[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/25/15

Thu Sep 24 20:00:11 PDT 2015

    “Libertarians, Greens ready lawsuit against Commission on
    Presidential Debates” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76178>

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015 7:49 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76178>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Weigel: 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/24/libertarians-and-greens-ready-lawsuit-against-commission-on-presidential-debates/>

    The Libertarian Party and Green Party and their 2012 candidates for
    president are readying a legal complaint against the Commission on
    Presidential Debates, hoping that a new legal argument — an
    anti-trust argument — will break the “duopoly” that’s dominated the
    stage.

    The legal complaint, which was sent early to The Washington Post,
    argues that a “cognizable political campaign market” is being
    corrupted by the commission’s rules. The commission, a private
    entity set up after the League of Women Voters’ 1992 debates allowed
    third party candidate Ross Perot to participate, has withstood
    yearly assaults from the likes of Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, and
    former Congressman Bob Barr. None of them have gotten past a 1999
    commission rule: No candidate gets onstage unless he or she is
    polling at 15 percent or better.

    Bruce Fein, the attorney for the new plaintiffs, argues over 43
    pages that keeping them out of a “multi-billion dollar”
    market violates “antitrust laws, the First Amendment, and District
    of Columbia tort law.”

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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,political 
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    “Republican ‘Super PACs’ Turn to TV Ads for High-Stakes Primaries”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76176>

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015 7:46 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76176>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/us/politics/republican-super-pacs-turn-to-tv-ads-for-high-stakes-primaries.html?ref=politics&_r=0>

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns 
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    “The Many Sins of ‘Citizens United’”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76174>

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015 7:29 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76174>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 
<http://www.thenation.com/article/the-many-sins-of-citizens-united/>writes 
for The Nation.

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    “John Roberts Dismantled the ‘Crown Jewel’ of the Civil-Rights
    Movement” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76172>

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015 7:25 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76172>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Theodore 
Shaw<http://www.thenation.com/article/john-roberts-dismantled-the-crown-jewel-of-the-civil-rights-movement/>writes 
for The Nation.

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Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    “Voter ID lawsuit can proceed in state court, judge rules”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76170>

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015 6:02 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76170>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News & Observer 
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article36281472.html>:

    A Wake County judge has refused a request from state lawmakers to
    dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Voter ID requirement.

    Judge Mike Morgan issued his ruling on Wednesday, almost four weeks
    after a hearing on the matter.

    Lawmakers amended the state’s Voter ID requirement this legislative
    session on the eve of a trial in federal court.

    Attorneys for state lawmakers and the governor contended at the
    August hearing in state court that the legislative amendment to the
    requirement – offering voters without an approved ID the option of
    using a provisional ballot – made the lawsuit moot.

    Attorneys for the challengers disagreed and Morgan found in their favor.

(viaRobbin Stewart 
<http://ballots.blogspot.com/2015/09/raleigh-wake-county-judge-has-refused.html>)
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    “State Legislation and the Voting Rights Act: Past, Present, and
    Future” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76168>

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015 6:00 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76168>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

That’s the lead story in NCSL’sThe Canvass. 
<http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/states-and-election-reform-the-canvass-september-2015.aspx>

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    “First Person Singular: Minn. Secretary of State Steve Simon”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76165>

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015 9:56 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76165>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

That’s the lead story in this week’sElectionline Weekly 
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>.

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    “Learning to Walk and Chew Gum” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76163>

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015 9:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76163>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs 
<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/learning-walk-and-chew-gum>.

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    “The Campaign-Finance Activist Who Thinks We Need More Money in
    Politics, Not Less” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76161>

Posted onSeptember 24, 2015 8:13 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76161>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NY Mag 
<http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/frat-house-fund-raising-with-dan-backer.html#>on 
Dan Backer.

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