[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/18/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Mar 18 07:50:34 PDT 2015


    “Would Automatic Voter Registration Increase Turnout?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71084>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:48 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71084>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NPR reports. 
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/03/18/393645667/would-automatic-voter-registration-increase-turnout>

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    “Rep. Aaron Schock announces resignation in wake of spending probe”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71082>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:46 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71082>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Wapo reports. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/03/17/rep-aaron-schock-plans-to-resign-in-wake-of-spending-probe/>

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    “Bibi Deploys the Southern Strategy”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71080>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:45 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71080>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jeffrey Goldberg 
<http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/bibi-deploys-the-southern-strategy/388096/>:

    The now-and-apparently-forever prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
    ought to be proud of his country’s record of enfranchisement. He
    should be happy that Arabs vote in large numbers, just as Jews vote
    in large numbers. But Netanyahu was not happy yesterday when he saw
    Arabs heading to the polls. He said, in a message distributed on
    social media and meant for his base, “Right-wing rule is in danger.
    Arab voters are streaming in huge quantities to the polling stations.”

    It is often said (by me, among others) that Netanyahu would do very
    well as a Republican candidate for governor or senator in America.
    In the past, I imagined him fitting in with the fiscally
    conservative, rhetorically responsible, socially tolerant,
    foreign-policy hawkish wing of the party. What I didn’t fully
    understand was just how much of Lee Atwater he had in him. Atwater,
    you’ll remember, was the South Carolina Republican operative who was
    one of the prime innovators of racial dog-whistling, an approach
    used by a good number of Republicans to instill fear in white voters.

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    “The Debate Over Voter ID Continues”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71078>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:42 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71078>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News from Nevada. 
<http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/The-Debate-over-Voter-ID-Continues-296684711.html>

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    Brennan Center, Volokh File Brief in Employee Candidate Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71076>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:35 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71076>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Case page 
<https://www.brennancenter.org/legal-work/lawson-v-union-county-clerk-court>:

    In this brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit,
    the Brennan Center argues that firing a government employee merely
    for running for office not only violates her First Amendment rights
    but also undermines everyone’s interest in fostering competition,
    opportunity, and participation in democratic elections.

    On March 16, 2015, the Brennan Center for Justice, along with Common
    Cause and the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment, filed
    anamicus brief
    <https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work/Lawson%20BC%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf>authored
    byEugene Volokh
    <http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/>, Gary T.
    Schwartz Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, in/Lawson v. Union
    County Clerk of Court/. The brief supports Melanie Lawson, the
    plaintiff-appellant, in her appeal of the lower court’s decision
    upholding her termination.

    Lawson, while on leave from her job as a deputy clerk of court in
    Union County, S.C., in 2012 had run for office to replace her boss,
    the county clerk of court. She campaigned on the message that her 20
    years of experience working in the clerk’s office would make her an
    effective clerk of court.  She lost the election and then was fired
    from her job.

    The right of public employees under the First Amendment to be
    protected from retaliation for their personal political activity is
    well established. There is a narrow exception for employees whose
    jobs entail policymaking that requires political allegiance to
    leadership; but, the brief argues, Lawson’s role did not fit that
    exception. She performed strictly administrative tasks—collecting
    receipts, managing dockets, publishing judges’ orders, tracking
    data—for the county’s family court. Nor was there any evidence that
    Lawson’s candidacy disrupted the functioning of the clerk’s office.

    The district court erroneously ruled that Lawson’s administrative
    job did require political allegiance to her boss and that her
    candidacy therefore was not protected by the First Amendment, the
    Brennan Center and fellow amici contend. This ruling “does not
    merely limit Lawson’s First Amendment rights; it also shrinks
    political opportunity and chills democratic participation on a wider
    scale,” the brief argues. Amici are calling on the Fourth Circuit to
    reverse the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina:

    The district court’s holding lets the government unjustifiably deter
    some of the most qualified people from running for
    office—experienced government workers with the expertise and
    credibility to offer voters viable alternatives to incumbents. By
    allowing incumbents to threaten such would-be candidates with job
    loss, the district court’s holding effectively excludes the most
    qualified newcomers from the political process and costs citizens
    the accountability, efficiency, and opportunity that arise when
    incumbents face viable competition for election.

    The Brennan Center’s brief is availablehere
    <https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work/Lawson%20BC%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf>.

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    “Wisconsin Supreme Court Urged to Affirm Constitutionality of State
    Restrictions on Coordinated Spending in John Doe Case”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71074>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:32 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71074>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Release 
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/wisconsin-supreme-court-urged-affirm-constitutionality-state-restrictions-0>:

    Today, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, Common
    Cause in Wisconsin and the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin,
    submitted an/amici/brief
    <http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/sites/default/files/CLC%20amici%20brief.FINAL_.signed.pdf>to
    the Wisconsin Supreme Court, to be filed upon leave of the court,
    in/Three Unnamed Petitioners v. Peterson/.  The brief urges the
    court to find Wisconsin’s restrictions on the coordination of
    expenditures between candidates and outside groups constitutional. 
    The consolidated case centers around a challenge to a so-called John
    Doe investigation of alleged illegal coordination between the
    campaign of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and outside groups. 
    That investigation has been halted until various challenges are
    resolved.

