[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/24/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Jun 24 08:18:49 PDT 2015


    Slate’s Supreme Court Breakfast Table Has Opened
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73730>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 8:17 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73730>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

It’s themost wonderful time 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_breakfast_table/features/2015/scotus_roundup/supreme_court_2015_king_v_burwell_and_obergefell_v_hodges_could_divide_the.html>of 
the year.

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    Block That Metaphor Dep’t: Rent Seeking Edition
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73728>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 8:13 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73728>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

“We’re not real interested in climbing in bed with the corn lobby to 
accuse the sugar industry of being prostitutes,” he said. “We oppose all 
forms of corporate welfare.”

—James Davis from the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, quoted by 
WaPo, Exclusive: Corn refiners declare war on sugar, conservative groups 
jump onboard 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/06/24/exclusive-corn-growers-declare-war-on-sugar-conservative-groups-jump-onboard/>.

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    More Thoughts on The UpShot’s Piece on Leftward Roberts Court Term
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73725>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 7:41 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73725>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Yesterday I wrote What is theSignificance of the Roberts Court’s 
Relatively Liberal Term <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73696>?, 
responding to NYT The UpShot’sThe Roberts Court’s Surprising Move 
Leftward 
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/23/upshot/the-roberts-courts-surprising-move-leftward.html?abt=0002&abg=1&_r=0>.

Over at Balkinization,Joey Fishkin and Cary Franklin 
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/06/what-was-the-question.html>are much 
more critical, andDavid Strauss 
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/06/what-we-can-learn-from-that-times-graph.html>offers 
a valuable response.

As I told the Times, the same sex marriage and Obamacare cases loom so 
large this term, that public thinking about how “liberal” the Court’s 
term is will be strongly colored by how those decisions come out.

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    “Short Film About Victim of Texas Voter ID Law Shows Why We Need to
    Pass The Voting Rights Advancement Act Being Introduced Today”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73723>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 7:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73723>byRick Hasen 
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Release 
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/short-film-about-victim-texas-voter-id-law-shows-why-we-need-pass-voting-rights>:

    Today, as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)
    introduce the Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA) on the eve of the
    second anniversary of/Shelby County v. Holder,/the Campaign Legal
    Center is releasing ashort film
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8MktrMoCU>focusing on a lifelong
    voter disenfranchised by Texas’ voter photo ID law (SB 14).  The
    most restrictive and burdensome voter ID law in the nation, the
    Texas law was rejected by the Department of Justice prior to
    the/Shelby County/ruling and is a perfect example of why Congress
    needs to pass new legislation to protect the rights of all citizens
    to vote.

    The new three and a half minute film produced by Firelight Media
    traces the efforts of the Campaign Legal Center’s Voter ID Project
    to assist Tony, a longtime registered Texas voter, to overcome the
    many hurdles erected by the new law in order to obtain the photo ID
    required by SB 14 in order to vote.

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    Bipartisan Members of Congress Want Live Audio of #SCOTUS
    Announcements at End of Term <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73721>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 7:30 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73721>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This 
<https://quigley.house.gov/sites/quigley.house.gov/files/Bicameral%20Letter%20to%20Chief%20Justice%20Roberts%20on%20Live%20Audio,%206-23-15.pdf>should 
be a no brainer.

And yet the Court continues to live in the 19th century.

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    Christie “Hiring for Super PAC” in Anticipation of 2016 Bid
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73719>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 4:57 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73719>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Do we have any more laws oncoordination 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/chris-christie-2016-bid-announcement-119354.html>?

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    Quote of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73716>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 4:11 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73716>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

“The fact of the matter is we have a Voting Rights Act; it is very strong.”

–Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chair of House Judiciary 
Committee,explaining his opposition 
<http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/goodlatte-voting-rights-act-remains-strong-without-amendment/article_5bbff2ca-dae2-58ed-9930-f652b9317913.html>to 
an updated Voting Rights Act.

(h/tZack Roth 
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/new-bill-unveiled-restore-voting-rights-act>)

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    Justice Alito’s Odd Failure to Act for Months in Birth Control Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73714>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 3:57 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73714>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lyle Denniston 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/pressing-the-aca-birth-control-issue/#more-229463>:

    The federal government’s top Supreme Court advocatemoved again
    <http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Zubik-SG-second-letter-6-23-15.pdf>on
    Tuesday to make sure that the Justices are keeping up with the
    government’s success in heading off a round of new challenges to the
    birth-control mandate in the Affordable Care Act.  In the second
    letter of its kind, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., sent
    along a copy of a new decision — with the same outcome — this time,
    by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

    Instead of seeking to alert the full Court as he had done on May 21,
    Verrilli asked that this notification go to Justice Samuel A. Alito,
    Jr.  It has been more than two months since Alito, on April 15,
    blocked a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third
    Circuit with what had appeared at the time to be only a temporary
    order.  However, the order remains in effect, unchanged.

