[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/8/15

Tue Sep 8 07:38:03 PDT 2015

    ELB Podcast, Episode 4. Bruce Cain: Author Meets Critics
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75870>

Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 7:35 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75870>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Have efforts to reform the American political system backfired? Do 
changes in rules for campaign financing, redistricting, government 
transparency and election administration have unintended and undesirable 
consequences? On this special Episode 4 of the ELB Podcast, we hear from 
Bruce Cain, author of the terrific new book,Democracy, More or Less 
<http://www.cambridge.org/bo/academic/subjects/law/us-law/democracy-more-or-less-americas-political-reform-quandary?format=PB>, 
and four scholars offering critiques of Cain’s book. Listen to a 
September 2015 panel on Cain’s new book at the American Political 
Science Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco.

Listen at SoundCloud<https://t.co/bpQFy3bpSw>or subscribe to the ELB 
Podcast atiTunes 
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/elb-podcast/id1029317166?mt=2>.

Participants:

/Bruce Cain/, Stanford University

/Thad//Kousser/, University of California, San Diego

/Richard//L.//Hasen/, UC Irvine School of Law

/Frances//E.//Lee/, University of Maryland, College Park

/Raymond//J.//La Raja/, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

/Richard//Pildes/, New York University

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Posted inELB Podcast <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=116>

    “Clinton proposes new caps on political donations”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75877>

Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 7:33 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75877>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-proposes-new-caps-on-political-donations/2015/09/07/5322f04e-55af-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html>:

    Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton is
    proposing a federal program to match small political campaign
    donations as a way to dilute the influence of megadonors and
    unregulated outside money.

    Clinton plans to release details of the plan Tuesday. Her campaign
    provided a preview Monday, as she campaigned in Iowa. Clinton
    regularly rails against the Supreme Court’s/Citizens United v.
    Federal Election Commission/decision, born of a conservative group’s
    outside efforts against her in the 2008 presidential race, which
    allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums on
    independent political activity.

    A pledge to try to overturn that decision and appoint Supreme Court
    justices who support campaign finance limitations is a regular part
    of Clinton’s stump speech and often gets applause. Yet she also will
    rely on outside super PACs supporting her for her 2016 bid and has
    agreed to cooperate by making appearances at some super-PAC events.

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    “Campaign finance enforcement chills speech: Column”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75875>

Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 7:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75875>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Scott Blackburn writesthis 
oped<http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/03/campaign-finance-laws-excessive-enforcement-political-column/71459720/>for 
USA Today.

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    “Trump’s Advantages Call for Eliminating Campaign Contribution
    Limits” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75873>

Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 7:22 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75873>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Stephen Klein blogs. 
<https://www.pillaroflaw.org/index.php/blog/entry/trump-s-advantages-call-for-eliminating-campaign-contribution-limits>

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