Subject: news of the day 9/14/03
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 9/14/2003, 8:36 PM
To: election-law

McCain-Feingold news and commentary See this Virginian-Pilot editorial; A.P's "McCain-Feingold Provision Could Help Feingold Next Year;" this oped by Lance Olson and Chuck Bell (lawyers for the California parties in the lawsuit); this oped by Robin Blumner; this oped by Valle Simms Dutcher; this editorial in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; and this oped by Walter Mondale.
"Vote Boils Down to---Where's Waldo?" Tony Quinn offers these recall-related thoughts. On a similar note, see this Condorblog post.
More on faxing ballots in the recall--can the next lawsuit be far behind? See this Contra Costa Times report. See also this San Jose Mercury News report.
McCain-Feingold symposium in University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law The symposium in Volume 6, Number 1 of the journal is online here and features contributions (in the order of appearance) by: Nate Persily, Richard Briffault, Trevor Potter, Bob Bauer, Burt Neuborne, Dan Ortiz, Spencer Overton, and Robin Kolodny. The same issue also features an article by William McEveran (accessible here) on the right to engage in anonymous campaign speech.
"Doria ruling sets primaries apart from campaign finance law" See this N.J.com report, with important campaign finance news out of New Jersey. (Thanks to Ed Feigenbaum for the pointer.)


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