NYT:
A judge on Wednesday dismissed federal corruption charges against Eric Adams, ending the first criminal case against a New York City mayor in modern history and underscoring how prosecutorial power is being used to advance President Trump’s agenda.
In… Continue reading
WSJ:
Donald Trump’s attorney Boris Epshteyn made a bold assertion during a meeting in late 2023: Trump wouldn’t necessarily be limited to two terms in office.
Speaking to an associate in October 2023 in downtown Washington, Epshteyn pushed back on the… Continue reading
NYT:
A liberal candidate for a pivotal seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court overcame $25 million in spending from Elon Musk and defeated her conservative opponent on Tuesday, The Associated Press reported, in a contest that became a kind of… Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Milwaukee election officials are reporting ballot shortages at voting sites due to what they say is “unprecedented high turnout” in Tuesday’s spring election.
Seven polling sites were totally out of ballots and election officials were working to replenish… Continue reading
AJC:
A federal judge has dismissed an epic court case challenging Georgia’s touchscreen voting system, ending the seven-year lawsuit that uncovered election security vulnerabilities and a breach in Coffee County.
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg closed the case Monday… Continue reading
Issue One:
Nearly 60 bipartisan election officials from across the country are expressing their opposition to the SAVE Act (H.R. 22, S. 128) — federal legislation expected to be voted on in the House of Representatives this week that would… Continue reading
Someone just sent me this screenshot:
This does not pay people to vote, but looks more like the effort to gin up turnout and collect names by sloshing around some money.
A guest post from Michael Rosin, drawn from “Why Did the Framers of Section 3 of the Twentieth Amendment Employ the Term Failed to Qualify?” (forthcoming in South Texas Law Review) and from material in a longer manuscript on… Continue reading
Ben Ginsberg in the Carolina Journal:
Jefferson Griffin’s attempts to invalidate 60,000 North Carolina voters bear haunting parallels to what Al Gore supporters tried to do late in the 2000 Florida recount to take away George W. Bush’s victory. I… Continue reading
WaPo:
Several Democratic groups — including the Democratic National Committee — along with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) on Monday sued the Trump administration over President Donald Trump’s executive … Continue reading
NYT:
President Trump cannot run for a third term as president, barring changes to the Constitution. But that has not stopped him from openly flirting with the idea.
He has floated it publicly and privately, and on Sunday, he said… Continue reading