Steve has a useful Twitter thread on why Eastman’s claim (as reported in the N.Y. Times) that he had inside access to the Justices’ deliberations concerning cases involving the 2020 presidential election might have been dishonest self-promotion on… Continue reading

In advance of today’s January 6 Committee hearing, which will focus on the effort to pressure Pence into nullifying Biden’s Electoral College victory, the N.Y. Times has a disturbing new report–based on additional Eastman emails that the Committee has… Continue reading

Washington Post editorial, which focuses on the problem of local election officials giving improper one-sided and non-transparent access to partisans to examine voting machines in a way that breaches their integrity. (There’s also this Daily Beast story on the… Continue reading

Following up on Derek’s earlier post about this case, The Washington Post reports on the judicial decree that the county commissioners follow the law. It’s a good omen of how courts, hopefully, will handle similar defiance of the law… Continue reading

The Washington Post reports: “The committee’s members and staffers are now discussing whether to spend time during their public hearings exploring Ginni Thomas’s role in the attempt to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, the three people said.”… Continue reading

What earlier looked to be more favorable to the partisan interests of Democrats is now, in the words of this analysis, “perhaps best described as the preservation of a Republican-leaning status quo” as a result of court rulings that… Continue reading

The N.Y. Times reports on efforts by centrists to overturn New Jersey’s ban against fusion voting. Explaining that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a similar challenge to a Minnesota anti-fusion law in 1997, the article discussions how the current NJ… Continue reading

Tom Edsall gave Rick Pildes the last word–actually the last several paragraphs–in his latest column. Here’s just the very end, quoting from Rick’s 2019 Yale Law Journal article: “In an initial flush of romantic enthusiasm, social media and the… Continue reading

The Washington Post details the GOP’s efforts to recruit both poll workers and poll watchers, with the aim of looking for irregularities. Obviously, it will be worrisome if these recruits fabricate bogus claims of election fraud comparable to Trump’s Big… Continue reading

N.Y. Times on the campaign finance angle raised in Monday’s January 6 committee’s hearing. The body of the article dampens the expectations raised by its headline: “The experts said that any investigation of Mr. Trump’s fund-raising would likely target his… Continue reading

Following yesterday’s Washington Post piece along the same lines, the New York Times has an analysis of the extent to which election denialists have won GOP primaries. Jim Marchant’s apparent victory in yesterday’s Republican primary for Nevada’s Secretary of State… Continue reading

The issue of whether the Justice Department should file criminal charges against former President Trump for the deliberate fraud he perpetrated in claiming the election was stolen when he knew it was not, based on the evidence presented by the… Continue reading

This Washington Post editorial is a welcome reminder of the need to fix this glaring flaw in the state’s rules for processing mailed ballots.

538 analysis of new poll it did with Ipsos. (Thanks to Lee Drutman for tweeting this.) Now, can this increased public concern on the topic serve as a basis for the kind of structural reform necessary to reduce the magnification… Continue reading