniversary of the federal Voting
Rights Act, the jointRice University and University of Houston study
<http://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/05/ruling-offers-texas-voter-id-critics-narrow-victor/>found
that 13 percent of those registered in the 23^rd Congressional
District and did not vote stayed home, at least partly because they
thought they lacked proper ID under a state law considered the
strictest in the nation. And nearly 6 percent did not vote primarily
because of the requirements.
But most of those discouraged Texans had the proper documents to
vote, says the study, which came one day after a federal appeals
courtruled that the four-year-old Texas law
<https://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/05/ruling-offers-texas-voter-id-critics-narrow-victor/>has
a “discriminatory effect” on Hispanics and African-Americans.
(via Ian Millhise
<http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/10/3689809/texas-lawmakers-are-much-better-at-disenfranchising-voters-than-we-thought/>r)
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
4th Circuit Denies En Banc in McDonnell Bribery Case; Case Heading
to SCOTUS <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75217>
Posted onAugust 11, 2015 7:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75217>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP report.
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FORMER_GOVERNOR_TRIAL_THE_LATEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>
From the order lots of recusals:
Before the Court is the appellant’s petition for panel rehearing or
rehearing en banc. On the petition for rehearing before the panel,
no judge voted in favor of rehearing, and panel rehearing is thus
denied. A poll of the Court was requested on the appellant’s
suggestion for rehearing en banc. No judge voted in favor of
rehearing en banc, and Judges Niemeyer, Motz, King, Duncan, Wynn,
Floyd, Thacker, and Harris voted against rehearing en banc. Chief
Judge Traxler and Judges Wilkinson, Gregory, Shedd, Agee, Keenan,
and Diaz, deeming themselves disqualified, did not participate.
Pursuant thereto, the petition for rehearing en banc is hereby also
denied
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“Lawmakers reluctantly convene for another redistricting session”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75215>
Posted onAugust 11, 2015 7:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75215>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Miami Herald reports.
<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article30655644.html>
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“Corporations Are Perverting the Notion of Free Speech”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75213>
Posted onAugust 11, 2015 7:21 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75213>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
John Coates and Ron Fein oped
<http://www.newsweek.com/corporations-are-perverting-notion-free-speech-359785>for
Newsweek.
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“Fayette County Voters to Have District-Based Voting this September”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75211>
Posted onAugust 11, 2015 7:20 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75211>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://www.naacpldf.org/update/fayette-county-voters-have-district-based-voting-september>:
Today, the United States District Court for the Northern District of
Georgiagranted
<http://www.naacpldf.org/document/fayette-co-district-court-order>a
request filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
(LDF) and cooperating Georgia attorney, Neil Bradley, to have
district-based voting as the voting method for the upcoming special
election for the successor of late Fayette County Commissioner, Pota
Coston. The discriminatory method of at-large voting was argued for
by the County.
At a hearing on July 30, 2015, Assistant CounselLeah Aden
<http://www.naacpldf.org/leah-aden>argued that the County should be
prevented from using the at-large method of voting during the
upcoming special election because it will impermissibly dilute the
voting power of Black voters in Fayette in violation of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965, which celebrates its 50th Anniversary of being
signed into law on August 6.
LDF asked the federal court to require the County to conduct the
special election using a district-based method of voting that would
allow Black voters to have the equal opportunity to elect the
candidate of their choice. In November 2014, Ms. Coston was elected
as the first-ever Black woman to the County Commission under a
district-based method of election ordered by the federal court.
In its decision today, the federal court recognized that Black
voters are substantially likely to prevail on their Voting Rights
Act claim at trial; Black voters are likely to suffer irreparable
harm in the absence of a preliminary injunction; any such harm
outweighs any administrative burdens to the County of conducting the
upcoming special election using district-based voting; and the
public interest will be advanced by protecting Black voters’
fundamental right to vote through district-based voting.
The court recognized that “[w]here, as here, Plaintiffs have
established a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, the
Court believes the public interest is best served by ensuring not
simply that more voters have a chance to vote but ensuring that all
citizens of Fayette County have an equal opportunity to elect
representatives of their choice.”
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@UCILaw Ranks 6th in New Study of Scholarly Impact
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75208>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 9:29 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75208>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Via Brian Leiter
<http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2015/08/top-40-law-faculties-in-scholarly-impact-2015.html>comes
terrific news about thisnew faculty study
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2642056> by Gregory
Sisk and co-authors of the law school faculty quality. In the last
study, done a few years ago, the new UC Irvine School of Law ranked 7th
nationally. But that survey depended upon some adjustments given the
small size of the new faculty and the plans to grow it. Under the new
study, there were no special adjustments, and UCI Law came in sixth.
From the study:
Representing about one-third of accredited law schools, 69 law
faculties are ranked in this 2015 update of the Scholarly Impact
Scores. The law faculties at Yale University, Harvard University,
the University of Chicago, New York University, and Stanford
University continue to be the top 5 ranked for scholarly impact.
Since 2012, New York University has moved into the fourth position.
