Wisconsin NPR: The Wisconsin Elections Commission is pushing back on a Republican-ordered report released this week that cast doubt on the 2020 election in Wisconsin, saying the review was full of misunderstandings and outright falsehoods.The report includes an assertion by… Continue reading

Provocative Jason Willick piece at the Wash Post: Where does Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. go to get his apology? His 2019 opinion that federal courts should stay out of partisan state gerrymandering battles was denounced at the time… Continue reading

The Des Moines Register is on top of this story: National Democratic leaders have drafted a proposal that could significantly reshape the party’s presidential nominating process and put an end to Iowa’s prized first-in-the-nation caucuses — a tradition that has… Continue reading

From The Nevada Independent: Republican-backed efforts to challenge Nevada’s electoral maps in court on the heels of redistricting are likely on ice for the 2022 election cycle. A decision by Senior District Judge Robert Estes during a virtual hearing Wednesday… Continue reading

Steve Rosenfeld at The Fulcrum reports on a forthcoming paper on turnout and mail-in voting: States that mailed a ballot to every registered voter in 2020’s presidential election saw voter turnout increase by an average of 5.6 percent, and turnout… Continue reading

Here’s your daily story from the Caspar (Wyoming) Star Tribune: The Donald Trump-endorsed crossover voting bill died Tuesday in the Wyoming House after it was not considered by a legislative deadline.The bill aimed to end same-day party affiliation changes, meaning… Continue reading

From the Financial Times. Sub-heading: “Companies are under pressure to speak out on a wide range of issues. Doing so while avoiding pitfalls will require them to rethink their approach to politics” Companies are “shell-shocked by the frequency of need… Continue reading

From Nate Cohn at NYT: In a departure from a decades-long pattern in American politics, this year’s national congressional map is poised to be balanced between the two parties, with a nearly equal number of districts that are expected… Continue reading

CNN: The Republican National Committee on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, revealing a recent effort by House investigators to unearth information about how the party and the Trump campaign… Continue reading

Washington Post: A judge allowed an election technology company’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News to proceed on Tuesday, though he dismissed specific claims made against host Jeanine Pirro and two of the network’s guests. New York Supreme Court… Continue reading

From Politico Magazine: The honking is constant outside Mark Brnovich’s office. For the last four months, a steady group of protesters have set up shop a few days a week, holding signs with slogans relitigating the 2020 election: “Indictments Now… Continue reading

From Politico: Election officials feel besieged by conspiracy theorists and fear that a lack of support for their work is going to squeeze experts out of the field, according to a new poll.The survey from the Brennan Center for Justice,… Continue reading

Politico: A federal judge will review 111 emails that attorney John Eastman, a key ally in then-President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, has sought to shield from congressional investigators. U.S. District Court Judge David Carter determined… Continue reading

Reuters: Texas legal regulators have asked a judge to discipline attorney Sidney Powell for filing lawsuits they say were frivolous in support of former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud. The disciplinary action is a major development in… Continue reading