| Subject: news of the day 4/5/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 4/5/2004, 8:04 AM |
| To: election-law |
The Wall Street Journal offers this
report. Thanks to Steven Sholk for the link.
Ray LaRaja's fine commentary in the Election Law Journal's
symposium on McConnell v. FEC was inadvertently excluded from
the electronic version of the symposium. You can now find it at
this link
(fee required). Of course, Ray's article also appears in the hard copy
of the journal, which subscribers to the Journal should have already
received in the mail.
Stuart Rothenberg offers this
Roll Call column
(paid subscription required), which begins: "If you believe the early
polls, Ralph Nader could again be a factor in deciding the winner of
the 2004 presidential contest. Count me as a skeptic."
The Miami Herald ran this
letter to the editor discussing an important campaign finance
disclosure case of the Supreme Court.
The Los Angeles Times offers this
editorial, which begins: "Direct democracy is running amok in
California."
The San Francisco Chronicle offers this
report.
See here,
where the FEC asks for comments by those who actually intend to testify
to send them to a different e-mail address. (Pointer from Don Tobin.) I
would bet that the FEC has received more e-mail from the public this
week than it has cumulatively received since it began accepting e-mail.
See this
Seattle Times story,
which notes both legal challenges to the partial veto as well as an
attempt to subject the new law to a referendum, which would in effect
suspend it until a vote in November. A big mess.
Peter Roff of UPI offers this
commentary. Thanks to Colin Hanna for the pointer.
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