Election Law Blog12h
The Court’s Stay in the LA Redistricting Case
From Bloggers in Pajamas to The Gateway Pundit: How Government Entities Do and Should Identify Professional Journalists for Access and Protection, forthcoming in THE FUTURE OF PRESS FREEDOM: DEMOCRACY ...
Election Law Blog12h
CNN [UPDATE: and ABC] will host presidential debate with Biden, Trump, but some questions about its criteria
I blogged some questions about the future of the Commission of Presidential Debates. And my instincts were right. We learned today that the Biden and Trump campaigns have privately back-channeled with ...
Election Law Blog12h
SCOTUS grants stay in LA redistricting case
From Bloggers in Pajamas to The Gateway Pundit: How Government Entities Do and Should Identify Professional Journalists for Access and Protection, forthcoming in THE FUTURE OF PRESS FREEDOM: DEMOCRACY ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Charting the Indicted Crimes in Trump’s New York Criminal Trial”
Download it while it is hot, as Larry Solum might say. In April 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced that his office was bringing a … Continue reading “Charting the Indicted ...
Election Law Blog1d
Out Today: “The Court v. The Voters”
The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights” offers an accessible look at the erosion of voting ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Maximum Convergence Voting: Madisonian Constitutional Theory and Electoral System Design”
I’ve posted on SSRN this paper, to be published in the Florida Law Review. Here’s the abstract: The Madisonian political philosophy upon which the U.S. Constitution rests did not supply the nation ...
Election Law Blog2d
Biden Invests in Organizing Rural Voters
Access to the vote is essential, but so is getting people to the polls. Axios reports that the Biden campaign gets this: It is already “investing in dozens of field offices in some of the nation’s ...
Election Law Blog1d
Candidate-Centered Top-Two Non-Partisan Primary Vulnerable to Manipulation
This obscure but fascinating story from the Seattle Times reveals the vulnerability of top-two non-partisan primaries to partisan manipulation. Democratic Governor Jay Inslee is stepping down, leaving ...
Election Law Blog5d
You Can Pick Up at 50% Off All of My Yale University Press Books, Including Cheap Speech and Election Meltdown, Until May 17
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Election Law Blog2d
“Johnson’s ‘intuition’ clashes with data on illegal voting”
The numbers, agreed on by both left- and right-of-center institutes, speak for themselves: “The Brennan Center study from the 2016 general election showed an estimated 30 incidents of suspected — not ...
Election Law Blog2d
“Georgia Supreme Court declines to rule on whether counties can draw their own electoral maps”
The Georgia Supreme Court refused to issue a ruling, leaving the legality of Cobb County Commissioners’ electoral districts uncertain. The County is Georgia’s third-largest. While the Court agreed ...
Election Law Blog2d
“In top races, Republicans try to stay quiet on Trump’s false 2020 claims”
Washington Post reports that while those auditioning for Vice President maybe embracing Trump’s narrative, Republican candidates in tight races are being intentionally vague, redirecting the focus on ...