From Deadline Detroit, via Political Wire:
Two candidates for state office in Michigan, both Republicans, “encouraged supporters to interfere with election processes, and come armed to polling places, in a recent joint appearance,” Deadline Detroit reports.
Said gubernatorial candidate… Continue reading
New accounts show that Donald Trump “was more directly involved than previously known in exploring proposals to use his national security agencies to seize voting machines as he grasped unsuccessfully for evidence of fraud that would help him reverse his… Continue reading
Remarkable story from the Washington Post:
Chief Justice Burger had delivered a letter to Mitchell telling him there was no woman qualified to be on the court. According to Mitchell, Burger recommended “the same bunch of names, all the… Continue reading
Hadn’t been aware of this until this post from Jonathan Adler at the Volokh Conspiracy:
One of the things that surprised me about President Trump’s judicial nominations was the (relatively) large number of legal academics he tapped for the federal… Continue reading
Washington Post editorial:
The focus of the Democrats’ failed bills was on ensuring Americans access to the ballot box — a response to voting restrictions imposed in 19 states by Republicans. But at least as important is ensuring that Americans’… Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
The state Elections Commission kept in place its policies on absentee ballot drop boxes Friday after Democrats and Republicans on the panel split on what to do. The use of drop boxes faces challenges in court… Continue reading
Jordan Wilkie for Carolina Public Press:
The challenge, brought by a left-leaning nonprofit called Free Speech for People, seeks to make Cawthorn ineligible for public office by arguing that his conduct on and around Jan. 6, 2021, violated… Continue reading
Click 2 Houston:
Harris County man fears new voting laws may prevent him from voting by absentee ballot for the first time in his lifetime.Kenneth Thompson, 95, has been checking his mail daily in hopes his mail-in ballot is… Continue reading
The moment when the Supreme Court declined to do anything about the massive disenfranchisement of black voters throughout the South is embodied in Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ opinion in Giles v. Harris, 189 US 475 (1903). Justice Kagan’s dissenting opinion… Continue reading
Cameron Joseph for Vice:
Accusations of slander. Leaked documents. Fake news pushed by a right-wing conspiracy website. Staff forcibly reassigned. Angry warnings from former President Donald Trump.Wisconsin Republicans have broken into open warfare over how far to push Trump’s election… Continue reading