[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/11/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Jun 11 09:21:33 PDT 2015
Corrected link to Campaign Legal Center summary of voting rights litigation:
http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/new-voting-rights-litigation-summary-clc-shows-growing-voter-dilution-and
On 6/11/15 8:20 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>
>
> “This Web site allows political donors to give money based on how
> lawmakers vote. Just don’t call it bribery.”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73397>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 8:15 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73397>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> WaPo
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/06/11/ifthenfund/>on
> the If-Then Fund.
>
> Share
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> Posted inbribery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>,campaign finance
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
>
>
> “The False Promise of Black Political Representation; Record
> numbers of African Americans hold elective office, but the policy
> preferences of black voters remain unlikely to be enacted.”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73395>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 8:14 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73395>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Nick Stephanopoulos
> <http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/black-political-representation-power/395594/>for
> The Atlantic.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73395&title=%E2%80%9CThe%20False%20Promise%20of%20Black%20Political%20Representation%3B%20Record%20numbers%20of%20African%20Americans%20hold%20elective%20office%2C%20but%20the%20policy%20preferences%20of%20black%20voters%20remain%20unlikely%20to%20be%20enacted.%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
>
>
> “Brace Yourself for Kobach” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73393>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 8:12 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73393>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Wichita Eagle
> <http://www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article23695309.html>editorial:
>
> Secretary of State Kris Kobach finally got the prosecutorial
> powers he wanted. Brace yourself, Kansas voters, as he’s unlikely
> to put them in a drawer.
>
> Kobach is such a zealot on the nonissue of voter fraud that he
> didn’t even wait to start investigations until Gov. Sam Brownback
> had signed the bill, whichoccurred
> <http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article23498689.html>Monday.
> Kobach said three attorneys in his office will work on potential
> cases at least part time, and he likely will handle some as well.
> He claimed he’s homing in on more than 100 possible cases of
> double voting from 2014, using phrases Monday such as “all-time
> high” and “slam dunk.”
>
> The more accurate wording about Kobach’s expanded power came from
> Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, whocalled
> <http://cjonline.com/news/2015-06-08/brownback-signs-bill-giving-kobach-prosecution-power>it
> “jousting at windmills.”
>
> Shameful.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73393&title=%E2%80%9CBrace%20Yourself%20for%20Kobach%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted inchicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>,fraudulent
> fraud squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>,The Voting Wars
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
>
>
> “Kentucky race for governor gets started with a secret debate in
> Virginia” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73391>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 8:07 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73391>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Sam Youngman
> <http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/10/3893782_kentucky-race-for-governor-gets.html?rh=1>:
>
> When Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conwayannounced
> <http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/09/3892408/conway-and-overly-agree-to-appear.html>this
> week a series of debates and forums between himself and Republican
> gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin, neither he nor Bevin mentioned
> that they’ve already faced off behind closed doors.
>
> Conway, the Democratic nominee for governor, and Bevin
> participated this month in a debate at a retreat for the coal
> industry in Bristol, Va., which the media were not notified about
> or permitted to attend.
>
> Share
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> Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
> Commisioner Goodman Responds to Paul Ryan on Partisanship at the
> FEC <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73388>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:43 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73388>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Here<http://thehill.com/opinion/letters/244618-working-toward-a-fair-fast-fcc>at
> The Hill.
>
> Share
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> Posted infederal election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
>
>
> Are Kochs Trying a Hostile Takeover of GOP (Master Voter File)?
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73386>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:41 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73386>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Yahoo! Politics.
> <https://www.yahoo.com/politics/the-koch-brothers-and-the-republican-party-go-to-121193159491.html>
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73386&title=Are%20Kochs%20Trying%20a%20Hostile%20Takeover%20of%20GOP%20%28Master%20Voter%20File%29%3F&description=>
> Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
>
>
> Linda Greenhouse on #SCOTUS Term, and Evenwel in the Next
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73384>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:39 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73384>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> NYT:
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/the-supreme-court-down-the-stretch.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0>
>
> Last month, the court accepted another case without a split among
> the lower courts.Evenwel v.
