“How This Redistricting Cycle Failed To Increase Representation For People Of Color — And Could Even Set It Back”
538 reports.
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“Jan. 6 committee faces a thorny challenge: Convincing the public to care”
WaPo:
The House Jan. 6 committee has tried to recruit high-profile journalists to write its report about the attack on the Capitol, hoping to build a narrative thriller that compels audiences and is a departure from government reports of… Continue reading
Derek Muller Primary ELB Blogger Next Week
Direct your comments and questions to him. Thanks!
New “Democracy Decoded” Podcast from the Campaign Legal Center
This should be good:
Why does American Democracy look the way it does today and how can we make it more responsive to the people it was formed to serve? “Democracy Decoded”, a podcast by Campaign Legal Center, examines… Continue reading
“The District Court Opinion in the Cawthorn Case”
Gerald Magliocca:
We now have a written opinion from the District Court. It’s a slapdash effort. I’ll confine my discussion to the Court’s Amnesty Act analysis, and leave others to discuss issues such as abstention.The fatal flaw in… Continue reading
“Postponing Presidential Elections not Authorized by Federal Law”
Russell Levine has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The presidential election process is a hot mess. Even an uneventful election cycle is a complicated series of steps controlled by numerous legal provisions. Given this complexity, any… Continue reading
“Wisconsin Elections Commission won’t sanction Republicans who posed as presidential electors in 2020”
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
“The Election Police are Coming”
“Ginni Thomas Says She Attended Jan. 6 Rally; The disclosure by the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas is likely to raise new questions about her support of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.”
Podcast on “Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the West”
Yale Law School professors Sam Moyn and David Schleicher have a terrific podcast devoted to discussing new work in legal scholarship. I was pleased to be asked to speak, and be questioned about, my current work on what I call… Continue reading
“First Amendment Scholars Want to See the Media Lose These Cases”
NYT story re-visists NYT v. Sullivan:
The lawyers and First Amendment scholars who have made it their life’s work to defend the well-established but newly threatened constitutional protections for journalists don’t usually root for the media to lose in court.… Continue reading
“Unaffiliated voters overtake Democrats, now largest voting bloc in North Carolina”
WRAL.com:
Raleigh, N.C. — The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Saturday said unaffiliated voters now represent the largest share of the state’s electorate.The latest weekly update reflects a sizable increase in voters choosing to either switch out of… Continue reading
“Democratic campaign chair Sean Patrick Maloney faces toughest job in politics”
Washington Post:
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) has spent years preparing to helm the Democratic political operation.
Maloney led an investigation into the disappointing 2016 campaign. In late 2018, he ran to become chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee… Continue reading
“Some in GOP want ballots to be counted by hand, not machines”
AP News:
Growing suspicion about the security of voting systems has kindled a back-to-the future moment among conservatives in some parts of the U.S.Republican lawmakers in at least six states have introduced legislation that would require all election ballots to… Continue reading