[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/22/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Sun Jun 21 21:08:33 PDT 2015


    Will #SCOTUS Hear Renzi “Speech or Debate” Case, Impacting Federal
    Case of Congressional Corruption, Next Term?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73655>

Posted onJune 21, 2015 8:35 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73655>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Courtmay not decide 
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/14-1082.htm>what 
to do with this case before the end of this term, butRenzi v. U.S 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/renzi-v-united-states-2/>. 
presents a meaty Speech or Debate clause issue, andthe amicus brief of 
Stanley 
Brand<http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/14-1082-tsac-Brand-et-al.pdf>et 
al. makes a compelling argument for the Court to take the case. Here is 
the question presented:

    (1) Whether legislative fact-finding by an individual Member of
    Congress is a legislative act protected by the Speech or Debate
    Clause; (2) whether a Member of Congress’ official actions to
    develop, evaluate, and draft legislation that are undertaken prior
    to the formal introduction of a bill are legislative acts protected
    by the Speech or Debate Clause; and (3) whether a Member of Congress
    can waive the protections of the Speech or Debate Clause only by
    explicitly and unequivocally renouncing them.

At stake is how much the Speech or Debate clause limits prosecutions of 
members of Congress for corrupt dealings by limiting proof of corruption 
based on legislative acts.

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    “Lobbyists: Easy target, easy touch; Presidential candidates assail
    lobbyists but also willingly take cash from them”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73653>

Posted onJune 21, 2015 4:28 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73653>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/lobbyists-easy-target-easy-touch-119263.html>:

    Bush, whose closest advisers in recent months — including Mike
    Murphy and Al Cardenas — have worked for lobbying firms, isn’t alone
    in criticizing the industry. As presidential candidates look to
    portray themselves as Washington outsiders, the lobbying industry
    has emerged as a common, easy target.

    Lobbying consistently ranks at the bottom of Gallup’s survey of the
    most honest and ethical professions, highlighting voters’ distaste
    for the industry. But lobbying firms rank high on the list of
    fundraising stops for presidential hopefuls. Earlier this year, Bush
    headlined fundraisers at lobby shop BGR Group and at the Washington
    offices of trade group National Association of
    Wholesaler-Distributors. In May, several lobbyists hosted a “Mojitos
    with Marco” fundraiser for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, and Wisconsin
    Gov. Scott Walker courted K Street donors at an event organized by
    the American Beverage Association’s Kevin Keane and BGR Group’s Bob
    Wood.

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    “Influence of Money in Politics a Top Concern for Voters”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73651>

Posted onJune 21, 2015 4:18 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73651>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WSJ Wash. Wire 
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/06/21/influence-of-money-in-politics-a-top-concern-for-voters/>:

    Americans express far more alarm about the influence of money in
    politics than the fact that another Bush and Clinton are running for
    the White House, a newWall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds
    <http://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-2016-hopefuls-carly-fiorina-ben-carson-mike-huckabee-gain-ground-in-wsj-nbc-news-poll-1434891601>.

    Asked to rank their top concerns about the upcoming presidential
    election, one-third of Americans pointed to the sway that companies
    and wealthy individuals may have over the outcome, more than for any
    of five other issues tested.

    Democrats were most likely to cite the influence of corporations and
    wealthy individuals as the top concern, with roughly half of
    self-described liberals and Democratic primary voters ranking it as
    their primary anxiety as the 2016 White House race gears up. Only
    21% of core Republican voters said it was their top concern.

    Republicans, meanwhile, are more worried about the tone of the
    campaign, with a plurality of 37% saying they worry most about the
    emphasis on negative advertising at the expense of more substantive
    policy debates. The influence of wealthy donors was the primary
    concern for independents, according to the survey, conducted June 14-18.

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    “What’s the Matter with Polling?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73649>

Posted onJune 21, 2015 4:16 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73649>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Cliff Zukin NYT oped 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/whats-the-matter-with-polling.html?ref=opinion> concludes:

    We are less sure how to conduct good survey research now than we
    were four years ago, and much less than eight years ago. And don’t
    look for too much help in what the polling aggregation sites may be
    offering. They, too, have been falling further off the track of
    late. It’s not their fault. They are only as good as the raw
    material they have to work with.

    In short, polls and pollsters are going to be less reliable. We may
    not even know when we’re off base. What this means for 2016 is
    anybody’s guess.