> Abbott<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/evenwel-v-abbott/>challenges
> the inclusion of noncitizens among those who are to be counted for
> the purpose of redistricting. The case reflects a cynical effort
> to maximize the voting power of Anglo Republicans in Texas,
> propelled to the court’s docket by the same legal team that
> brought us the Fisher case as well asShelby County v. Holder
> <http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-96_6k47.pdf>, the
> 2013 case that gutted theVoting Rights Act
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/v/voting_rights_act_1965/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>.
>
> The theory behind the new case is that when noncitizens count – as
> they do everywhere in the country — in the population that must be
> spread evenly among electoral districts, the votes of citizens
> (presumably Latinos) in districts with large numbers of
> noncitizens are overweighted. The argument is that this violates
> the rule of one-person, one-vote, because it acts to underweight
> the votes of those in districts that have few immigrants. and
> therefore more citizen-voters.
>
> The issue seemed to pop up out of nowhere, but actually it’s one
> that never went away. In 2001, the court refused to hear a similar
> challenge to the counting of noncitizens. Justice Thomasdissented
> in that case
> <https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-1946.ZD.html>, Chen v.
> City of Houston. “We have never determined the relevant
> ‘population’ that states and localities must equally distribute
> among their districts,” he wrote, adding that “as long as we
> sustain the one-person, one-vote principle, we have an obligation
> to explain to states and localities what it actually means.”
>
> It took 14 years, but now the issue is back, in what looms so far
> as the dominant case of the court’s next term. But that’s next
> year’s stretch run.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73384&title=Linda%20Greenhouse%20on%20%23SCOTUS%20Term%2C%20and%20Evenwel%20in%20the%20Next&description=>
> Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme
> Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
>
>
> “Elections supervisors call out Secretary of State Ken Detzner”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73382>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:33 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73382>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Woah
> <http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/elections-supervisors-call-out-secretary-of-state-ken-detzner/2233116>:
>
> Pasco elections supervisor Brian Corley, the association’s new
> president, noted that Detzner in private meetings said he was
> enthusiastic about voter registration but would have to check with
> Gov. Rick Scott, but then later told reporters he never spoke to
> the governor about it: “You told us in that meeting you had to
> talk to the governor, and then you told the media multiple times
> you hadn’t spoken to the governor. So which is it, respectfully
> sir?,” Corley said, suggesting Detzner either “misled” the media
> or the elections officials working with him.
>
> See alsoElections conference could put Gov. Rick Scott’s chief in hot
> seat
> <http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/06/elections-conference-could-put-gov-rick-scotts-chief-in-hot-seat.html>.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73382&title=%E2%80%9CElections%20supervisors%20call%20out%20Secretary%20of%20State%20Ken%20Detzner%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
>
>
> “Weak Internet Security Leaves U.S. Elections Agency Vulnerable to
> Hackers, Reports Find” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73380>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:31 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73380>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> WSJ on FEC.
> <http://www.wsj.com/articles/weak-internet-security-leaves-fec-vulnerable-to-hackers-reports-find-1433945246>
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73380&title=%E2%80%9CWeak%20Internet%20Security%20Leaves%20U.S.%20Elections%20Agency%20Vulnerable%20to%20Hackers%2C%20Reports%20Find%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted infederal election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
>
>
> “‘Desperate’ at the FEC Part II: The Risks of Unintended
> Consequences” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73378>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:28 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73378>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Ravel-Weintraub petition may backfire.Bauer makes the case
> <http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/06/desperate-fec-part-ii-risks-unintended-consequences/>.
>
> Share
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> Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,federal
> election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
>
>
> “Arizona Republicans Planning Redistricting Push After SCOTUS
> Decision” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73376>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:24 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73376>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Reid Wilson
> <http://morningconsult.com/2015/06/arizona-republicans-planning-redistricting-push-after-scotus-decision/>for
> the Morning Consult:
>
> The U.S. Supreme Court is nearing a decision over the
> constitutionality of independent commissions created to draw
> district lines, but lawmakers in Arizona aren’t waiting for the
> outcome to start radically redrawing the state’s political
> boundaries — for their own gain.
