Update to the Brennan Center’s indispensable list:
With the 2022 regular legislative sessions starting in all but 15 states as of January 14, state lawmakers are already considering hundreds of bills aimed at voter access and the electoral process.The efforts… Continue reading
CNN:
The North Carolina State Board of Elections said on Monday that it has the power to block GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection over his role in the January 6 insurrection — an open legal question… Continue reading
This point from Steve Vladeck seems indisputably right (and Justice Kavanaugh indisputably wrong):
…Kavanaugh also attempted to suggest that Alabama would be entitled to stays of the lower-court rulings even under the court’s ordinary three-part standard. In a footnote,… Continue reading
Since I’ve seen some confusion about this on twitter, I wanted to clarify this point. If the Section 5 pre-clearance regime was still in place, the Department of Justice would still have pre-cleared Alabama’s plan — as the Obama administration… Continue reading
Eric McGhee, Mike Migurski, and Chris Warshaw posted this new paper comparing the newly enacted congressional and state legislative district plans to their predecessors. The main findings are:
(1) The national House map is substantially fairer but still nontrivially skewed… Continue reading
Inside this must-read Andy Kroll story on the 2020 election hysteria on the Trumpist right is this nugget:
Ramthun also received an eight-page analysis from John Eastman, the same lawyer who wrote the infamous memos arguing for how Pence… Continue reading
Washington Post:
President Donald Trump tore up briefings and schedules, articles and letters, memos both sensitive and mundane.He ripped paper into quarters with two big, clean strokes — or occasionally more vigorously, into smaller scraps.He left the detritus on his… Continue reading
NYT:
The number of competitive congressional districts is on track to dive near — and possibly below — the lowest level in at least three decades, as Republicans and Democrats draw new political maps designed to ensure that the vast… Continue reading
Ross Douhat at NYT:
I also admire Cheney’s direct anti-Trumpism, as I’ve admired it from Mitt Romney, and now even a little from Mike Pence. (Yes, it’s a low bar.) But if you believe, reasonably, that the immediate danger… Continue reading
From Politico Playbook:
That storyline started Thursday with news of the impending RNC censure of Reps. LIZ CHENEY (R-Wyo.) and ADAM KINZINGER (R-Ill.) for participating in the Democratic-led House investigation of the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol. Then, it… Continue reading
From Politico:
A pair of looming state court cases could significantly curtail mail voting ahead of the midterms — one of Republicans’ major goals since former President Donald Trump went to war against the practice in 2020.The state Supreme Courts… Continue reading