NYT: Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., was convicted on Monday of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they had been used to rig the 2020 election against former… Continue reading

NBC News: Arizona’s ballot will include a major reproductive rights measure this fall alongside the presidential, Senate and other battleground races, putting a key issue directly before voters in the swing state. JP Martin, the deputy communications officer for the… Continue reading

From the WSJ: The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday it was investigating a cyberattack into former President Donald Trump’s campaign that stole internal communications. The announcement is the first sign that the U.S. government has launched a… Continue reading

From the WSJ, so paywalled but here’s an excerpt: Beginning in the spring, Elon Musk quietly blocked out an hour on Fridays for a new pursuit: national politics.  In weekly meetings, consultants and vendors for a super political-action committee… Continue reading

From Sam Levine at the Guardian: There wasn’t anything particularly controversial about Georgia’s presidential primary in March this year. Donald Trump won the Republican contest – picking up a little more than 400,000 more votes than Nikki Haley, who… Continue reading

From John D. Feerick and John Rogan at The Hill, an interesting piece on the 25th Amendment’s role in Nixon’s resignation: Fifty years ago this week, Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency, and it might not have happened—at… Continue reading

Since I’m blogging this week, I want to expand the discussion here a bit from election law, narrowly conceived, to democratic governance more broadly. I have argued since pretty much the start of my career that scholars of “election law”… Continue reading

Thus bad begins (with a nod to Javier Marais). From the Wash Post: Analysts and intelligence experts warned Sunday that wider efforts may be underway by foreign powers to disrupt the U.S. presidential election, after the Trump campaign said it … Continue reading

The 2024 Supplement to our casebook contains new material on AI and democracy; the social-media cases the Court decided this Term; the cases implicating election-law issues involving former President Trump, including the ballot-disqualification decision; and the most recent Court decision… Continue reading

With the start of the Republican Convention and the issues circulating concerning the Democratic Convention, the Task Force on Institutional Reforms to Combat Political Extremism—a group of political scientists, law professors, and others with expertise concerning the institutional structure of… Continue reading

I’ve been writing now for several years about the political fragmentation of democratic politics. The most recent French and UK elections drive home this thesis with unmistakable clarity. France, in particular, illustrates the perversity of how political fragmentation works. On… Continue reading

This Washington Post story is full of examples of how extreme rhetoric turns on the spigot of small donations. This isn’t surprising; as I’ve noted, in the days of direct mail, consultants also understood that extreme rhetoric was a key… Continue reading

Interesting pre-print on these issues: The Ties that Blind: Misperceptions of the Opponent Fringe and the Miscalibration of Political Contempt Victoria A. Parker, Matthew Feinberg, Alexa Tullett, & Anne E. Wilson Abstract Americans’ hostility toward political opponents has intensified to… Continue reading