>
> House and Senate leaders have already begun discussing how and
> where to redraw lines, and they are likely to come to some sort of
> agreement over the summer, sources close to Republican leaders in
> both chambers said. Once an agreement is close, Gov. Doug Ducey
> (R) would call a special legislative session to dispense with the
> new maps.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73376&title=%E2%80%9CArizona%20Republicans%20Planning%20Redistricting%20Push%20After%20SCOTUS%20Decision%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted inElections Clause
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>,redistricting
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
>
>
> “Campaign Preview? Clinton and Christie Spar Over Early Voting in
> New Jersey” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73374>
>
> Posted onJune 11, 2015 7:23 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73374>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Yael Bromberg blogs.
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yael-bromberg/campaign-preview-clinton_b_7556992.html>
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73374&title=%E2%80%9CCampaign%20Preview%3F%20Clinton%20and%20Christie%20Spar%20Over%20Early%20Voting%20in%20New%20Jersey%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted inelection administration
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
>
>
> “It’s PAC Season: Time to Put Up a Firewall, Attorneys Say”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73370>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 4:11 pm
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73370>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Campaigns & Elections
> <http://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/2468/it-s-pac-season-time-to-put-the-firewall-up-attorneys-say>.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73370&title=%E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99s%20PAC%20Season%3A%20Time%20to%20Put%20Up%20a%20Firewall%2C%20Attorneys%20Say%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted incampaign finance
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
>
>
> “Top aide to Fla. ex-congressman will plead guilty to breaking
> election law” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73368>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 2:18 pm
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73368>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Miami Herald
> <http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article23667943.html>:
> “A former campaign manager for onetime Democratic Congressman Joe
> Garcia plans to plead guilty Thursday in Miami federal court to
> financing a tea party candidate in a scheme to siphon votes from his
> Republican nemesis.”
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73368&title=%E2%80%9CTop%20aide%20to%20Fla.%20ex-congressman%20will%20plead%20guilty%20to%20breaking%20election%20law%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted incampaign finance
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,chicanery
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
>
>
> Former Rep. Henry Waxman Already a Lobbyist? For T-Mobile?
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73366>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 2:06 pm
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73366>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Whodathunkit?
> <http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/supposedly-a-lobbyists-nightmare-liberal-henry-waxman-spins-easily-through-the-revolving-door/article/2565971?custom_click=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter>
>
> Share
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> Posted inlobbying <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
>
>
> Claims of Hasidim Against Village of Bloomingburg Partially
> Survive Motion to Dismiss <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73363>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 12:40 pm
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73363>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Here
> <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/bloomingburg-order.pdf>is
> the federal court order. More fromJTA.
> <http://www.jta.org/2015/06/10/news-opinion/united-states/judge-upholds-hasidic-lawsuit-alleging-discrimination-in-bloomingburg-n-y>
>
> I’ve been
> following<http://electionlawblog.org/?s=bloomingburg&x=0&y=0>this set
> of cases because of allegations of voter fraud as well as voting
> discrimination as a group of Hasidim try to take over a small
> municipality in upstate New York.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73363&title=Claims%20of%20Hasidim%20Against%20Village%20of%20Bloomingburg%20Partially%20Survive%20Motion%20to%20Dismiss&description=>
> Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
> “Challenges Implementing Federal Automatic Voter Registration”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73361>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 11:57 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73361>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Derek the
> Muller<http://excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2015/6/challenges-implementing-federal-automatic-voter-registration>raises
> good points, but all of them could be dealt with in the unlikely event
> we got down to the details of such a plan.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73361&title=%E2%80%9CChallenges%20Implementing%20Federal%20Automatic%20Voter%20Registration%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
>
>
> “One Governor’s Audacious, Unprecedented Effort To Use Personal
> Wealth To Re-Create The Legislature”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73359>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 11:46 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73359>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Sacha Feinman
> <http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/06/10/3665526/illinois-wealthy-governor-breaking-new-ground-money-politics/>for
> Think Progress on Illinois’s Governor Rauner.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73359&title=%E2%80%9COne%20Governor%E2%80%99s%20Audacious%2C%20Unprecedented%20Effort%20To%20Use%20Personal%20Wealth%20To%20Re-Create%20The%20Legislature%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted incampaign finance
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
>
>
> “Active Avoidance: The Modern Supreme Court and Legal Change”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73357>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 11:36 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73357>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> New article
> <http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/06/active-avoidance-the-modern-supreme-court-and-legal-change/>by
> Neal Katyal and Thomas Schmidt in the Harvard Law Review, witha
> response
> <http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/06/avoiding-constitutional-questions-versus-avoiding-unconstitutionality/>by
> Caleb Nelson.
