NYT:
Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results.… Continue reading
Following up on my earlier discussion of today’s ruling, some are asking whether the decision about Congress’s power is really 6-3 and I wrote, or 5-4 given Justice Barrett’s concurrence.
Justice Barrett joined Parts I and II.B, but not… Continue reading
You can find the Supreme Court’s decision, along with separate opinions of Justice Barrett, and Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson (together) at this link. [This post is in progress]
The Court unanimously agrees that states cannot enforce Section 3… Continue reading
USA Today:
No Supreme Court justice seemed eager last month to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot when they heard Trump’s challenge to the decision in Colorado that he can’t be a candidate.
Their apparent agreement on a… Continue reading
I highly recommend listening to Chuck Todd’s podcast with Nick Troiano. They discuss Nick’s important new book “The Primary Solution,” and among other valuable points Nick makes is that the current system of partisan primaries is actually hurting political… Continue reading
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
“There comes a point,” Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote in 1949, “where this court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.”
The Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday to schedule arguments… Continue reading
NYT:
As a fall rematch between President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump becomes increasingly likely, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania is announcing an Election Threats Task Force, a federal-state partnership, in the critical battleground state.
The task force,… Continue reading
Chicago Tribune reports.
You can find the order here.
It includes a stay until March 1, to give time for appeal.
I expect that there will continue to be requests for a stay of this ruling, which may make… Continue reading
NYT:
A circuit court judge on Tuesday ordered Kristina Karamo, the deposed leader of the Michigan Republicans, to abandon her efforts to cling to power. But what that means for Saturday, when Ms. Karamo had pledged to hold a… Continue reading
Release:
Public Rights Project (PRP)—the civil rights legal advocacy nonprofit founded by Jill Habig, former special counsel to Kamala Harris in the California Attorney General’s Office—announces the launch of its Election Protection Hub to support and defend 200+ local elections… Continue reading
A new Common Ground Democracy column on a superb paper by Nate Atkinson and Scott Ganz. Here’s the subtitle of the column: “If you read one thing about the structural problem afflicting American elections, including an explanation of the institutional… Continue reading
Years ago at an APSA conference, Fred Schauer corrected me as pronouncing this with a Spanish pronunciation (“Torniyyo”) but the plaintiff was Italian and the “L’s” should be pronounced.