[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/1/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Dec 1 07:48:42 PST 2015
“Campaign Finance Riders Face Fight in Year-End Spending Bill”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77902>
Posted onDecember 1, 2015 7:46 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77902>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/campaign_finance_riders_face_fight_in_year_end_spending_bill-244913-1.html?pg=1&dczone=news>:
Progressive and political money groups say they will intensify their
lobbying in the coming days to prevent four campaign finance
measures from hitching a ride on a year-end spending deal.
With a deadline to reach agreement on government-wide funding less
than two weeks away, the effort will be no easy pitch. Senate
Majority LeaderMitch McConnell
<http://www.rollcall.com/members/202.html>, R-Ky., authored one of
the measures, which would relax limits on coordination between
political parties and candidates.
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Georgia Mayoral Election Overturned Because of Vote Buying, Other
Irregularities <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77900>
Posted onDecember 1, 2015 7:44 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77900>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WTOC reports.
<http://www.wtoc.com/story/30632291/hazlehurst-mayoral-election-results-overturned-will-have-re-vote>
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Posted inchicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>,election
administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,vote buying
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=43>
“Argument preview: How to measure ‘one person, one vote'”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77898>
Posted onDecember 1, 2015 7:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77898>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Don’t miss Lyle Denniston’sextensive preview
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/12/argument-preview-how-to-measure-one-person-one-vote/>of
the Evenwel oral argument at the Supreme Court.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
#PlutocratsUnited is “Heroin for Political Addicts”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77896>
Posted onDecember 1, 2015 7:34 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77896>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sotweets <https://twitter.com/Edsall/status/671467423728574464>Tom Edsall:
Thanks Tom!
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Posted incampaign finance
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Plutocrats United
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Redistricting Reform Gains Steam” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77894>
Posted onDecember 1, 2015 7:27 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77894>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
US News reports
<http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/12/01/redistricting-reform-gains-steam>.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
“San Francisco sets sights on open source voting by November 2019”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77892>
Posted onDecember 1, 2015 7:27 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77892>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /SF Examiner /reports.
<http://www.sfexaminer.com/san-francisco-sets-sights-on-open-source-voting-by-november-2019/>
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voting technology
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>
“Next Chance To Gut Campaign Finance Law Heads For Supreme Court”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77890>
Posted onNovember 30, 2015 4:25 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77890>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Paul Blumenthal reports
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/campaign-finance-supreme-court-soft-money_565ca969e4b079b2818b3c57>for
HuffPo. My earlier coverage ishere <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77857>.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Democratic AG’s Group Avoids Contempt, Files In Arizona As
“Political Committee” …From 2010″ <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77888>
Posted onNovember 30, 2015 4:23 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77888>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Arizona’s Politics
<http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-settled-democratic-ags-group.html>:
In advance of a contempt hearing today, the national Democratic
Attorneys General Association (“DAGA”) gave in and registered their
blandly-named 2010 Arizona “Committee For Justice & Fairness”
(“CJF”) as a “political committee” with the Secretary of State’s
Office. The finance reports also filed showed no surprises, although
AZ Secretary of State Michele Reagan had expressed hope they would.
The filings represent one of the final chapters in a five-year book
that began with vicious attacks against the soon-to-be Attorney
General Tom Horne by a group of Attorneys General trying to remain
undercover. It then became a stretched-out legal battle over whether
Arizona law was tough enough to force the group to file.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,tax law and election law
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
Sheldon Silver Convicted of Political Corruption, But Will the
Conviction Stand? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77886>
Posted onNovember 30, 2015 1:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77886>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/nyregion/sheldon-silver-guilty-corruption-trial.html>:
Sheldon Silver
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/sheldon_silver/index.html?inline=nyt-per>,
an assemblyman who rose from the Lower East Side to become one of
New York State’s most powerful politicians, was found guilty on
Monday in a federal corruption trial, ending a case that was the
capstone ofthe government’s efforts
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/nyregion/us-attorney-preet-bharara-criticizes-albanys-three-men-in-a-room-culture.html>to
expose the seamy culture of influence peddling in Albany.
Mr. Silver, 71, a Democrat who served more than two decades as the
Assembly speaker before he was forced to resign after his arrest in
January, will automatically forfeit the Assembly seat to which he
was first elected nearly 40 years ago.
The jury’s verdict came in the fifth week of Mr. Silver’s trial in
Federal District Court in Manhattan, in which he faced seven counts
of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering. He was
convicted on all counts.
This is yet another high profile case in which a politician has been
convicted of corruption while there are still some basic disagreements
about how to prove corruption when there is no evidence of an explicit
quid pro quo, or when it is not clear whether what is being traded is
political benefits or personal benefits. We’ve got the Va. Gov.
McDonnell case up on a cert. petition, the Blagojevich case too. Before
that there were serious questions about the Don Seligman conviction. So
far the Supreme Court has not provided much clarity, but I’m getting a
sense that it soon might.
In the meantime, I compare New York levels of conviction prosecutions to
what goes on in Congress in Why Isn’t Congress More Corrupt? A
Preliminary Inquiry
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2585260>, 84 Fordham
Law Review 429 ( 2015).
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
“Bush v. Gore Fifteen Years Later: The Supreme Court and American
Democracy” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77884>
Posted onNovember 30, 2015 12:45 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77884>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Really looking forward to this event
<https://events.acslaw.org/rsvp?id=a0YG0000009WL1NMAW>on December 15:
Bush v. Gore Fifteen Years Later: The Supreme Court and American
Democracy
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
12:00 PM – 02:00 PM
*Event Location:*
Open Society Foundations
1730 Pennsylvania Ave NW
7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
*Details: *
On *December 15*, ACS will host a panel discussion reflecting on the
2000 presidential election, the unprecedented court battle that
ensued, and the Supreme Court decision that brought it to a close.
As the 2016 presidential election quickly approaches, panelists will
address both the impact of the case on our elections and what the
decision meant for the Court as an institution.
*Introduction:*
* *Caroline Fredrickson*, President, American Constitution Society
for Law & Policy
*Panelists*
* *Joan Biskupic,*/Moderator/*, *Editor in Charge for Legal
Affairs, Reuters News
* *Judith Browne Dianis*, Co-Director, Advancement Project
* *Richard Hasen, *Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political
Science, UC Irvine School of Law
* *Pamela Karlan,*Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public
Interest Law, Stanford Law School; Co-director, Stanford Law
School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
* *Nelson Lund,*University Professor, George Mason University
School of Law
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Posted inBush v. Gore reflections
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=5>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
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Rick Hasen
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UC Irvine School of Law
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