Rolling Stone: The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol has obtained a trove of electronic messages from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, including an email referring to a PowerPoint suggesting Trump… Continue reading

Coverage from Politico. Nearly a million noncitizens in New York City will be able to vote in municipal elections under legislation that passed the City Council on Thursday.New York will become the largest city in the country to approve… Continue reading

CNN coverage of the D.C. Circuit’s decision here. The decision itself is here. The central question in this case is whether, despite the exceptional and imperative circumstances underlying the Committee’s request and President Biden’s decision, a federal court… Continue reading

The district court hearing the challenge to SB 202, Georgia’s recent package of voting restrictions, denied in its entirety the defendants’ motion to dismiss. Of note, the court treated Brnovich as simply identifying a few more factors that courts may… Continue reading

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The House passed this major bill seeking to prevent various Trump-era presidential abuses from recurring. From the NYT: The House on Thursday passed a sweeping package of constraints on presidential power, which Democrats framed as a response to Donald J.… Continue reading

Kevin Johnson and Alexander Vanderklipp on the ongoing effort in Wisconsin to go in exactly the wrong direction by giving the gerrymandered legislature more control over elections. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has repeated the call for his state’s legislature to… Continue reading

Bernie Grofman and Sean Trende released their draft maps for the Virginia Supreme Court’s review. Of particular interest, they explicitly considered partisan fairness in their analysis of their maps, concluding that they were quite balanced. The Statutory Criteria also require… Continue reading

An illuminating CNN report on the attacks on minority political power that are occurring, especially at the local level, now that Section 5 is no longer operative. I wrote about these dynamics in this article in Shelby County’s aftermath. Nicole… Continue reading

In an order this evening, the North Carolina Supreme Court delayed the state’s primary until May 17, 2022, halted candidate filing, and ordered the trial court to reach a ruling on the merits of the plaintiffs’ redistricting claims by mid-January.… Continue reading

The Election Reformers Network published this useful discussion of nonpartisan election administration in Canada. As many scholars have argued, nonpartisan election administration is obviously preferable to the U.S. model of partisans running elections. If only we could solve the here-to-there… Continue reading

Larry Norden and Derek Tisler posted this analysis of one way in which election subversion could occur — undemocratic activities by rogue election officials. What happens if such people are entrusted with administering our elections? We are witnessing the first… Continue reading

Renee Knake Jefferson published this piece in the Yale Law Journal Forum. Abstract below. Lawyer lies designed to sabotage valid election results are not protected political speech under the First Amendment. Ethics rules governing candor and frivolous litigation require sanctions,… Continue reading

Free Speech For People and Campaign for Accountability filed suit against the FEC today over its failure to investigate a now five-year-old complaint regarding Russia’s financial involvement in the 2016 election and contact between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.… Continue reading