California-Irvine has risen one position to #6, followed by Columbia
at #7. Duke has risen three positions since 2012 to #8. Vanderbilt
and California-Berkeley are tied for #9, which is a one position
rise for California-Berkeley…
Within the top 10 for Scholarly Impact (at #6), the University of
California-Irvine shows the greatest incongruity with the 2016 U.S.
News ranking (at #30). Although, as a new law school,
California-Irvine entered into the U.S. News ranking at the highest
initial point ever, we should anticipate that it will continue
moving up the ranks….
*Following the same approach as Professor Leiter, “[s]chools are
rank-ordered by their weighted score, which is the mean X 2 plus the
median (since mean is more probative of overall impact than median,
it gets more weight in the final score).”59 In the past, because it
had not yet finished hiring its tenured faculty and had a dean with
exceptionally high citations, a mathematical adjustment was made to
the mean for California-Irvine to predict the likely eventual
position.60 For 2015, now having a full contingent of tenured
faculty, California-Irvine’s Scholarly Impact Score has been
calculated consistently with that for all other law schools.
I am so proud of our new law school and my colleagues and friends at UCI
Law.
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“Super PACs Get Millions From Corporations”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75201>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 8:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75201>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=74162252&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0h1d3j9f5&split=0>on
the inevitable development:
While the great majority of money contributed to super political
action committees supporting the 2016 presidential candidates has
come from wealthy individuals, including business executives,
millions of dollars in super PAC contributions also came directly
from corporations, unions and other organizations, according to a
new analysis of Federal Election Commission reports for the first
half of the year from the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation.
The Jeb Bush super PAC, Right to Rise, received nearly $17 million
of its total of more than $103 million from corporations, such as
business entities, partnerships and limited liability corporations,
and other organizations, the Sunlight study said. Bush, a former
Florida governor, is contending for the Republican presidential
nomination, along with more than a dozen others.
The Bush super PAC led the way in these contributions, followed by
the super PAC supporting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Conservative
Solutions, the Sunlight analysis found. The Rubio super PAC
collected $3.7 million of its $16 million total from corporations
and other organizations.
A Super PAC backing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), America
Leads, received $2.6 of its $11 million total in corporate and other
organization contributions. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R)
Unintimidated PAC got $2.25 million out of $20 million from these
contributions.
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“Harvard Professor Larry Lessig To Explore Democratic Presidential
Run” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75195>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 4:26 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75195>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Interesting development.
<http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/10/harvard-professor-larry-lessig-to-explore-democratic-presidential-run/>
It seems pretty clear that his agenda would be that to push through
campaign finance reform (and perhaps then step aside after that, as he
had suggested for someone to do in his book).
The first question I’d have is the rationale for him to run when
campaign finance reform is one of Bernie Sanders’ few signature issues,
and of course Sanders has much more name recognition and organization.
Fascinating.
MORE: Here isa recent Lessig
tweet<https://twitter.com/lessig/status/628909769106001920>praising
Sanders’ support for public financing.
Andhere is a speech
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axzfq_5UVXM&feature=youtu.be>(via
Larry”s twitter feed
<https://twitter.com/lessig/status/629273484384989184>) of a recent
speech to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee Introducing the
Citizen Equality Act of 2017. The three planks appear to be (1) to stop
voter id and other similar laws making it harder to register and vote
(1) change in representation, to something like the use of ranked choice
voting (Larry speaks favorably of Fairvote in this context) and (3)
public financing of elections.
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Further update: Politico:
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/harvard-law-professor-lawrence-lessig-exploring-white-house-bid-121240.html?utm_content=buffer58282&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer>
Lessig’s candidacy is aimed at securing passage of the Citizen
Equality Act of 2017, a legislative proposal for voter protection
laws, new methods for electing representatives and a greater focus
on citizen-funded elections.
In his launch video, he explains that he is running to put “citizen
equality” on the map, and unless a leading candidate, “whether
Hillary or Bernie or Joe or someone else” adopts that mantle, Lessig
himself would run as a “referendum president,” serving only as long
as it takes to pass that agenda.
Here is thecampaign website <https://lessigforpresident.com/> on the
citizen equality act:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
EQUAL RIGHT TO VOTE
We must have a system that guarantees a meaningfully equal freedom to
vote. To achieve that, we must at a minimum enact theVoting Rights
Advancement Act of 2015
<https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s1659> and theVoter Empowerment
Act of 2015 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr12/summary>.
We should as well add automatic registration, and shift election day to
a national holiday.
EQUAL REPRESENTATION
Equal citizens must have equal representation in Congress. That means,
districts must be drawn, and election systems structured, so as to give
each citizen as close to equal political influence as possible.FairVote
<http://www.fairvote.org/>has offered the most comprehensive solution to
achieve this equality. At a minimum, the Citizen Equality Act would
incorporate their proposed “Ranked Choice Voting Act,” which ends
political gerrymandering and creates multi-member districts with ranked
choice voting for Congress.