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    “Republicans lag behind on voter information”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73647>

Posted onJune 21, 2015 4:13 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73647>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT 
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-republicans-voter-data-20150618-story.html>:

    The Republican National Committee’s plans for the 2014 midterm
    election went far beyond taking control of Congress: They were to
    put in motion a massive technology push aimed at capturing the White
    House in 2016.

    The party vowed to catch up with — even leapfrog over — the Internet
    wizards who helped orchestrate Barack Obama’s victories.

    The blueprint called for a nationally synchronized technology
    platform to collect every piece of information obtained about voters
    by every Republican running for office, whether for city council or
    the U.S. Senate. The eventual presidential nominee would be endowed
    with reams of real-time data that could be used to target voters
    with unprecedented efficiency and precision.

    The honest truth is Democrats are ahead of Republicans because of
    their fundamental belief in the collective.– Vincent Harris, digital
    director, Mitch McConnell reelection campaign

    But that promised innovation has run into the head winds of contract
    disputes, suspicions about data firms’ political loyalties and
    friction with the tea party. Voter information is being collected
    out in the field by a jumble of firms not always working in concert.
    Among them is a Koch brothers-funded outfit that one day could
    eclipse the national GOP’s.

    As a result, Republicans are heading toward 2016 with that crucial
    data being collected in systems that don’t communicate seamlessly,
    experts say — and may not by election day.

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    Former LA Supervisor Yaroslavsky Favors Unlimited Contributions to
    Candidates <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73645>

Posted onJune 20, 2015 1:51 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73645>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT oped 
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-yaroslavsky-fixing-government-20150621-story.html#page=1>:

    Neither the Supreme Court nor Congress is likely to change course
    anytime soon. In the meantime, something needs to be done.

    Public financing of campaigns, something I didn’t always embrace,
    has clearly made a difference in Los Angeles city elections. It has
    given candidates who couldn’t self-fund, or couldn’t count on
    special interests to fund an “independent expenditure” campaign on
    their behalf, a chance to be heard. To broaden that opportunity,
    local jurisdictions should institute or expand public financing laws
    as much as their treasuries will allow.

    However, there aren’t enough funds in any city budget to completely
    level the playing field against special-interest campaigns. In Los
    Angeles alone, it would take tens of millions of dollars per
    election to adequately fund community candidates.

    So as long as Citizens United and its analogs are in force,
    fundraising limits on candidate-controlled committees should be
    lifted to give independent-minded or community-based candidates a
    credible chance to win.

    It is patently unfair for a candidate to be strictly limited in the
    amount he or she can raise from a supporter, while his opponent can
    benefit from massive, unlimited expenditures on his or her behalf. A
    community-based candidate does not have to match the spending of his
    better-funded opponent dollar for dollar, but he needs to have a
    sufficient war chest to be heard in the electoral competition.

Ugh.

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    Emily Bazelon NYT Mag Piece on Judges Changing Their Minds Talks
    Posner and Stevens on Voter ID <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73643>

Posted onJune 20, 2015 1:38 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73643>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fascinating piece called Better Judgment: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/magazine/better-judgment.html>

    Posner’s attention to consequences can lead him, like other
    empirically minded judges, to change his thinking. Eight years ago
    inCrawford v. Marion County Election Board
    <http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit/1256297.html>, an early
    challenge to a state law requiring voters to show photo
    identification at the polls, Posner ruled in favor of Indiana’s
    voter-ID law, in part because none of the plaintiffs who challenged
    it said that the law would prevent them from voting. Dissenting from
    Posner’s ruling, one of his colleagues said that Indiana, too,
    lacked evidence of the existence of voter fraud, which the law was
    ostensibly intended to combat. It was clear enough, the colleague
    wrote, that thousands of poor and elderly voters would be
    disenfranchised.

    Six years later, in “Reflections on Judging
    <http://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Judging-Richard-A-Posner/dp/0674725085>,”
    a recent book (he has written roughly 45), Posner criticized his
    original ruling. “I plead guilty to having written the majority
    opinion,” he wrote, upholding “a type of law now widely regarded as
    a means of voter suppression rather than of fraud prevention.”

    Commentators pounced: A New York Times headline trumpeted “The
    Debate Over Judge Posner’s Unforced Error
    <http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/judge-posner-regrets-the-error/>,”
    and The Washington Post ran a column titled, “Judge Posner’s Mea
    Culpa Was Better Left Unsaid
    <http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-judge-richard-posners-mea-culpa-was-better-left-unsaid/2013/10/21/35e1dd3e-3a71-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html>.”
    The lesson was clear: It’s safer for judges not to admit misgivings.

