| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 3/17/11 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 3/17/2011, 8:30 AM |
| To: Election Law |
Reply-to: "rick.hasen@lls.edu" |
We could know as early as Monday whether the Court will hear Cao
v. FEC. I continue to believe a grant
is likely.
Gerry Hebert blogs.
I posted my own thoughts on McComish just before cert.
was granted at
Loyola's "Summary Judgments" blog.
Here,
in Roll Call.
Howard has links to stories from Nevada,
Florida,
and Iowa.
See here
(via Political
Activity Law).
The NY Times offers this
report.
The Washington Post offers this
report.
The Detroit News reports.
BNA reports.
You can now download the final briefs in the case, the Reply
Brief written by the Goldwater Institute and the Reply
Brief written by the Institute for Justice.
You can find additional resources and materials on the case at SCOTUSBlog.
Oral argument is March 28.
Politico offers this
report, which begins: "Fear of ACORN stealing elections
runs so deep in GOP circles that a quarter of Republicans still
believe the group will 'steal the election- in 2012 --- even now
that it's been a year since the organization folded."
This
item appears at the Open Secrets blog.
In this
post I pointed to the failure of the Republican FEC
commissioners to move forward on a complaint that looked like a
clear-cut violation of a disclaimer provision of federal law.
But I was somewhat concerned that my conclusion was based upon
the poor black and white copy of the mailer at issue that was
part of the FEC file. But the CLC Blog has now posted a color
copy and the case that the FEC Commissioners are making
poor judgment calls is even stronger. Here's the CLC
blog post on the case.
Hans von Spakovsky blogs.
See this
press release.