Derek Clinger has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Case Western Law Review). Here is the abstract:
After Ohioans overwhelmingly approved an initiated statute in 2023 legalizing adult-use marijuana and establishing a regulatory framework for the new commercial industry, state… Continue reading
Camille Aynes and Eleonora Bottini blog:
It was a political bombshell. On Monday, 31 March 2025, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right party Rassemblement National (National Rally) in France, was convicted of misappropriation of public funds in the so-called… Continue reading
Court order:
BREAKING: NC Supreme Court has temporarily blocked appeals court decision that would've disqualified roughly 267 ballots and required more than 61,000 voters to cure registration/ballot deficiencies within 15 business days in order for their votes to count. Story… Continue reading
Deuel Ross has written this fascinating article for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Here is the abstract:
Voting is an act of faith. Faith that your vote will matter. Faith that your vote will make a difference.… Continue reading
NY Times:
When President Trump returned to office, his rivals and law enforcement officials feared he would follow through on his pledges to use the Justice Department and F.B.I. to investigate and even imprison his perceived enemies.
But since winning… Continue reading
Season 6, Episode 7 of the ELB Podcast:
How did campaigning and false information in campaigns change in the 2024 elections?
What role did platform content moderation play in 2024?
Is generative AI going to change campaigns in 2028 and… Continue reading
Peter Baker for the NYT:
After President Trump said last year that he wanted to be a dictator for a day, he insisted that he was only joking. Now he is saying that he may try to hold onto… Continue reading
“That’s when I was trying to buy the election in Wisconsin. I’m an idiot. I should have just bought Wisconsin.”
–“Elon Musk,” played by Mike Myers, in SNL cold opening, explaining why he came out to a White House… Continue reading
Glenn Wright, Ben Reilly and David Lublin have published this article in the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy. Here is the abstract:
In recent years, ranked choice voting (RCV) has emerged as a leading electoral reform, often in… Continue reading
CNN:
Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday, organized by a pro-democracy movement in response to what they call a “hostile takeover” and attack on… Continue reading
NYT:
When President Trump abruptly fired the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command on Thursday, it was the latest in a series of moves that have torn away at the country’s cyberdefenses just as they are… Continue reading
WaPo:
More than 500 law firms on Friday denounced President Donald Trump’s campaign to punish individual firms, calling his actions abuses of power that endanger the rule of law.
The firms said in a court filing thatTrump’s orders are… Continue reading