Axios reports.

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.

Newsday reports.

NBC News: U.S. officials and experts are most concerned that Russia could try to interfere in the election through a “deepfake” audio or video using artificial intelligence tools or through a “hack and leak,” such as the politically damaging theft… Continue reading

I had missed this NYT piece from a few days ago: State Republican parties in roughly half of the most important battleground states are awash in various degrees of dysfunction, debt and disarray. In Arizona, the chairman of the state’s… Continue reading

The Atlantic: Murray and other legal scholars say that, absent clear guidance from the Supreme Court, a Trump win could lead to a constitutional crisis in Congress. Democrats would have to choose between confirming a winner many of them believe… Continue reading

New from Issue One.

New from Alan Greenblatt/CQ Researcher. And here, outside the paywall, is Walter Olson’s contribution to the pro/con debate on the site.