[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/17/18
Rick Hasen
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Sat Feb 17 13:59:01 PST 2018
Mueller’s Indictment Shows the Way for Russians to Legally Try to Influence Our Elections Next Time<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97569>
Posted on February 17, 2018 1:55 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97569> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I have written this piece<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/the-campaign-finance-loophole-that-could-make-the-next-russian-attack-perfectly-legal.html> for Slate. It begins:
The Mueller indictment of 13 Russian nationals for interfering<https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download> with the 2016 U.S.
presidential election offers a remarkably detailed account of a complex plot to sow discord and influence the presidential contest in favor of Donald Trump. The indictment critically points to something else, though: It provides a roadmap for the Russians to do it all again, without violating any current campaign finance laws the next time.
Paragraph 50 of the complaint demonstrates the kinds of social media ads Russian government agents paid for during the last election season. Here are two relevant examples: “Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved how evil she is,” and “Vote Republican, Vote Trump, and Support the Second Amendment!”
If the Russians interfere in the next presidential election, expect to see more of “the Democrat is Satan” sponsored Tweets and fewer “Vote Trump” messages. Under current campaign finance law, as the Supreme Court and lower courts currently construe it, it may have been perfectly legal for the Russians to run those Satan ads without disclosing their identity.
As I explained<https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/26/russian-facebook-ads-regulation-215647> in Politico back in September, while the federal courts have upheld laws banning foreign nationals from spending money to try to influence our elections, the laws have been interpreted to bar only “express advocacy”—ads that might say “Vote Trump” or otherwise expressly advocate for the support or defeat of a particular candidate—and not ads which avoid those magic words. The exception to this, thanks to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law of 2002, is for certain ads (called “electioneering communications”) broadcast close to the election on TV or radio which feature a candidate’s name or likeness. So foreign nationals could not call Hillary Clinton “Satan!” in a radio ad broadcast close to the election (and Americans paying for such ads have to disclose their identity)….
The Mueller indictment shows how the Russians learned how to interfere with our election, for example, by seeking out political advice from Americans that led them to target “purple states.” They will potentially learn this lesson too. Unless Congress passes a law like the Honest Ads Act, it will be quite easy for Russian trolls and other foreign actors to avoid the foreign money ban, as well as for Americans to run such ads and avoid disclosure.
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“Interactive: Compare proposed fixes for Pa.’s gerrymandered congressional map”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97562>
Posted on February 16, 2018 1:36 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97562> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Nice tool<http://www.philly.com/philly/news/compare-pa-congressional-map-proposals-fix-gerrymander.html> over at Philly.com.
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“Docs: Top GOP officials lobbied for straight-ticket ban”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97560>
Posted on February 16, 2018 12:17 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97560> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Detroit News:<http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/16/michigan-gop-straight-ticket-ban/110494644/>
Top ranking Michigan Republican Party officials lobbied lawmakers to ban straight-ticket voting<http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2015/12/16/mich-senate-votes-end-straight-party-voting/77458548/> in late 2015 despite concerns from a key GOP lawmaker that the change could increase Election Day wait times, according to new court filings from attorneys seeking to overturn the statute.
Evidence and depositions the state is attempting to exclude from trial in a federal lawsuit over the ban offer a rare glimpse into the legislative process and show the extent to which party officials interact with the state’s GOP-led Legislature.
Former Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, who now heads the Republican National Committee, and current state Chairman Ron Weiser were “heavily involved throughout the legislative process so as to secure the passage of the bill,” wrote attorneys Mary Ellen Gurewitz and Mark Brewer, former chairman of the state Democratic party.
The party officials intervened “in order to achieve partisan advantage and enhance their election outcomes,” wrote the attorneys, representing Democrat and minority voters in the case.
The court filings document text messages between McDaniel, Weiser and lawmakers, discussing vote counts and attempts to secure support from Gov. Rick Snyder.
It also cites an email from GOP donor Betsy DeVos — a former state party leader and now head of the U.S. Department of Education — thanking and congratulating Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof of West Olive for his “leadership and perseverance on the elimination of straight-ticket voting!”
