[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/12/16
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Jan 12 08:13:17 PST 2016
“How to end American plutocracy: Risk of corruption cannot be the
only legal rationale for limiting expenditures”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78936>
Posted onJanuary 12, 2016 8:10 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78936>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I have writtenthis oped
<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/rick-hasen-american-plutocracy-article-1.2492787>for
the NY Daily News (tied to today’s release of my book). It begins:
Forty years ago this month, the Supreme Court decided Buckley vs.
Valeo, a case that has distorted our thinking and talking about
money in politics for nearly two generations and that has taken this
country down a perilous path on campaign finance.
We should no longer mince words about the consequences for our
representative government. Buckley and its offspring Citizens
United, which turns six this month, are leading us to plutocracy, a
country in which those with greatest wealth have a much better
chance to influence elections and public policy than the rest of us.
Yet despite that bleak assessment, there’s some cause for hope.
Although SuperPACs and mega-donors shelling out donations topping a
whopping $100 million have emerged from the Supreme Court’s
troubling decisions, a narrow opportunity for change is coming —
provided we can change the way we think about the danger of big
money in politics.
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Plutocrats United: The Book Tour and Talks (UPDATED)
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77845>
Posted onJanuary 12, 2016 8:08 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77845>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
My new book,Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and
the Distortion of American Elections
<http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300212457>, is now out
(Order with discount at Amazon
<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448649580&sr=1-1&keywords=9780300212457>.)
(Reviews so far:Washington Post
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-rid-politics-of-its-pollution-by-wealthy-donors/2016/01/06/74798932-a2a4-11e5-ad3f-991ce3374e23_story.html>,Huffington
Post
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-c-altschuler/money-talks_b_8912152.html>,Washington
Monthly
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary_2016/on_political_books/how_to_corral_the_the_donor_cl059201.php>.)
Tom Edsall <https://twitter.com/Edsall/status/671467423728574464>called
it “Heroin for political addicts.”
I will be presenting the book at a number of venues and events over the
next few months. Some of the information is tentative, and I will
periodically update this post, and bump it to the top, with new and
updated information. Here is the information so far.
*January 12*, Los Angeles, Zocalo Public Square, 7:30 pm (details and
RSVP <http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/event/?postId=66754>)
*January 21*, New York City, Brennan Center for Justice/NYU (6 pm event)
(details and RSVP <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78230>) (there is also
alunch-time invitation only
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78254>workshop at the Brennan Center with
Yasmin Dawood, Janai Nelson, and Nick Stephanopoulos)
*January 22*, Washington, DC, Campaign Legal Center/UCDC Law/ACS (with
Trevor Potter) (lunchtime event) (details and RSVP
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78396>)
*February 8*, Irvine, CA, University of California, Irvine (with Erwin
Chemerinsky) (4 pm event) (details and RSVP
<http://www.law.uci.edu/events/election-law/plutocrats-united-2016feb.html>)
*Feburary 10*, Los Angeles, Southwestern Law School (with Steve Simpson)
(lunchtime event) (details to come)
*February 18*, Philadelphia, PA, National Constitution Center (with Ned
Foley and Michael Gerhardt) (12 pm event) (details and rsvp
<http://constitutioncenter.org/calendar/voting-in-america-how-campaign-finance-and-election-laws-threaten-democracy>)
*February 18*, Philadelphia PA, University of Pennsylvania Law School (3
pm event) (details to come)
*February 19,*Boston/Cambridge, Harvard Law School (lunchtime event)
(details to come)
*February 26*, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Law School (First Amendment symposium)
(details and rsvp
<https://www.brooklaw.edu/newsandevents/events/2016/02-26-2016?>)
*February 29*, Decatur, Ga, Georgia Center for the Book at DeKalb County
Public Library, 7:15 pm (details
<http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=850>)
*March 1*, Miami, University of Miami (details to come)
*March 16*, Berkeley, CA, University of California, at Berkeley, 3:30 pm
(with Tom Mann and Bertrall Ross) (details to come)
*March 31*, Winter Park, FL, Rollins College, 7 pm (details to come)
*April 15*, Boulder, CO, University of Colorado, Boulder (symposium on
campaign finance) (details to come)
I hope to see many ELB readers at these events!