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    Floyd Abrams Speech on First Amendment Discusses McCutcheon,
    Citizens United <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71072>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:31 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71072>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Via Concurring Opinions 
<http://concurringopinions.com/archives/2015/03/guest-contributor-floyd-abrams-liberty-is-liberty.html>:

    You may agree or disagree with the positions we took or the clients
    for whom we took them. But one thing is common to all of the
    examples I have just cited to you. No one in any of these matters —
    not any opponent, not any judge, no one — said anything to the
    effect that since our client was a corporation that it had no First
    Amendment rights and should not be heard to say that those rights
    had been violated. I do not exaggerate when I say that if anyone had
    said that in court, he or she would have been laughed out of it.

    Yet much of the debate about the/Citizens United/case sounds as
    if it was shocking for the Supreme Court to have held that
    corporations receive First Amendment protection at all. The opinion
    for the Court, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, cited 25 cases,
    including ones involving for-profit non-media corporations, in which
    First Amendment protection had been afforded to corporations. Even
    Justice John Paul Stevens’ dissenting opinion said that “[w]e have
    long since held that corporations are covered by the First
    Amendment.” Yet listen to a different part of Justice Stevens’
    opinion in which he states that “corporations have no consciences,
    no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires” – as if that wiped
    out all those First Amendment cases.  Or to Senator Elizabeth
    Warren,instructing
    <http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1142915/47879134#c60>us that
    “corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids,
    they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they
    love and they die.” All true and yet all unresponsive to why the
    First Amendment, as it has so often been held to do, should not be
    held to protect the speech of corporations as well as “real” people.
    Or of New York University Law Professor Burt Neuborne writing that
    unlike corporations, human beings “die, do not enjoy economic
    advantages like limited liability, and, most important, have a
    conscience that sometimes transcends crude economic self-interest.”
    These differences, Professor Neuborneargued
    <http://slinkingtowardretirement.com/?p=20421>, “raise a threshold
    question . . . about whether corporations are even in the First
    Amendment ballpark.”

    It is worth pondering about what a different nation we would live in
    if the answer to that question were a negative one. All the examples
    I cited a moment ago would become moot. Gone, then, would have been
    even the possibility of full free speech protections for the various
    entities that I mentioned a moment ago – for Barnes & Noble seeking
    to protect the confidentiality of the purchasers of its books, for
    the Brooklyn museum which wished to choose its own art regardless of
    the artistic taste of the Mayor, for the motion picture company not
    wanting to be charged with a crime for including an essential
    sexually oriented scene in a movie about the relationship between an
    older woman and teen aged boy, for colleges and universities seeking
    to be free to engage in affirmative action, and for corporations
    that are ordered by the Federal government to include language on
    their lawfully sold products that is drafted to persuade the public
    not to purchase them. The same would be true of your university —
    also a corporation — if it concluded that its First Amendment
    freedoms were at risk.

    So for me, at least that part – that foundational part of
    the/Citizens United/case – should have been easy. But it isn’t.
    Nothing is, in the First Amendment area, these days because
    differences about what the First Amendment is about have become so
    vast. Let me offer one example of a post-/Citizens United/case in
    which those differences were spelled out with particular brio by
    members of the Supreme Court. It is the recent/McCutcheon/
    <http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=12-536>case,
    which struck down a cap on the total amount of contributions an
    individual may make to candidates (while leaving in effect the
    limits Congress had set on a candidate by candidate basis).

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    “Campaign seeks to pave way for independents in debates”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71070>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71070>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CNN <http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/17/politics/presidential-debate-changes/>:

    A group of influential political scientists, current and former
    elected officials and activists are challenging a decade-old rule
    that they say prevents independents from engaging in presidential
    debates — and, in turn, effectively keeps them out of the contest
    entirely.

    The campaign, dubbed “Change the Rule,” is aimed at convincing the
    Commission on Presidential Debates to change the standard it uses
    for third-party candidates to qualify for the debates.

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    “San Francisco Ethics Commission Announces the Release of New Report
    on Campaigns and Lobbying in San Francisco in 2014″
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71068>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:26 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71068>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release 
<http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2015/03/press-release-march-17-2015-san-francisco-ethics-commission-announces-the-release-of-new-report-on-c.html>.

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    Three Amicus Briefs Filed in 5th Circuit in Texas Voter ID Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71066>

Posted onMarch 18, 2015 7:20 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71066>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Via Moritz:

  * AARP’s Amicus Curiae Brief
    <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey100.pdf>PDF
    <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey85.pdf>(filed
    3/10/15)
  * ACLU’s Amicus Curiae
    Brief<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey101.pdf>PDF
    <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey85.pdf>(filed
    3/10/15)
  * Texas
    Election<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey103.pdf>Administrator’
    <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey103.pdf>sAmicus
    Curiae
    Brief<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey103.pdf>PDF
    <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey85.pdf>(filed
    3/10/15)

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    “Will Hillary Clinton Invade GOP Primary?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71064>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 1:30 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71064>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Frank Wilkinson 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-17/how-soon-will-hillary-clinton-attack-jeb-bush->: 
“Hillary Clinton won’t have a truly competitive Democratic primary for 
president. So in her spare time, she might instead opt to meddle in the 
high-stakes Republican primary.”