“While only time will bear out the importance of this for those running for office ‘down ticket,’ the implications are significant,” DeVos wrote in the Dec. 21 email.
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CAC Letter Urges Rejecting DOJ Request to Add Citizenship Question to Census Questionnaire<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97558>
Posted on February 16, 2018 11:30 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97558> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read it here.<https://www.theusconstitution.org/sites/default/files/briefs/20180215-CAC-Census-Letter-Ross.pdf>
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Russian Operatives Raised Fake Voter Fraud Claims Against Democrats, Mimicking Claims of Trump and Members of Fraudulent Fraud Squad<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97555>
Posted on February 16, 2018 10:49 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97555> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
More from the indictment:<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97550>
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New Federal Indictment of 13 Russians from Special Counsel Mueller Says, Among Other Things, That Russians Violated Federal Election Law Through Political Ads<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97550>
Posted on February 16, 2018 10:05 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97550> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here’s the indictment,<https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download> and a few snippets I’ve posted on Twitter:
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From the indictment (https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download …<https://t.co/JFEIwHoJL4>)
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Yet only some of these ads would count as "express advocacy" under FECA (I explore whether the law covers other foreign spending (such as "Hillary is a Satan", listed below) in this paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3017598 …<https://t.co/FGs5KDpx3w>) pic.twitter.com/36i1JQHpGq<https://t.co/36i1JQHpGq>
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Yet only some of these ads would count as "express advocacy" under FECA (I explore whether the law covers other foreign spending (such as "Hillary is a Satan", listed below) in this paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3017598 …<https://t.co/FGs5KDpx3w>) pic.twitter.com/36i1JQHpGq<https://t.co/36i1JQHpGq>
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In other words, some of this alleged Russian election activity, thanks to the way federal campaign finance law is written and thanks to how Supreme Court has interpreted first amendment, may not be illegal under current law. That's even if the intention was to influence election
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In other words, some of this alleged Russian election activity, thanks to the way federal campaign finance law is written and thanks to how Supreme Court has interpreted first amendment, may not be illegal under current law. That's even if the intention was to influence election
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And yet "free speech" community has been arguing against passage of "Honest Ads Act" & other measures which would make this conduct illegal by 2018 elections. They say it will squelch too much of Americans' speech (and some say nothing objectionable about foreign interference)
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Jesus. Mueller's indictment says the accused Russians tried to suppress minority turnout:
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The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption Book Tour (Events in NYC, DC, Boston, Los Angeles, Irvine)<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97548>
Posted on February 16, 2018 8:21 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97548> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption Book Tour<http://www.law.uci.edu/events/2017-18/s2018/Hasen-Scalia-Book-Tour.html>
January through March 2018
[The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption Book Cover]
Professor of Law Richard L. Hasen<http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/index.html> will participate in a variety of speaking engagements this winter on his forthcoming book The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption<https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Contradictions-Antonin-Politics-Disruption/dp/0300228643/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1516681541&sr=8-1>, scheduled to be published March 20, 2018.