CITIZEN FUNDED ELECTIONS
A core corruption of our political system is the concentration of
funders of political campaigns. That concentration creates extraordinary
inequality. The Citizen Equal Act would end that inequality, at a
minimum by adopting a campaign funding proposal that is a hybrid between
John Sarbanes’Government by the People Act
<https://sarbanes.house.gov/bythepeople>, and Represent.US’s “American
Anti-Corruption Act <http://anticorruptionact.org/>.” That hybrid would
give every voter a voucher to contribute to fund congressional and
presidential campaigns; it would provide matching funds for small-dollar
contributions to congressional and presidential campaigns. And it would
add effective new limits to restrict the revolving door between
government service and work as a lobbyist.
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FEC Wants to Respond Sept. 14 to Republican Request for
3-Judge-Court in Soft Money Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75190>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 3:20 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75190>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here. <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/soft-3-judge.pdf>
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“US Rep Corrine Brown Legal Challenge to New Districts Halted”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75188>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 1:46 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75188>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP reports.
<http://floridapolitics.com/archives/187970-us-rep-corrine-brown-legal-challenge-to-new-districts-halted>
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“Baldone seeks to be a Democrat and Republican on fall ballot”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75186>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 1:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75186>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politicsalways interesting
<http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20150810/ARTICLES/150819985>in La.
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“How ruling in Menendez case may affect political corruption cases
moving forward | Opinion” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75184>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 1:23 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75184>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Frank Askin
<http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/08/how_ruling_in_menendez_case_may_affect_political_c.html>for
the Star-Ledger:
About the best that can be said about Sen. Robert Menendez’s defense
toan indictment from federal prosecutors outlining 14 counts of
criminal corruption
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/nyregion/senator-robert-menendez-indicted-on-corruption-charges.html?_r=0>against
him is that he is playing a very dangerous game with American democracy.
As a long-time supporter of New Jersey’s senior senator, I would
certainly give him the benefit of the doubt if he were seriously
challenging the allegations against him.
But that does not appear to be the case. Rather, by accounts in the
press, he seems to be claiming that the actions he is accused of are
perfectly legal. And if he is right, it is a sad day for American
politics.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
“Block The Vote: A Journalist Discusses Voting Rights And
Restrictions” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75182>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 11:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75182>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ari Berman
interview<http://www.npr.org/2015/08/10/431238980/block-the-vote-a-journalist-discusses-voting-rights-and-restrictions?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social>on
Fresh Air.
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Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
2015 Supplement to The Law of Democracy
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75179>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 10:52 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75179>byRichard Pildes
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=7>
Instructors can download the 2015 Supplementhere
<http://www.westacademic.com/Util/Downloads/FileDownload.aspx?NSIID=752289>,
for The Law of Democracy: Legal Regulation of the Political Process
(4th ed.). Here is the Table of Contents for the Supplement:
Chapter Two 3
Note: Recent Litigation on Voting Access 8
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council 17
Arizona State Legislative v. Arizona Independent District Comm. 32
Chapter Three 44
Tennant v. Jefferson County 44
Chapter Four 50
There is no new material for this Chapter. 50
Chapter Five 51
Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar 59
Note: The Boundary Between Crime, Campaign Contributions, and Lobbying 73
Note: The New “Political Realism” 86
Chapter Six 90
Shelby County v. Holder 90
Chapter Seven 114
There is no new material for this Chapter. 114
Chapter Eight 115
There is no new material for this Chapter. 115
Chapter Nine 116
There is no new material for this Chapter. 116
Chapter Eleven 121
Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. Integration and
Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN),
et al. 121
Chapter Twelve 128
There is no new material for this Chapter.
Chapter Thirteen 129
There is no new material for this Chapter.
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“Postal Service processing leads to late ballot updates in Yakima”
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Posted onAugust 10, 2015 7:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75177>byRick Hasen
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Yakima Herald
<http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/postal-service-processing-leads-to-late-ballot-updates-in-yakima/article_9cf79684-3c96-11e5-bb61-a35f81dd81f7.html#.Vci22HjpoSI.twitter>:
Yakima County elections officials were expecting hundreds of ballots
from the U.S. Postal Service this morning. They received four.
The low total, received less than two days after the deadline for
voters to mail ballots, perplexed officials who were expecting
hundreds. Then this afternoon, the Postal Service found between 250
and 350 extra ballots that didn’t get lumped in with the others and
delivered them to the Auditor’s Office.
Auditor Charles Ross said he was told the late delivery was the
result of an error in how the Postal Service processes the mail.
Postal Service spokesman Ernie Swanson in Seattle said only that the
additional ballots “accumulated” at some point in the day and the
mail service made a special delivery this afternoon.
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“Partisan Attacks on Voting Rights Tested in Court”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75175>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 7:33 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75175>byRick Hasen
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Jost on Justice.
<http://jostonjustice.blogspot.com/2015/08/partisan-attacks-on-voting-rights-in.html>
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“The Campaign Money Mess” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75173>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 7:32 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75173>byRick Hasen
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Jessica Levinson SacBee oped.
<http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article30351687.html>
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“Blagojevich Appeal Reflects the Right Limits on Prosecution”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75171>
Posted onAugust 10, 2015 7:31 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75171>byRick Hasen
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Steve Klein blogs.
<https://www.pillaroflaw.org/index.php/blog/entry/blagojevich-appeal-reflects-the-right-limits-on-prosecution>
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