“Senate passes bill making hacking voting systems a federal crime”
The legislation passed
the Senate yesterday, and now heads
over to the House.
All posts by Justin Levitt
“States don’t have enough money to secure the 2020 election, new report warns”
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.
2020 Presidential fundraising hits a new record
The Campaign Finance Institute parses
the 2Q returns.
“A ‘Train Wreck’ Was Averted at the Supreme Court, but for How Long?”
Linda Greenhouse on the rule
of law’s near-miss in the census case, and its aftermath.
“The Citizenship Question Is Dead But The Fight Isn’t Over”
The Citizenship Question Is Dead But The Fight Isn’t Over, Part II
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.
“Why Have Democrats Suddenly Become The Anti-Citizenship Party?”
Auguste
Meyrat, in The Federalist, with a slightly different take on the census
controversy.
“After census debacle, White House to knock out senior Commerce official”
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.
A preview of the points of redistricting flux in 2020
With some fascinating data on the fastest
shrinking, and fastest
growing, place in every state.
“2020 Redistricting: An Early Look”
Kyle Kondik reviews partisan
control of the process for Rasmussen.
I’ve got a summary of who’s in charge of what, with the partisan
control as of today, right here for Congress
and here for state
legislatures.
California’s citizens redistricting commission
The
application process is underway, until August 9, with stats (including the
mix of gender, region, ethnicity, and political affiliation) updated regularly here. As of last week, 5000 people have applied for
14 slots.
“Wisconsin bill to end partisan gerrymandering picks up Republican support”
The bill to respond to partisan gerrymandering in the state gets some bipartisan
support after Rucho.
And Miles Rapoport reviews some
of the efforts underway elsewhere.
“William Barr’s donations to Senate Republicans spiked just before they confirmed him as attorney general”
Interesting.
And according to the story, unusual:
Neither Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, nor Eric Holder—the three prior attorneys general—made payments to either party committees or senators ahead of confirmation hearings and votes. Holder gave $250 to the Democratic Senatorial… Continue reading
“Court documents show close contact between Cohen and Trump during hush-money arrangements”
Unsealed copies of the Cohen search warrant materials were
released today based on the close of the campaign finance investigation. Here’s the cover letter. Zoe Tillman’s got links
to the docs.
Phone
records in the documents show Cohen… Continue reading