Subject: news of the day 4/14/04
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 4/14/2004, 7:08 AM
To: election-law

"Proposed Rules for '527' Groups Lead to Some Unusual Alliances"

The Washington Post offers this report.


"House Approves 'Veteran" Tag for Brockton Candidates"

The Enterprise (Brockton, MA) offers this report. Thanks to Mark Kemper for the pointer. Mark asks: "Is this legal?" A very interesting question. Perhaps Beth Garrett or other readers who know a lot a bout the ballot label litigation can answer that question. I assume that this label will benefit some candidates and harm others, much like giving incumbents the chance to write "incumbent" or "mayor," etc.


Yet Another Review of the Chief Justice's Book Finding a Connection with....You Know

See Benjamin Wittes's Washington Post review.

NY Times Story on FEC 527 Hearing

 It is here.

Symposium on "The Supreme Court and Election Law"

Notre Dame Law School and the Journal of Legislation are sponsoring a mini-symposium on my book, The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore. The symposium will be on April 22 at the Notre Dame Law School courtroom beginning at 9 am.

Participants include John Nagle of Notre Dame, Guy Charles of the University of Minnesota, Luis Fuente-Rohwer of Indiana, and me. The Journal of Legislation will publish papers from the mini-symposium.

By the way, Dan Farber's review of my book in the current issue of the Election Law Journal, "Implementing Equality," has an interesting discussion the debate between my rights approach and the structuralist approach of Rick Pildes and Sam Issacharoff. (By the way, even though I co-edit Election Law Journal, I was recused from deciding if my book should be reviewed and, if so, who the reviewer should be.)


C-SPAN Slated to Broadcast 527 Hearings

A reliable source tells me that C-SPAN is planning to broadcast the two days of hearings at the FEC on the 527 rulemaking. The source cautions: "As you know, CSPAN broadcast decisions can change from hour to hour, so this may change."

By the way, this is the 1,001 blog post on this new blog site (not counting the posts on the old blogspot site), a milestone of sorts.
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