[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/23/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Mar 23 16:24:24 PDT 2015
“Supreme Court Declines To Hear Challenge To Strict Wisconsin Voter
ID Law” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71223>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 4:20 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71223>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pam Fessler reports
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/03/23/394898151/supreme-court-declines-challenge-to-strict-wisconsin-voter-id-law>for
NPR.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Inside the Mayor’s Nonprofit That’s Not Really the Mayor’s
Nonprofit” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71221>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 4:17 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71221>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Voice of San Diego reports.
<http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/government/inside-the-mayors-nonprofit-thats-not-really-the-mayors-nonprofit/>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Wisconsin Decides Not to Enforce Voter ID Law”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71219>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 4:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71219>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Don’t get too excited bythis NYT headline
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/us/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-wisconsin-voter-id-law.html?ref=politics>;
WI is only holding off for the next election:
TheSupreme Court
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/index.html?inline=nyt-org>on
Monday turned away a challenge to a Wisconsin law that requires
prospective voters to provide photo identification before casting
their ballots.
Officials in Wisconsin said they would not enforce the law in the
next election, on April 7, but would require compliance in later
ones. The April election includes contests for judicial seats and
local offices.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“SCOTUS lets Wisconsin voter ID law stand; jurists see silver
lining” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71217>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 4:00 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71217>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
MSNBC reports
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/scotus-lets-stand-voter-id-law-legal-experts-see-silver-lining>.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Political Powerlessness” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71215>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:51 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71215>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Nick Stephanopoulos has postedthis
draft<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2583495>on SSRN
(forthcoming NYU Law Review). Here is the abstract:
There is a hole at the heart of equal protection law. According to
long-established doctrine, one of the factors that determines
whether a group is a suspect class is the group’s political
powerlessness. But neither courts nor scholars have reached any kind
of agreement as to the meaning of powerlessness. Instead, they have
advanced an array of conflicting conceptions: numerical size, access
to the franchise, financial resources, descriptive representation,
and so on.
My primary goal in this Article, then, is to offer a definition of
political powerlessness that makes theoretical sense. The definition
I propose is this: A group is relatively powerless if its aggregate
policy preferences are less likely to be enacted than those of
similarly sized and classified groups. I arrive at this definition
in three steps. First, the powerlessness doctrine stems from
Carolene Products’s account of “those political processes ordinarily
to be relied upon to protect minorities.” Second, “those political
processes” refer to pluralism, the idea that society is divided into
countless overlapping groups, from whose shifting coalitions public
policy emerges. And third, pluralism implies a particular notion of
group power — one that (1) is continuous rather than binary; (2)
spans all issues; (3) focuses on policy enactment; and (4) controls
for group size; and (5) type. These are precisely the elements of my
suggested definition.
But I aim not just to theorize but also to operationalize in this
Article. In the last few years, datasets have become available on
groups’ policy preferences at the federal and state levels. Merging
these datasets with information on policy outcomes, I am able to
quantify my conception of group power. I find that blacks, women,
and the poor are relatively powerless at both governmental levels;
while whites, men, and the non-poor wield more influence. These
results both support and subvert the current taxonomy of suspect
classes.
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Posted intheory <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=41>
“First Amendment, ‘Patron Saint’ of Protesters, Is Embraced by
Corporations” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71213>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:49 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71213>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fascinating
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/us/first-amendment-patron-saint-of-protesters-is-embraced-by-corporations.html?_r=0>Adam
Liptak Siderbar column referencing a number of pieces of scholarship
we’ve seen here over at ELB.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Justice Kennedy Discusses Gridlock During Hill Testimony. Yes,
there is a King v. Burwell connection”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71211>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:46 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71211>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fascinating
<http://joshblackman.com/blog/2015/03/23/justice-kennedy-discusses-gridlock-during-hill-testimony-yes-there-is-a-king-v-burwell-connection/>:
Some argue that gridlock should effect the way we interpret
statutes. That seems to me the wrong proposition. We have to assume
that we have 3 fully functioning branches of the government,
committed to proceeding in good faith in good faith to resolve the
problems of this Republic
Troubling too.
