[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/17/16
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Mar 17 08:10:42 PDT 2016
“Supreme Court Nomination Drives Groups From Left and Right to
Fight” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80979>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 8:09 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80979>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/us/politics/activists-protest-nomination-supreme-court.html?ref=politics&_r=0>
More than 100 protest rallies are being scheduled in key electoral
states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Hampshire
and Iowa. Television advertisements are being scripted. Twitter and
Facebook campaigns are rolling out, and email blasts are filling up
inboxes.
With thenomination of Merrick B. Garland on Wednesday by President
Obama
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/us/politics/obama-supreme-court-nominee.html>to
fill the vacancy on theSupreme Court
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/index.html?inline=nyt-org>left
by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, advocacy groups from the
left and the right are now fully engaged in what both sides agree
will be a highly contentiousSupreme Court
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/index.html?inline=nyt-org>nomination
fight — even if Mr. Garland never gets so much as a Senate Judiciary
Committee hearing…
Liberal groups see their push as a win-win: If the Senate
Republicans decline to hold hearings or vote on Judge Garland, they
are convinced the protests they are busy organizing will help
Democrats pick up at least some Senate seats….
On the right, there is a similar sense that a high-profile
nomination fight will motivate their core supporters — which is why
a broad range of conservative causes, from the Federalist Society, a
legal group; Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion group; and
Gun Owners of America are prepared to invest so much effort in this
debate….
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of
Manufacturers, so far at least, plan not to play an active role in
the fight.
But there will still be some major industry groups involved, like
the National Federation of Independent Business, which for the first
time in its 73-year history has decided to mobilize, citing several
continuing cases that its leaders fear could “radically expand the
federal government’s control over the economy,” including a court
fight over pending clean air and clean water environmental rules.
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“NY Judge Rejects Suit to Close Campaign Finance Loophole”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80977>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 8:04 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80977>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NY_CAMPAIGN_FINANCE_COURT_BAOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>:
A state judge has rejected a lawsuit seeking to close a loophole in
New York campaign finance law that lets wealthy individuals use
limited liability companies to secretly give millions of dollars to
candidates.
Justice Lisa Fisher writes there have been “numerous attempts” in
the Legislature to close it and the matter is best resolved by
lawmakers.
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“Democratic race in Missouri primary in limbo pending recount
decision” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80975>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 8:00 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80975>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-race-is-in-limbo-pending-missouri-recount-decision/2016/03/16/4bac74f2-eba0-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html>
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Posted inrecounts <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>
“Wild card for Trump: Who gets to be a convention delegate?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80973>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 7:55 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80973>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wild-card-for-trump-who-gets-to-be-a-convention-delegate/2016/03/16/1d703326-eb78-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
Good Luck with That Dep’t <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80971>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 7:53 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80971>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bernie Sanders now sees path to nomination relying on
Democraticsuperdelegates
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-longshot-victory-superdelegates-220847>.
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“Trump as GOP presidential nominee could lean on party money”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80969>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 7:48 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80969>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/900c85cba5724bb4b56f3661d195117d/trump-gop-presidential-nominee-could-lean-party-money>:
Donald Trump says he’ll raise money for the Republican Party and
there’s a good reason why: It has the resources he lacks for a
general election.
Trump’s victories this week make it much more likely that he’ll be
the party’s presidential nominee, probably facing off in November
with Democrat Hillary Clinton. That raises the question of how a
so-far “self-funding” Trump would pay for what could be a
billion-dollar campaign.
The answer could be, in part, the Republican National Committee.
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“If no one else stops Trump, the Electoral College still can. It’s
in the Constitution” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80967>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 7:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80967>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Derek Muller
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/17/if-no-one-else-stops-trump-the-electoral-college-still-can-its-in-the-constitution/?postshare=1241458223275837&tid=ss_mail>for
WaPo:
Donald Trump will be the GOP’s presidential nominee. Within the
party, talk of abrokered Republican National Convention
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/13/donald-trump-open-convention-republicans-cleveland-marco-rubio-ted-cruz-john-kasich/81725622/>or
even asupporting a third-party candidate
<http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/florida/2016/03/8593476/gop-donors-pushing-condoleezza-rice-run-independent-campaign>has
circulated among those hoping to stop him from becoming the next
president, leaving Trump antagonists across the spectrum to ponder
whether there’s any fail-safe left, after November, to stop a Trump
administration from becoming a reality.
There is. The Electoral College.
