[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/23/15

Mon Feb 23 07:43:29 PST 2015

    “John Oliver Takes on the Bizarre American Practice of Electing
    Judges” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70484>

Posted onFebruary 23, 2015 7:41 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70484>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Watch. 
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/02/23/john_oliver_on_elected_judges_last_week_tonight_tackles_judicial_elections.html?wpsrc=fol_tw>

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Posted injudicial elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>

    Quote of the Day, Oscar Edition <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70482>

Posted onFebruary 23, 2015 7:39 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70482>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

    Thank you. Nina Simone said it’s an artist’s duty to reflect the
    times in which we live. We wrote this song for a film that was based
    on events that were 50 years ago but we say that Selma is now
    because the struggle for justice is right now. We know that the
    Voting Rights Act that they fought for 50 years ago is being
    compromised right now in this country today. We know that right now
    the struggle for freedom and justice is real. We live in the most
    incarcerated country in the world. There are more black men under
    correctional control today than were under slavery in 1850. When
    people are marching with our song, we want to tell you we are with
    you, we see you, we love you, and march on. God bless you.

John Legend 
<http://thesource.com/2015/02/23/watch-common-john-legends-performance-and-oscar-acceptance-speech/>, 
upon winning, with Common, an Oscar for the song “Glory” from the movie 
about the Voting Rights Act, “Selma”

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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    “Nate Silver’s Concept of ‘Rich Data’ – and Why We’re Not There
    (Yet) in Elections” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70480>

Posted onFebruary 23, 2015 7:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70480>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A Chapinblog. 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2015/02/nate_silvers_concept_of_rich_d.php>

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    “The Corruption of Campaigns v. The Corruption of Government”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70478>

Posted onFebruary 23, 2015 7:21 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70478>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer blogs. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/02/corruption-campaigns-v-corruption-government/>

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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

    “A New Agenda for Political Reform; Instead of trying to weaken the
    pressure of corporate money in Washington, let’s try strengthening
    Congress’s capacity to resist it.” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70476>

Posted onFebruary 23, 2015 7:19 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70476>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lee Drutman and Steve Teles 
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchaprilmay_2015/features/a_new_agenda_for_political_ref054226.php>in 
/Washington Monthly./

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,lobbying 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>

    If Finance Chair Named for Hillary Clinton Campaign, “It Can’t Be a
    ‘Plutocrat'” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70474>

Posted onFebruary 23, 2015 7:17 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70474>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Mike Allen exclusive <http://www.politico.com/playbook/>.

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Posted incampaign finance 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Plutocrats United 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>

    “Setting the record straight on Selma and ‘Selma’”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70472>

Posted onFebruary 22, 2015 7:26 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70472>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Marc Selverstone in WaPo: 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/22/setting-the-record-straight-on-selma-and-selma/>

    These conversations show that Johnson encouraged King to focus media
    attention on voting-rights injustices, leaned hard on aides to seek
    legal and legislative remedies for those wrongs, and acknowledged
    the importance of the Selma events — and King’s role in them — to
    the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

    But they also reveal Johnson’s discomfort with being seen as too
    close to King, his fear that the Selma demonstrations were
    complicating his judicial strategy for voting rights, and his
    initial reluctance in using federal power to protect the marchers.

    In short, the tapes highlight the complicated nature of
    policymaking, the push-and-pull between federal officials and
    grass-roots activists, and the messy realities — including the
    sometimes ugly political realities — of effecting social change.

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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    “Rumors of John Doe’s death greatly exaggerated”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70470>

Posted onFebruary 22, 2015 7:11 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70470>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brendan Fischer 
oped<http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/rumors-of-john-does-death-greatly-exaggerated-b99446656z1-293094181.html>in 
the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    “Support mounts for online voter registration”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70468>

Posted onFebruary 22, 2015 7:09 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70468>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News 
<http://politics.heraldtribune.com/2015/02/20/support-mounts-online-voter-registration/>from 
FL.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voter registration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>

    “Special delivery: Time to consign undemocratic boss-driven special
    elections to history” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70466>

Posted onFebruary 22, 2015 10:52 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70466>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYDN 
<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-special-delivery-article-1.2123489>.

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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,political 
parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,primaries 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>,voting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

    “Jimmie Lee Jackson: The First Martyr of the Selma Struggle”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70463>

Posted onFebruary 22, 2015 10:40 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70463>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ari Berman writes. 
<http://www.thenation.com/blog/198577/jimmie-lee-jackson-first-martyr-selma-struggle>

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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

    “Right to Vote Amendment Secures Unanimous Backing of DNC Executive
    Committee” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70461>

Posted onFebruary 22, 2015 10:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70461>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

FairVote. 
<http://www.fairvoteblog.com/2015/02/right-to-vote-amendment-secures.html>

MORE <http://bradblog.com/?p=11048>at Brad Blog.

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