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En Banc 5th Circuit, on a Vote of 12-2, with One of Trump’s Appointees Issuing a Blistering Dissent, Denies Rehearing to Consider Challenge to Austin’s $350 Contribution Limit

April 19, 2018, 7:51 amcampaign financeRick Hasen
Via How Appealing comes news of this vote to deny rehearing en banc in Zimmerman v. City of Austin. The vote is not all that surprising given that since Randall v. Sorrell, courts generally have not struck down campaign finance… Continue reading

L.A.’s Experience Shows the Importance of the Ban on Direct Corporate Contributions to Candidates

August 16, 2015, 8:59 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen
The LAT has a great story, Follow the Money: It’s Not So Easy.  It talks about the difficulty of preventing corruption, providing information to voters, and enforcing the individual contribution limits when entities are also allowed to directly contribute… Continue reading

Federal Court Enjoins Houston Time Limits on Campaign Financing

January 9, 2015, 5:59 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen
Teddy Schleifer for the Houston Chronicle: A federal judge issued a temporary injunction Friday, knocking out Houston’s fundraising blackout rule which prevents city candidates from raising money before Feb. 1 of an election year. You can find the 42-page ruling… Continue reading

In Significant Action, Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case to Allow Corporate Contributions Directly to Candidates

February 25, 2013, 7:34 amcampaign financeRick Hasen
Via SCOTUSBlog comes the news that the Supreme Court, without comment, has denied cert. in Danielczyk v. U.S.,The decision not to hear the case is significant, because it means the Supreme Court majority, which has shown hostility to campaign finance… Continue reading

Guess What the Montana GOP Did in the Short Window When the State Had No Contribution Limits?

October 17, 2012, 2:46 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen
Missoulian: “The Montana Republican Party donated $500,000 to gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill and approximately $30,000 to attorney general candidate Tim Fox after a judge struck down the state’s campaign contribution limits.” More here. We saw a similar move… Continue reading

Unanimous Ninth Circuit Panel Extends Stay of Montana Campaign Contributions Case Pending Appeal

October 16, 2012, 3:14 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen
Following up on this post, the Ninth Circuit motions panel, in an opinion by Judge Bybee, unanimously stayed the district court order which would have had the effect of removing most of the contribution limits in the state of… Continue reading

8th Circuit Unanimously Rejects Challenge to MN Corporate Contribution Ban; Divides on Disclosure Requirements

September 5, 2012, 9:23 amcampaign financeRick Hasen
The Eighth Circuit has issued its en banc opinion in the Swanson case.  The Eighth Circuit now joins the Second, Fourth (after the rejection of the district court decision in Danielczyk) and Ninth Circuits (in the Thalheimer case in which… Continue reading

Very Interesting Vermont Campaign Finance Ruling

July 3, 2012, 12:01 amcampaign financeJustin Levitt
Another interesting campaign finance case filed by the Right to Life Committees, and another interesting campaign finance case out of Vermont.  The decision on summary judgment denied the plaintiffs’ challenges to the application of Vermont’s law.  Along the way, the… Continue reading

Thalheimer Case Concludes, Creating Good 9th Circuit Precedent

March 19, 2012, 8:54 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen
The time to appeal has passed in the litigation over challenges to a number of City of San Diego campaign finance laws. [Disclosure: I am one of the lawyers for the City of San Diego.]  The case went to the… Continue reading

“Down the Rabbit Hole with Citizens United: Are Bans on Corporate Direct Campaign Contributions Still Constitutional?”

March 13, 2012, 7:46 amcampaign financeRick Hasen
Jason Campbell has published this student note in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.  Here is the abstract: Since the early twentieth century, the Tillman Act has barred corporations from contributing directly to candidates for federal office. In Citizens… Continue reading

Montana Supreme Court Campaign finance Decision Affront to the “Rule of Law”?

February 22, 2012, 11:06 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
That’s Allen Dickerson’s claim.  Oh please.  The Montana Supreme Court took Justice Kennedy at his word and looked at the state’s evidence of corruption to justify its law.  That might be wrong—but it is not defying the rule of… Continue reading

Two Perspectives on Thalheimer Campaign Finance Litigation in San Diego

February 2, 2012, 8:31 amcampaign financeRick Hasen
From Gil Cabrera of the San Diego Ethics Commission and T.J. Zane of the Lincoln Club.  [Disclosure: I am one of the attorneys for the City of San Diego in this litigation.]

National Law Journal on the Thalheimer Case

January 23, 2012, 9:08 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen
Here.

