[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/3/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Jun 2 20:33:47 PDT 2015
Gov. Blagojevich Appeal, Argued Dec. 2013, Still Pending Before 7th
Circuit <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73098>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 8:31 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73098>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Inexplicable,
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-rod-blagojevich-prison-appeal-corruption-perspec-0413-jm-20150410-story.html>especially
before the usually speedy 7th Circuit, and especially with Judge
Easterbrook
<http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/27054968/judges-have-yet-to-make-decision-on-blagojevich-appeal>on
the panel.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
“Law students propose bill to close lucrative Capitol lobbying
loophole” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73096>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 8:27 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73096>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Interesting Melanie Mason report.
<http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-lobbying-20150603-story.html?track=rss> Great
exercise for McGeorge students!
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Posted inlobbying <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>,pedagogy
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=23>
“A ‘magnificent seven’ county supervisors?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73094>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:42 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73094>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
OC Register editorial
<http://www.ocregister.com/articles/county-663260-supervisors-sen.html>:
It’s counterintuitive, but, sometimes, one way to improve politics
is to increase the number of politicians. That’s the theory behind
Senate Constitutional Amendment 8, by state Sen. Tony Mendoza,
D-Artesia. It would mandate that, beginning after the 2020 U.S.
Census, any county of 2 million or more must have a board of
supervisors with “seven or more members.”
The change would affect Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Los
Angeles and San Diego counties. Santa Clara County, current
population about 1.9 million, could be affected if growth trends
continue. SCA8 is co-authored by state Sen. Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
Hillary Clinton to Give Speech on Voting Rights Thursday
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73092>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 2:05 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73092>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/605842254335336449
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
2015 Supplement to Election Law Casebook Coming Soon
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73089>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 12:50 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73089>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The2015 supplement
<http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611638158/Election-Law-Fifth-Edition-2015-Supplement> to
Lowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji is shipping in time for fall classes, and
will now include edited versions of the /Evenwel/one person, one vote
case in the district court and the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in
/Williams-Yulee/. Here’s an earlier written description of the supplement:
The 2015 Supplement to the fifth edition of/Election Law: Cases and
Materials/will be up to date through the end of the Supreme Court’s
October 2014 term. It includes an edited version of of the Supreme
Court’s new campaign finance case,/McCutcheon v. FEC/, an edited
version of/Shelby County v. Holder/, and coverage of the Supreme
Court’s consideration of new redistricting cases from Alabama and
Arizona, raising new questions about racial gerrymandering claims
and the scope of state power to enact citizen redistricting
commissions for congressional districts via voter initiative.
The supplement also considers developments in Voting Rights Act
litigation after the Supreme Court’s/Shelby County/case, including
new disputes over voter identification requirements, and covers
litigation over citizenship and other state registration and voting
requirements under the Elections Clause following the Supreme
Court’s opinion in/Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council/. It also covers
the/Susan B. Anthony/false campaign speech case.
*Professors who adopt the Lowenstein/Hasen/Tokaji casebook for their
course can receive a complimentary copy of this supplement by
emailing their request to crutan (at) cap-press (dot) com. A
PDF draft version of this supplement may be available to adopters in
July — please specify if you would like to receive a copy of this
early version.*
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“Why U.S. billionaires may not be able to buy the 2016 election”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73087>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 12:40 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73087>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Emily Flitter
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/02/us-usa-election-billionaires-idUSKBN0OI07I20150602>for
Reuters.
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“Reform Groups Urge Senators to Co-sponsor and Support the Lobbying
and Campaign Finance Reform Act” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73085>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 11:55 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73085>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://www.democracy21.org/legislative-action/press-releases-legislative-action/reform-groups-urge-senators-to-co-sponsor-and-support-the-lobbying-and-campaign-finance-reform-act/>:
In a letter sent today to Senators, reform groups strongly urged
members of the Senate to support the Lobbying and Campaign Finance
Reform Act of 2015, sponsored by Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO),
which would limit the ability of lobbyists to use bundled
contributions to buy influence with members of Congress.