Here is adescription
<http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300212457>of the book:
Campaign financing is one of today’s most divisive political issues.
The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption.
The right protests that the real aim of campaign limits is to
suppress political activity and protect incumbents. Meanwhile, money
flows freely on both sides. In/Plutocrats United,/Richard Hasen
argues that both left and right avoid the key issue of the new
Citizens United era: balancing political inequality with free speech.
The Supreme Court has long held that corruption and its appearance
are the only reasons to constitutionally restrict campaign funds.
Progressives often agree but have a much broader view of corruption.
Hasen argues for a new focus and way forward: if the government is
to ensure robust political debate, the Supreme Court should allow
limits on money in politics to prevent those with great economic
power from distorting the political process.
And here are theearly blurbs
<http://yalepress.yale.edu/reviews.asp?isbn=9780300212457>:
“A masterful blend of legal reasoning and political analysis,
Hasen’s new book is the most thorough, nuanced, and compelling
treatment I have read of how money in elections reduces political
equality and thereby diminishes American democracy. He unabashedly
proposes a reform strategy that goes to the heart of the
problem.”—Thomas E. Mann, co-author of/It’s Even Worse Than It Looks/
“/Plutocrats United/will mark Hasen certainly as the dean of this
field.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of/Republic, Lost: How Money
Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It/
“There is no better analyst or interpreter of America’s campaign
finance laws and regime then Rick Hasen./Plutocrats United/is Hasen
at his finest: a cogent, reasoned critique of what the Supreme Court
has and has not done to shape money and American politics, and a
roadmap to a better system if and when there is a Court willing to
respond to reason.”—Norman Ornstein, co-author,/It’s Even Worse Than
It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the
New Politics of Extremism/
“Rick Hasen is the foremost scholar working today to make the case
for a robust conception of political equality in thinking about the
regulation of campaign finance. In this new book he displays all of
his well-recognized skills and deep learning. It is clear and
readable, both scholarly and accessible, and it will be highly
influential in academic and policy development communities , and in
the courts. There is no more authoritative source for anyone who
seeks a thorough treatment of all the reasons one might care about
equality in this era of mega-donors and Super PACs.”–Bob Bauer,
former White House Counsel and Professor of Practice, New York
University School of Law
“While others complain about the corruption of money in politics,
Rick Hasen, America’s leading expert on the electoral process,
offers smart, innovative solutions. This book is a “must-read” for
anyone who wants to understand the roots of America’s profound
political inequality — and wants to do something about it.”—Adam
Winkler, UCLA School of Law
“/Plutocrats United/should become the go-to volume for anyone
wanting to understand the role of money in American politics: how we
got to where we are today, and a realistic assessment of the chances
for improving the current situation. Hasen deftly interweaves
fine-grained details with a lucid big-picture perspective. Even more
impressively, he eschews simplistic solutions, recognizing that
regulatory line-drawing in this area necessarily will involve a
careful balancing of competing constitutional values.”–Edward B.
Foley, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
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“What birtherism and voter fraud charges have in common (besides
Donald Trump)” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78933>
Posted onJanuary 12, 2016 8:02 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78933>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Fix reports.
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/12/what-birtherism-and-voter-fraud-charges-have-in-common-besides-donald-trump/>
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“Koch brothers and other oligarchs beware: Campaign finance reformer
says your days are numbered” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78931>
Posted onJanuary 12, 2016 8:00 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78931>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Salon
<http://www.salon.com/2016/01/12/koch_brothers_and_other_oligarchs_beware_campaign_finance_reformer_says_your_days_are_numbered/>:
That’s the intellectual breach into which campaign finance reformer
and activist Derek Cressman has stepped with his new book, “When
Money Talks: The High Price of ‘Free’ Speech and the Selling of
Democracy
<http://www.amazon.com/When-Money-Talks-Selling-Democracy/dp/1626565767>.”
Rather than simply hold the same debate and wait for demographics to
hand Democrats a victory in the end, Cressman’s book urges
supporters of reform to challenge some of the basic
assumptions underlying campaign finance reform’s political terrain.
That includes the prevailing legal understanding of “free speech,”
yes; but it also pertains to the reform camp’s vision of what is and
isn’t possible, too.
