Marc Elias has a theory:
One possibility is simply bad legal strategy. Republicans and their attorneys regularly make litigation decisions that defy common sense and at least some of the attorneys in this case have a history of bringing meritless… Continue reading
New from R Street:
In the past several years, various states across the country have experienced delays in reporting their election results. These delays have been especially scrutinized in slow-counting jurisdictions when the window of time between the polls closing… Continue reading
USA Today:
Ahead of another election cycle that is already shaping up to be contentious, federal and state election officials are in the midst of campaigns of their own to convince wary voters about the integrity of casting their ballots.… Continue reading
The 24-hour news cycle is brutal even on the Election Law Blog, so I want to use the relative quiet of the weekend to re-surface those articles that I “highly recommend”–to borrow Larry Solum’s phrase.
“Black Voters Have New Power … Continue reading
This is a must read from N.Y. Times. It reports on the personal insecurity that those who have opposed Jim Jordan are now facing in terms of threats, menacing calls, and emails. It is the election administrators’ experience all over… Continue reading
AP reports that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to temporarily lift the gag order to give “Trump’s lawyers time to prove why the former president’s comments should not be restricted as the case heads toward trial.” They presumably will… Continue reading
NPR: Misinformation about a bipartisan, cross-state partnership known as the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, pushed several Republican legislatures to back out of it in recent months. But now, these same legislatures are scrambling to create systems to… Continue reading
You can find the majority opinion (by two Democratic-appointed judge) and the dissent (by a Republican-appointed judge) at this link.
To oversimplify things a bit, the majority defined “corruptly” to include acting unlawfully. The dissenter viewed the term as… Continue reading
Washington Post:
“Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell has pled guilty in a Georgia election-interference case. . . . She agreed to serve six years of probation, pay a $6,000 fine, pay $2,700 to the Georgia secretary of state’s office and… Continue reading
Washington Post raises questions about what can be inferred from the decision of Special counsel Jack Smith to withdraw “a subpoena seeking records about fundraising by the political action committee Save America.” The group, controlled by former president Donald Trump,… Continue reading
This just in:
All interested parties in this matter, including the parties and their counsel, are prohibited from making any public statements, or directing others to make any public statements, that target (1) the Special Counsel prosecuting this case… Continue reading
NY Times: Three states give their governors unfettered discretion when it comes to restoring the voting rights of felons. Two are being sued under the First Amendment. At the heart of these cases is whether a governor’s discretion to… Continue reading