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Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination Ellen D University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Articles Faculty Scholarship 2009 Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination Ellen D. Katz University of Michigan Law School, [email protected] Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles/1032 Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles Part of the Election Law Commons, Law and Politics Commons, and the Supreme Court of the United States Commons Recommended Citation Katz, Ellen D. "Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination." Election L. J. 8, no. 4 (2009): 369-81. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ELECTION LAW JOURNAL Volume 8, Number 4, 2009 Original Article © Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/elj.2008.0031 Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination Ellen D. Katz INTRODUCTION the superdelegates came to be seen as occupants of a smoke-filled room. The image was apt, for it is N THE FIRST weeks of 2008, the Supreme Court this power, rather than location or atmosphere, that Iturned back a constitutional challenge to the con- provides the defining characteristic of the smoke- trolling influence party leaders exerted over nomi- filled room. nations for elective judicial office in New York This article compares the nomination process em- State. New York State Board of Elections v. Lopez ployed by the Democratic Party to select its presi- Torres found nothing unconstitutional in selecting dential nominee with the one the Supreme Court up- candidates in “‘smoke-filled rooms’ . dominat[ed] held in the Lopez Torres decision. Specifically, it 1 by party leaders.” compares the nomination process Barack Obama The Justices said so just as national attention was traversed en route to the presidency with the pro- turning to the critical role Democratic superdele- cess New Yorker Margarita Lopez Torres con- gates were playing in the selection of the Democ- fronted when she sought her party’s nomination to ratic presidential nominee. These party leaders become a trial judge in Brooklyn. found themselves vested with controlling power to These processes were, of course, vastly different select their party’s nominee independent of or even in scale and public salience. Obama’s presidential counter to the will of the party’s rank and file. This bid captured worldwide attention, while Lopez Tor- power was widely seen as ill-advised and even ille- res’s candidacy was barely noticed, garnering just a 2 gitimate, and was why the superdelegates came to few isolated articles in the local press. Obama, be understood as an embodiment of the smoke-filled moreover, was an unusually talented candidate, who 3 room. ran a high profile, well-funded campaign that The superdelegates, to be sure, exercised back- elicited passionate support and generated tremen- room decisionmaking of a nontraditional sort. They dous turnout. Lopez Torres meanwhile struggled made their decisions well before the Denver con- with limited funds and voter apathy. vention, and did so as individuals, not as a collec- Hindsight, however, can be misleading. When tive body assembled in a single room, smoky or oth- Obama embarked on his quest for the presidency, erwise. Many superdelegates, moreover, explicitly based their decisions on the views expressed by the party’s rank and file. Still, no party rule compelled 1 128 S.Ct. 791, 799 (2008). the superdelegates to do so, and, in fact, the party 2 See, e.g., Gail Chaddock, If Superdelegates Pick Nominee, De- created these “unpledged delegates” so they could mocrats Face Backlash, CHRISTIAN SCI. MONITOR, Feb. 20, rally against popular candidates they deemed un- 2008; Lopez Torres and the Democrats, N.Y. SUN, Feb. 12, likely to prevail in the general election.4 When this 2008; Ari Emanuel, My Brother the Superdelegate and Why I Don’t Trust Him to Pick the Next President, The Huffington power emerged as decisive for the first time in 2008, Post, Feb. 10, 2008; Theodore B. Olson, Clinton v. Obama: The Lawsuit, WALL ST. JOURNAL., Feb. 11, 2008; John Yoo, The Democrats’ Super Disaster, WALL ST. JOURNAL, (March 24, 2008). Ellen D. Katz is Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law 3 See, e.g., Olson, supra note 2; Yoo, supra note 2. School. Thanks to Jason Miller for excellent research assistance. 4 See JULES WITCOVER, PARTY OF THE PEOPLE 619–20 (2003). 