    The April 15 order said that the Third Circuit’s ruling would be put
    on hold until the federal government had filed a response to the
    non-profits’ plea for delay.  The government response was due five
    days later.  The order also went on to say that the delay would last
    pending “further order” by him or the full Court.  That kind of
    language ordinarily signals that another order would be coming after
    both sides had offered their views, although there is no guarantee
    of such an additional order.

    Because Alito apparently has not passed the issue along to his
    colleagues, and has taken no action himself, it may be that the
    order will be left in effect until the Court decides whether or not
    to grant review of one of the developing cases on the issue.  In the
    Court’s previous decision on the birth-control controversy, a year
    ago in the case of/Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores/, it dealt only
    with the challenge to the mandate by for-profit businesses owned by
    devoutly religious families. sparing them from having to provide the
    coverage required by the ACA…

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    “Ka-Ching! Sheldon Adelson and Fellow Billionaires Boost Republican
    Senate” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73712>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 3:41 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73712>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports. 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-23/ka-ching-sheldon-adelson-and-fellow-billionaires-boost-republican-senate>

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    “The Constrained Court” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73708>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 2:48 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73708>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

In/Democracy/,//Amanda Hollis-Brusky hasa well-done review 
<http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/the-constrained-court.php>of*Injustices: 
The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting 
the Afflicted <http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781568584560-0>*By Ian 
Millhiser. I don’t agree with all of Amanda’s observations on the Court 
but this is well worth reading.

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    “Judge Strikes Down California’s Ballot Initiative To Kill Gays”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73704>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 2:39 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73704>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BuzzFeed reports 
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/judge-strikes-down-californias-ballot-initiative-to-kill-gay#.wnYQVNybz>.

I haven’t seen any written opinion yet.

I am somewhat surprised given that courts in CA generally do not police 
initiatives for substantive unconstitutionality unless they pass. More 
when I can see an opinion.

UPDATE:

This may be the entire order 
<https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CINbum6UAAAaB7o.png:large>, and it includes 
information that the ballot proponent did not show up in court to defend it.

HERE 
<http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article15394181.html>‘s 
an earlier piece on whether courts can stop substantively 
unconstitutional laws from circulating or appearing on the ballot.

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    Democrats Have Stronger Proposal to Amend Voting Rights Act, But
    Huge Obstacles to Enacting It <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73702>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 2:31 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73702>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ari Berman has the scoop 
<http://www.thenation.com/article/210673/congressional-democrats-introduce-ambitious-new-bill-restore-voting-rights-act>on 
a new “Voting Rights Advancement Act” (not to be confused with the 
earlier “Voting Rights Amendment Act”) to fix what many see are problems 
with the Supreme Court’s gutting of the precelarance provisions two 
years ago in the /Shelby County/case. “The legislation will be formally 
introduced tomorrow by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking 
Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and leaders of the Black 
Caucus, Hispanic Caucus and Asian Pacific American Caucus in the House. 
Civil rights icon Representative John Lewis will be a co-sponsor.”

One key provision would recreate preclearance with a new coverage formula:

    The Voting Rights Advancement Act restores Section 5 of the VRA by
    requiring states with fifteen voting violations over the past
    twenty-five years, or ten violations if one was statewide, to submit
    future election changes for federal approval. This new formula would
    initially cover thirteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona,
    California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York,
    North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. (The VRAA of
    2014 covered only Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.)
    Coverage would last for a ten-year period.

Berman reports the bill will have other significant provisions, 
including nationwide precelarance for certain changes, such as enactment 
of voter id laws or proof of citizenship at registration.

A few reactions.

1. It is hard to blame Democrats for introducing a bill that more 
closely tracks their preferences. The original VRAA was written for 
bipartisan compromise.  (Tellingly, one feature excluded voter id 
objections from the list of objections which could count under a new 
coverage formula).  Democrats have been patient, but Republicans are not 
moving at all on the compromise legislation. So Democrats had little to 
lose putting up a marker.

2. If this bill ever became law, there would be some serious 
constitutional questions about it if it came before the current Supreme 
Court.  Heather Gerken is quoted in the article as saying the timeline 
is better in terms of constitutionality, and I agree. But the fact is 
that many of the older objections were based on conduct that was not 
itself unconstitutional. And so it is not clear that those earlier 
objections could be used to rein in states now with the strong medicine 
of preclearance.  Further, as to the national preclearance standards, 
there would not be an “equal sovereignty” objection (with some states 
being treated differently than others) but there would remain the 
federalism question about state v. federal control over elections. 
  Constitutionality, in short, is uncertain.

