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Wed Jan 21 11:36:52 PST 2015

    “One by One, Protesters Interrupt Supreme Court Over Citizens United
    Case” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69815>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 11:35 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69815>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/one-by-one-protesters-interrupt-supreme-court-over-citizens-united-case.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news>.

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    Public Citizen Responds to CCP on Super PACs/Citizens United Report
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69813>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 11:30 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69813>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-lincoln/helping-out-a-friend_b_6509300.html?utm_hp_ref=politics>.

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    “The Government’s War on Speech: Citizens United at Five”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69811>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 11:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69811>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Jossey 
<http://thefederalist.com/2015/01/21/the-governments-war-on-speech-citizens-united-at-five/>at 
The Federalist.

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    President Obama Issues False Statement on Citizens United
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69806>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 10:35 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69806>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

President Obamaissued this 
statement<http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/21/statement-president>on 
Citizens United’s 5th Anniversary:

    Our democracy works best when everyone’s voice is heard, and no
    one’s voice is drowned out.  But five years ago, a Supreme Court
    ruling allowed big companies – including foreign corporations – to
    spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections.  The
    Citizens United decision was wrong, and it has caused real harm to
    our democracy.  With each new campaign season, this dark money
    floods our airwaves with more and more political ads that pull our
    politics into the gutter.  It’s time to reverse this trend.  Rather
    than bolster the power of lobbyists and special interests,
    Washington should lift up the voices of ordinary Americans and
    protect their democratic right to determine the direction of the
    country that we love.

I’m no fan 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1620576>of Citizens 
United. But the part about “foreign corporations” is clearly wrong. The 
President first made that statement at the State of the Union 5 years 
ago, with the Justices in attendance. Justice Alito mouthed “not true.” 
  And it was not true. Citizens United put the foreign money issue to 
the side. Since then, the Court summarily affirmed the /Bluman v. 
FEC/case, upholding the constitutionality of the foreign spending ban 
(including bans on foreign corporations).  Now it may be that foreign 
money is getting into our elections, but that’s not because the Supreme 
Court called it kosher.

(Byron Tau calls the statement “muddled 
<https://twitter.com/ByronTau/status/557966509587570688>” because CU did 
not empower lobbyists. That’s more debatable.  The foreign money point 
is not.)

I’ll have much more on this aspect of the Citizens United controversy, 
and much more on the role of money in politics, in my campaign finance 
book in progress.

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    99 Rise Takes Credit for #SCOTUS Disruptions Related to Citizens
    United Anniversary <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69803>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 9:54 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69803>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here. <http://www.99rise.org/stand_with_sc7>

Update. Here is an emailed press release:

    *Washington, DC*—Seven activists with the democracy movement 99Rise
    disrupted the nation’s highest court this morning, issuing a series
    of statements calling for the justices to overturn their unpopular
    Citizens United decision, ruled on five years ago today. Each
    protester stood up and presented a demand to the Court before
    raising their index finger in the air. The gesture represents “one
    person, one vote” political equality, a principle which has been
    undermined by the limitless campaign spending facilitated by the
    activist Court.

    “We have seen the consequences of the free flow of private money
    rushing into our public political system,” said 99Rise activist Curt
    Ries who risked arrest to protest the Court’s ruling. “Nearly $4
    billion was spent in the 2014 Mid-Term Elections, and almost all of
    it came from a handful of wealthy individuals and organizations. The
    kind of influence that money buys fundamentally corrupts our
    electoral process by giving undue representation to wealthy donors
    and corporations. That’s not a democracy, it’s a plutocracy.”

    Last year 99Rise co-founder Kai Newkirk interrupted the Supreme
    Court in an unprecedented act of civil disobedience, which was
    caught on video
    <http://www.99rise.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2K-8FJ114kU&utm_campaign=cua_dc_action&n=1&e=0f73c13274572041ad4c57d1911387e9232a9d04&utm_source=99rise&utm_medium=email>.
    The seven people who disrupted the court today were: Alexandra
    Flores-Quilty, Curt Ries, Margaret Johnson, Mary Zeiser, Andrew
    Batcher, Katherine Philipson and Irandira Gonzales (who delivered
    her message to the Court in Spanish). 99Rise members again captured
    video footage from within the court chamber.