    But Posner said he had simply acknowledged that judges sometimes
    don’t understand a subject well enough to “gauge the consequences of
    their decisions.” With more evidence about the results of requiring
    voter ID, it made sense to him to shift his position. Last year,
    Posner’s court heard a challenge to another voter-ID law in
    Wisconsin. Researching online, Posner found charts showing that
    strict voter-ID requirements have been enacted only in states
    controlled by Republicans. After a panel of three judges on his
    court upheld Wisconsin’s law, Posner urged the court as a whole to
    rehear the case. This time he wrote that the “net effect of such
    requirements is to impede voting by people easily discouraged from
    voting, most of whom probably lean Democratic.” Posner lost the
    argument; the panel decision was upheld and Wisconsin’s law stood.

    Even the architect of the Supreme Court’s voter-ID decision has had
    a change of heart. In 2008, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the
    majority opinionaffirming
    <https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-21.ZO.html>Posner’s
    Indiana ruling by a vote of 6 to 3. But he, too, has since decided
    that the dissenting judges got it right about the consequences of
    the decision. It’s “unfortunate,” Stevens told me by phone recently,
    that his opinion in Crawford has prompted other states to pass
    voter-ID requirements.

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    Civitas Very Unhappy with Voter ID Changes in NC
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73641>

Posted onJune 20, 2015 1:31 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73641>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News and Observer: 
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article24877873.html>

Thursday’s change to the rule brought lukewarm support from opponents of 
voter ID laws and quick criticism from advocates.

    “It’s a shame to lose a court case without ever walking into court,”
    said Francis De Luca, president of the Civitas Institute, a
    conservative organization that lobbied for voter ID rules.

    The Rev. William J. Barber II, the head of the state NAACP who was
    arrested on Wednesday while protesting the N.C. voting laws at the
    N.C. General Assembly, said Thursday “the bill is still bad and
    racially disparate.”

    …Susan Myrick, elections policy analyst for Civitas Institute, said
    Thursday that she was caught off guard by the Senate vote.

    “To say the least, we were surprised,” Myrick said. The provisional
    ballot addition, she said, “guts” the ID rule. “It demolishes it,”
    Myrick said. “There’s no voter ID in North Carolina. It’s over.”

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    Arizona’s Politics: Seth Waxman Represented AZ Redistricting
    Commission Pro Bono at #SCOTUS <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73639>

Posted onJune 19, 2015 1:38 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73639>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here. 
<http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2015/06/update-arizona-taxpayers-bill-for-post.html>

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    Renzi Speech or Debate Clause Case Relisted at #SCOTUS
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73637>

Posted onJune 19, 2015 12:23 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73637>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

John Elwood <http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/relist-watch-67/>:

    The other two rescheduled cases involve theSpeech or Debate Clause
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_or_Debate_Clause>of the
    Constitution. The first petitioner is former Representative Richard
    Renzi, who was charged with extorting private investors to buy land
    owned by his friend and business partner in exchange for a promise
    to support federal land-exchange legislation. In anoutstanding
    <https://www.mayerbrown.com/people/Dan-Himmelfarb/>petition filed
    in/Renzi v. United States/
    <http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/renzi-v-united-states-2/>,14-1082
    <http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/14-1082.htm>,
    Renzi asks whether the Speech or Debate Clause protects (1)
    legislative fact-finding by a member of Congress and (2) the actions
    of a member of Congress in developing, evaluating and drafting
    legislation prior to the formal introduction of a bill. Renzi also
    asks (3) whether a member of Congress can waive the protections of
    the Speech or Debate Clause only by explicitly and unequivocally
    renouncing them. His co-defendant, James W. Sandlin, a private
    citizen, argues in/Sandlin v. United States/,14-1083
    <http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/14-1083.htm>,
    that he should benefit if Renzi wins as they were tried together
    using the same evidence.

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    “With Lawsuit Looming, North Carolina Scrambles To Loosen Voter ID
    Rules” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73635>

Posted onJune 19, 2015 11:40 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73635>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Think Progress: 
<http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/06/19/3671820/lawsuit-looming-north-carolina-scrambles-pass-bill-loosen-voter-id-rules/>

    “We are pleased that the legislature has taken steps to make North
    Carolina’s voter ID requirement less onerous than originally
    designed, said Bob Phillips withCommon Cause North Carolina
    <http://www.commoncause.org/states/north-carolina/news/common-cause-nc-responds-to.html>,
    while noting that he and others are “still deeply concerned about
    voting barriers created by the sweeping 2013 elections overhaul.”

