| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 1/21/11 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 1/21/2011, 8:06 AM |
| To: Election Law |
I've written this
post for the ACS Blog, kicking off that blog's online
symposium marking the one-year anniversary of the landmark
decision Citizens United v. FEC.
It is here. (They
are also running a question today on the "State of the Union"
speech and the messages for the two questions are interspersed
throughout.) My own contribution to the Arena question is here.
Does anyone really think that Justice Scalia and Justice
Thomas's attendance
at a Koch brothers meeting to give a speech on an unrelated
subject affected in any way either (1) the Justices' thinking
about the merits of the campaign finance issue in Citizens
United or (2) how Justices Kennedy, Alito and (Chief
Justice) Roberts voted in that case?
C'mon people.
See this
report about yesterday's oral argument in the Ohio
provisional ballot case. See also this
Columbus Dispatch editorial.
That's the lead story in this week's Electionline
Weekly.
Political Activity Law rounds
up the opeds, including by Joel
Gora (WSJ), Bossie
and Olson (WaPo), and Jamie
Raskin (Huffpo). He also links to an NPR
report.
See also this
BNA report on the FEC's deadlock yesterday.