| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 11/25/10 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/24/2010, 9:18 PM |
| To: Election Law |
Reply-to: "rick.hasen@lls.edu" |
See this
BLT post.
Howard blogs
on this
First Circuit decision.
AP offers this
report.
WaPo offers this
report.
Norm Ornstein has written this
Roll Call oped. A snippet: "So where are the
previous champions of campaign finance reform? Where is Sen.
John McCain (R-Ariz.), whose greatest legislative accomplishment
was given a sharp stick in the eye by a 5-4 decision on the
Supreme Court? Where are previous supporters of reform -- and
professed supporters of disclosure -- such as Republican Sens.
Susan Collins (Maine) and Scott Brown (Mass.)? And most
important, where is Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who has always
been an independent voice, whose Snowe-Jeffords amendment to the
campaign reform law was the provision most assaulted by the
Citizens United case, who stood up to immense pressure from
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Republican
leaders in 2002 to do the right thing?"
Read Norm!
The
analysis ends: "Lisa Murkowski has 92,929 unchallenged
Write-In Votes. Joe Miller has 90,740 votes. The Miller campaign
has no outstanding contested ballots for the courts to rule on.
Therefore Lisa Murkowski has won this 2010 US Senate race
without adding one challenged counted ballot for Lisa Murkowski.
After all the ballots were counted on Nov 17, the Alaska
Republican Party, based on this analysis, affirmed Lisa
Murkowski as the winner of the Alaska U.S. Senate seat by 2189
votes."
BNA offers this
report.
This
WSJ story connects the DeLay trial to CU.
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