Analysis from Cato’s Walter Olson of an emerging set of issues:
The controversy involves two different information formats often confused with each other that should be kept straight. Cast vote records are electronic summaries of individual ballots and the choices… Continue reading
From Axios:No Labels — the bipartisan group plotting a third-party presidential bid — is pulling the plug on its Dallas convention next spring and will instead conduct its “selection process virtually,” Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The group… Continue reading
From ABC News:
One of former president Donald Trump’s current attorneys told special counsel Jack Smith’s team that, within days of the Justice Department issuing a subpoena last year for all classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, she “very clearly”… Continue reading
Politico:
At 11:08 p.m. on Dec. 30, 2020, days before Donald Trump prepared to install Jeff Clark atop the Justice Department amid his frenzied push to remain in power, Clark got a text from one key ally, Rep. Scott… Continue reading
From NYT:
Two Republican county supervisors in Arizona were indicted Wednesday on felony charges related to their attempts to delay the certification of 2022 election results.
Kris Mayes, the state attorney general, announced in a statement that Peggy Judd and… Continue reading
Appears from this story that the lower courts held that this was a partisan gerrymander, but that it was not an “egregious” partisan gerrymander, and therefore it did not violate the state constitution. But can’t tell anything from the Supreme… Continue reading
Donald Trump seeks to re-litigate the 2020 election as part of his criminal defense. From the NYT:
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump said in court papers that they planned to question the findings of several government agencies… Continue reading
Maureen Edobor is a new election-law academic recently hired as an assistant professor at Washington and Lee. Here’s an excerpt from a piece she just published in The Hill, which criticizes the 8th Circuit’s holding that no private right of… Continue reading
From Randall Elliason in the NYT:
If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024, it’s now clear he will likely still have criminal indictments hanging over his head on Election Day. It’s possible that his criminal liability… Continue reading
This is an issue that comes up regularly: whether legislators can be deposed in redistricting and voting-rights litigation when purpose-based challenges are made to these laws. From Scotus blog:
The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon denied a request from the… Continue reading
Must read: A lot of significant new information in this ABC story . One of the most significant is that Pence, and presumably many others around him, fully understood that that there would be a shift in the vote toward… Continue reading
From the Washington Post:
The Republican Party’s finances are increasingly worrisome to party members, advisers to former president Donald Trump, and other operatives involved in the 2024 election effort, according to 10 people familiar with the matter….
Donors have… Continue reading