369 370 KATZ he resembled Lopez Torres in nontrivial ways. Both New York State’s judicial nomination system. were underdog candidates with credible credentials While the Justices were quite right that a nomina- for the office they sought. Obama was a first term tion process that relies on a smoke-filled room is sitting senator who had sparked national interest but not inherently suspect or even ill-advised, this base- was not yet a household name; Lopez Torres was line legitimacy should not have precluded further an able civil court judge who had been elected with judicial inquiry. All smoke-filled rooms are not the substantial public support. Both candidates also same, and nomination processes may employ them shared the distinction of having annoyed the lead- to very different effect. ers of their party: Obama with his brash refusal to The Court in Lopez Torres feared it would be un- delay his bid, and Lopez Torres for refusing to make able to distinguish the good from the bad in nomi- patronage hires in her civil court chambers. nating processes that rely on backroom decision- What makes the comparison most appropriate, making. But the differences between the process however, is that both candidates traversed complex Obama traversed and the one Lopez Torres con- nomination processes that were curiously similar in fronted are both discernible and capable of facili- structure. Both systems relied on decentralized tating structured judicial review. Penetrability and state-run primaries to select delegates to attend contestability matter not because either is constitu- party-run conventions that chose the party’s nomi- tionally required, but rather because a nominating nee. And in both regimes, party leaders enjoyed dis- system in which both are either wholly absent or in cretionary power to determine the nominee regard- combination insufficiently robust may suffer from less of the views of the party’s rank and file. defects of constitutional dimension. Examining the Operating within these regimes, Obama was able degree to which a nominating process possesses to mount a credible—and ultimately successful— these characteristics is an examination in which challenge to the leadership’s choice for the nomi- courts can and should engage. nation while Lopez Torres could not. This article The Justices may well disagree, but Lopez Tor- offers an explanation why. It argues that Obama suc- res is hardly proof that they do. Instead, the deci- ceeded where Lopez Torres failed because the nom- sion appears to have been animated by a distinct ination process Obama traversed was more pene- concern. Specifically, the Justices worried New trable and more contestable than the one Lopez York would replace the nominating system the Torres faced. lower courts invalidated with something much In particular, the structural hurdles Obama con- worse. The Court has never much liked judicial elec- fronted in pursuing his candidacy—from gaining ac- tions,5 and vindicating the complaint in Lopez Tor- cess to the ballot in every state to his ability to lobby res promised—though hardly guaranteed6—New superdelegates attending the convention—were rela- York would replace its “sham” judicial elections tively and in certain respects absolutely less onerous with real ones. Whatever the Justices made of the than the ones Lopez Torres needed to navigate. hard fought contest between Senators Obama and Obama, moreover, faced a competitive general elec- Clinton, they had no desire to see it replicated where tion once he secured his party’s nomination. The nom- judicial offices were at stake. Fine for the presi- inee in the process Lopez Topez traversed did not. dency, perhaps, but for judges, any smoke-filled Because the nomination process Obama faced room was to be preferred. was more penetrable and more contestable than the one Lopez Torres confronted, the superdelegates were forced to take Obama’s candidacy seriously TWO NOMINATING PROCEDURES and they were held accountable for their decisions. Lopez Torres, by contrast, was unable to compel se- Margarita Lopez Torres first decided to seek her rious consideration of her candidacy. Party leaders party’s nomination to be a state supreme court jus- ignored her with impunity. tice in New York’s Second Judicial District in The differences between the two nominating sys- tems, however, do more than explain the success of one candidate and the failure of another. They also 5 See Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 536 U.S. 765, 787–88 (2002); see also id. at 788–792 (O’Connor, J., concur- suggest that the Supreme Court may have been too ring). hasty in dismissing the constitutional challenge to 6 See infra note 89 and accompanying text. OBAMA, LOPEZ TORRES, AND THE PATH TO NOMINATION 371 1997.7 A decade later, Illinois Senator Barack do), she needed to enlist nearly 250 people to run, Obama announced he would be seeking the Demo- and secure 124,000 qualified signatures from the cratic Party’s nomination for the presidency. various assembly districts located in Brooklyn and Securing the nomination to these very different Staten Island that comprise the Second Judicial offices required each candidate to traverse nomina- District.10 Accomplishing this would have re- tion processes that looked similar in important re- quired obtaining nearly a quarter million signa- spects.
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