>
> Here is how Katyal and Schmidt situate their work in relation to other
> recent work on the avoidance canon, including my own:
>
> 1 Others have discussed the use of the avoidance canon in the
> Roberts Court. See Neal Devins, Constitutional Avoidance and the
> Roberts Court, 32 U. DAYTON L. REV. 339 (2007); Richard L. Hasen,
> Constitutional Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance by the Roberts Court,
> 2009 SUP.CT. REV. 181. Professor Neal Devins argues that the
> Roberts Court “need not make extensive use of constitutional
> avoidance,” Devins, supra, at 339, because Congress is “less
> engaged in constitutional matters” and seems less “poised to
> strike back at the Court” than it has been in the past, id. at
> 345. Professor Richard Hasen explores inconsistencies in the
> Roberts Court’s applications of the canon. Professor Richard Re
> has also written a short, incisive piece on the Roberts Court’s
> tendency to signal legal change before actually following through
> with it, and “active avoidance” could be seen as an instance of
> that broader tendency. See Richard M. Re, The Doctrine of One Last
> Chance, 17 GREEN BAG 2D 173, 182 (2014). Our focus is different
> from these prior efforts: we use recent avoidance decisions by the
> Roberts Court to assess and critique the avoidance canon more
> generally.
>
> Share
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> Posted instatutory interpretation
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=21>,Supreme Court
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
>
>
> “New Voting Rights Litigation Summary from CLC Shows Growing Voter
> Dilution and Suppression Efforts Since Supreme Court’s Shelby
> County Decision” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73355>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 11:27 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73355>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Release
> <http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/new-voting-rights-litigation-summary-clc-shows-growing-voter-dilution-and>:
>
> Over the past few years, efforts to dilute and suppress minority
> voting rights or to restrict the vote for partisan gain have
> spiked dramatically. Racially-discriminatory voting laws have
> been passed in states and municipalities across the country,
> particularly in jurisdictions that no longer have to comply with a
> key provision of the Voting Rights Act as a result of the Supreme
> Court’s decision two years ago in/Shelby County v. Holder/.
> Jurisdictions have also passed election restrictions designed to
> benefit one party over the other, often under the guise of
> improving already-efficient election procedures and preventing
> non-existent voter-fraud. The Campaign Legal Center has filed
> suit to challenge a number of those laws and participated in other
> cases across the country.
>
> The Legal Center has released an updatedsummary
> <http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/sites/default/files/Campaign%20Legal%20Center%20Litigation%20Summary_new%20address_May-2015_0.pdf>of
> that litigation to facilitate the tracking of those cases. The
> summary includes a number of the most prominent
> post-/Shelby/cases, though more are out there.
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73355&title=%E2%80%9CNew%20Voting%20Rights%20Litigation%20Summary%20from%20CLC%20Shows%20Growing%20Voter%20Dilution%20and%20Suppression%20Efforts%20Since%20Supreme%20Court%E2%80%99s%20Shelby%20County%20Decision%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted inelection administration
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
>
>
> “The Lobbying Bonanza” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73353>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 9:27 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73353>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Tom Edsall NYT column.
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/opinion/the-lobbying-bonanza.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthomas-b-edsall>
>
> Share
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D73353&title=%E2%80%9CThe%20Lobbying%20Bonanza%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted inlobbying <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
>
>
> “Here’s Jeb Bush’s paperwork to run for president, at long last”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73350>
>
> Posted onJune 10, 2015 8:36 am
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73350>byRick Hasen
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> WaPo reports.
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/09/heres-jeb-bushs-paperwork-to-run-for-president-at-long-last/?postshare=6501433867259371>
>
> It’s amazing. I guess it takes helping your Super PAC try to raise
> $100 million for your campaign and making literally dozens of campaign
> appearances, including in early caucus and primary states, to help
> someone who is not a candidate decide to skip the “testing the waters”
> phase and become a candidate.
>
> You never know though. He’s left himself an escape hatch. “If I run…”
>
> Earlier: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>
>
> Share
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> UC Irvine School of Law
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UC Irvine School of Law
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