[EL] ELB news and Commentary 3/7/16

Mon Mar 7 08:09:32 PST 2016

    Maryland House Race a ‘Caldron of Power Couples and Washington,
    D.C., Politics’” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80611>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 8:08 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80611>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fascinating NYT piece 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/us/a-clamor-for-a-safe-district-with-a-short-commute.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=21&pgtype=sectionfront>on 
race to replace van Hollen, who is running for Senate. (This is the race 
that includes election law prof Jamie Raskin):

    For months, the race seemed a neck-and-neck contest between Mr.
    Raskin, 53, a full-time constitutional law professor at American
    University backed by many in Maryland’s Democratic establishment,
    and Ms. Matthews, 62, who left TV reporting a decade ago to join
    Marriott, the hotel chain. He has a string of legislative
    accomplishments in Annapolis; she is well known from her 25 years on
    air at the ABC affiliate here.

    Between them, they have raised nearly $3 million. Mr. Raskin’s donor
    list is heavy with lawyers and professors; Ms. Matthews’s includes
    an array of Washington movers and shakers (including some, Raskin
    backers grumble, who have appeared as guests on her husband’s show).

    Then last month, one week before the filing deadline for candidates,
    in waltzed Mr. Trone.

    Mr. Trone, 60, is the co-owner (with his brother Robert) of Total
    Wine & More, the nation’s largest independent wine retailer, and a
    philanthropist who recentlydonated $15 million
    <https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-announces-new-trone-center-criminal-justice-reform-and-advisory-board-private-sector-and>to
    the American Civil Liberties Union to promote criminal justice
    reform. He also donates handsomely to politicians (including
    Republicans in states where his company does business), and in
    November hosted President Obama at his Potomac, Md., home for a
    $20,000-a-couple dinner to benefit Democrats.

    The fund-raiser produced one of those off-the-cuff moments that
    potential candidates dream of: a cellphone video of Mr. Obama saying
    of Mr. Trone, “We can run him for something.” Naturally, Mr. Trone
    made it into anInternet ad
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2swRhUF24E>. Ms. Matthews,calling
    it misleading
    <http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/Kathleen-Matthews-Campaign-Calls-On-David-Trone-To-Pull-Ad-Featuring-President-Obama/>,
    demanded he take it down. (He has not.)

    This came after thespying episode
    <http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/Kathleen-Matthews-Congressional-Campaign-Accuses-David-Trone-Campaign-Worker-of-Posing-As-Volunteer/>,
    in which two young Trone canvassers tried to infiltrate the Matthews
    and Raskin campaigns. By last week, at the grand opening of his
    8,000-square-foot campaign headquarters in a Rockville, Md., strip
    mall just outside the Beltway, the wine magnate was fending off
    comparisons to another candidate whose initials are D.J.T.: Donald
    J. Trump.

    “The only similarity is, I’m willing to self-fund,” he insisted.

Yeah, money doesn’t matter at all.

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    “Arizona Bill Quietly Loosens Dark Money Rules”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80609>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 8:02 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80609>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/only-on-ap-arizona-bill-quietly-loosens-dark-money-rules/article_5eb5797e-9891-50e2-b517-2d40d600bdae.html?mobile_touch=true>

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    “Inside the Struggle Between Plutocracy and Democracy”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80607>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 8:01 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80607>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Common Cause conference 
<http://www.commoncause.org/democracy-wire/blueprint-2016.html>March 8 
and 9 will belivestreamed <http://www.commoncause.org/medialivestream>.

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    FEC Deadlock Means Much Easier to Send Undisclosed Money Through
    Super PACs Using LLCs <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80605>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:57 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80605>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

As Paul Ryan of CLC says, just when you thinkit can’t get any worse 
<https://twitter.com/ThePaulSRyan/status/706869924661223425>….

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    “Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80603>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:52 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80603>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/us/politics/donald-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0>

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    “Trump’s Deep Pockets Could Leave the GOP Empty-Handed”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80601>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:45 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80601>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-07/trump-s-deep-pockets-could-leave-the-gop-empty-handed?cmpid=BBD030716_POL>:

    It’s a real dilemma he’s created,” said Vin Weber, a former member
    of Congress who advised the presidential campaigns of Bob Dole,
    George W. Bush, and Mitt Romney. “A lot of the people who would
    raise money for the party are not big Trump fans,” Weber said.

    Under campaign finance laws, there are no legal limits on how
    much Trump can give or loan his White House bid, and, according to
    his campaign, he has about $600 million in liquid assets.

