Send your tips and questions to Spencer! I’m grateful for the opportunity to step in this week. And of course I’ll crop up now and again as Section 3 cases reach resolution….

This is a guest post by Ruth Greenwood, Director of the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School: With coalition claims in the election law news again, I wanted to flag an update to a resource that I shared… Continue reading

After a panel of the Fifth Circuit found that the Galveston County, Texas map likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the en banc court stayed the order and allowed the old maps to remain in place while… Continue reading

CNN: The pro-Trump lawyer who helped devise the 2020 fake electors plot and already pleaded guilty to the conspiracy in Georgia is now cooperating with Michigan and Wisconsin state investigators in hopes of avoiding more criminal charges, multiple sources told CNN. In a dramatic… Continue reading

NYT: A federal appeals court on Friday largely upheld the gag order imposed two months ago on former President Donald J. Trump in the criminal case accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, but narrowed its terms to… Continue reading

AP: Former President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution as he runs out of opportunities to delay or even derail an upcoming trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the… Continue reading

New report from Michael Sozan of CAP.

Michael Adams, Deidre Henderson, Phil McGrane, Brad Raffensperger, Scott Schwab in NRO: There are reasons why some still distrust the system. The main one is the toxic stew of disinformation, misinformation, and deliberate lies for profit or political advantage.… Continue reading

WaPo: In a legal settlement Wednesday, the 10 Republicans who signed official-looking paperwork falsely purporting Donald Trump won Wisconsin in 2020 have agreed to withdraw their inaccurate filings, acknowledge Joe Biden won the presidency and not serve as presidential electors… Continue reading

Please direct your tips and questions to Derek during the week of December 11 and Spencer during the weeks of December 18 and 25. I’m going to be offline until the end of the year, and then back with a… Continue reading

WaPo: Federal prosecutors on Tuesday accused former president Donald Trump of a long pattern of lying about elections and encouraging violence, saying he “sent” supporters on Jan. 6, 2021 to criminally block the election results. In a new court filing… Continue reading