In Re Hecht’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “In effect, the commission has reinserted the heretofore rejected “endorsement” prohibition into Canon 5(2), thereby recasting the meaning of the “authorization” provision. In so doing, the commission has entirely ignored, if not dismissed, the importance of the pivotal term “authorized” in its pleadings, its evidence, and its arguments. * * * [I]f the Supreme Court had intended by its 1990 amendments to reinstate the 1974 “endorsement” prohibition, it would have done so, but it did not. Instead, it used substantially different language by adding the “authorization” provision. We conclude the Texas Supreme Court intended for the 1990 amendment inserting the “authorization” provision into the Canon governing political activity to effect a substantial change, not simply a technical refinement, from the “endorsement” prohibition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of El Cenizo v. Texas

2. “'The primary meaning of 'authorize' is to empower, or give a right to act'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Idowu v. Nesbitt