If they choose, state legislators can appoint presidential electors
themselves this November, rather than leaving the matter of
apportioning Electoral College votes by popular vote. Then, via
their chosen electors, legislatures could elect any presidential
candidate they prefer, no matter who wins the majority vote in their
respective states….
Clearly, Trump supporters and, potentially, anyone who sees this
sort of procedural move as a dirty trick, would object to this as
antidemocratic. But voters’ preferences would still be reflected —
albeit indirectly — in the decisions made by the state legislatures,
whose members are elected by the people. And the existence of the
Electoral College, no matter how electors are chosen, means that the
people, technically, have already been indirectly selecting their
presidents.
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“Podcast: The constitutional and political impact of Citizens
United” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80965>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 7:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80965>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Keating and Paul Ryan
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2016/03/podcast-the-constitutional-and-political-impact-of-citizens-united/>on
Constitution Center podcast.
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“Ginsberg Warns of ‘Political Guerilla Warfare’ at Contested GOP
Convention” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80963>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 7:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80963>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-17/ben-ginsberg-warns-of-political-guerilla-warfare-at-contested-republican-convention?cmpid=BBD031716_POL>:
With prospects for the first contested Republican convention in 40
years on the rise, GOP super-lawyer and election-law expert Ben
Ginsberg says that selecting the actual delegates at state
conventions in the coming months will “be sort of spring training”
for the summer showdown in Cleveland.
Ginsberg, who has served as counsel on a number of past presidential
campaigns, tells Bloomberg’s/Masters in Politics/podcast that he
sees “an immensely long slog” ahead for Donald Trump in his effort
to win the nomination outright and avert a contested
convention. With an eye toward what exactly the law will allow when
it comes to the lobbying, cajoling, and courting of delegates should
a contested convention come to pass, Ginsberg foresees a messy process.
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“Challenge to John Kasich on Pennsylvania ballot dropped”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80961>
Posted onMarch 17, 2016 7:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80961>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CNN
<http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/politics/john-kasich-pennsylvania-ballot-challenge-dropped/>:
The ballot challenge in Pennsylvania that threatened to derail John
Kasich’s rising presidential campaign has been dropped.
Nathaniel Rome, the chairman of Pennsylvania Students for Rubio and
a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, has decided to drop
the challenge to Kasich’s standing on the ballot, according to Chris
Bravacos, Marco Rubio’s Pennsylvania state chairman and the brother
of the lawyer representing Rome in the case.
The decision to drop the challenge was first reportedby the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
<http://triblive.com/politics/politicalheadlines/10156835-74/campaign-kasich-bravacos>.
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“Google now shows presidential campaign finance data directly in
search results” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80959>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 9:04 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80959>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/15/google-now-shows-presidential-campaign-finance-data-directly-in-search-results/>:
Looking up a presidential hopeful’s campaign finance information is
now just a Google away.
If you look up a candidate’s name using the search engine, it now
pulls up a quick summary of how much the candidate’s campaign has
raised — and a breakdown of what percentage of funds comes from
super PACs and other groups versus individual donations. All of this
is located in the sidebar.
Making the search a little more specific by looking for something
like “clinton campaign finance” will put the same summary at the top
of your search results. A tab at the bottom of the summary will let
you expand to get more details — like how many donations came from
people in what industry, and where the candidate stacks up against
the competition in fundraising terms.
The data is pulled from the Center for Responsive Politics, a
watchdog organization that runsOpenSecrets.org
<http://www.opensecrets.org/>. So far, the feature only includes
U.S. presidential candidates, but Google may expand it to other
races in the future.
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“Reid wants campaign finance reform to be part of SCOTUS debate”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80957>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 8:51 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80957>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/harry-reid-campaign-finance-supreme-court-220814>:
In an address at the liberal American for Progress on Wednesday
morning, Reid is set to urge Democrats to fight for a court that
will take a more a progressive view of the country’s campaign
finance system. The death of Justice Antonin Scalia has opened the
possibility that the court’s ideological bent could be shifted leftward.
…
Of course Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is the
architect of the GOP strategy to block a new nominee — and he’s been
an outspoken proponent for loosening the campaign finance system.
Reid’s remarks seem poised to only harden Republicans’ opposition to
taking up a nominee even further.
Could that be the point?
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Harvard Law Prof Elhauge Files Amicus Brief Saying Ted Cruz Not
Natural Born Citizen <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80954>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 8:17 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80954>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The brief
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Amicus-Brief-of-Professor-Einer-Elhauge-FINAL-SIGNED.pdf>was
filed in a NY case.
