[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/21/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Mar 20 20:45:40 PDT 2015 

    “Will Campaign Finance Reformer Russ Feingold Embrace Super PACs In
    2016?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71183>

Posted onMarch 20, 2015 8:38 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71183>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TPM reports 
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/russ-feingold-rematch-super-pacs?utm_content=buffer01115&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer>.

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    “Donors to Tax-Exempts Often Give Super-Sized Amounts”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71181>

Posted onMarch 20, 2015 1:04 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71181>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tax Notes 
<http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Features/D09CEBF8D7363E7585257E0C00794096?OpenDocument>, 
now out from behind paywall.

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,tax law 
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>


    “Make Leadership, Not Voting, Mandatory”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71179>

Posted onMarch 20, 2015 11:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71179>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ron Fornier 
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/make-leadership-not-voting-mandatory-20150319>, 
who apparently doesn’t understand that mandatory voting does not 
actually force anyone to vote—just to turn in a ballot (which can be blank).

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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


    AG Holder Says Race Not Major Factor in Lynch Confirmation Holdup
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71177>

Posted onMarch 20, 2015 11:08 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71177>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here he is onMSNBC 
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/eric-holder-breaks-silence-gop-obstruction-lynch-vote>:

    “My guess is that there is probably not a huge racial component to
    this, that this is really just D.C. politics, Washington at its
    worst,” Holder said. “A battle about something that is not connected
    to this nominee – holding up this nominee. I think that’s the main
    driver here.”

I think that’s exactly right.

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    “Increased Campaign Contribution Limits in the FY2015 Omnibus
    Appropriations Law: Frequently Asked Questions”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71175>

Posted onMarch 20, 2015 10:04 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71175>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New CRS report. <http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43825.pdf>

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    The Political Safeguards of Horizontal Federalism
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71169>

Posted onMarch 20, 2015 10:03 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71169>byHeather Gerken 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=6>

Over at Balkinization, I’ve been blogging (here 
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-political-safeguards-of-horizontal.html>,here 
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/03/yesterday-and-day-before-i-blogged.html>,here 
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/03/living-under-someone-elses-law.html>, andhere 
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-benefits-of-living-under-someone.html>) 
about the benefits associated with spillovers, which occur when one 
state’s policies affect citizens of another state. Most of those 
arguments have to do with my other field, federalism. But they are 
relevant to two debates in election law. First, to the extent that 
election law scholars are interested in the role that political parties 
play in safeguarding vertical federalism, a topic that has inspired 
great articles from bothLarry Kramer 
<http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1123559?sid=21106183014553&uid=2129&uid=4&uid=70&uid=2&uid=3739576&uid=3739256>andJessica 
Bulman-Pozen 
<http://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/vol127.bulman_pozen.pdf>, 
I speculate that political parties play an equally important role in 
safeguarding horizontal federalism. Second, to the extent that we are 
all worried about polarization and the “big sort,” interstate spillovers 
may provide a partial antidote to polarization’s worst excesses. That’s 
because they force all of us tolive under someone else’s law 
<http://www.democracyjournal.org/36/living-under-someone-elses-law.php?page=all>. 
You might think that living under someone else’s love is a terrible 
thing because it violates the deep-seated democratic principle of 
self-rule. But democracy isn’t only about self-rule; it’s also about 
ruling together. Given our impulse to retreat into our all-too 
comfortable red or blue enclaves, it’s very useful for our worlds to 
collide now and then. Those collisions give us a chance to see how other 
people live, to live under someone else’s law, to try someone else’s 
policy on for size. Democracy, in short, requires us to do just what 
spillovers require us to do: Work it out. Sometimes we work it out 
directly. Sometimes we need a referee. Sometimes we just take our lumps 
and live under a policy we don’t like. And we do so for a simple reason: 
We’d rather live with other people than without them.

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