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“We Can Mend Our National Division”
Walter Olson, Michael Sozan, and Cissy Jackson in a Baltimore Sun oped:
We’re living through an age in which American democracy and the rule of law face deep challenges. Mob violence, vicious rhetoric and even attempted assassinations have raised… Continue reading
“Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming’s capital city”
WaPo:
Mayoral candidate Victor Miller, a bespectacled librarian with an AI obsession, stood between an American flag and a Wyoming flag, preaching what he sees as the untapped potential of artificial intelligence in government.
AI would be objective. It wouldn’t… Continue reading
Thanks to Rick Pildes and the Other ELB Summer Bloggers
…for stepping in as I’ve been writing and traveling.
I really appreciate the relief!
I’m back in the saddle through the election. Buckle up!
What is “Centripetalism” and Why Does It Matter?
Torres-Spelliscy on Trump’s Potential Use of the Pardon Power in a Second Term
Listen at Slate Amicus.
DNC and Others File in Supreme Court Opposition to RNC’s Stay Application in AZ’s “Proof of Citizenship” Case
The brief on behalf of the DNC and others is here. The brief leads off with Purcell Purcell Purcell.
“Cornel West disqualified from Michigan’s presidential ballot over notary problems”
From the Detroit News:
Independent presidential candidate Cornel West has been disqualified from the state’s ballot because of problems with the way a required document his campaign submitted was notarized, the Michigan Bureau of Elections announced Friday.
West, a longtime… Continue reading
Will the Use of Ranked-Choice Voting Delay Knowing the Outcome of the Presidential Race in Maine and Alaska?
CNN has a piece raising this issue. In response, Michael Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow at Fair Vote) and David Daley (Senior Fellow, Fair Vote) have written this guest post for ELB:
Maine values its long history of independent politics, electing… Continue reading
“Georgia Election Official Under Pressure in Defamation Case”
From the NYT:
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, has been forced to spend half a million dollars defending himself in court for having stood up to former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The… Continue reading
“Ohio redistricting amendment backers: Draft ballot language would rig the election”
From Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office is proposing loaded ballot language for a redistricting reform measure, including references to manipulating the boundaries of legislative districts and repealing constitutional protections against gerrymandering.
The proposed ballot language for… Continue reading
“Give Young Adults the Vote”
I wrote this response to Joshua Kleinfeld and Stephen Sachs’s forthcoming article, “Give Parents the Vote.” The response will be published in the Notre Dame Law Review alongside Kleinfeld and Sachs’s article. Here’s the abstract:
Joshua Kleinfeld and Stephen… Continue reading
Correcting Earlier Post: Republican Party of Arizona, Not RNC, Filed Brief Supporting Emergency Relief in NVRA Documentary Proof of Citizenship to Register Case
This post has been corrected and the error was entirely my fault. Apologies!
Ninth Circuit Rejects Election Integrity Project’s Long-Running Challenge to CA Voting Policies
Here’s the opening paragraph of the opinion. Link is here.
On January 4, 2021, two days before the Vice Presidentof the United States was set to preside over a joint session of the United States Congress to certify the results… Continue reading