Haaretz email: As Israeli democracy confronts its greatest threat yet, an investigation led by Haaretz, TheMarker and Radio France exposes clandestine attacks disrupting democratic processes across the globe.The proprietors of this international chaos machine, as uncovered in the course of… Continue reading

Josh Douglas has posted this draft on SSRN (Rutgers Law Review, and part of this  symposium on the 26th Amendment). Here is the abstract: This short essay, prepared for the Rutgers University Law Review Symposium on the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, shows… Continue reading

Eric McGhee, Chris Warshaw, and I just posted this paper, written for the University of Chicago Legal Forum’s symposium on Borders and Boundaries, addressing the extent of retrogression in states formerly covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights… Continue reading

Oklahoma Watch: President Joe Biden is urging Congress to resurrect sweeping voting rights legislation that would mandate same-day and online registration and restore voting rights for people convicted of felonies after leaving prison. A combined version of the John R.… Continue reading

NYT: Last year, Democrats spent millions of dollars elevating far-right candidates in Republican primary contests for governor and Congress — betting, it turned out correctly, that more extreme opponents would lose general elections. Now Wisconsin Democrats are trying to… Continue reading

AJC: A Fulton County judge said Monday that he planned to keep private portions of a special grand jury report that recommends specific individuals be indicted following an eight-month criminal probe that examined whether former President Donald Trump and his… Continue reading

NYT: Did former President Donald J. Trump consume detailed information about foreign countries while in office? How extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered with? Did he indicate he knew he was leaving when his… Continue reading

WaPo: Former president Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign commissioned an outside research firm in a bid to prove electoral-fraud claims but never released the findings because the firm disputed many of his theories and could not offer any proof that… Continue reading

Philly Inquirer: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has once again waded into the protracted legal battle over whether mail ballots missing a date or with the wrong date should be thrown out. But while a series of opinions the justices issued… Continue reading

Mississippi Today: A white supermajority of the Mississippi House voted after an intense, four-plus hour debate to create a separate court system and an expanded police force within the city of Jackson — the Blackest city in America — that… Continue reading

From the Financial Times, paywalled: It’s not every day that foreign observers are needed to monitor an election in Germany, one of the west’s richest and most stable democracies. But then again, Berlin is no ordinary city. Fourteen officials from… Continue reading

Politico: A federal appeals court has sided with North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein in his bid to avoid prosecution under a state law criminalizing false and “derogatory” statements related to political candidates. In a ruling Wednesday, the 4th… Continue reading

New at Bolts.

AP: A process recently implemented by Georgia state lawmakers to examine how county officials handle elections is likely unsustainable without more resources or reforms, according to the panel that did the first review under the law. The provision in a … Continue reading