    On July 13, voting rights advocates led by the NAACP will argue
    before a court in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that the
    lawunconstitutionally burdens
    <http://www.advancementproject.org/pages/north-carolina-vpp>voters
    of color and low income voters, whodisproportionately lack
    <http://www.democracy-nc.org/downloads/SBOEDataNoIDApril2013PR.pdf>the
    required forms of ID. They also plan to hold amarch and rally
    <https://www.facebook.com/events/777444422371133/>under the banner
    “This is our Selma” — linking their current struggle to
    thedemonstrations in 1965
    <http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/03/08/3631261/meet-selma-foot-soldiers-still-marching-today/>that
    led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

    Arguing that race-based voter suppression is not a thing of the
    past, the plaintiffs are citing anew investigation
    <http://democracy-nc.org/downloads/SilencedVoterAlarm.pdf>by the
    organization Democracy North Carolina found that the state’s
    restrictions depressed voter turnout by at least 30,000 North
    Carolinians in the 2014 midterm elections. They also found that
    Africans Americans were more likely to be given a provisional
    ballot, thousands of which were rejected and not counted.

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    “Make Your Laws” Resubmits Ravel-Weintraub FEC Petititon
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73633>

Posted onJune 19, 2015 11:17 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73633>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. <https://www.makeyourlaws.org/fec/ravel_weintraub>

I think this moots the question whether Ellen Weintraub is a “person,” 
though I was looking forward to her incorporating as Weintraub Inc.

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    “Various New York Politics Blogs Publish Misleading Information
    about Bernie Sanders’ Ability to be on New York Democratic
    Presidential Primary Ballot” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73631>

Posted onJune 19, 2015 9:45 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73631>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BAN: 
<http://ballot-access.org/2015/06/19/various-new-york-politics-blogs-publish-misleading-information-about-bernie-sanders-ability-to-be-on-new-york-democratic-presidential-primary-ballot/>

    Several New York politics blogs and publications have recently said
    that Bernie Sanders is in danger of being kept off the New York
    presidential primary ballot because he is not a Democrat and the
    Democratic Party has the power to keep non-members off its
    prseidential primary ballot. Here isthe article in Power Line
    <http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/06/all-we-are-saying-is-give-bernie-a-chance.php>;
    here is thearticle in Gothamist
    <http://gothamist.com/2015/06/18/bernie_sanders_new_york.php>.Here
    is the CapitalNew York story
    <http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/05/8568985/sanders-could-face-ny-primary-ballot-struggle>.

    The articles are incorrect. The Wilson-Pakula law does not pertain
    to presidential primaries. The Wilson-Pakula law, sec. 6-120, does
    keep non-members off the primary ballots of parties (unless party
    committees approve letting them on), but it only relates to offices
    for which nominations are made. No state’s presidential primary
    nominates a major party’s presidential candidate. Only the party’s
    national conventions do that. The candidates in New York Democratic
    presidential primaries are individuals running for Delegate to the
    national convention.

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    “GOP’s House and Senate super PACs step up sales pitch”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73629>

Posted onJune 19, 2015 8:59 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73629>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico 
<http://gop%27s%20house%20and%20senate%20super%20pacs%20step%20up%20sales%20pitc%20%20read%20more:%20http//www.politico.com/story/2015/06/gops-house-and-senate-super-pacs-step-up-sales-pitch-119181.html#ixzz3dWZBAg17>:

    The primary Senate and House Republican super PACs are joining
    forces in a major campaign to get Big Business to open its checkbook
    to the party.

    The message isn’t subtle: the left is shelling out tens of millions
    of dollars to pummel Republicans and it’s time for corporate America
    to fund a counteroffensive.

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    “The 2014 Term & the First Amendment — Surprising twists & turns”
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Posted onJune 19, 2015 8:31 am 
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Read Ron Collins 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/the-2014-term-the-first-amendment-surprising-twists-turns/>at 
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    “All We are Saying is Give Bernie a Chance!”
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Posted onJune 19, 2015 8:12 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73625>byRick Hasen 
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Steve Hayward 
<http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/06/all-we-are-saying-is-give-bernie-a-chance.php>on 
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