The groups included the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause,
Democracy 21, League of Women Voters, Public Citizen, Sunlight
Foundation and U.S. PIRG.
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“Abbott Opposes Curbs on Dark Money”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73083>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 11:54 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73083>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Of course he does.
<https://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/01/abbott-opposes-curbs-dark-money/>
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“This astonishing chart shows how moderate Republicans are an
endangered species” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73081>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 11:52 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73081>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Must-read<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/02/this-astonishing-chart-shows-how-republicans-are-an-endangered-species/>by
Christopher Ingraham, with great data from the Poole-Rosenthal numbers.
Political scientists have known for years that political
polarization is largely a one-sided phenomenon: in recent decades
the Republican Party has moved to the right much faster than
Democrats have moved to the left. As Thomas Mann of the Brookings
Institutionhas described it
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/dysfunction/371544/>,
“Republicans have become a radical insurgency—ideologically extreme,
contemptuous of the inherited policy regime, scornful of compromise,
unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and
science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of their political
opposition.”
The data backing this claim up are pretty solid. The most
widely-used measure of political polarization, ascore of ideology
based on voting
<http://www.voteview.com/political_polarization_2014.htm>developed
by Kenneth Poole and Howard Rosenthal, has shown that the
Republicans in the Senate and especially the House have drifted away
from the center far more rapidly than Democrats.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,political polarization
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>
Registration Now Open: All Star Line Up for UCI #SCOTUS Term in
Review Event July 13 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71881>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 11:40 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71881>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
[Bumped to the Top with Registration Now Open]
Wow this will be great
<http://www.law.uci.edu/events/supreme-court-term-review/2015.html>,
especially given the high profile cases this term:
5th Annual Supreme Court Term in Review
/Monday, July 13, 2015, 12:00–1:30 P.M.
UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom (Map
<http://www.studentcenter.uci.edu/files/map-directions-sc.pdf>)/
This exciting and entertaining program reviews the Supreme Court’s
key cases decided in the October 2014 term, with an all-star panel
of Supreme Court practitioners, journalists, and academics.
Panelists
* Erwin Chemerinsky
<http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/chemerinsky/index.html>,
UCI Law
* Linda Greenhouse <http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/7296.htm>,
Yale Law School/The New York Times
* Song Richardson
<http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/richardson/index.html>, UCI
Law
* Kannon K. Shanmugam <https://www.wc.com/kshanmugam>, Williams &
Connolly LLP
* Hon. Jeffrey S. Sutton
<http://www.uscourts.gov/JudgesAndJudgeships/BiographicalDirectoryOfJudges.aspx>,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
* Moderated byRick Hasen
<http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/index.html>, UCI Law
The event will also be webcast, with viewers able to submit
questions via Twitter, using the hash tag*#ucilawscotus*at the end
of your question.
This event is approved for 1.5 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal
Education Credit by the State Bar of California.
UC Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
*Registration is now open.Click here to register
<https://ucisl.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/5thAnnualSupremeCourtTerminReview/tabid/694676/Default.aspx>*
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“Nevada stays with caucus system in blow to Jeb Bush”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73077>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 11:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73077>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0114c81f32a6401e92f4f6f3be9a1fd4/nevada-stays-caucus-system-blow-jeb-bush>:
Nevada is keeping its caucuses for selecting presidential nominees,
a blow to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and other contenders who
hoped to shift the early-voting state to a system of primaries.
Caucuses are considered favorable to candidates who have a network
of highly motivated activists, such as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, who has met with Bush, backed
legislation to change to a primary, but the bill never came up for a
vote before the Legislature adjourned Monday night. It was the
subject of frantic horse-trading and lobbying in the state capitol
in Carson City until the final minutes of the session.
My reaction: Boo. Time tokill the caucuses
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/02/congress_should_kill_the_republican_and_democratic_state_caucuses_and_mandate_primaries_instead_.html>for
democracy’s sake.
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There’s a “Notorious RBG;” Why No “Grandmaster Steve” (Breyer)?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73074>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 11:34 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73074>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jacob Gershman explores
<http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/06/02/sotomayor-tops-supreme-court-celebrity-ranking/>my
SCOTUScelebrity index
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2611729>over at the
WSJ law blog.
