Marc Caputo for Axios:
President Trump‘s sweeping pardons for 1,500 Jan. 6 criminals and defendants were a last-minute, rip-the-bandage-off decision to try to move past the issue quickly, White House advisers familiar with the Trump team’s discussions tell Axios.… Continue reading
January 28 Fair Elections and Voting Rights: What’s Ahead in the Next Four Years?
Register for the webinar here. In-person registration here. Lunch will be provided.Tuesday, January 28, 12:15pm-1:15pm PT Room 1327 at UCLA Law and onlineAmy… Continue reading
Thomas Wolf for the Brennan Center:
President Trump claimed to end birthright citizenship on the first day of his second term. Trump’s executive order is unconstitutional, in direct conflict with the plain language of the 14th Amendment and over a… Continue reading
Hansi Lo Wang for NPR:
Among the dozens of Biden-era executive orders that President Trump revoked on Monday was one that had reversed the first Trump administration’s unprecedented policy of altering a key set of census results.
Since the first… Continue reading
KZRG:
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and attorneys general from Louisiana, Ohio, and West Virginia filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration in Louisiana District Court to stop the U.S. Census Bureau from counting illegal aliens for reapportionment purposes in… Continue reading
Politico:
President Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons to a slew of high-profile targets of President-elect Donald Trump — a striking last-minute effort to shield them from prosecution just hours before Trump, who has promised to punish his… Continue reading
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas published this piece that I wrote on the failure of the electoral system to produce an outcome corresponding to “the real preference of the Voters” (Madison’s term for when a third candidate is… Continue reading
CBS News:
he Minnesota Supreme Court on Friday canceled the special election for a metro House race later this month, finding Gov. Tim Walz set the date before state law requires.
The election was scheduled for Jan. 28 for House… Continue reading
I posted this paper introducing a new form of proportional representation that combines the key features of the two PR systems that are most commonly advocated in the American context. The paper is part of a Wisconsin Law Review symposium.… Continue reading
NPR:
President Biden on Friday declared that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution is “the law of the land,” a surprising declaration that does not have any formal force of effect, but that is being celebrated by… Continue reading
This is a reminder of an excellent resource for voting rights and election law educators: a VIDEO Voting Rights curriculum. This v-casebook is a wonderful supplement to any courses and seminars on election law. It features an array of… Continue reading
Minnesota Reformer:
Judy Moe walked into a Richfield Caribou Coffee on Wednesday morning ready to air grievances and advocate for disability rights with her state representative, presenting him with a copy of a printed agenda she created for the… Continue reading