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The Assembly: Days after Republicans on the state Supreme Court created a path for Jefferson Griffin to overturn his 2024 loss to incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs, the Democratic-controlled State Board of Elections significantly narrowed it.  … On April 15, the… Continue reading

Wilfred Codrington has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Harvard Law and Policy Review). Here is the abstract: Drafted in exceedingly sparing terms and notoriously difficult to amend, the U.S. Constitution is falling short in one of the most important… Continue reading

Military and overseas voters whose votes are set to be thrown out in the long-running dispute over North Carolina’s 2024 state supreme court race have filed a new lawsuit alleging a series of constitutional violations. Harvard Law School’s Election Law… Continue reading

NYT: Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and his family were forced to flee from their residence early Sunday during an arson attack on the mansion in Harrisburg that significantly damaged a section of the building, the governor and state authorities… Continue reading

Jonathan Adler: On Wednesday evening, in Yost v. Brown, Justice Brett Kavanaugh entered a stay of a district court order in  requiring Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost to publish two contest ballot initiative summaries. Justice Kavanaugh also called for a response… Continue reading

Release via email: In two letters sent to Mark Zuckerberg today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has removed itself from Meta’s external civil rights advisory group due to concerns over its content moderation and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policy… Continue reading

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The 19th: The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans, including married women, to vote. The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted for the Safeguard American Voter… Continue reading

Politico:  California’s notoriously slow vote-counting process has led to a rare bipartisan realization in Sacramento — the state needs to dramatically pick up the pace in producing election results. But Democrats and Republicans are nowhere near in agreement on how… Continue reading

NPR: A Delaware judge, once again, has found that a conservative news outlet broadcast false and defamatory claims about the role a voting technology company played in the 2020 presidential election. This time, that network is Newsmax, Fox News’ upstart… Continue reading

Join us! Event is free and tickets are first come. first served. There is no livestream but a recording will be available after the event.

Senator McConnell oped: In the near term, Executive Order 14248 will face constitutional scrutiny. That isn’t because the citizenship requirement for participation in elections is unclear but because the delegation of authority over election administration is crystal clear. Elections… Continue reading

OC Register: An Orange County judge on Monday, April 7, denied the state attorney general’s efforts to overturn Huntington Beach’s voter ID law, saying he disagreed with arguments it would disenfranchise voters in future elections. “There is no showing that… Continue reading