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Posted inCelebrity Justice <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=109>,Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73065>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 8:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73065>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>:
*SSRN Top Downloads For
LSN: Election Law & Voting Rights (Topic)**RECENT TOP PAPERS*for
all papers first announced in the last 60
days<http://papers.ssrn.com/publicRss/rssManagerInc.cfm?journalId=991929>
/3 Apr 2015 through 2 Jun 2015/
Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 551 *Do the Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s
Opinion in Shelby County?*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2592829>
J. Morgan Kousser
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1128454>
California Institute of Technology
/Date posted to database: /11 Apr 2015
/Last Revised: /11 Apr 2015
2 87 *A Checklist Manifesto for Election Day: How to Prevent Mistakes
at the Polls* <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2597767>
Joshua A. Douglas
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=683935>
University of Kentucky – College of Law
/Date posted to database: /24 Apr 2015
/Last Revised: /24 Apr 2015
3 67 *Essay: Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable Revival*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2601459>
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: /3 May 2015
/Last Revised: /12 May 2015
4 64 *Presupposing Corruption: Access, Influence, and the Future of
the Pay-to-Play Legal Framework*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2593608>
Allison Cristine Davis
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2384266>
College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Students
/Date posted to database: /14 Apr 2015
/Last Revised: /16 Apr 2015
5 64 *Voter ID Laws: A View from the Public*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594290>
Paul Gronke
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=344082>,William
D Hicks
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2107857>,Seth
C. McKee
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1321457>,Charles Stewart
III
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1329707>andJames Dunham
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2033463>
Reed College, Appalachian State University, Texas Tech University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)– Department of Political
Science and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
/Date posted to database: /15 Apr 2015
/Last Revised: /12 May 2015
6 52 *Death by a Thousand Cuts: How the Supreme Court Has Effectively
Killed Campaign Finance Regulation*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2589600>*by Its
Limited Recognition of Compelling State Interests*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2589600>
Kevin Huguelet
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2380944>
University of Miami – University of Miami Law Review
/Date posted to database: /12 Apr 2015
/Last Revised: /12 Apr 2015
7 48 *Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: Beijing’s Broken Promises*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2595643>
Michael C. Davis
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1721355>
The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Law
/Date posted to database: /19 Apr 2015
/Last Revised: /15 May 2015
8 48 *Sued If You Do, Sued If You Don’t: Section 2 of the Voting
Rights Act*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2599346>*as a
Defense to Race-Conscious Districting*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2599346>
Caroline A. Wong
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2388308>
The University of Chicago Law School
/Date posted to database: /28 Apr 2015
/Last Revised: /1 May 2015
9 48 *Paths of Resistance to Our Imperial First Amendment*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2598393>
Bertrall L. Ross
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=507998>
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
/Date posted to database: /25 Apr 2015
/Last Revised: /5 May 2015
10 33 *You Gotta Fight for the Right to Vote: Enfranchising Native
American Voters*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2586219>
Jeanette Wolfley
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2095116>
University of New Mexico – School of Law
/Date posted to database: /29 Mar 2015
/Last Revised: /29 Mar 2015
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“Public Citizen Applauds Senator Warren for Pushing the SEC to Act”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73063>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 8:10 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73063>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release <http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=5535>:
Public Citizen applauds U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.)letter
(PDF)
<http://ct.symplicity.com/t/wrn/2500b2ddfdc0d07be25c25596a59750f/1901939001/realurl=http:/www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/2015-6-2_Warren_letter_to_SEC.pdf>to
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Chair Mary Jo
White raising issues concerning the agency’s regulatory and
enforcement work. Sen. Warren’s thoughtful and detailed letter is a
rousing call to action that the SEC should not ignore.
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“Which justices give the most speeches? Sotomayor tops law prof’s
‘celebrity index'” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73061>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 8:06 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73061>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The ABA
Journal<http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/which_justices_give_the_most_speeches_sotomayor_tops_law_profs_celebrity_in>on
myCelebrity Justice survey.
