[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/9/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Sat May 9 08:08:16 PDT 2015 

    “How to Push Back Against Billionaire Donors”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72353>

Posted onMay 9, 2015 8:05 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72353>byRick 
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Peter Beinart 
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/how-to-push-back-against-billionaire-donors/392738/?utm_source=SFTwitter>at 
The Atlantic.

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    “Court dismisses Congressman Rangel’s challenge to his House
    censure” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72351>

Posted onMay 9, 2015 8:03 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72351>byRick 
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

McClatchy. 
<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/05/08/266037/court-dismisses-congressman-rangels.html>

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    “Hillary Clinton’s use of ‘super PAC’ may undercut her finance
    reform message” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72349>

Posted onMay 9, 2015 7:55 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72349>byRick 
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Evan Halper writes 
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-hillary-clinton-fundraisers-california-20150507-story.html>for 
the LAT.

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    “Democrats embrace the logic of ‘Citizens United’”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72347>

Posted onMay 9, 2015 7:53 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72347>byRick 
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Larry Lessig WaPo oped 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-clintons-citizens-united-and-21st-century-corruption/2015/05/08/7f11a0d6-f57b-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html?postshare=731431135139022>:

    That consensus among Democrats has now been shattered by a book by
    conservative writer Peter Schweizer. In “Clinton Cash
    <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062369288/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062369288&linkCode=as2&tag=thewaspos09-20&linkId=REVSDLVWUXYJSVBS>,”
    Schweizer charges Bill and Hillary Clinton with corruption. Not
    because there is evidence of any particular bribe. Instead, their
    corruption, Schweizer says, comes from a pattern of behavior: a
    constant (and, by the end of the book, practically grotesque) story
    of cash passing from people seeking the government’s favor to either
    Bill Clinton (and hence Hillary Clinton) or the Clinton Foundation.
    The rapaciousness alone is enough to give one pause: Seriously,
    don’t we pay former presidents enough?

    Yet all this, the Clintons and their defenders insist, is not
    corruption because Schweizer has provided no smoking gun. He has
    offered “no evidence
    <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-clinton-cash-author-peter-schweizer/story?id=30568766&page=5>”
    of a quid pro quo trade.

    Welcome to Wonderland: Were the alleged influencers the Koch
    brothers, with the same kind of pattern charged against them — their
    channeling support to Republican representatives, those
    representatives in turn acting in a way that reflected the desires
    of the Kochs — there would be no doubt that Democrats would rally to
    attack that influence as Exhibit No. 1 in the case against the
    corruption of Washington. But apparently now those loyal to the
    Democratic presidential front-runner will have to be more careful in
    their criticism. Apparently now the party line must be: Even if
    someone benefited personally, and enormously, and even if there is a
    repeated series of victories for those exercising their influence,
    there’s no corruption unless Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. would
    see it as corruption — meaning again, no corruption unless a quid
    pro quo.

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    9th Circuit, 2-1, Allows Challenge to Guam’s Native Inhabitant Law
    to Go Forward <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72344>

Posted onMay 8, 2015 10:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72344>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Kozinski opinion. 
<http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2015/05/08/13-15199.pdf>

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    “Jeb Bush’s $100M May; Inside the most ambitious presidential super
    PAC yet.” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72342>

Posted onMay 8, 2015 10:31 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72342>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico. 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/jeb-bush-right-to-rise-super-pac-campaign-117753.html#ixzz3ZYXVFhzU>

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    “The Campaign Finance Gyrocopter Man Describes His New, Surreal
    Existence” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72340>

Posted onMay 8, 2015 10:30 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72340>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Weigel 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-08/the-campaign-finance-gyrocopter-man-describes-his-new-surreal-existence>:

    After his short stint in jail, Doug Hughes returned home to collect
    a letter from a personal hero. Hughes, the 61-year old postal worker
    who piloted a gyrocopter onto the lawn of the Capitol,had tried to
    tell people
    <http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/us/capitol-gyrocopter-pilot-doug-hughes/>that
    it was a harmless stunt to raise awareness of campaign finance
    reform. Nobody, it seemed, paid attention until the stunt sparked
    the kind of Washington, D.C. safety panic that livens up slow news
    days. One of the first signs that the message had actually gotten
    through came when Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig, one of
    America’s most visible campaign finance reformers, sent Hughes an
    “attaboy” through the mail.

    “I’m not going to say it was for what I did,” says Hughes, “but it
    was for why I did it.”

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    “17 Months Before Election Day, One Campaign Aims For $100 Million”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72338>

Posted onMay 8, 2015 10:21 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72338>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Peter Overby reports 
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/05/08/405091080/17-months-before-election-day-one-campaign-aims-for-100-million>for 
NPR.

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    “The Court’s Changing Conception of Corruption”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72336>

Posted onMay 8, 2015 8:43 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72336>byRick 
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Trevor Potter speech 
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/blog/court-s-changing-conception-corruption>.

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    “Voting Rights Advocates Call on North Carolina To Take Action After
    Voter Registrations Drop Sharply at State Public Assistance Offices”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72334>

Posted onMay 8, 2015 8:42 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72334>byRick 
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Demos Press Release. 
<http://www.demos.org/press-release/voting-rights-advocates-call-north-carolina-take-action-after-voter-registrations-drop>

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