    “The real concern is that he might not write the check,” said Weber,
    leaving the party short of funds.

    John Feehery, a Republican strategist, said that Trump may be able
    to rally smaller donors if he wins the nomination but that many
    traditional donors will stay away.

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    Speaking #PlutocratsUnited With Tom Mann & Bertrall Ross Commentary
    Mar. 16 at UC Berkeley <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80599>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:42 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80599>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Looking forward tothis event 
<https://www.scribd.com/doc/302906592/Plutocrats-United-flyer-uc-berkeley>!

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    The Amicus Wrangler and Amicus Whisperer at #SCOTUS
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80597>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80597>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Adam Liptak 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/us/politics/study-shows-how-much-work-it-takes-to-be-supreme-courts-friend.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0>:

    The teams preparing for major Supreme Court cases must now include
    two new members,the study said
    <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2741853>: the
    amicus wrangler and the amicus whisperer.

    “The wrangler is gathering the troops,” saidAllison Orr Larsen
    <http://law2.wm.edu/faculty/bios/fulltime/amlarsen.php>, a professor
    at William and Mary Law School and one of the study’s authors, “and
    the whisperer is coordinating the message.”

    (Kathleen M. Sullivan
    <http://www.quinnemanuel.com/attorneys/sullivan-kathleen-m>coined
    the first term, andPamela S. Karlan
    <https://law.stanford.edu/directory/pamela-s-karlan/>the second.
    Both argue often before the Supreme Court and possess a gift for
    vivid language.)

    The wranglers and whisperers must do several things at once,
    Professor Larsen said.

    “You can think of it as an orchestra and a conductor,” she said.
    “There are three different elements, and you have to match them up.
    There’s the message that you want the justices to hear, the person
    they need to hear it from and the lawyer who can translate into the
    correct language.”

    The study, prepared withNeal Devins
    <http://www.wm.edu/as/publicpolicy/facultydirectory/affiliated_faculty/devins_n.php>,
    also a law professor at William and Mary, will be published in
    theVirginia Law Review <http://www.virginialawreview.org/>.

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    “Long Lines At New ASU Polling Place Prompt Questions, Changes”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80595>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:33 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80595>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinBlog. 
<http://editions.lib.umn.edu/electionacademy/2016/03/07/long-lines-at-new-asu-polling-place-prompt-questions-changes/>

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    “Still More on the Disclosure Wars: Issues Speech, Both The ‘Real’
    and the ‘Phony'” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80593>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:31 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80593>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer blogs. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2016/03/still-disclosure-wars-real-issues-speech-phony-issues-speech/>

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    “Former DOJ, ACLU Attorney Launches Boutique Civil Rights Law Firm”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80591>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:30 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80591>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Good luck 
<http://www.bryansellslaw.com/news/2016/3/6/former-doj-aclu-attorney-launches-boutique-civil-rights-law-firm>to 
Bryan Sells!

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    “The $7.5 Million in Donations Helping Trump’s ‘Self-Funded’
    Campaign” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80589>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80589>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

ABC News reports. 
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/75-million-donations-helping-trumps-funded-campaign/story?id=37403906>

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    “Major GOP Donors Are Turning Their Hopes Toward A Contested
    Convention” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80587>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80587>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tarini Parti reports 
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/major-gop-donors-are-turning-their-hopes-toward-a-contested?utm_term=.xyp5R4xjZ#.au5rpbdmB>for 
BuzzFeed.

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    “Political Money Fan Relishes Role as Trump Supporter”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80585>

Posted onMarch 7, 2016 7:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80585>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call: 
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/political_money_fan_relishes_role_as_trump_supporter-246175-1.html?pg=1&dczone=news>

    Shaun McCutcheon, whose 2014 Supreme Court case opened the door to
    more money in politics, has a new political cause in Donald Trump.

    McCutcheon, an Alabama engineer, was elected this week as a delegate
    to the Republican National Convention, and he’s pledged his support
    to the billionaire real estate mogul. Alabama was one of seven
    states Trump won during Super Tuesday, the biggest night so far in
    the 2016 presidential primaries. …

    McCutcheon hasn’t contributed to any members of Congress or their
    challengers so far in the 2016 campaign, FEC records show, even
    though his lawsuit made it legal for individuals to give to as many
    candidates as they’d like.

    “Well, you can give to them all if you’re Trump,” McCutcheon said.
    “Business hasn’t been that great, so I don’t have a ton of money to
    put out there this cycle.”

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