New report from the Conference Board: Conducting an election that is secure, credible, and accessible is essential not only to ensuring public trust in elections but also to the position of the US as a global beacon of democracy. A… Continue reading

Roll Call: Congressional Democrats are showing no signs of using the Electoral College certification process to enforce the 14th Amendment and deny Donald Trump a second presidential term if he wins in November. The Supreme Court’s decision this month to… Continue reading

Miles Parks for NPR: For all the concern in recent years that U.S. democracy is on the brink, in danger or under threat, a report out Tuesday offers a glimmer of good news for American voters worried that casting a… Continue reading

Release: Today, the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, the League of Women Voters of the United States, and individual New Hampshire voters filed a federal lawsuit against Steve Kramer, Lingo Telecom, LLC, and Life Corporation for voter intimidation,… Continue reading

Zachary Roth: With less than six months before voting begins, the legal jousting over the rules for the 2024 election is already underway. And former President Donald Trump’s campaign is getting support from allies who have stayed mostly under the… Continue reading

I just posted this paper, written for the Washington & Lee Law Review’s symposium on voting rights in a politically polarized era. The paper uses a new dataset of about two hundred foreign instant-runoff voting (IRV) elections to assess… Continue reading

ABC News: What was scheduled to be a guest appearance by former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally for Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno quickly turned into Trump saying there would be a “bloodbath” for the country if he… Continue reading

NYT: A New York judge on Friday delayed Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan until at least mid-April, postponing the only one of Mr. Trump’s four criminal cases that appeared set to begin. The delay — lasting 30 days from… Continue reading

This is particularly interesting because the state in the court below wants to use challenged maps in South Carolina’s elections. I take it this means that the Supreme Court is likely deeply divided over how to resolve the South Carolina… Continue reading

Politico reports.

NYT: Less than two weeks before Donald J. Trump is set to go on trial for criminal charges in Manhattan, the prosecutors who brought the case asked a judge on Thursday to delay it up to 30 days, a startling… Continue reading

Judge Luttig and Laurence Tribe in the Altantic: The Supreme Court of the United States did a grave disservice to both the Constitution and the nation in Trump v. Anderson. In a stunning disfigurement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the… Continue reading

A Lawfare essay analyzing how best to read Trump v. Anderson for understanding its potential implications down the road. The piece delves deep into the details of both the per curiam and the separate opinion by the three liberals on… Continue reading

A new Common Ground Democracy essay with this subtitle: “A local group is pursuing a proposal that deserves nationwide recognition as well as success at home.” ELB readers should be especially interested in following the development of this important effort.… Continue reading