    A recent study by Princeton University political scientists
    confirmed that analysis when it concluded that the will of the
    people has a “near-zero, statistically-insignificant impact on
    public policy
    <http://www.99rise.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.princeton.edu%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fmgilens%2Ffiles%2Fgilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf&utm_campaign=cua_dc_action&n=2&e=0f73c13274572041ad4c57d1911387e9232a9d04&utm_source=99rise&utm_medium=email>.”
    Since the current Court has opened our elections to virtually
    unlimited sums of private money, 99Rise believes that the American
    people have no other choice but to fight for a Constitutional
    Amendment that would overturn/Citizens United/and guarantee
    political equality for all Americans, regardless of wealth.

    99Rise is a grassroots organization waging nonviolent struggle to
    get money out of politics and reclaim democracy for the 99%. 99Rise
    organizers are urging the public to stand with the seven activists
    who were arrested today by signing their online petition
    atwww.99rise.org
    <http://www.99rise.org/?e=0f73c13274572041ad4c57d1911387e9232a9d04&utm_source=99rise&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cua_dc_action&n=3>.

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    “View from the Courtroom: Disruption from the gallery on 5th
    anniversary of Citizens United” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69801>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 9:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69801>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SCOTUSBlog reports 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/01/view-from-the-courtroom-disruption-from-the-gallery-on-5th-anniversary-of-citizens-united/>:

    As what at first seemed like the lone demonstrator was removed,
    Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. quipped, “Our second order of
    business this morning …” to laughs from the crowded courtroom.

    But before he could finish that thought, a second demonstrators
    stood and said, “One person, one vote.” It was perhaps a
    continuation of the/Citizens United/theme, or a reference to a key
    phrase from the Court’s voting rights jurisprudence. As the second
    protestor was being approached by officers, a third and a fourth one
    stood and uttered similar lines.

    The Chief Justice was heard to mutter, “Oh, please.”

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    “Will the Real Citizens United Please Step Forward?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69799>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 9:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69799>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Benjamin Barr blogs. 
<http://wyliberty.org/uncategorized/will-the-real-citizens-united-please-step-forward/>

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    “Obama Snubs Calls for Campaign Finance Curbs”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69797>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 8:51 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69797>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Byron Tau 
reports<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/01/21/in-speech-obama-snubs-calls-for-campaign-finance-curbs/>for 
WSJ.

No surprise. President Obama has been terrible on the campaign finance 
issue from the get-go.

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    “The Supreme Court’s Billion Dollar Mistake”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69795>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 8:50 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69795>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

David Cole 
<http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jan/19/citizen-united-billion-dollar-mistake/>in 
the NYRB on CU at 5.

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    “Five Years Later, Citizens United Wreaks Havoc on Our Democracy”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69793>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 8:49 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69793>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fred Wertheimer 
<https://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/five-years-later-citizens-united-wreaks-havoc-on-our-democracy>at 
the ACS Blog.

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    “Will the Roberts Court Strike Down Another Campaign Finance Law?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69791>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 8:48 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69791>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jeff Shesol 
<http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/will-roberts-court-strike-another-campaign-finance-law>in 
The New Yorker. I’m afraid I don’t see as much of a connection between 
Williams Yulee and the Citizens United line of cases.

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    Mark Joseph Stern Slate Dispatch on Williams-Yulee
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69789>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 8:47 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69789>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/supreme_court_dispatches/2015/01/williams_yulee_v_florida_bar_the_supreme_court_ponders_judicial_elections.html?wpsrc=fol_tw>

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    Save the Date: July 13 @UCILAW #SCOTUS Term in Review Event
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69787>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 7:04 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69787>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Wow, what a line up this year:Linda Greenhouse, 
<http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/LGreenhouse.htm>Judge Jeff Sutton 
<http://law.vanderbilt.edu/bio/jeffrey-sutton>,Kannon Shanmugam 
<http://www.wc.com/kshanmugam>, and UCI Law’sErwin Chemerinsky 
<http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/chemerinsky/>andL. Song 
Richardson <http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/richardson/>.  I’ll 
be moderating again.  The event will be webcast. Details to come.

Judge Sutton is theauthor of the same sex marriage decision 
<http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/14a0275p-06.pdf>s the Supreme 
Court hasagreed to hear 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/01/court-will-rule-on-same-sex-marriage/>.

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    “FAN 44 (First Amendment News) Citizens United: it was 5 years ago
    today — 13 First Amendment lawyers & scholars offer differing views”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69785>

Posted onJanuary 21, 2015 6:47 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69785>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ron Collins blogs. 
<http://concurringopinions.com/archives/2015/01/fan-44-first-amendment-news-citizens-united-it-was-5-years-ago-today-13-first-amendment-lawyers-scholars-offer-differing-views.html>

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