Schedule of Events
<http://lfla.org/event/justice-contradictions-antonin-scalia-politics-disruption/>Pre-order from Amazon<https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Contradictions-Antonin-Politics-Disruption/dp/0300228643/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516904231&sr=8-1&keywords=richard+l.+hasen>
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Feb. 7 (video)<https://youtu.be/Br_qx-zOCOc> (National Constitution Center event with Jeff Rosen, Kannon Shanmugam, and Elizabeth Wydra)
Mar. 5 NYC lunch conversation with Kate Shaw<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/judging-scalia-richard-l-hasen-author-of-the-justice-of-contradictions-in-conversation-with-tickets-43096439611> (Cardozo Law)
Mar. 5 NYC 6:30 pm conversation with Joan Biskupic<https://www.brennancenter.org/event/rick-hasen-and-joan-biskupic-complex-legacy-justice-antonin-scalia> (Brennan Center at NYU)
Mar. 6 Washington D.C. lunch conversation with Sue Bloch and Adam Liptak<https://events.acslaw.org/rsvp?id=a0Y0f00000GDq5yEAD&campaign=a0WG000000DPHSlMAP> (Georgetown Law)
Mar. 20 Irvine, CA evening conversation with Adam Winkler<https://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/policyschool/lives-law-public-policy/%3E%3Cb%3EMar.%2015%3C/b%3E%20Boston%20evening%20conversation%20with%20Dan%20Urman%3C/a%3E%20(Northeastern%20University)%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3E%3Ca%20href=> (UCI Law)
Mar. 28 Los Angeles lunch conversation with Erwin Chemerinsky<http://lfla.org/event/justice-contradictions-antonin-scalia-politics-disruption/> (LA ALOUD)
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March 5 Noon Event in NYC: “Judging Scalia: Richard L. Hasen, Author of “The Justice of Contradictions” in Conversation with Professor Kate Shaw”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97546>
Posted on February 16, 2018 8:11 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97546> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Really looking forward<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/judging-scalia-richard-l-hasen-author-of-the-justice-of-contradictions-in-conversation-with-tickets-43096439611> to this (but you need to register for the event):
Judging Scalia: Richard L. Hasen, Author of “The Justice of Contradictions” in Conversation with Professor Kate Shaw
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Richard L. Hasen<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=zen5cn7ab.0.0.fjcx7pcab.0&id=preview&r=3&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.uci.edu%2Ffaculty%2Ffull-time%2Fhasen%2F>, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California-Irvine, will be interviewed by Professor Kate Shaw, Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, about his new book The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, which will be published by Yale University Press in March 2018. The book provides an eye-opening look at the influential Supreme Court justice who disrupted American jurisprudence in order to delegitimize opponents and establish a conservative legal order. Hasen provides a nuanced perspective which demonstrates how Justice Scalia was crucial to reshaping jurisprudence on issues from abortion to gun rights to the separation of powers.
Hosted by the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy.
CLE credits: 1.5 transitional/non-transitional New York State CLE credits in the category “Areas of Professional Practice”.
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Justice Scalia Recognized the Constitutionality of Some Gun Control Measures, And For That He Was Criticized as Not Sufficiently Originalist<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97543>
Posted on February 16, 2018 7:58 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=97543> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Cass Sunstein column on Justice Scalia’s Heller opinion:<https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-15/florida-shooting-second-amendment-does-not-block-gun-control>
Justice Scalia’s opinion did not come close to embracing the arguments made by those who invoke the Second Amendment as an all-purpose weapon against democratic efforts to prevent the murder of high-school kids. On the contrary, his opinion is full of permission slips for federal, state and local governments to act.
In a crucial sentence, Justice Scalia wrote, “Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
Justice Scalia also emphasized that the Second Amendment is restricted to weapons “in common use at the time.” He added that the Constitution leaves government with many tools for combating the problem of handgun violence, including regulation.
As I note in my upcoming book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption:<https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Contradictions-Antonin-Politics-Disruption/dp/0300228643/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516904231&sr=8-1&keywords=richard+l.+hasen>
But even Heller was not fully originalist. As Sara Anonchick Solow and Barry Friedman explain, it was less originalism than lawyerly interpretation. Heller “deals not only with text and original meaning, but with pre- and post-ratification practice, precedent, evolved understandings, normative justification, and consequentialist limitations on the right. It is by surveying this broad array of sources that Justice Scalia locates the ethos of self-defense purportedly at the center of the Second Amendment.” Or, as Professor Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz put it, “Focusing . . . on how Heller works—the sources it cites, the logic, the scope of the rights it creates— we discover a ruling exquisitely attuned to the living constitutionalism that Scalia so vehemently disdains.”
Professor Nelson Lund goes further, saying that Scalia’s reasoning in Heller is “at critical points so defective—and in some respects so transparently nonoriginalist—that Heller should be seen as an embarrassment for those who joined the majority opinion. It may also be widely (though unfairly) seen as an embarrassment for the interpretive approach that the Court purported to employ. Originalism deserved better from its judicial exponents.” Although Lund agreed that Scalia was right on originalist grounds in finding within the Second Amendment an individual right to bear arms, he found the rest of the analysis on the permissibility of the D.C. handgun ban to be both non-originalist and ahistorical.
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