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    “Billionaires Alter 2016 Playing Field”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71062>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 1:27 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71062>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jeanne Cummings 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-17/billionaires-poised-to-alter-2016-playing-field-jeanne-cummings-i7dbncym>for 
Bloomberg View.

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    “Daschle to Register With DOJ as Lobbyist for Foreign Client”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71060>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 1:26 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71060>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BLT reports. 
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/id=1202720663052/Daschle-to-Register-With-DOJ-as-Lobbyist-for-Foreign-Client?slreturn=20150217162615#ixzz3Udnbs3CP>

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    “Donors to Tax-Exempts Often Give Super-Sized Amounts”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71058>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 1:25 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71058>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tax Notes Today reports. 
<http://services.taxanalysts.com/taxbase/tnt3.nsf/%28Number/2015+TNT+51-2?OpenDocument&Login>

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    “Want More Voters? Abolish Registration”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71056>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 9:46 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71056>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Frank Barry 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-17/want-more-voters-abolish-registration>for 
Bloomberg View.

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    Here’s a New Vote Buying Scheme: “Get Out of Hell Free” Cards
    (Israel elections) <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71054>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 9:19 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71054>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Failed Messiah: 
<http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2015/03/alleged-voter-fraud-in-haredi-arab-israeli-polling-stations-345.html>

    The Shas Party ispromising voters
    <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192764#.VQhDMmZk90E>who
    vote for Shas “a pidyon hanefesh” (redemption of their soul;
    essentially a “get out of hell free” card) to be given by top Shas
    Party rabbis in exchange for the voter’s vote for Shas. That ad
    reportedly features the slogan, “those who choose Shas go straight
    to heaven.” This ad was ruled to be illegal – no surprise because
    similar Shas Party ads and promises have been ruled illegal in
    previous elections. But because the penalty for cheating is so
    small, Shas keeps breaking the law with near impunity. Shas
    reportedly expressed “sorrow” over the the CEC’s ruling against the
    ad and said that “kissing mezuzahs and wearing amulets is an
    integral part of the tradition of most Israeli citizens…we are proud
    of our traditions and reject suppression and incitement.” This
    despite the fact that amulets given in exchange for voting for a
    political party have repeatedly over many years been ruled to be
    illegal.

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    “The New Normal in Election and Political Law”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71051>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 9:06 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71051>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Announcement via email:

    The Yale Law and Political Society and Yale Law & Policy Review
    arehosting a conference
    <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Yale-Election-Law-Conference-Schedule.docx>on
    Saturday, April 11 at Yale Law School (127 Wall St., New Haven, CT
    06520). The conference will explore the current state of political
    and electoral legal practice, with an eye to generating new ideas
    for research and advocacy. Election and political law have undergone
    radical changes in the past five years. The Supreme Court’s recent
    decisions in /Citizens/ /United v. FEC/, /McCutcheon v. FEC/, and
    /Shelby//County//v. Holder/ have systematically reshaped our
    campaign finance and voting rights regimes. We can expect these
    changes in the law to have significant, long-term effects on
    electoral politics. Yet most analyses have focused on these
    decisions’ individual impacts rather than their collective
    consequences on our political system. Our conference will bring
    together election administrators, litigators, campaign
    practitioners, and academics to take comprehensive stock of the
    state of our electoral regime, uncover opportunities for new
    scholarship, and discuss likely directions for future campaign
    practice.

    Conference speakers include Robert Bauer, Jennifer Brown, Benjamin
    Ginsberg, J. Gerald Hebert, Jennifer Heerwig, Dale Ho, Donald
    McGahn, Nina Perales, Gary Poser, Robert Post, Ann Ravel, Neil
    Reiff, Paul Ryan, Katherine Shaw, and Ace Smith.

    The conference is free for Yale University and New Haven community
    members. For non-Yale students, the conference fee is $15. For
    everyone else (general conference attendees), the fee is $30. Please
    register here: www.law.yale.edu/electionlawconference2015
    <http://www.law.yale.edu/electionlawconference2015>.

    If you have any questions, please
    emailelectionlawconference at yale.edu
    <mailto:emailelectionlawconference at yale.edu>.

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    Is Hlliary Clinton Now Officially “Testing the Waters” for a
    Presidential Bid? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71049>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 8:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71049>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The NYT suggests as much 
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/03/17/today-in-politics-as-hillary-clinton-tests-the-waters-who-pays/>, 
and I think that would be a change in her status.

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    New Issue of Election Law Journal Features Research Related to
    Bauer-Ginsberg Commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71047>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 8:46 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71047>byRick Hasen 
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Check it out, <http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/elj/14/1>guest edited by 
Doug Chapin.

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