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A Tale Of Two Minority Groups: Can Two Different Minority Groups Bring A Coalition Suit Under Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Sara Michaloski

Catholic University Law Review

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The Fiscal Cliff As Reelection Strategy: Rethinking The Temporary Taxation Debate, Frank Fagan

West Virginia Law Review

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Contracting Around "Citizens United", Ganesh Sitaraman

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC is widely considered a major roadblock for campaign finance reform, and particularly for limiting third party spending in federal elections. In response to the decision, commentators, scholars, and activists have outlined a wide range of legislative and regulatory proposals to limit the influence of third party spending, including constitutional amendments, public financing programs, and expanded disclosure rules. To date, however, they have not considered the possibility that third party spending can be restrained by a self-enforcing private contract between the opposing campaigns. This Essay argues that private ordering, rather than public …

Evaluating Candidacy Restrictions: The Implications Of New York's Modified Approach, Brian Hodgkinson

Touro Law Review

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Party-Based Corruption And Mccutcheon V. Fec, Michael S. Kang

NULR Online

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Business Lobbying As An Informational Public Good: Can Tax Deductions For Lobbying Expenses Promote Transparency?, Michael Halberstam, Stuart G. Lazar

Journal Articles

The view that “lobbying is essentially an informational activity” has persistently served the suggestion that lobbying provides a public good by educating legislators about policy and the consequences of legislation.

In this article, we link a proposed tax reform with a substantive disclosure requirement to promote the kind of “information subsidy” that serves the public interest, while mitigating – at least to some extent – the distortion that may result from the imbalance of financial resources on the business side and other institutional contraints identified in the literature. We argue that corporate lobbying should be encouraged – by allowing business …

Anything But Mickey Mouse: Legal Issues In The 2012 Wisconsin Gubernatorial Recall, Steven M. Biskupic

Marquette Law Review

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker faced only the third gubernatorial recall in the nation’s history and was the first to survive. From a legal perspective, the 2012 Walker recall involved equally unique issues arising from the Wisconsin Constitution and obscure state statutes. This Article reviews the history of recall in Wisconsin and examines three significant legal issues that arose during the Walker recall: (1) litigation over review of submitted recall signatures; (2) unlimited campaign finance contributions; and (3) the scheduling of the recall election. The Article concludes that an assessment of the historical nature of the Walker recall is incomplete without …

Unions And Campaign Finance Litigation, Charlotte Garden

Nevada Law Journal

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Citizenship At Work: How The Supreme Court Politically Marginalized Public Employees, Ruben J. Garcia

Nevada Law Journal

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The Recent History Of Gerrymandering In Florida: Revitalizing Davis V. Bandemer And Florida’S Constitutional Requirements On Redistricting, Devon Ombres

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Reexamining Crawford: Poll Worker Error As A Burden On Voters, Lauren Watts

Washington Law Review

American elections are administered by poll workers—individuals who are recruited and trained by states and localities for the particular task of helping people vote on Election Day. Several layers of law govern poll workers, including federal constitutional law, federal statutory law, state constitutional law, state statutory law, and local law. Among these laws are voter photo identification laws, or voter ID laws. Nineteen states have passed voter ID laws in the last ten years. With some variation, these laws require a person to present photo identification before he or she is allowed to vote. In 2008, the United States Supreme …

Unions As Conduits Of Democratic Voice For Non-Elites: Worker Politicization From The Shop Floor To The Halls Of Congress, Michael Wasser, J. Ryan Lamare

Nevada Law Journal

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Undermining Or Promoting Democratic Government?: An Economic And Empirical Analysis Of The Two Views Of Public Sector Collective Bargaining In American Law, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Mohammad Khan

Nevada Law Journal

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Boden Lecture: The Real Problem With Citizens United: Campaign Finance, Dark Money, And Shadow Parties, Heather K. Gerken

Marquette Law Review

Boden Lecture given at Marquette University Law School on October 7, 2013

Shelby And The Sisyphean Struggle For Black Enfranchisement, Rick Valelly

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Super Pac Contributions, Corruption, And The Proxy War Over Coordination, Richard L. Hasen

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To End Government Shutdowns, End Partisan Gerrymandering, Sanford Levinson

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Race Or Party?: How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts To Make It Harder To Vote In North Carolina And Elsewhere, Richard L. Hasen

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Hungary: An Election In Question, Kim Lane Scheppele

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The Last Stand: Restricting Voting Rights & Sustaining White Power In Modern America, Desmond S. King, Rogers M. Smith

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What Became Of Fundamental Rights?: Of Voter Ids And Voting Rights, Carol Nackenoff

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The Popular Sovereignty Foundations Of The Right To Vote, Franita Tolson

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In recent years, courts and commentators have focused on the federalism-based limits on the power of the federal government, with significantly less attention given to similar constraints on state power. It is not surprising, therefore, that both camps have overlooked that the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, with their reservation of both rights and power “to the people” contain a popular sovereignty principle that affects the constitutionality of various state election law regulations. This goal of this Article is to reaffirm that the people are, in essence, part of the federalism equation, and not simply as protectors of state power, but …

Are Elections Necessary?, Sanford Levinson

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The Roberts-Kennedy Court And Post-Political Democracy, Zephyr Teachout

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This Essay explores the ideological underpinnings of the modern Supreme Court’s election law decisions, arguing that the Court does not have a strong commitment to federalism or to unfettered debate or to the mistrustful citizen. Instead, the opinions reveal a complacency about corruption and a narrow view of the role of citizens. The Essay is part of a volume on neoliberalism for Law and Contemporary Problems.

Transparent Adjudication: Promoting Democratic Dialogue On Judicial Conceptions Of Politics, Bertrall L. Ross Ii

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The Idea Of Democracy In The Early Republic, Keith Whittington

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"Lotteries As An Alternative Selection Method For Representatives", Hélène Landemore

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Why Campaign Finance Matters, Prithviraj Datta

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Due to the combination of a host of factors – among them being the Supreme Court decision in the case of Citizens United v FEC, the not-entirely-unrelated explosion of Super PACs as a political force in electoral politics, and the tremendous increase in the amounts that candidates and parties have been spending in their campaign efforts – the issue of campaign finance has, once again, rise to prominence in scholarly and public debate. Unsurprisingly, given the highly polarized and divisive political environment in which we live, the debate over campaign finance is characterized by a sharp cleavage of opinion …

Compulsory Voting, Howard Schweber

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Abolish Districts, Corinna Barrett Lain

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