[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/28/15

Tue Jul 28 08:36:04 PDT 2015

    “Are Voters Ready to Cast a Vote Against the Supreme Court?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74636>

Posted onJuly 28, 2015 8:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74636>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Greg Stohr writes 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-28/are-voters-ready-to-cast-a-vote-against-the-supreme-court->for 
Bloomberg.

I have a current project in the works on this question.

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Posted inSupreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    “Citizens United loses New York ruling over donors”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74634>

Posted onJuly 28, 2015 8:26 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74634>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Reuters 
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/citizensunited-new-york-lawsuit-idUSL1N1071MD20150727>:

    A federal judge on Monday rejected Citizens United’s effort to block
    New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman from demanding that the
    conservative group disclose more information about its major donors.

    U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein in Manhattan refused to impose a
    preliminary injunction that would stop Schneiderman from requiring
    charities to disclose names, addresses and total contributions of
    big donors in order to solicit funds in the state.

You can read the rulinghere <http://t.co/onYupRnbH1>(viaJosh Gerstein 
<https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/625987902422450176>).

I expect this will go up the food chain, like CCP’s battle with Kamala 
Harris in CA.

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

    “Questions of Criminal Enforcement”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74632>

Posted onJuly 28, 2015 8:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74632>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/07/questions-criminal-enforcement/>:

    In the wake ofthe Wisconsin case
    <http://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.html?content=html&seqNo=144526>,
    and in the arguments more generally about “’coordination,” it has
    been suggested that not too much should be made of the dangers of
    criminal investigation in campaign finance cases.  Hard-charging
    investigative techniques employed in the service of creative
    theories of liability are staples of white-collar criminal
    enforcement.  Why, criticssuch as Rick Hasen
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74540>ask, should campaign finance
    law enforcement be different?

    The question of whether criminal campaign finance investigations are
    just like any other is worth careful consideration, detached from a
    lively, high-stakes conflict like Wisconsin’s.  The federal
    experience is instructive.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

    Remember #APSAonFire? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74630>

Posted onJuly 27, 2015 8:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74630>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The main suspect in that fire, David W. Pitts,pleaded guilty 
<http://wtop.com/dc/2015/03/american-university-professor-sentenced-to-jail-over-fires/>back 
in March to setting similar fires elsewhere and was sentenced to jail 
time.  There’s no mention if he was ever charged with the APSA fires.

(Background reAPSA on fire <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64822>and 
theMarriott Wardman Hotel’s handling 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65110>of the situation.)

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    “House Republicans want IRS commissioner fired”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74628>

Posted onJuly 27, 2015 8:31 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74628>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/27/house-republicans-want-irs-commissioner-fired/>

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Posted intax law and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

    “The Troubling Rod Blagojevich Ruling”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74626>

Posted onJuly 27, 2015 8:09 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74626>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs. 
<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/troubling-blagojevich-ruling>

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Posted inbribery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>,chicanery 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

    “State begins case in NC elections trial”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74624>

Posted onJuly 27, 2015 5:31 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74624>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The News and Observer reports. 
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article29031274.html>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    “Proposed changes to Virginia voter registration stirs fears among
    GOP” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74622>

Posted onJuly 27, 2015 5:27 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74622>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/proposed-changes-to-virginia-voter-registration-stirs-fears-among-gop/2015/07/27/b19fd1f2-3492-11e5-94ce-834ad8f5c50e_story.html>:

    People registering to vote in Virginia would no longer be required
    to check boxes to indicate whether they are U.S. citizens or felons
    whose right to vote has not been restored under changes being
    considered by the Virginia Board of Elections.

    Voters would still have to affirm elsewhere on the application,
    under the threat of a felony conviction, that they are citizens and
    otherwise eligible. But instead of responding to separate questions
    about their citizenship or felony status, they would simply sign the
    form on a line near language that attests to their eligibility based
    on those and other requirements.

    The distinction may seem small, but it is one that hits the
    political hot buttons of voter fraud, illegal immigration and the
    restoration of felons’ voter rights. The proposed changes have
    triggered yet another battle over the rules of electoral engagement
    in Virginia, a critical presidential swing state that is also
    embroiled in a redistricting battle
    <http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/federal-judges-bring-va-one-step-closer-to-a-new-congressional-map/2015/06/05/8a331de4-0bb7-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html>…

    Del. James M. LeMunyon (R-Fairfax) said he was aware of very few
    instances in which applications were denied because someone forgot
    to check a box. In such situations, he said, registrars typically
    can contact the applicant to have the form completed.

    “What’s the problem you’re trying to solve?” he said. “Every
    first-grader in Virginia gets a work sheet from a teacher with boxes
    to check. If we’ve had this sort of rampant
    people-haven’t-been-able-to-check boxes problem, I haven’t heard of
    that one.”

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    “All 2016 presidential candidates should disclose campaign bundlers”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74620>

Posted onJuly 27, 2015 11:08 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74620>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo editorial. 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/all-2016-presidential-candidates-should-disclose-campaign-bundlers/2015/07/25/0b33b95a-309b-11e5-97ae-30a30cca95d7_story.html>

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    “The I.R.S. Gives Up on ‘Dark Money’”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74618>

Posted onJuly 27, 2015 11:07 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74618>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT editorial. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/sunday/the-irs-gives-up-on-dark-money.html?ref=opinion>

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and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

    “Expert testifies that North Carolina’s election law did not affect
    turnout in 2014″ <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74616>

Posted onJuly 27, 2015 11:04 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74616>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The 
latest<http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/expert-testifies-that-north-carolina-s-election-law-did-not/article_b3b386fa-3483-11e5-9d7e-3b99962a23a2.html>from 
the NC voting trial.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

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UC Irvine School of Law
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