WaPo: A Colorado judge on Tuesday ruled that Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters (R), a supporter of former president Donald Trump who has embraced election-fraud conspiracy theories, is barred from overseeing elections in her home county because of… Continue reading

From three former federal prosecutors, one of whom is a federal judge. In Bloomberg Law: Corruptly Influencing an Official Proceeding Enacted with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) makes it criminal to, among other things, corruptly… Continue reading

AP with an early report.

Beau Tremitiere for The Bulwark: In late April, the Utah Democratic Party declined to endorse its own candidate against incumbent Republican Senator Mike Lee. Instead, the party rallied behind independent candidate Evan McMullin, the former Republican and vocal Trump… Continue reading

Jerry Goldfeder and Andrew Vazquez in the NYLJ: With the dust mainly settled in the New York redistricting litigation, let’s take a quick look back at how the state Court of Appeals missed the boat in its decision to… Continue reading

NPR reports.

Insider: The right-wing One America News Network admitted in a Monday legal statement that there was no widespread voter fraud by Georgia election officials in the 2020 presidential election after having extensively pushed the groundless claim.In a 30-second … Continue reading

I’ve been asked to pass on this message: The Election Law Program (ELP), a joint project of William & Mary Law School and the National Center for State Courts, provides resources for judges called upon to resolve election disputes. The… Continue reading

Aaron Blake for WaPo.

This piece, in American Purpose by Peter Ackerman, Larry Diamond, Cara Brown McCormick, responds to a critique of RCV by former member of Congress Mickey Edwards. Some excerpts: Edwards’ principled view is that a two-round runoff… Continue reading

The title of this Politico story is “Idaho GOP riven by primary civil war.” An excerpt: Idaho’s dominant Republican Party is at war with itself up and down the ballot ahead of its May 17 primaries. It’s not just Gov.… Continue reading

Following upon on my previous post A Rational Two-Party System?, which was prompted by a N.Y. Times story on one of Ohio’s GOP primaries last week, this post is prompted by a N.Y. Times account of Nebraska’s upcoming GOP… Continue reading

AJC: U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will remain on the ballot for re-election, Georgia’s secretary of state’s said late Friday. The decision came after a judge ruled earlier in the day that challengers who had tried to disqualify… Continue reading

Aaron Goldzimer and I wrote this piece for Slate, arguing for a third-best response to congressional gerrymandering if neither Congress nor the federal courts are willing to tackle the problem. States should enact reforms requiring their congressional maps to be… Continue reading