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Jocelyn Benson writes in Slate. … Continue reading
Details: Join Irwin Law in celebrating the release of our new title, Anatomy of an Election: Canada’s Federal General Election of 2019 Through the Lens of Political Law by Gregory Tardi! We’ll be hosting our first ever virtual event on our new website, … Continue reading
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Philly Inquirer: As of Thursday morning, about 1.3 million registered Democrats had requested and been approved for mail ballots for the June 2 primary election, compared with about 524,000 Republicans. Republicans made just 29% of the requests, even though they … Continue reading
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Reid Wilson reports for The Hill. … Continue reading
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This piece of mine is coming out soon in the University of Chicago Law Review Online. Here’s the abstract: This fall, most states are likely to see a massive surge in absentee voting. The significantly greater burdens absentee ballots impose … Continue reading
Montana Public Radio: The Montana Supreme Court today overruled a lower court order and restored the state’s Jun. 2 mail-in ballot receipt deadline for the upcoming primary.The high court’s order means voters must get their mail-in ballots to their local … Continue reading
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Joan Biskupic reports for CNN. … Continue reading
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The latest at the Brennan Center. … Continue reading
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You can read the order denying reconsideration here. (My earlier coverage.) … Continue reading
Vote-by-Mail: Protecting the Ballot during COVID-19Tuesday, June 2nd at 10:00am ESTJoin the Eagleton Institute of Politics and The Fund for New Jersey for this special session exploring how we can effectively transition the processes and practices of politics to meet the … Continue reading
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Order list. This is a very big deal. This was a case backed by Ed Blum, the conservative crusader who brought us the Supreme Court’s Shelby County case gutting Section 5 of the (federal) Voting Rights Act and the Fisher … Continue reading
Axios reports. … Continue reading
You can watch at this link. We discussed the new report, Fair Elections During a Crisis. … Continue reading
Detroit Free Press: Michigan’s statutory requirement that all absentee ballots be returned by 8 p.m. on Election Day in order to be counted is being challenged in court.The League of Women Voters, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and … Continue reading
News & Observer: A group of voters backed by Democratic legal groups sued North Carolina on Monday seeking to loosen rules around absentee mail-in ballots amid predictions that the coronavirus pandemic will make voting by mail a widespread practice.They want … Continue reading
NBC: The first formal request of a recount in Paterson was issued Friday for a city council election plagued by allegations of fraud.Long-time council member William McKoy filed the recount request after losing his reelection bid by 245 votes to … Continue reading
I’ll be talking about the fairness and legitimacy of the 2020 elections, and our Fair Elections During a Crisis report, in light of recent comments of the President about voter fraud. … Continue reading
News & Observer: With uncertainty looming over how serious coronavirus will be this fall, a bipartisan push at the state legislature would make it easier for North Carolinians to vote by mail this year.State officials are expecting a massive increase … Continue reading
James Sample has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, American U. L. Rev.). Here is the abstract: In the decade since Citizens United v. FEC, which, while consequential in its own right, is also not responsible for all the ills … Continue reading
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New report from Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego; Mindy Romero, California Civic Engagement Project at University of Southern California;Mackenzie Lockhart, University of California, San Diego; Seth Hill, University of California, San Diego; Jennifer Merolla, University of California, Riverside … Continue reading
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New from David Gans and CAC. … Continue reading
Enrijeta Shino, Mara Suttmann-Lea and Daniel A. Smith for the Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
Zoom registration: At a time when concerns about the health and safety of our populace and our electoral processes have intensified, we are honored to welcome Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose for … Continue reading
My article on Rucho and the Roberts Court is now up on the Supreme Court Review website (and available without subscription here). Once upon a time, Carolene Products provided an inspiring charter for the exercise of the power of judicial … Continue reading
NY County Politics: The First Department Court has reached a decision; Cameron Koffman is staying on the ballot for Assembly District 73.Last Month, Assemblymember Dan Quart (D-Murray Hill, Lenox Hill) sued to remove his challenger, 22-year-old Cameron Koffman, from the ballot. The … Continue reading
The court follows the important Sixth Circuit opinion in Esshaki v. Whitmer, No. 20-1336, 2020 WL 2185553 (6th Cir. May 5, 2020) (which did not involve initatives). I write about Esshaki in this draft paper. (via BAN) … Continue reading
You can find the motion here. Here is what I say about the district court’s initial political question ruling in my draft paper on how courts have considered election cases under pandemic conditions: Not all the judicial opinions have engaged … Continue reading
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This quote from Senator John Thune, #2 in the Senate Republican leadership, pretty much distills into a sentence the thesis of my work on why the shared electoral fate of same-party members in the White House, Senate, and House — … Continue reading
This is a change I have advocating for all states for the fall election. Of particular importance in Michigan and North Carolina, which I believe still have not made this change. From the story: The board voted unanimously to pass … Continue reading
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Detroit Free Press: Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said Tuesday all of Michigan’s 7.7 million registered voters will be mailed absentee ballot applications so they can take part in elections in August and November without the risk of in-person voting if they … Continue reading
This short piece of mine on election law cases involving the pandemic is coming out soon in the University of Chicago Law Review Online. In this brief essay, I consider how courts have deployed the framework of sliding-scale scrutiny in … Continue reading
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