This should be good: Why does American Democracy look the way it does today and how can we make it more responsive to the people it was formed to serve? “Democracy Decoded”, a podcast by Campaign Legal Center, examines… Continue reading

Gerald Magliocca: We now have a written opinion from the District Court. It’s a slapdash effort. I’ll confine my discussion to the Court’s Amnesty Act analysis, and leave others to discuss issues such as abstention.The fatal flaw in… Continue reading

Russell Levine has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The presidential election process is a hot mess. Even an uneventful election cycle is a complicated series of steps controlled by numerous legal provisions. Given this complexity, any… Continue reading

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Yale Law School professors Sam Moyn and David Schleicher have a terrific podcast devoted to discussing new work in legal scholarship. I was pleased to be asked to speak, and be questioned about, my current work on what I call… Continue reading

NYT story re-visists NYT v. Sullivan: The lawyers and First Amendment scholars who have made it their life’s work to defend the well-established but newly threatened constitutional protections for journalists don’t usually root for the media to lose in court.… Continue reading

WRAL.com: Raleigh, N.C. — The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Saturday said unaffiliated voters now represent the largest share of the state’s electorate.The latest weekly update reflects a sizable increase in voters choosing to either switch out of… Continue reading

Washington Post: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) has spent years preparing to helm the Democratic political operation. Maloney led an investigation into the disappointing 2016 campaign. In late 2018, he ran to become chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee… Continue reading

AP News: Growing suspicion about the security of voting systems has kindled a back-to-the future moment among conservatives in some parts of the U.S.Republican lawmakers in at least six states have introduced legislation that would require all election ballots to… Continue reading

Tierney Sneed at CNN: Former Attorney General William Barr on Friday stood by his widely criticized comments before the 2020 election that mail voting was vulnerable to fraud, even as he condemned former President Donald Trump’s false post-election… Continue reading

I was glad to see the recognition in this Jamel Bouie piece of the important historical work of my former NYU student, Hayward Smith. As Hayward says in the piece quoted here, he first wrote about the independent state legislature… Continue reading

FRom Jessica Huseman at Votebeat: We’re back to exploring the truth about the Electronic Registration Information Center and explaining the important role ERIC has in securing elections. First we looked at why Louisiana seems to have suspended its participation in… Continue reading