Subject: Re: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 4/5/11
From: Antoine Yoshinaka
Date: 4/5/2011, 2:13 PM
To: Bill Maurer <wmaurer@ij.org>, "JBoppjr@aol.com" <JBoppjr@aol.com>, "ademots@americanprogress.org" <ademots@americanprogress.org>, "rhasen@law.uci.edu" <rhasen@law.uci.edu>, "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>
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"antoine.yoshinaka@ucr.edu" 

Actually, a reference to "kilometers" (as opposed to "kilometres") would be a dead give-away that this is most certainly a domestic US effort :)
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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:15:54 -0400
From: election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu (on behalf of "Bill Maurer" <wmaurer@ij.org>)
Subject: Re: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 4/5/11  
To: <JBoppjr@aol.com>, <ademots@americanprogress.org>, <rhasen@law.uci.edu>, <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

  Jim,

  We also need to know if these anti-Smith forces are
  foreigners trying to influence our American dean
  selection process.  How do we know that this is not
  just some front group for Simon Fraser University or
  McGill?  Just because there are no direct
  references to kilometers or poutine doesn’t mean
  that that’s not exactly what’s going on here.

   

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  From: election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu
  [mailto:election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu] On
  Behalf Of JBoppjr@aol.com
  Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:05 AM
  To: ademots@americanprogress.org;
  rhasen@law.uci.edu; election-law@mailman.lls.edu
  Subject: Re: [EL] Electionlawblog news and
  commentary 4/5/11

   

      That is just not sufficient. They should have a
  disclaimer on all their communications that lists
  their top 50 contributors. They should file reports
  every time they do a communications that expressly
  advocates the selection or rejection of Smith for
  Dean, within 24 seconds of their publication,
  listing their expenditures and contributors. We must
  know the real evil forces behind this shadowy
  organization.

   

      Furthermore, I call on the Campaign Legal
  Center, Democracy 21 and Common Cause to immediately
  reveal all their donors and expenditures so we can
  find out if they are behind this obvious front
  group.  How about George Soros and Peter Lewis?  The
  suspects are limitless.  But with adequate
  non-burdensome and wholesome disclosure, we will
  find out.  Jim Bopp

   

  In a message dated 4/5/2011 11:38:26 A.M. Eastern
  Daylight Time, ademots@americanprogress.org writes:

    And there's controversy over Brad Smth's possible
    appointment as dean of Case Western.

     

    I call on the front group caseagainstsmith.com to
    publicly release its list of donors and
    immediately file with the Dean Selection
    Commission.

     

     

    From: election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu
    [mailto:election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu] On
    Behalf Of Rick Hasen
    Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:49 AM
    To: Election Law
    Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary
    4/5/11

     

April 05, 2011

 "Wisconsin Election is Referendum on Governor"

    This NY Times report begins: "Until a few weeks
    ago, this state's election on Tuesday for a
    justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court was widely
    expected to be dull and predictable."

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:45 AM

 "More FEC Terms Expire, but Replacements Unlikely"

    Roll Call offers this report.

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:41 AM

 And in Election Law-Related News from Ohio

    The Hamilton County judge case may be heading to
    the Supreme Court (which, if taken, would almost
    certainly lead the Court to explain the meaning of
    Bush v. Gore)

    The Ohio Chief Justice wants to change the rules
    for judicial selection.

    ePollbooks may come to Ohio.

    And there's controversy over Brad Smth's possible
    appointment as dean of Case Western.

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:35 AM

 Is It a Legislative District or a Rorschach Ink Blot?

    You decide.

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:25 AM

 "Lawmakers End Same Day Voter Registration"

    News from Montana.

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:21 AM

April 04, 2011

 "McComish, the Supreme Court, and the Fiesta Bowl
 Scandal"

    Doug Kendall blogs.

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 04:48 PM

 "Big Money, Union Fight Shape Wisconsin Court Race"

    Politico offers this report.

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 03:01 PM

 Volokh on the History of the First Amendment's Press
 Clause

    Eugene Volokh has posted "The Freedom...Of the
    Press"-- from 1791 to 1868 to Now -- Freedom for
    the Press as an Industry, or the Press as a
    Technology? on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

    Both Justices and scholars have long debated
    whether the "freedom ...of the press" was
    historically understood as securing special
    constitutional rights for the institutional press
    (newspapers, magazines, and broadcasters). This
    issue comes up in many fields: campaign finance
    law, libel law, the newsgatherer’s
    privilege, access to government facilities for
    newsgathering purposes, and more. Most recently,
    last year's Citizens United v. FEC decision split
    5-4 on this very question, and not just in
    relation to corporate speech rights.

    This article discusses what the "freedom of the
    press" has likely meant with regard to this
    question, during (1) the decades surrounding the
    ratification of the First Amendment, (2) the
    decades surrounding the ratification of the
    Fourteenth Amendment, and (3) the modern First
    Amendment era. The article focuses solely on the
    history, and leaves the First Amendment theory
    questions to others. And, with regard to the
    history, it offers evidence that the "freedom...
    of the press" has long been understood as meaning
    freedom for all who used the printing press as
    technology -- and, by extension, mass
    communication technology more broadly -- and has
    generally not been limited to those who belonged
    to the institutional press as an industry.

     

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 01:24 PM

 "Obama FEC Filing Confirms No Public Funds for
 Re-Election"

    Roll Call offers this report.

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 12:36 PM

 "Bring Donors Out of the Shadows"

    David Callahan has written this important NYT
    oped.

    Posted by Rick Hasen at 08:49 AM

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