From the Washington Post: President Donald Trump and those around him threw a multitude of voter-fraud conspiracy theories at the wall after the 2020 election. And few were as pervasive as the idea that people rose from the dead… Continue reading

WP: The failure to reach agreement on any maps, with time running out to reconvene,marks a stunning departure from the type of redistricting overhaul voters sought when they approved the commission last year. While voters and advocates hoped… Continue reading

From AFP Fact Check: Social media posts call for the decertification of the 2020 US presidential election, citing purported irregularities in the vote. But claims of systemic fraud have been repeatedly debunked, there is no legal process for decertifying the… Continue reading

At Washington Post: Ahead of the 2020 U.S. election, Facebook built a “voting information center” that promoted factual information about how to register to vote or sign up to be a poll worker. Teams at WhatsApp wanted to create a… Continue reading

From AP, the title on the story is “In France, Trump-like TV pundit rocks presidential campaign”: A survivor of the terrible journey to Auschwitz remembered how the youngest wailed. There were 99 children squeezed among 751 adults gasping for… Continue reading

From Politico: The Supreme Court Building has stood at 1 First Street since 1935, a nameless monument in a neighborhood that includes many buildings named after historical figures, like the Thomas Jefferson Building and the James Madison Building, part of… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: In April 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada issued one of the more depressing rulings in its history: Voters, the judges said in a unanimous decision, were constitutionally forbidden from electing members of the Canadian… Continue reading

From NYT: Russia’s premier intelligence agency has launched another campaign to pierce thousands of U.S. government, corporate and think-tank computer networks, Microsoft officials and cybersecurity experts warned on Sunday, only months after President Biden imposed sanctions on Moscow in… Continue reading

From the explosive Rolling Stone story: The two sources, both of whom have been granted anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, describe participating in “dozens” of planning briefings ahead of that day when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol as… Continue reading

The Journal of Democracy has published this new essay of mine. Whether we look to the internal factional struggles currently taking place in the Democratic Party, or the most recent German elections that required putting together a coalition of three… Continue reading

Matt Seligman, Senior Counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, has this 33-page legal analysis on this question. Here’s the abstract: This Essay explains the errors in the theory advanced by John Eastman in a memorandum presented to President Donald Trump… Continue reading

“The Lawyer Behind the Memo on How Trump Could Stay in Office” NYTimes: John Eastman’s path from little-known academic to one of the most influential voices in Donald J. Trump’s ear in the final days of his presidency began… Continue reading

At Equal Citizens.US John Eastman spoke at length with Matt Seligman of the Campaign Legal Center and Larry Lessig. The Washington Post also has a story on the limited coverage this memo has received.

Politico: Senate Republicans are finally coming to the table on elections reform. Sort of.As Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) pursues a longshot bipartisan agreement, some Senate Republicans are engaging in preliminary discussions with him on the issue. Even though Senate… Continue reading