Here: 1.Liquidating the Independent State Legislature TheoryMichael WeingartnerIndependentDate Posted: 02 Mar 2022Last Revised: 18 Apr 20229882.The Independent State Legislature Claim, Textualism, and State LawCarolyn ShapiroIIT Chicago-Kent College of LawDate Posted: 05 Mar 2022Last… Continue reading

NBC News: Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., suggested that the House Jan. 6 committee’s upcoming hearings will be dramatic and include explosive revelations that the panel has been piecing together behind the scenes for months.“The hearings will tell a story that… Continue reading

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Voice of OC: Two small Orange County cities could be the first in California to successfully fight back against a statewide trend of cities switching to district elections.City council members in Brea and Cypress said they will not be… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Republican attorney Michael Gableman is probing the backgrounds of public employees and contractors working on elections to determine their political leanings, including one who he believes is a Democrat because she lives with her boyfriend, loves snakes,… Continue reading

New Brennan Center report.

AJC: A dramatic drop in automatic voter registrations in Georgia may be caused by a government website that required potential voters to click a button before they could sign up.That’s not how automatic voter registration is supposed to work. The… Continue reading

There’s a robust legal debate happening outside of the pure ballot access issues in the disqualification challenges to Representative Madison Cawthorn and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, among other challenges. Here’s Professor Josh Blackman and Professor S.B. Tillman in a New … Continue reading

Michael Malbin has written this article for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Here is the abstract: Recent events remind us of the importance and fragility of the institutions that undergird a healthy democracy.  This article steps away… Continue reading

New from BPC: The smooth execution of elections is a cornerstone of our democracy, yet elections in the United States are chronically—and, in some cases, hazardously—underfunded. The majority of existing funding comes from state and local sources, with only intermittent,… Continue reading

NYT: A group of President Donald J. Trump’s allies and associates spent months trying to overturn the 2020 election based on his lie that he was the true winner.Now, some of the same confidants who tried and failed to invalidate… Continue reading

NYT: A federal judge cleared the way on Monday for a group of Georgia voters to move forward with legal efforts seeking to disqualify Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for re-election to Congress, citing her role in the… Continue reading

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NYT: As a young congressional aide, David Price witnessed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from the Senate gallery. He remembers the dramatic moment when Senator Clair Engle of California, dying of a brain tumor… Continue reading