3. In terms of dealing with the biggest problems today, they crop up 
everywhere, from Kansas, to Arizona, to Ohio to Pa.  The idea of 
nationwide preclearance of discrete election practices may have more 
impact than those states to be targetted for blanket preclearance.

4. At the very least, with the 50th anniversary of the VRA approaching, 
it is good to see Democrats doing something to keep this issue in the news.

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    Inside the Ben Carson Super PAC <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73700>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 1:23 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73700>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Washington Examiner 
<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/inside-the-super-pacs-putting-ben-carson-on-top/article/2566819>Washington 
Examiner:

    While the super PACs say they do not work together, they may combine
    into one larger super PAC soon. Former Carson campaign chairman
    Terry Giles resigned from the campaign to reportedlyform a third
    super PAC
    <http://www.abc-7.com/story/29343961/presidential-candidates-lean-on-well-funded-outside-groups>that
    would seek to combine both The 2016 Committee and One Voice into one
    operation. Under federal election law, Giles must wait 120 days
    before getting involved in the world of super PACs.

    “I imagine at 120 days and one second my phone’s going to ring and
    it’s going to be Terry saying let’s get together and talk about
    this,” Sousa said. “I’m not going to get rid of my organization, but
    I’m certainly happy to work with other organizations to make sure
    that we’re not duplicating efforts and throwing money away, and it’s
    all well coordinated — or as well-coordinated as the law allows it
    to be.”

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    “Why the FEC’s Deadlock Won’t Change Any Time Soon”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73698>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 1:01 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73698>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Morning Consult reports. 
<http://morningconsult.com/2015/06/why-the-fecs-deadlock-wont-change-any-time-soon/>

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    What’s the Significance of the Roberts Court’s Relatively Liberal
    Term? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73696>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 12:01 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73696>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT’s The UpShotcrunches the numbers 
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/23/upshot/the-roberts-courts-surprising-move-leftward.html?abt=0002&abg=1> and 
find that this term liberal outcomes have prevailed more than in a 
number of years:

    The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has been a
    conservative court. But even conservative courts have liberal terms
    – and the current term is leaning left as it enters its final two weeks.

    The court has issued liberal decisions in 54 percent of the cases in
    which it had announced decisions as of June 22, according tothe
    Supreme Court Database <http://supremecourtdatabase.org/>, using a
    widely accepted standard developed by political scientists. If that
    trend holds, the final percentage could rival the highest since the
    era of the notably liberal court of the 1950s and 1960s led by Chief
    Justice Earl Warren. The closest contenders are the previous term
    and the one that started in 2004 and ended with the announcement of
    Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement.

I think the trend this term is real; indeed I tweeted about 
<https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/611536138507980800?lang=en>itlast 
week 
<https://twitter.com/search?q=liberals%20from%3Arickhasen%20since%3A2015-06-01%20until%3A2015-06-23&src=typd&lang=en>. 
Indeed, if same sex marriage prevails and Obamacare survives unscathed, 
it would really solidify the term as a liberal one. (Though as I told 
the Times, if these cases came out the other way no one would think of 
the term as liberal at all).

Nonetheless, this doesn’t mean we have a liberal Court or that liberal 
trend will continue.  But here are some thoughts on the phenomenon and 
significance:

1. /Case selection. /AsCass Sunstein noted 
<https://twitter.com/CassSunstein/status/613305321772163072>, 
“Discussion of supposed leftward shift of Sup Ct does not control for 
selection effects – case mix is not constant.”  It is not just that the 
Court gets to deny cert in cases, and avoid certain issues such as 
abortion cases or affirmative action, much of it is the luck of the draw 
in terms of what cases make it up to the Court.  And litigants 
self-select.  For a long time liberals have wanted to stay out of the 
Court in many classes of cases (e.g., voting rights or campaign finance 
cases) because they know where five votes are.

2. /Counting just opinions. /Thinking of the Supreme Court allowing 
Texas to use its draconian voter id law during the 2014 election seems 
like a pretty “conservative decision.” But because it happened on an 
emergency stay, it did not lead to a formal opinion that counts in The 
UpShot’s numbers.  Nor will decisions on abortion clinics.  Some of what 
the Court does is not reflected in opinions.

3. /All cases not created equal, and all Justices are not equal. /A few 
years ago the Court gutted the Voting Rights Act on one day and then the 
next day took a great step toward recognizing same sex marriage. Those 
cases loomed over the entire term.  And of course there was only one 
Justice in the majority in both cases: Kennedy. They reflected Kennedy’s 
views, which are conservative/libertarian but with streaks of liberalism 
in isolated areas.

