Stephen Fowler for GPB: A new filing from the Fulton County District Attorney’s office paints the clearest picture yet of the scope of a special grand jury’s investigation into potential election interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election by former President… Continue reading

NYT Mag: For much of its history, Jones Day was a juggernaut in the field of corporate litigation. A global goliath with more than 40 offices and about 2,500 lawyers, it raked in billions a year in fees from tobacco,… Continue reading

Helena Independent Record: A Republican state lawmaker testified in a Billings courtroom Tuesday that her GOP colleagues were motivated when crafting new election laws last year by the perception that “college students tend to be liberal.”Rep. Geraldine Custer, a… Continue reading

NYT: Six days after major news organizations declared Donald J. Trump the loser of the 2020 presidential election, his allies were applying a desperate full-court press in an effort to turn his defeat around, particularly in Georgia.The pro-Trump lawyer… Continue reading

Jessica Huseman for VoteBeat: A legal opinion released by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week will almost certainly throw county elections offices into chaos after November, experts say, exposing election clerks to possible criminal charges and materially reducing… Continue reading

Oped from  Anthony Romero (ACLU), Janai Nelson (NAACP LDF), and Lourdes Rosado (LatinoJustice PRLDEF) calling on the Biden Admin to condemn the Insular Cases. The Solicitor General is set to file its response to the cert. petition in Fitisemanu v.… Continue reading

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Carrie Levine for VoteBeat: North Carolina’s May primary was “one of the worst elections I’ve ever worked,” said Karen Hebb, the elections director in Henderson County. “It was worse than COVID.” In addition to long conversations with skeptical voters bringing… Continue reading

KC Star: Kansas reaffirmed its landslide vote to uphold abortion rights after election officials on Sunday finished a recount that never had any chance of changing the outcome but was sought by an election denier and anti-abortion activist advancing… Continue reading

NYT: A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor — an extraordinary sum that could give Republicans and their causes a huge financial boost ahead of the midterms, and for years to… Continue reading

Politico: Of the more than $300 million spent by Democrats on broadcast advertisements this year throughout the country, ads that mentioned Jan. 6, the insurrection, democracy or stolen elections accounted for less than 4 percent of all spending, according to… Continue reading

Fascinating decision of NC Supreme Court that requires a bit of unpacking: federal courts held that 28 NC legislators were elected from unconstitutional, racially-gerrrymandered districts. Courts permitted them to retain their seats until the next election. The NC legislature can… Continue reading