Monthly Archives: September 2016

“FCC Has Failed to Protect Voters’ Right to Know Who Is Behind Political Ads in Election 2016”

September 26, 2016, 8:03 amcampaignsRick Hasen

Release: The Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Sunlight Foundation and Benton Foundation today filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to take immediate action against WCPO-TV of Cincinnati for failure to comply with the longstanding public… Continue reading

“Voting Rights: Will Court Protections Deliver?”

September 26, 2016, 7:52 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Allegra Chapman for TAP.

“Judge denies bid to block Arizona ballot harvesting law”

September 26, 2016, 7:25 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: A federal judge rejected a bid Friday to block an Arizona law prohibiting get-out-the-vote groups from collecting early ballots, striking a blow against Democrats. U.S. District Court Judge Douglas L. Rayes shot down Democratic groups’ request for an injunction… Continue reading

“Election Law: Rights, Remedies, and Recent Cases”

September 25, 2016, 9:09 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Symposium issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: Volume 39 – Issue 2 Election Law: Rights, Remedies, and Recent Cases 333 Foreword Charles Fried 341 People ≠ Legislature Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash & John Yoo 371 Perpetuating “One … Continue reading

“Court Leader or Leading Dissenter? Chief Justice’s Fate Tied to Election”

September 25, 2016, 8:37 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Important Adam Liptak Sidebar column.

President Tim Kaine?

September 25, 2016, 8:35 pmelectoral collegeRick Hasen

Sandy Levinson spins out the low (but not ridiculously low)-odds constitutional crisis.

“Meet the Dems’ chief weapon against remap reform: Michael Kasper”

September 25, 2016, 3:44 pmelection law biz, redistrictingRick Hasen

Crain’s Chicago Business: The go-to election lawyer for Mike Madigan and Rahm Emanuel is mildly horrified to hear some attorneys call him “the dean” of the election bar. The jolt comes during a rare interview with Michael Kasper, general… Continue reading

“New laws and rulings could cause Election Day confusion”

September 25, 2016, 3:35 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Extensive AP report: With more than 120 million Americans expected to cast ballots for president this fall, the nation’s voting process seems more convoluted than ever and rife with potential for confusion come Election Day. Voting rules vary widely… Continue reading

“Hillary Clinton Endorsed By Campaign Finance Reformers”

September 25, 2016, 3:28 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

HuffPo: The campaign finance reform organization Every Voice made its first endorsement in a presidential election on Friday, backing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Every Voice, which used to be known as Public Campaign Action Fund, has endorsed candidates from both… Continue reading

“Why it’s so hard to know who is funding the marijuana legalization battle”

September 25, 2016, 3:26 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

OC Register: One published media report this month said the campaign to legalize marijuana in California had raised $18 million. Within days, other major news outlets pegged the total at just one-third that amount, while a nonprofit campaign watchdog group… Continue reading

“Trump campaign quarrels over money woes”

September 25, 2016, 11:36 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Politico reports.

Full Court Press to Get #SCOTUS to Take Up WI #JohnDoe Case (As It Should)

September 25, 2016, 11:34 amcampaign finance, campaigns, judicial elections, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Lincoln Caplan in the New Yorker. Billy Corriher at Think Progress.

Mark Joseph Stern Wrong on Ballot Selfies

September 25, 2016, 11:31 amcampaigns, chicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Here’s the part in Slate that’s most objectionable to me: Second, the (still relatively rare) instances of voter fraud to which Hasen alludes likely would not have been foiled by a ballot selfie ban. Vote-buying almost always occurs through mail-in… Continue reading

“Ninth Circuit Won’t Strike Down Arizona’s February Petition Deadline Because Green Party Submitted No Evidence that Early Deadline Injured It”

September 25, 2016, 11:16 amballot access, third partiesRick Hasen

BAN: On September 23, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Arizona Green Party v Reagan, 14-15976, saying that the party’s challenge to the February petition deadline for new parties fails because the Green Party submitted no evidence that… Continue reading