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“Judge: Stranded drivers ‘wanted to vote'”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80952>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 7:53 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80952>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Cincinnati Enquirer
<http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/16/judge-stranded-drivers-wanted-vote/81858150/>:
U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott was sitting down for dinner Tuesday
night when she got a call about stranded motorists who couldn’t get
to the polls to vote.
She said several commuters were calling her clerk’s office to ask if
there was anything the court could do to help.
Dlott decided there was.
So without a formal hearing, a written complaint or any evidence
beyond the calls to the clerk, the judge ordered Ohio Secretary of
State Jon Husted to keep polls open an extra hour in Hamilton,
Butler, Warren and Clermont counties. Her one-paragraph order said
the reason wasa serious accident on I-275
<http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/03/15/east--275-closed-near-kellogg-ave-after-report-car-water/81826398/>that
backed up traffic throughout the afternoon and into the early evening.
“People were using their cell phones from the highway. They wanted
to vote,” Dlott said Wednesday. “I did what I thought I had to do
under the law.”
Not everyone is convinced she made the right call. Husted’s
spokesman, Josh Eck, said the secretary of state is considering
appealing Dlott’s order, a move that could prevent counting of all
ballots cast after polls closed at 7:30 p.m. He said Husted, a
Republican, fears Dlott’s action could set a precedent for future,
unnecessary court involvement.
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Wishful Thinking Dep’t <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80949>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 7:50 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80949>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/rnc-spokesman-trump-riots-response-220858?lo=ap_c1>:
If the Republican National Committee is worried about the
possibility of a contentious contested convention, one of its top
officials showed no signs of concern Wednesday, even after the
party’s front-runner warned of possible riots in Cleveland if he is
denied the party’s nomination.
“Well first of all, I assume he’s speaking figuratively,” Sean
Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist and spokesman, told CNN. “I think
if we go into a convention, whoever gets 1,237 delegates becomes the
nominee. It’s plain and simple.”
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“GOP official: The party chooses the nominee, not the voters”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80947>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 7:44 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80947>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Hill
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/273223-gop-official-the-party-chooses-the-nominee-not-the-voters>:
“The media has created the perception that the voters will decide
the nomination,” Curly Haugland said in an interview with CNBC.
“That’s the conflict here.”
“The political parties choose their nominees, not the general
public, contrary to popular belief,” he added.
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“Judge Garland’s Judicial Philosophy Could Determine the Fate of
Citizens United” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80945>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 2:09 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80945>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release <http://freespeechforpeople.org/supreme-court-nominee/>from Free
Speech for People.
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“Merrick Garland Could Mean a New Chapter in the Fight to Reverse
Citizens United” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80942>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 1:43 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80942>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
John Light:
<http://billmoyers.com/story/merrick-garland-could-mean-a-new-chapter-in-the-fight-to-reverse-citizens-united/>
For a nation browbeaten with third-party, ultra-negative campaign
ads, relief may finally be in sight in the form of Merrick Garland.
Maybe.
Despite his vote with the majority in a key case that opened the
door for super PACs, the 63-year-old federal judge whom President
Barack Obama nominated to the Supreme Court today has a record that
suggests he’d favor more regulation of money in politics, some
campaign finance reformers say….
Garland has a pretty good record on campaign finance-related issues
in the eyes of campaign finance reformers. Last year, in/Wagner v.
Federal Election Commission
<http://www.fec.gov/law/litigation/Miller2015.shtml>/, he authored a
unanimous decision to uphold a ban on government contractors making
political contributions, and in 2008 joineda unanimous decision
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/bushcheney04.php>saying
that the FEC wasn’t doing enough to implement the McCain-Feingold
Campaign Finance Reform Act. In 2009, he authored adecision
upholding lobbying disclosure
<http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-dc-circuit/1141587.html#sthash.mEic0aw0.dpuf>in
which he noted that, “More than 50 years ago, the Supreme Court held
that the public disclosure of ‘who is being hired, who is putting up
the money, and how much’ they are spending to influence legislation
is ‘a vital national interest.’”
Garland has also upheld limits on corporations’ First Amendment
rights in, among others,a decision
<http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/03/american-meat-institute-v-usda/>that
said it was acceptable for government agencies to require
corporations to disclose where their food was sourced from,
andanother
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-30/pom-wonderful-loses-bid-to-block-ftc-deceptive-ad-claim>that
prevented corporations from saying a product cured diseases without
a trial to prove it….
