AJC:
Georgia election officials plan to cancel about 455,000 inactive voter registrations this summer, one of the largest registration removals in U.S. history.
More than half the registrations scheduled for cancellation were identified by a 24-state organization called ERIC, which… Continue reading
I’ll be participating in this important event tomorrow, which is being put on by the ABA Task Force on American Democracy.
The other participants are:
Judge Paul Grimm (Ret.) – David F. Levi Professor of the Practice of Law, Duke… Continue reading
In light of the upcoming Supreme Court argument in Louisiana v. Callais, Travis Crum published a guest post at this blog arguing that racial gerrymandering should not be unconstitutional. Crum rejects the 30+ year line of cases that began with… Continue reading
Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kansas lawmakers voted to change how Kansas appoints its Supreme Court nominations from a commission-led process to direct elections.
Currently, the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission provides the governor three potential judges, from which the governor selects.… Continue reading
In the NYT essay I wrote with Trevor Morrison on the tools courts have to deal with executive defiance of court orders, we concluded by noting that a major confrontation between the two branches might have significant effects on financial… Continue reading
Jess Bravin for the WSJ:
Having taken the White House and captured the Congress, President Trump’s movement is unleashing its fury on the one branch of government it doesn’t fully control: the judiciary.
As more judges have blocked or slowed… Continue reading
New report from CDT. From the Introduction:
AI avatars delivered independent news about Venezuela’s contested election, allowing journalists to protect their identity and avoid politically motivated arrest. Voters in the United Kingdom could cast their ballots for an AI avatar… Continue reading
This Harvard Law Review recently published this case comment on the Fifth Circuit’s en banc decision in Petteway v. Galveston County, which held that Section 2 of the VRA doesn’t authorize claims by coalitions of minority voters.
The Fifth Circuit’s… Continue reading
New paper in Science Advances from Shiro Kuriwaki, Jeff Lewis,, and Michael Morse. Abstract:
After an election, should election officials release a copy of each anonymous ballot? Some policy-makers have championed public disclosure to counter distrust, but others worry that… Continue reading
The Guardian:A new report warns of “profound risks” in American politics as cryptocurrency companies increase their political spending and Donald Trump oversees regulatory retreatwhile promising to create a “crypto strategic reserve”.
The situation “illustrate[s] the profound risks that unchecked… Continue reading