[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/3/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Feb 2 20:57:27 PST 2015
“Pushing Ethics Reforms, Cuomo Wants Lawmakers to Reveal Income or
Lose It” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70060>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 8:54 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70060>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/nyregion/cuomo-seeks-ethics-reform-after-sheldon-silver-arrest.html?ref=politics&_r=0>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>,ethics investigations
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=42>
“Statute against lying in campaign ads faces legal test”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70058>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 8:12 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70058>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Boston Globe
<http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/02/super-pac-facing-charges-for-negative-mailer-challenges-state-law-barring-campaign-lies/vmUwROwzw2PK2Dup6PhrWN/story.html>:
In the first test of its constitutionality, a state law that makes
it illegal to lie in campaign ads is being challenged by a
Republican political action committee whose treasurer is facing
criminal charges over a negative mailing in the last election cycle….
One constitutional expert said the Massachusetts law would be
similarly hard to defend.
“It’s dramatically unconstitutional in its sweep,” said Laurence H.
Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and professor of
constitutional law at Harvard. “This is an easy one.”
The Supreme Court even struck down a federal law that made it
illegal to lie about receiving a Medal of Honor, he noted, and held
that lying can be criminalized in only limited instances, such as
perjury.
“It’s true that our politics from the very beginning has involved a
lot of mudslinging,” he said. “But only in a tyrannical society can
you shut that down this broadly.”
Via How Appealing <http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com/020215.html#060204>.
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“FEC Raises Contributions Cap for 2016″
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70056>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 3:42 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70056>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ reports. <http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-52722>$100,000 party
fundraising events coming your way.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,federal
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
“The Nevada Recall fight — examining a strange law and its impact on
a potentially critical recall race”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70054>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 1:46 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70054>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This item
<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-nevada-recall-fight-examining.html>appears
at the Recall Elections Blog.
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Posted inrecall elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=11>
“Pa. Treasurer McCord to plead guilty in campaign finance case;
resigns immediately” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70052>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 7:58 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70052>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP reports
<http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20150131/pa-treasurer-mccord-to-plead-guilty-in-campaign-finance-case-resigns-immediately>.
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Posted inbribery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>,campaign finance
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,chicanery
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
“Democracy has become a Cash Cow” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70050>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 7:46 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70050>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eliza Newlin Carney <http://www.cq.com/doc/weeklyreport-4613788>for CQ
Roll Call:
The Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling that blew the lid off campaign spending five years ago has also ushered in a Gilded Age for the booming political consulting industry.
The paychecks earned by the professionals who create and place ads, raise money, take polls, manage communications and direct strategy draw less scrutiny than the billionaire donors who now drive the increasingly deregulated political marketplace. But political consultants have cashed in handsomely, and are earning more money with less oversight than ever before.
In the three federal elections since the Supreme Court threw out limits on independent political spending, consultants have pocketed a healthy cut of the $13.6 billion spent on campaigns. In the recent midterms, which cost $3.7 billion, $275 million of it was spent by outside groups whose activities are partly or completely undisclosed. Such groups are exempt from FEC rules that bar candidates and parties from misusing campaign money. That leaves consultants who work for those groups unfettered by gatekeepers or regulators.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Campaign finance reform group asked to clean up its records”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70048>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 7:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70048>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /Boston Globe/reports
<http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/01/campaign-finance-reform-group-asked-clean-its-records/9HbfqgOR3zMfxbsjnNOZHO/story.html>.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
Federal District Court Blocks Some Wisconsin Campaign Finance Laws
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70045>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 7:27 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70045>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest in the WRTL v. Barland litigation includes this order and
declaratory judgment
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/wrtl-dct.pdf> related to
Wisconsin’s definition of political committees.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Disclosure in a 21st Century Reform Program”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70043>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 7:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70043>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer blogs
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/02/disclosure-21st-century-reform-program-2/>.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Reducing the Influence of Political Donations”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70041>
Posted onFebruary 2, 2015 7:21 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70041>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT letter to the editor
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/opinion/reducing-the-influence-of-political-donations.html?_r=1>from
Bruce Freed.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70039>
Posted onFebruary 1, 2015 8:25 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70039>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>:
*RECENT TOP PAPERS*for all papers first announced in the last 60
days<http://papers.ssrn.com/publicRss/rssManagerInc.cfm?journalId=991929>
/3 Dec 2014 through 1 Feb 2015/
Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 99 *Are Aliens ‘People of the Commonwealth of Australia’?*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2543090>
David Faulkner
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2099269>
Independent
/Date posted to database: /28 Dec 2014
/Last Revised: /28 Dec 2014
2 86 *Reining in the Purcell Principle*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2545676>
Richard L. Hasen
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=337>
University of California, Irvine School of Law
/Date posted to database: /8 Jan 2015
/Last Revised: /8 Jan 2015
3 72 *The Realities of Electoral Reform*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2545599>
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=636048>,Eric
McGhee
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1321531>andSteven
Rogers <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1709681>
University of Chicago Law School, Public Policy Institute of California
and Princeton University – Department of Politics
/Date posted to database: /7 Jan 2015
/Last Revised: /8 Jan 2015
4 55 *Arizona and Anti-Reform*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2551556>
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=636048>
University of Chicago Law School
/Date posted to database: /19 Jan 2015
/Last Revised: /31 Jan 2015
5 45 *Racial Voting and Geography in the United States*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2546384>
Brian Amos
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2344571>andMichael
P. McDonald <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=811078>
University of Florida and University of Florida
/Date posted to database: /9 Jan 2015
/Last Revised: /9 Jan 2015
6 32 *Convenience Voting: the End of Election Day?*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2523770>
Graeme D. Orr
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=258594>
The University of Queensland – T.C. Beirne School of Law
/Date posted to database: /9 Jan 2015
/Last Revised: /9 Jan 2015
7 17 *Burying the Joint Declaration: Beijing’s International Law
Reaction to the Umbrella Movement*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2540710>
Alvin Y. H. Cheung
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2184280>
New York University (NYU) – US-Asia Law Institute
/Date posted to database: /21 Dec 2014
/Last Revised: /29 Dec 2014
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