| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 5/13/11 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 5/12/2011, 9:07 PM |
| To: "law-election@uci.edu" <law-election@uci.edu> |
Could
be. Both state houses are overwhelmingly Democratic.
Here.
BNA:
"Questioning by the three judges in a 90-minute court argument
indicated they may be seriously considering striking the ban on
foreign money in U.S. campaigns, a move previously considered so
unlikely that no legal challenge to the ban has ever been
brought--until now....The judges asked whether the logic of the
Citizens United case, which struck down decades-old restrictions
on federal campaign spending by corporations and unions, should
be extended to campaign money from foreign citizens."
I explore this very issue (and predict the Supreme Court will
ultimately uphold the limit on foreign spending in elections,
despite the inconsistency with Citizens United's logic),
in Citizens
United and the Illusion of Coherence, which recently
appeared in the Michigan Law Review.
Don't
bother targeting the V.P. because he's not important.
The ACLU has issued this
press release.
Here.
They see National Popular Vote "momentum."