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“Ballot Manipulation” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78929>
Posted onJanuary 12, 2016 7:58 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78929>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Joel Fox: <http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2016/01/ballot-manipulation/>
The California Supreme Court decision to allow an advisory measure
on the statewide ballot may appear to promote democracy. However,
there is little doubt that the proposed ballot measure is another in
a line of maneuvers by the Democratic majority in the legislature to
manipulate the ballot.
The court was asked if it was appropriate for the legislature to ask
voters advice on whether the legislature should seek a United States
constitutional amendment to overturn the/Citizens United/decision
made by the U.S. Supreme Court. Recall that the decision allowed
labor unions and corporations to make unlimited political donations.
Opponents of the/Citizens United/decision say it leads to distortion
in the political process awash with money.
While there is no denying there is a democratic appeal to allow the
people to express their wishes through the ballot, one doesn’t have
to peel back too many layers to get a smell of this onion.
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“Undisclosed dollars dominate campaign spending”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78927>
Posted onJanuary 12, 2016 7:53 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78927>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ken Vogel
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/undisclosed-dollars-dominate-campaign-spending-217599>in
Politico:
Big-money outside groups have spent more than $143 million in the
presidential race in the six months since any of them were required
to reveal their donors, according to a POLITICO analysis of campaign
and advertising records.
The origins of some of that cash will never be revealed, while the
rest of it won’t become known until midnight on Jan. 31 ― meaning
that voters won’t know who funded the majority of the ads in the
presidential race until just hours before Iowa voters head to their
state’s pivotal caucuses.
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“The Politician and the Gift” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78925>
Posted onJanuary 12, 2016 7:51 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78925>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer blogs <http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2016/01/politician-gift/>.
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“Bloomberg Law: Advisory Measure Can be Placed on Ballot (Audio)”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78923>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 5:01 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78923>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ken Gross and I talked to June Grasso of Bloomberg Law about Citizens
United, and the anti-CU ballot measure likely headed to the CA ballot.
Listen.
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2016-01-10/bloomberg-law-advisory-measure-can-be-placed-on-ballot-audio->
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
Stanford Law Review Symposium on the Law of Democracy
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78920>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 4:58 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78920>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
What’s there to do in the Silicon Valley on Super Bowl weekend? Hmm…
<http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/50>
You might want to attendthis fantastic symposium
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/stanford-symposium.docx> Feb.
5-6 at the Stanford Law Review. What a great lineup of speakers! I’m
looking forward to it and will be presenting my paper, Election Law’s
Path in the Roberts Court’s First Decade: A Sharp Right Turn But with
Speed Bumps and Surprising Twists (draft in progress, Nov. 2015
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2639902>).
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WI Moves for Summary Judgment in Case Challenging Host of Wisconsin
Election Laws <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78918>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 4:53 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78918>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Details and filings.
<https://www.doj.state.wi.us/news-releases/one-wisconsin-institute-inc-v-nichol-state-files-summary-judgment>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Will Arizona Sky Be Next $60,000 Canvas For Anti-Trump Message By
Alabama Millionaire?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78916>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 4:50 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78916>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Arizona’s Politics reports
<http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2016/01/this-afternoon-will-arizona-sky-be-next.html>.
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“How Old is Donald Trump?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78914>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 4:45 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78914>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
New Yorker:
<http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-old-is-donald-trump>
We don’t have third parties here, but we have seen some of the same
energies. Surveying the landscape in 2014, David Schleicher, now of
Yale Law School, suggested that the basic turn made, both in Europe
and North America, was to a politics that was “fundamentalist or
expressive
<http://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/publications/working_papers/1461.pdf>”—in
which voters cared less about compromise or policy success and more
about ideological clarity. What complicated matters here, in
Schleicher’s view, was the peculiar structure of American elections.
Because third parties are functionally forbidden but primaries are
open to all comers, that same pairing of rejectionism and
nationalism, and the same tilt toward politics as expression, has
been compelled to fight for the leadership of the G.O.P.
