Anna Bower, Alan Rozenshtein, and Ben Wittes for Lawfare: The question of whether the Fulton County case should be removed to federal court—in whole or in part, temporarily pending resolution of certain immunity questions or all the way through… Continue reading

NYT: The Trump prosecutions are likely to be a stress test of the country’s commitment to the rule of law at a moment of intense polarization and with Mr. Trump solidifying his position as the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.… Continue reading

AP:  judge blocked Wisconsin election officials Tuesday from using a federal voter registration form, finding they never formally approved its use. Conservative law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a lawsuit in September 2022 asking a judge to… Continue reading

NYT: Republicans in Wisconsin are coalescing around the prospect of impeaching a newly seated liberal justice on the state’s Supreme Court, whose victory in a costly, high-stakes election this spring swung the court in Democrats’ favor and threatened the G.O.P.’s… Continue reading

Read the complaint.

Adam Unikowsky at Substack.

CNN: Wisconsin Republicans, after a string of losses in hotly contested statewide races, are taking steps toward sidelining the state’s nonpartisan elections chief and undercutting the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court. Their actions – an escalation of… Continue reading

Axios: Two leading Democrats said Sunday there are potential grounds to remove former President Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause.” The big picture: The comments by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. Tim… Continue reading

WaPo: A proposal by Republican election deniers in Arizona who want to opt out of the state’s government-run presidential primary election in 2024 and instead hold the party’s own one-day, in-person election, with paper ballots that would be counted by… Continue reading

Politico reports.

NYT: For decades in Kentucky, the power to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate was reserved exclusively for the governor, regardless of whether an incumbent stepped down, died in office or was expelled from Congress. But with Gov. Andy… Continue reading

NBC News: An Alabama legislator has agreed to plead guilty to a felony voter fraud charge that he used a fraudulent address to run for office in a district where he did not live, according to an agreement filed Thursday.… Continue reading

Bolts reports.

Tom Edsall in the NYT does a masterful job synthesizing the state-of-the-art empirical knowledge on how changes in recent years to the way elections are financed have contributed to polarization and extremism. Relying on this data, the piece makes two… Continue reading