So yes it is true that the term is trending liberal. And that’s a good 
thing if you are a liberal. But don’t expect the Court to stay this way, 
not even into next term (or next week).

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    “Setting Congress Up to Fail” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73694>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 11:43 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73694>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Margaret Kwonka has postedthis 
draft<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2619421>on SSRN 
(forthcoming 17 Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Pol’y 97 (2015)).  Here is the 
abstract:

    In/Shelby County v. Holder/the Supreme Court invalidated key
    provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 based on Congress’s
    failure to justify the formula used to determine which jurisdictions
    would be subject to the Act’s pre-clearance requirement of
    submitting all changes to voting procedures to the Justice
    Department for prior approval. This short essay explores one
    problematic feature of the Court’s analysis: its refusal to consider
    the legislative record as adequate because it was created to justify
    the coverage formula after the fact, rather than to facilitate
    deliberation on the coverage formula before a decision had been
    made. This reasoning essentially imports from administrative law a
    rule called the Chenery principle, and as this essay explains, it
    does so without justification. The differences between
    administrative and legislative decision making processes compel
    different treatment by the courts, and treating legislative records
    like administrative ones, in essence, asks of Congress something it
    is institutionally ill-equipped to perform. It sets Congress up to fail.

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    “McAuliffe says unpaid court fees won’t impede rights restoration”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73692>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 11:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73692>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/mcauliffe-says-unpaid-court-fees-won-t-impede-rights-restoration/article_acd1c996-19bc-11e5-9293-af1b99a26e66.html>from 
Va.

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    “Can unlimited contributions to political parties really reduce
    polarization?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73689>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 11:32 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73689>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lee Drutman is skeptical. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/06/23/can-unlimited-contributions-to-political-parties-really-reduce-polarization/>

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parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,political polarization 
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    “The More Things Change: Everyone Scrambles as North Carolina
    Rethinks Voter ID (Again)” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73687>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 11:27 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73687>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinBlog. 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2015/06/the_more_things_change_north_c.php>

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


    “Daniel Weiser, activist and political numbers guru, dies at 81″
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73685>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 11:26 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73685>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Dallas Morning News: 
<http://www.dallasnews.com/obituary-headlines/20150622-daniel-weiser-activist-and-political-numbers-guru-dies-at-81.ece>

    Daniel Weiser is arguably the most powerful Dallas political figure
    who never sought elected office.

    A statistician, he was a leader in ending the poll tax and bringing
    single-member districts to city and county and state elections. In
    1973, he took his Texas redistricting argument to the U.S. Supreme
    Court and won.

    He helped clear a path to public office for minorities, women and gays.

    During his 55 years in politics he became a respected and
    sought-after authority on voter demographics.

    Weiser, 81, died Saturday of heart disease at Medical City Dallas
    Hospital.

Condolences to his family.

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    “CFI Announces Updated Historical Campaign Finance Statistics
    through 2014″ <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73682>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 8:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73682>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Via email:

    Now available on CFI’s website
    <http://www.cfinst.org/data/historicalStats.aspx> are updated
    versions of tables covering historical statistics on campaign
    finance through 2014. These cover activity for full federal election
    cycles, in some cases dating back to 1974. Newly added this year are
    duplicate versions in nominal dollars and constant 2014 dollars. A
    sampling of the topics covered includes:

      * Spending levels in House and Senate elections, including how
        much it takes to win;
      * House and Senate spending by elections by competitiveness and
        type of race (incumbent/challenger, open seat);
      * Sources of funding for House and Senate races, including small
        v. large donors;
      * Independent and coordinated spending by political parties;
      * Independent spending by non-party organizations;
      * National Party Committee fundraising and sources of party funds;
      * Presidential election campaigns;

    For the full list of data tables click here.
    <http://www.cfinst.org/data/historicalStats.aspx>

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    Carly the Destroyer <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73680>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 8:26 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73680>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Shane Goldmacher 
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/carly-fiorina-2016-campaign-super-pac-outsourcer-in-chief-20150619>on 
Fiorina being the biggest outsourcer of campaign functions to her superpac.

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    Bauer on #SCOTUS Renzi Petition and Congressional Self-Policing
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73678>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 8:25 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73678>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

interesting. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/06/congressional-ethics-court/>

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Posted inethics investigations 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=42>,Speech or Debate Clause 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=36>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>


    “130 Lawmakers Call on President to Require Transparency in
    Political Spending” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73676>

Posted onJune 23, 2015 8:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73676>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Public Citizen press release. 
<http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=5562>

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