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“Should the Supreme Court Have Accepted a Challenge to Wisconsin’s
Voter ID Law?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71209>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:44 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71209>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ari Berman writes
<http://www.thenation.com/blog/202321/should-supreme-court-have-accepted-challenge-wisconsins-voter-id-law#>for
The Nation.
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“Missouri: Will the recall effort against the Ferguson Mayor pass
judicial scrutiny?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71207>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:42 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71207>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This
item<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/2015/03/missouri-will-recall-effort-against.html>appears
at the Recall Elections Blog.
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Posted inrecall elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=11>
“The Joy of Voting: Festival and bonfires; outrageous wagers;
toasting and fasting and even fighting. Elections used to be fun.
What if they were again?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71205>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:40 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71205>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/The Atlantic/reports.
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-joy-of-voting/388291/>
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“What New York Can Learn from Connecticut”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71203>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:39 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71203>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs.
<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/what-new-york-can-learn-connecticut>
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Posted inchicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
“Court denies review in false political ads law case”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71201>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:39 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71201>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ron Collins
<http://concurringopinions.com/archives/2015/03/fan-52-1-first-amendment-news-court-denies-review-in-false-political-ads-law-case.html>on
the Minnesota /Arneson /case. My earlier coverage ishere
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65323>.
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“Obama promised to curb the influence of lobbyists. Has he
succeeded?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71199>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:33 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71199>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-promised-to-curb-the-influence-of-lobbyists-has-he-succeeded/2015/03/22/e9ec766e-ab03-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html>
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Posted inlobbying <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
“Prosecutor alerts justices to secrecy violation in John Doe”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71197>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:31 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71197>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/prosecutors-alerts-justices-to-secrecy-violation-in-john-doe-b99466418z1-297078541.html>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“The FEC Takes First Steps on a Disclosure Rulemaking”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71195>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:29 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71195>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer blogs.
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/03/fec-takes-first-steps-disclosure-rulemaking/>
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election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
“In lawsuit, ACLU says the First Amendment protects anonymous
political speech” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71193>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71193>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
KC Star
<http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article15247046.html>:
The Missouri office of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a
federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to protect anonymous political
speech in the state.
The group is representing “John Doe” — a businessman in Ferguson,
Mo., who wants to publish material about the city’s upcoming
municipal elections.
Missouri law says campaign communications must include the name and
address of the sponsor. But the businessman says he’s afraid of
retribution if he identifies himself, so he wants to provide the
material anonymously.
The ACLU’s lawsuit says requiring a name and address on political
communications violates the First Amendment.
ViaRobbin Stewart <http://ballots.blogspot.com/2015/03/httpwww_83.html>.
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“Insincere Rules” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71191>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:25 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71191>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Gilbert has postedthis
draft<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2519770>on SSRN
(forthcoming, /Virginia Law Review/). Here is the abstract:
Sincere rules mandate behavior a rule-maker wants, while insincere
rules mandate different behavior. To illustrate, if a legislator
wants cars to travel at 55 miles per hour, she could adopt a sincere
rule — a speed limit of 55 — or an insincere rule, such as a speed
limit of 45. When enforcement is costly, rule-makers can use
insincere rules to improve the behavior of regulated parties. This
works through two mechanisms, one punitive and the other deceptive.
The first operates when insincere rules turn minor violations of law
into major ones that carry a severer sanction. To illustrate, the
penalty for driving 56 miles per hour usually increases if the speed
limit drops from 55 to 45. The second mechanism operates when
insincere rules convey a false impression of the governing law. To
illustrate, if drivers believe the “real” speed limit is 55, they
may go 56, but if they believe the real limit is 45, they may go
slower than 56. Insincere rules get the law in books wrong but the
law in action right. They can benefit rule-makers in many
circumstances, and they may permeate legal systems worldwide.
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Posted inlegislation and legislatures
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>,statutory interpretation
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=21>
“Aaron Schock’s downfall tells us we need to look at political
spending as well as giving” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71189>
Posted onMarch 23, 2015 3:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71189>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Interesting<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/20/aaron-schocks-downfall-tells-us-we-need-to-look-at-political-spending-as-well-as-giving/>Mark
Schmitt blog post.
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