| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 12/10/10 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 12/9/2010, 8:09 PM |
| To: Election Law |
Reply-to: "rick.hasen@lls.edu" |
AP offers this
report.
Check out this
picture that Mary Dudziak included in her Legal
History Blog post on my recent Slate piece on the
10th anniversary of Bush v. Gore (thanks for the kind words
about ELB Mary!).
That picture sure brings back a moment in time for me. Do you
remember where you were when you heard that the Supreme Court
decided Bush v. Gore, ending the 36-day post-election battle
between Bush and Gore to be the 43rd President of the United
States?
UPDATE: George Will's remembrance.
Eric Alterman's memory differs.
My Loyola colleague Ellen
Aprill and I have co-written this
article for The
American Interest magazine. The article briefly
describes for a popular audience the history of tax-related and
disclosure-related regulation of lobbying. It also flags some
developments in the lower courts, in which lower courts are
relying on Citizens United to strike down some lobbying
regulations.
I will be describing those lower court developments in the first
part of my new draft, "Lobbying, Rent Seeking, and the
Constitution," which I will post on SSRN by first week of
January (and present at a number of workshops).
Another must
read post from Ned Foley, who has an interesting
connection between BvG and Reynolds v. Sims, as well as
Justice Harlan's largely forgotten dissent in Taylor v. Beckham
and the 1948 election between LBJ and Coke Stevenson-
The James Madison Center has issued this
press release.
-- Rick Hasen William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law Loyola Law School 919 Albany Street Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211 (213)736-1466 (213)380-3769 - fax rick.hasen@lls.edu http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html http://electionlawblog.org