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2611729>
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“Secret effort to sell Hillary Clinton to rich liberals; Campaign
targets unenthusiastic donors on the party’s left”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73059>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:59 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73059>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Vogel.
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/secret-effort-to-sell-hillary-clinton-to-rich-liberals-118528.html#ixzz3btzMrW1K>
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“Poll Shows Americans Favor Overhaul of Campaign Financing”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73057>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:56 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73057>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/politics/poll-shows-americans-favor-overhaul-of-campaign-financing.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news>:
Americans of both parties fundamentally reject the regime of
untrammeled money in elections made possible by the Supreme Court’s
Citizens United ruling and other court decisions and now favor a
sweeping overhaul of how political campaigns are financed, according
to a New York Times/CBS News poll.
The findings reveal deep support among Republicans and Democrats
alike for new measures to restrict the influence of wealthy givers,
including limiting the amount of money that can be spent by “super
PACs
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/campaign_finance/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>”
and forcing more public disclosure on organizations now permitted to
intervene in elections without disclosing the names of their donors.
And by a significant margin, they reject the argument that underpins
close to four decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence on campaign
finance: that political money is a form of speech protected by the
First Amendment. Even self-identified Republicans are evenly split
on the question…
More than half of those surveyed said they were pessimistic that
campaign finance rules would be improved. (Republicans and
independents expressed more pessimism, while Democrats were evenly
divided.) Over half of respondents said that the current rules
equally benefit the Democratic and Republican Parties.
And virtually no one in the poll ranked campaign financing as the
most important issue facing the country.
On that last point,Greg Sargent writes
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/06/02/morning-plum-americans-dont-care-too-much-about-big-money-in-politics/>:
If ever there were a cycle that seemed poised for a serious argument
over what to do — if anything — about the torrents of money sloshing
through our politics, you’d think it would be this one. We’re seeing
a parade of billionaire sugar daddies looking to sponsor individual
GOP candidates. A profusion of clever tactics such as turning over
campaign operations to a friendly Super PAC, and running a
full-blown presidential campaign while pretending you haven’t
declared. Outside groups on both sides pledging enormous
expenditures. Relentless media attention to foreign donations to the
Clinton Foundation. And so on.
Yet despite all this, the chances of turning campaign finance into a
major or compelling issue appear remote: A new poll today finds
that/fewer than one percent/of Americans see it as the most
important issue facing the country.
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“Some GOP donors willing to give to many, just not Paul”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73055>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:51 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73055>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Julie Bykowicz, now on the money and politics beat at AP, writesthis
report
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d4d39750af5640bab2234b8d3ae5b1ef/some-gop-donors-willing-give-many-just-not-paul>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
Bauer on McCutcheon, Evenwel, and the Meaning of “Constituent”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73053>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:48 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73053>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Worth your morning read.
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/06/supreme-court-constituent/>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,redistricting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Counter plutocracy with public financing”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73051>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:47 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73051>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Phil Andrews WaPo oped.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/counter-plutocracy-with-public-financing/2015/05/29/59de6050-fd9c-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html>
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Posted incampaign finance
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Plutocrats United
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>
“Dignity and Discriminatory Intent: What the Marriage Equality Cases
Tell Us About Voter ID” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73049>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:45 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73049>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ellen Katz has postedthis draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2610113>on SSRN
(forthcoming /University of Chicago Legal Forum/). here is the abstract:
Two years after Shelby County v. Holder and United States v.
Windsor, a good deal of litigation has addressed the legality of
electoral restrictions like voter ID and bans on same-sex marriage.
This Article examines the relationship between these two lines of
cases. It argues that the greater deference accorded to state action
in the voting cases is not simply the product of the familiar
distinction between discriminatory intent and effect, but instead
captures an emerging and troubling distinction within the category
of intentional discrimination itself. This distinction separates
conduct that targets members of a minority group for disfavored
treatment based on animus from conduct that targets them for more
particularized, instrumental reasons.