Breaking News: Federal District Court in San Diego Upholds Corporate/Non-Individual Contribution Ban, Strikes Down $1,000 Political Party Contribution Limit

January 20, 2012, 12:14 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen
Agreeing with the Second Circuit and Eighth Circuit (now up on en banc appeal) and disagreeing with the district court in the Danielczyk case (now on appeal to the 4th Circuit), a federal district court in San Diego today had… Continue reading

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Recent Books by Rick Hasen

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–and How to Cure It

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–and How to Cure It

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics--and How to Cure It (Yale University Press, 2022)
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Named one of the best books on disinformation by the New York Times

Election Law–Cases and Materials

Election Law–Cases and Materials

Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (with Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Daniel P. Tokaji, and Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos)

Election Meltdown

Election Meltdown book cover

Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
(Yale University Press, 2020)

Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples & Explanations

Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples & Explanations

Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples & Explanations (2d ed. Wolters Kluwer, 2020)

Recent ELB Podcast Episodes

The ELB Podcast

The ELB Podcast

Season 3, Episode 8 Wendy Weiser: Assessing the State of American Elections and Democracy
Season 3, Episode 7: Mike Haas: The Mess with Wisconsin's Elections
Season 3, Episode 6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Case, But Were Too Confused to Ask
Season 3, Episode 5: Bart Gellman, Jessica Huseman, and Margaret Sullivan: What Can (and Should) Journalists Do to Prevent Election Subversion and Another January 6?
Season 3, Episode 4: Pam Fessler: The Voting Wars and the Media, Then and Now
Season 3, Episode 3: Guy Charles: Race and Election Law in Today's United States
Season 3, Episode 2: Brad Raffensperger & Isabel Longoria: The Risk of Election Subversion
Season 3, Episode 1: Nate Persily: A Redistricting Season Like No Other

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Recent Op-Eds & Commentaries by Rick Hasen

It’s Hard to Overstate the Danger of the Voting Case the Supreme Court Just Agreed to Hear, Slate, June 30, 2022

No One is Above the Law, and that Starts with Donald Trump, N.Y. Times, June 24, 2022

The Jan. 6 Committee Should Be Looking Ahead to Election Threats in 2024, Wash. Post, June 8, 2022

The One Group That Can Stop Elon Musk from Unbanning Trump on Twitter, Slate, May 10, 2022

Facebook and Twitter Could Let Trump Back Online. But He’s Still a Danger, Washington Post, Mar. 9, 2022

How Supreme Court Radicalism Could Threaten Democracy Itself, Slate, Mar. 8, 2022

How to Keep the Rising Tide of Fake News from Drowning Our Democracy, N.Y. Times, Mar. 7, 2022

North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Decimate Voting Rights in Every State, Slate, Feb. 25, 2022

What Democrats Need From Mitch McConnell to Make an Election Reform Deal Worth It, Slate, Jan. 4, 2022

No One is Coming to Save Us from the ‘Dagger at the Throat of America,’ N.Y. Times, Jan. 7, 2022

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Recent Academic Articles and Working Papers by Rick Hasen

Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States, 135 Harvard Law Review Forum 265 (2022)

Research Note: Record Election Litigation Rates in the 2020 Election: An Aberration or a Sign of Things to Come?, Election Law Journal, https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.1089/elj.2021.0050 (2022)

Optimism and Despair About a 2020 “Election Meltdown” and Beyond, 100 Boston University Law Review Online 298 (2020) (part of symposium on my book, Election Meltdown)

Three Pathologies of American Voting Rights Illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and How to Treat and Cure Them, Election Law Journal (2020)

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Recent Books by ELB Contributors

Gerkin – The Democracy Index

Gerkin – The Democracy Index

The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It
by Heather K. Gerken

Persily – Social Media and Democracy

Persily – Social Media and Democracy

Social Media and Democracy
(Cambridge Press, 2020)
by Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker

Pildes – The Law of Democracy

Pildes – The Law of Democracy

The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process, 6th ed.
(Foundation Press, 2022)
by Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela S. Karlan, Richard H. Pildes, Nathaniel Persily, and Franita Tolson

Tokaji – Election Law in a Nutshell

Tokaji – Election Law in a Nutshell

Election Law in a Nutshell (2d ed., West Academic Publishing, 2017)
by Daniel P. Tokaji

Podcasts by ELB Contributors

Tolson – Free and Fair Podcast

Tolson – Free and Fair Podcast

Free & Fair with Franita and Foley
Franita Tolson and Edward Foley

Recent Articles by ELB Contributors

Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Networking the Party: First Amendment Rights & the Pursuit of Responsive Party Government, 118 Colum. L. Rev. 1225 (2018).

Bruce E. Cain, Wendy K. Tam Cho, Yan Y. Liu & Emily R. Zhang, A Reasonable Bias Approach to Gerrymandering: Using Automated Plan Generation to Evaluate Redistricting Proposals, 59 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1521 (2018).

Edward B. Foley, Requiring Majority Winners for Congressional Elections: Harnessing Federalism to Combat Extremism (May 10, 2021). Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 61

Anita S. Krishnakumar, Cracking the Whole Code Rule (February 19, 2020). St. John’s Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-0002, New York University Law Review, Forthcoming

Justin Levitt, Failed Elections and the Legislative Selection of Electors, __ N.Y.U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2021)

Derek T. Muller, Weaponizing the Ballot. 48 Florida State University Law Review 61 (2021)

Spencer Overton, Power to Regulate Social Media Companies to Prevent Voter Suppression. GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-23, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2020-23, 53 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1793 (2020)

Nicholas Stephanopoulos, The Sweep of the Electoral Power (October 20, 2020). Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 21-07

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