So the Tea Party, for all of the hype and interest surrounding it,
has matured into a factional force, which is now consumed by a
campaign to radicalize the leadership of the Republican Party. The
voters whose ferocity powered the insurgency, however, never seemed
interested in building a conservative coalition that would win a
national majority. Their politics seemed expressive; they wanted a
party whose identity reflected theirs. In their raw anger and their
nativism and their comfort with the fringe, they seemed like people
who, in the currents of social change, thought they were being left
behind. They seemed, in other words, like third-party voters. And
their growth, in some ways, mirrored that of the populist movements
whose influence grew in the West after the global financial crisis.
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“Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78912>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 4:40 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78912>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/us/politics/father-of-koch-brothers-helped-build-nazi-oil-refinery-book-says.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0>:
The father of the billionaires Charles G. andDavid H. Koch
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/david_h_koch/index.html?inline=nyt-per>helped
construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally
approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs
and other wealthy families.
The book, “Dark Money,” by Jane Mayer, traces the rise of the modern
conservative movement through the activism and money of a handful of
rich donors: among them Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon
banking fortune, and Harry and Lynde Bradley, brothers who became
wealthy in part from military contracts but poured millions into
anti-government philanthropy.
But the book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back
to its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the
political and business activities of their father, Fred C. Koch, who
found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years
leading up toWorld War II
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/world_war_ii_/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>.
One venture was a partnership with the American Nazi sympathizer
William Rhodes Davis, who, according to Ms. Mayer, hired Mr. Koch to
help build the third-largest oil refinery in the Third Reich, a
critical industrial cog in Hitler’s war machine.
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CA Court of Appeal Orders Published Its Decision in Chula Vista City
Council Election Contest <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78910>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 2:58 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78910>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The dispute
<http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/D067918.PDF>centered on a
dozen provisional ballots.
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“Vote from Home, Save Your Country Universal vote by mail can revive
the franchise and change the political map. So why the resistance?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78908>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 9:37 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78908>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Phil Kiesling
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary_2016/features/vote_from_home_save_your_count059190.php>for
the Washington Monthly.
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“The Story Of Sheldon Adelson’s Purchase Of A Las Vegas Paper Is
Even Crazier Than You Think” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78906>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 9:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78906>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Peter Stone
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sheldon-adelson-las-vegas-review-journal-newspaper_568fe733e4b0cad15e647ea1>:
Three months before amysterious article popped up
<http://www.courant.com/community/new-britain/hc-new-britain-herald-edward-clarkin-1223-20151223-story.html>in
an obscure Connecticut newspaper criticizing a judge overseeing a
lawsuit against Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson and his casino
empire, freelance reporter Scott Whipple received a lucrative
proposal from his old boss.
Meeting at the small paper’s New Britain offices, publisher and
editor Michael Schroeder offered Whipple $5,000 to write a piece
about Nevada judicial decisions.
This was unusual, to say the least. Whipple, a veteran business
reporter who had recently retired, had accepted some freelancing
projects from his former employer, but Schroeder had never offered
him a sum that large before. And the assignment seemed completely
unrelated to the usual issues covered by the New Britain Herald and
its sister paper, The Bristol Press.
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“Do We Really Need Campaign Finance Reform?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78904>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 9:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78904>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Zocalo
<http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/01/11/do-we-really-need-campaign-finance-reform/ideas/up-for-discussion/#>has
a bunch of great contributors on this question.
I’ll be giving my take at aZocalo/KCRW event
<http://events.kcrw.com/events/2016/1/12/what-will-the-presidential-elections-cost-us>tomorrow.
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“What Will the Presidential Elections Cost Us?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78899>
Posted onJanuary 11, 2016 8:13 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78899>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
@KCRW and Zocalo Public Square aresponsoring the kickoff
<http://events.kcrw.com/events/2016/1/12/what-will-the-presidential-elections-cost-us>tomorrow
(Jan. 12) for mybook tour
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77845>forPlutocrats United: Campaign
Money, the Supreme Court and the Distortion of American Elections
<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/ref=la_B0089NJCR2_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430416698&sr=1-7>.
Over the weekend Greg Sargentreviewed the book
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-rid-politics-of-its-pollution-by-wealthy-donors/2016/01/06/74798932-a2a4-11e5-ad3f-991ce3374e23_story.html>for
the Washington Post, and Gilad Edelmanreviewed for the Washington
Monthly
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary_2016/on_political_books/how_to_corral_the_the_donor_cl059201.php>.
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