Subject: news of the day 7/1/05
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 7/1/2005, 9:50 AM
To: election-law


ALJ Reverses North Carolina Board Ruling that RGA Ads Had Electioneering Purpose

This is going to be a very interesting case to watch.


Rossi Defends His Statement on the Inability to Get a Fair Hearing in Election Challenge Before Washington Supreme Court

See here.


PFAW Notes that Campaign Finance Reform May Be at Stake with O'Connor Replacement

See here.


Hayward on Kelo and the FEC Internet Rulemaking

See this NRO Online column.


Express Advocacy Lives (As a Matter of Statutory Interpretation)

See this decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court, which answers the following question (reformulated from a certified question from the 8th Circuit): "Whether the use of the phrase “to influence the nomination or election of a candidate or to promote or defeat a ballot question” and related phrases in Minn. Stat. § 10A.01, subds. 27 and 28, may be narrowly construed to limit the application of those statutes to groups that expressly advocate the nomination or election of a particular candidate or the promotion or defeat of a ballot question."

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