The Article posits that this distinction is not only unwarranted,
but that it also obscures a critical observation repeatedly made in
the marriage cases that should have application in the voting
disputes but has yet to find expression. Many of the voting
restrictions challenged post-Shelby County might be understood to
inflict a dignitary harm that resembles the dignitary injury
same-sex marriage bans are now widely understood to inflict. The
Article offers some preliminary thoughts on the contours of this
injury and the challenges its recognition might present.
Highly recommended!
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“When the Supreme Court is this wrong, it’s time to overrule them”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73047>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73047>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dorris Kearns Goodwin and Jeff Clementswant a constitutional amendment
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/02/when-the-supreme-court-is-this-wrong-its-time-to-overrule-them/>to
overturn Citizens United.
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“New Paper Examines Impact of ‘Convenience’ on Voters With
Disabilities” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73045>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73045>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Doug Chapin
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2015/06/new_paper_examines_impact_of_c.php>:
The question of how best to assist voters with disabilities is
important, but often difficult to address because there is so little
empirical data on how those voters experience the system.
Fortunately, we are starting to see researchers trying to overcome
that lack of information by using existing surveys that capture
voting and disability information – though not always linked – in a
such a way as to give us a fuller understanding of how those voters
interact with the voting process.
The latest example is a paper by Penn’s Peter Miller and UC-Irvine’s
Sierra Powell entitled “Overcoming Voting Obstacles: The Use of
Convenience Voting by Voters With Disabilities” which will be
published in an upcoming issue of American Politics Research.
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“Political Corruption, Equality, and Campaign Finance Reform — A
Response to Larry Lessig” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73043>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:40 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73043>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Paul Jossey
<https://medium.com/@PaulHJossey/political-corruption-equality-and-campaign-finance-reform-a-response-to-larry-lessig-1cfb5b47378f>at
Medium.
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“Jeb Bush, the Undecider-in-Chief” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73041>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 7:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73041>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Josh
Voorhies<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/01/jeb_bush_the_undecider_in_chief_how_the_gop_hopeful_is_making_a_mockery.html>for
Slate. My earlier Slate piece:Jeb the Destroyer.
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/jeb_bush_destroying_campaign_finance_rules_his_tactics_will_be_the_future.html>
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Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” Second Place Winner
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72989>
Posted onJune 2, 2015 6:00 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72989>byDan
Tokaji <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>
This week, we’re announcing the winners of Common Cause’s
inauguralDemocracy Prize writing competition to identify the best
“gerrymander standard.”
<http://www.commoncause.org/issues/voting-and-elections/redistricting/gerrymander-standard-writing-competition.html>
Yesterday weannounced the third place winner
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72987>. Today we’d like to offer our
congratulations to second place winnersJowei Chen from the University of
Michigan <http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ejowei/>andJonathan Rodden of
Stanford University <http://web.stanford.edu/%7Ejrodden/jrhome.htm>,
authors of “Cutting through the Thicket: Redistricting Simulations and
the Detection of Partisan Gerrymanders”.
This paper identifies a redistricting algorithm that can be used to
distinguish partisan gerrymandering from a state legislature’s efforts
to apply acceptable districting criteria, keep communities of interest
together, and facilitate minority representation. This algorithm can
generate benchmark plans that can be contrasted with a challenged plan
to identify partisan advantage not attributable to legitimate
districting goals.
The authors demonstrated the strength of their idea by showing its
effectiveness in identifying partisan intent in a redistricting plan
that was in fact found to be unlawful. Their paper combined the creation
of a sophisticated new tool with a clear and well-written explanation
making it accessible and useful to the lawyers and judges who are the
ultimate audience. Chen and Rodden’s ability to demonstrate an accurate
real-world application make their paper an outstanding contribution to
efforts to accurately identify unfair partisan gerrymandering.
Congratulations to the second place winners. Read a summary of the paper
here.
<http://www.commoncause.org/issues/voting-and-elections/redistricting/cutting-through-the-thicket.pdf>The
final version will be published in Election Law Journal this fall. The
first-place winner will be announced tomorrow.
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