“From The Grassroots To The Top Of The Ticket, Election Denial Looms Large in GOP”
NPR’s Consider This.
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Ben Horton: “Trump is Disqualified from Future Public Office Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and State Officials Should Not Wait for Congress to Ensure That the Constitution is Enforced”
The following is a guest post from Ben Horton of Free Speech for People:
Given the news of the FBI executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, Professor Rick Hasen recently reposted Professor Ned Foley’s suggestion from last October that… Continue reading
“Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler concedes in Washington state”
WaPo:
Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, would be the third such House Republican to lose in a primary this year, joining Rep. Peter… Continue reading
“Wisconsin primary election 2022 coverage: Vos calls Gableman ‘an embarrassment’, democratic socialist elected in Milwaukee suburb”
Journal Sentinel:
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who narrowly won a primary Tuesday night, called Michael Gableman, the man he hired to investigate the 2020 presidential election, “an embarrassment.”Despite Vos hiring Gableman well over a year ago and… Continue reading
Donald Trump Is Not Going to Be Disqualified from Running for Office Even If He’s Been Found to Have Illegally Taken Classified Documents, But Congress Could Still Disqualify Him from Running for His 2020 Election Subversion Activities
Today in a remarkable development FBI agents raided Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. The search may be related to classified documents that Trump allegedly took from the White House illegally. (The search could have been about something else, like January… Continue reading
Jane Mayer Connects Increasing Extremism in Ohio’s Legislature to Gerrymandering and Big Money in Politics
Here in The New Yorker.
Announcing the Fall Webinar Series for the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law
I’m thrilled to announce the fall schedule for UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. All events (aside from the co-sponsored event with Stanford) start at 12 pm Pacific online and require free registration.
Can Proposed New Congressional Legislation on Counting… Continue reading
“Common Cause & NC residents file lawsuit to let unaffiliated voters serve on State Board of Elections”
“The Andrew Goodman Foundation Reacts To Proposed Elimination Of On-Campus Early Voting Locations in Fulton County, Georgia”
ECA reform must comply with the Constitution, as the bipartisan Senate ECRA bill does (but as some proposals to revise it would not)
The bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act has no “fatal flaw,” as some incorrectly argue. Rather, the Senate bill is well-designed to suit its essential purpose of requiring ballots cast in presidential elections be counted according to the rules established… Continue reading
Michael McConnell and I Discuss and Debate the Electoral Count Act Reform Bill and the Independent State Legislature Theory for the National Constitution Center
For the National Constitution Center’s podcast, the Center’s President and CEO, Jeff Rosen, moderated this discussion. Available at this link.
“Democrats have joined Republicans in calling their opponents ‘enemies’”
From Aug. 1 piece by Philip Bump in Wash. Post:
In February 2021, soon after President Biden took office, CBS News and its pollster YouGov released data showing that most Republicans viewed Democrats in precisely that way. Asked to evaluate… Continue reading
“Trump targets top Wisconsin GOP lawmaker for not overturning election”
WaPo:
One year ago this month, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) sat on a private plane with Donald Trump and updatedthe former president on the investigation he had launched into the 2020 election, even though there was… Continue reading
No Matter What the Supreme Court Decides about the Independent State Legislature Theory, State Legislatures Will Still Be Bound by Federal Law and the U.S. Constitution
A large group of election-law experts has made this point. Nonetheless, there continues to be confusion and misunderstanding in some public commentary about this fundamental legal fact. This confusion has also slipped into some discussions about the Electoral Count Reform… Continue reading