Here’s a farewell gift. A swimming Corgi pic.twitter.com/31RnG0A81Q— Good doggos (@DoggoDating) July 20, 2019 … Continue reading
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More on the appointment of Shelby Pierson, from the NYT, NPR, Reuters. … Continue reading
The subject of the DAG’s ire was the criminal contempt vote against the AG, for failure to comply with subpoenas regarding the citizenship question on the decennial enumeration. More from Fox. … Continue reading
Florida gonna Florida. … Continue reading
Courthouse News Service reviews the end of week one of trial. … Continue reading
A snippet of the NYT piece: The Marine Corps said it was not uncommon to encounter politicians using the Eagle, Globe and Anchor, commonly referred to as the E.G.A., and officials routinely send letters telling them to stop. “We encourage … Continue reading
The NY Post discusses some questionable state-PAC spending on a federal race. A related Politico story notes that de Blasio is claiming that his presidential campaign launch video was not a presidential campaign expense. … Continue reading
The WSJ covers the House Oversight letter. … Continue reading
The AP on the nuts and bolts of trying to figure out the right amount of space to upgrade election technology in an unending election environment. … Continue reading
ThinkProgress on the challenged Florida law requiring sufficient parking for early voting sites, and its impact on college voters. … Continue reading
The denial of a preliminary injunction in North Carolina. The opinion is here … with not much by way of explanation. … Continue reading
Wherein J. Christian Adams rails against “personal destruction” and “demonization,” and compares Kris Kobach (or, possibly, himself) to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. … Continue reading
But there are still some “headwinds” ahead (including low unemployment rates) to hiring for the push to come. … Continue reading
A follow-up in the Houston Chronicle to this NPR report a few days ago. … Continue reading
A deeper dive on Wisconsin and the Midwest, using data from the Shor-McCarty American Legislatures Project. … Continue reading
ProPublica on some apparent extended commutes to the EAC. … Continue reading
The decision is here. (h/t, as in everything ballot access, to Richard Winger.) … Continue reading
The plot thicks. Maybe. Earlier this week, I’d mentioned a movement to amend state constitutions to prohibit voting by noncitizens in state elections, even though every state currently prohibits voting by noncitizens in state elections. Now a report featuring speculation … Continue reading
Following on this story, the letter is here. … Continue reading
Shelby Pierson gets the nod for a new federal position to serve as the intelligence community’s principal advisor on election security. This bio fits the very general description in the DNI’s press statement, but I’ll confess I’m not sure if … Continue reading
Pacific Standard notes yet another connection to Andrew Jackson, in the overtime chaos of the Census case. … Continue reading
David Wasserman does some Electoral College math. … Continue reading
Paul Ryan in Just Security on the announced end of the Stormy Daniels campaign finance case. … Continue reading
And maybe there’s an explanation after all. … Continue reading
The Intercept traces funding from foreign nationals through American corporations to super PACs. … Continue reading
Relatedly, the latest proposed amendment to overturn Citizens United was filed yesterday. It would ban private funding of support for or opposition to candidates if the funding isn’t a donation to a candidate’s campaign. I’m not a fan. … Continue reading
Specifically, “untested innovations,” IT implementation, and cybersecurity. The report is here. … Continue reading
Science magazine digs in on the likelihood that non-response follow up, administrative records, and (legally permissible) imputation will be able to compensate for a large-scale chilled response. And local outreach efforts by Census officials continue to try to narrow that … Continue reading
Mekela Panditharatne talks prison gerrymandering in Slate. … Continue reading
Michael Li, in Slate, on the census, citizenship, and representation. Related: the Council on Foreign Relations gets in on the discussion too. … Continue reading
Mississippi cites Gill v. Whitford in contesting challengers’ standing to contest the requirement that statewide candidates win both a majority of the state and a majority of state house districts. And the Court’s refusal to recognize that redistricting problems are … Continue reading
Nathan Gonzales in Roll Call counting an awful lot of chickens: Democrats’ potential challenge in the next round of redistricting will be drawing new lines at the apex of electoral performance. … Continue reading
Facing South on the lawsuits challenging the validity of amendments to the state constitution because they were passed by a legislature elected via unlawful district lines. … Continue reading
An interesting commentary on the debate over fusion voting in New York. … Continue reading
Specifically, Rensselaer apparently indicates that they’re going to share the list of people registering through the DMV, ostensibly to combat illegal immigration (the only relevant list ICE would have, I believe, pertains to individuals overstaying visas). I’m not sure how … Continue reading
We get the election mechanics we pay for. … Continue reading
I’d be most interested in knowing whether this system contemplates a secret ballot or not. … Continue reading
On whether she had direct knowledge of payments to Stormy Daniels, or whether she was “present” when Trump discussed Daniels. The documents unsealed in the Cohen warrant today seem to suggest there may be more to the story. … Continue reading
Thomas Berry makes the case that it does, in Yale’s Notice & Comment administrative law blog. He’s promised more on enforcing that reading tomorrow, with a hint of a note of caution. One note: whether the basic argument is right … Continue reading
Some enlightening answers on interesting questions. She’s spot-on on partisan gerrymandering. And on Spider-Man. … Continue reading
HuffPost follows up on yesterday’s announced settlement. … Continue reading
The legislation passed the Senate yesterday, and now heads over to the House. … Continue reading
A WaPo article on a new Brennan Center report diving into how six states (Alabama, Arizona, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania) used 2018 federal election security grants … and the need each has for much more. … Continue reading
The Campaign Finance Institute parses the 2Q returns. … Continue reading
Linda Greenhouse on the rule of law’s near-miss in the census case, and its aftermath. … Continue reading
David Gans weighs in on the base for representation in redistricting. UPDATE: Keshia Morris does too. … Continue reading
HuffPost on complete count advocacy in hard-to-count communities And a piece from Minnesota on a complete count, but not an over-complete count, of snowbirds. … Continue reading
Auguste Meyrat, in The Federalist, with a slightly different take on the census controversy. … Continue reading
Earl Comstock, top policy director over at Commerce, features heavily in the motion for sanctions over conduct in the litigation over the citizenship question on the census. … Continue reading
With some fascinating data on the fastest shrinking, and fastest growing, place in every state. … Continue reading