[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/23/15

Fri Jan 23 08:53:26 PST 2015

    “The 24th Amendment at 51: Preventing (and Defining) “Poll Taxes””
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69866>

Posted onJanuary 23, 2015 8:52 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69866>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinBlog. 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2015/01/the_24th_amendment_at_51_preve.php>

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Posted invoting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

    “The Truth About Voter ID Laws” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69864>

Posted onJanuary 23, 2015 8:47 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69864>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Interesting 
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-voter-id-laws-edit-0123-20150122-story.html>Chicago 
Tribune editorial.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    Hollis-Brusky, Shapiro Square off on Citizens United
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69862>

Posted onJanuary 23, 2015 8:44 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69862>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2015/01/21/41191/citizens-united-5-years-later/>on 
Airtalk.

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    “Legal dispute from 2008 gubernatorial campaign lives on”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69860>

Posted onJanuary 23, 2015 8:41 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69860>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Olympian 
<http://www.theolympian.com/2015/01/22/3539110/legal-dispute-from-2008-gubernatorial.html>:

    The legal fight is so old that the governor whose re-election was at
    the heart of the case has left office, the defendant is no longer
    the campaign heavyweight it once was, and the lead plaintiff is dead.

    But the case lives on aftera decision Thursday by the state Supreme
    Court. <http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/894621.pdf>

    The 8-to-1 ruling sends the case of Utter v. Building Industry
    Association of Washington back to a King County court for more
    proceedings.

    The case
    <http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/05/27/3214818_wash-high-court-hears-echo-of.html?rh=1>involves
    Republican Dino Rossi’s 2008 rematch with Gov. Chris Gregoire, which
    Democrat Gregoire won. Two retired Supreme Court justices, Faith
    Ireland and the late Robert Utter, accused the builders’ association
    of wrongdoing in its campaigning for Rossi.

    After a state investigation,an arm of BIAW paid hundreds of
    thousands of dollars in a 2010 settlement.
    <http://www.theolympian.com/2010/09/25/1381259/biaw-group-ag-agree-on-fines.html>

    An appeals court found the investigation precluded the lawsuit from
    going forward, but the state Supreme Court reversed that decision.
    State law allows for citizens to sue when state attorneys don’t, the
    high court said.

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    Persily, Cain, and Grofman File Amicus Brief in Arizona
    Redistricting Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69857>

Posted onJanuary 23, 2015 8:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69857>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/13-1314-bsac-Persily-et-al..pdf>.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=7>,Elections Clause 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>,redistricting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

    “How Citizens United is — and isn’t — to blame for the dark money
    President Obama hates so much” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69855>

Posted onJanuary 23, 2015 8:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69855>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/21/how-citizens-united-is-and-isnt-to-blame-for-the-dark-money-president-obama-hates-so-much/>.

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    Major Democratic, Republican Lawyers File Petition for Rulemaking at
    FEC <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69853>

Posted onJanuary 23, 2015 8:35 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69853>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can read the petitionhere 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Petition-FEC.pdf>(viaBauer 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Petition-FEC.pdf>). 
You’ve also got a union lawyer and the Center for Competitive Politics.

We will see how the reform community reacts.

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    “On Same-Sex Marriage, the Supreme Court Will Have to Tackle the
    Question of Rights” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69848>

Posted onJanuary 22, 2015 8:51 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69848>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Garrett Epps 
<http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/on-same-sex-marriage-no-way-to-dodge-the-question/384638/>:

    Since the Supreme Court’sorder
    <http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/011615zr_f2q3.pdf>Friday
    agreeing to hear four same-sex marriage cases, some professors and
    reporters have raised a troubling possibility: Could the Court
    have“stacked the deck” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69702>against
    full marriage equality by the way it phrased the “questions
    presented” by the cases? These are framed in terms of the states’
    powers rather than of individual rights. These court watchers have
    suggested that they may point to a “compromise” that would mean less
    than full marriage equality—that is, a holding that states must
    recognize marriages performed by other states but may continue to
    refuse to marry same-sex coulples themselves….“Recognition” and
    “celebration” go together like a horse and carriage. I don’t see a
    way to split them that would allow the Court—or its key justice—to
    escape this term’s rendezvous with destiny.

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    “Club for Growth asks U.S. Supreme Court to halt John Doe probe”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69846>

Posted onJanuary 22, 2015 8:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69846>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/club-for-growth-asks-us-supreme-court-to-halt-doe-b99430509z1-289322411.html>:/

    A conservative group and one of its directors appealed to the
    nation’s highest court Wednesday as they sought to end for good a
    stalled secret probe into Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign and allied
    groups.

    In theappeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
    <http://media.jrn.com/documents/okeefechisholm.pdf>, the Wisconsin
    Club for Growth and its director, Eric O’Keefe, sought to overturn
    aSeptember decision
    <http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/johndoe25-b99358722z1-276976981.html>by
    the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, which threw out
    the conservatives’ lawsuit and told them to pursue their claims
    through ongoing cases in state court.

    A state judge has already put the probe on hold while the matter is
    being considered by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which took separate
    preliminary actions on several related cases Wednesday.

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