There is one very important case on Garland’s record, however, that
gives reformers pause:/SpeechNow vs. FEC/, a decision that, along
with /Citizens United,/ made possible the current proliferation
of super PACs.
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“Super PACs built a wall around Florida, and Trump destroyed it”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80940>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 1:37 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80940>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI reports
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/03/16/19432/super-pacs-built-wall-around-florida-and-trump-destroyed-it>.
A coalition of outside groups paid for more than 4,300 anti-Donald
Trump ads during the week before Tuesday’s primary election in
Florida — all to no avail as the real estate mogul sailed to an easy
victory.
But….
It’s not wise to generalize about Trump because “he’s such a media
phenomenon — who else has gotten so much free time?” asks campaign
finance expert Rick Hasen, law and political science professor at
the University of California at Irvine.
“One of the reasons super PACs have not been so influential at the
presidential level is there’s so much other money and media
interest,” he said, in an interview prior to the Tuesday night’s
results. Once you move farther down the ballot, super PACs become
far more influential, he added.
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“Bribery and the Brokered Convention?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80938>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 1:36 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80938>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fascinating Brian Svoboda
<https://www.lawandpoliticsupdate.com/2016/03/bribery-and-the-brokered-convention-2/>on
whether RNC delegates at a contested convention could be bribed:
Can Chicago’s experience in 1860 repeat itself in Cleveland in 2016?
One recentcommentator
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/10/how-contested-convention-would-work/81581600/>suggested
that, after the first ballot, presidential contenders “would engage
in a fierce lobbying battle for delegates, wooing them with
ideological sweet talk, political promises and/anything else they
have to offer/.”Another
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/republican-contention-chaos-213725>projected
that, on the third ballot, the “delegations will be a hotbed of
rumors,/deals and rumored deals/.” Athird
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2016-03-14/how-to-steal-a-nomination-from-donald-trump>suggested
that candidates may lure support by offering Cabinet posts,
lucrative consulting contracts, and hard cash for votes. One need
not watch House of Cards to imagine candidates, top aides, party
leaders, and donors fanning out across the floor of the Quicken
Loans Arena and hitting the phones to determine the cost of securing
the support of delegates, party leaders, and donors. From this
perspective, the issues of money and access loom much larger than
when conventions were simplyderided as “unabashed festivals of
corporate cash.”
<https://www.lawandpoliticsupdate.com/2014/03/with-convention-public-funding-the-rhetorical-dogs-come-back-to-bite/>The
restrictionsthat Congress placed on lobbyist-paid events
<http://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/Convention%20Events%202012.pdf>seem
quaint when applied to what some think may happen in Cleveland.
But the law is far less forgiving in 2016 than in 1860. Had
Lincoln’s convention manager and future Supreme Court appointee,
David Davis, been active today, he might have found his way to the
Court as a defendant instead of a justice. The federal criminal code
at 18 U.S.C. § 599 prohibits candidates from promising to appoint,
or using their influence to appoint, any person to*/any/*public or
private position or employment, “for the purpose of procuring
support in his candidacy.” An accompanying provision establishes
criminal consequences for promising employment, positions,
contracts, appointments*/or other benefits/*resulting from
congressional action as consideration or reward for political
activity or support in connection with general elections, primary
elections, or*/political conventions or caucuses/*. The Hobbs Act
bars extortion affecting interstate commerce and has been used to
prosecute various cases of public corruption. Multiple provisions
prohibit individuals from offering cash or things of value in
exchange for votes. And, finally, the campaign finance laws create
avenues for identifying and prosecuting unreported or misreported
contributions.
One cannot casually dismiss the viability or constitutionality of
these statutes.
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“Shooting Your Brand in the Foot: What Citizens United Invites”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80936>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 1:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80936>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
New SSN podcast <http://bit.ly/SSNnojargon>with Ciara Torres-Spelliscy.
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Justice Kennedy Asks for Response in Montana Open Primary Case,
Potentially Affecting Trump <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80934>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 1:24 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80934>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Following up onthis post <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80776>, Justice
Kennedy has requested a response from Montana by March 22.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
Talking #PlutocratsUnited, #SCOTUS TODAY at UC Berkeley
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80932>
Posted onMarch 16, 2016 9:09 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80932>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
With commentary by Bertrall Ross and Tom Mann. Hosted by IGS and
Berkeley law.Join us
<https://www.scribd.com/doc/302906592/Plutocrats-United-flyer-uc-berkeley>!
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