Please direct any tips and comments to Justin beginning Monday. Glad to have him back!

CNN: Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury, according to two sources familiar with the case – the first time in American history that a current or former… Continue reading

Richard Winger at Smerconish: The spring 2023 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has an article, “How State ‘Sore-Loser’ Laws Make it Impossible for Trump to Run a Successful Third-Party Campaign If He Loses the Republican Primary.”  The authors are four attorneys… Continue reading

NYT: Alarmed over young people increasingly proving to be a force for Democrats at the ballot box, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have been trying to enact new obstacles to voting for college students. In Idaho, Republicans used… Continue reading

AP:  North Carolina’s state elections board on Tuesday removed two local election officials who had refused to certify their county’s 2022 results after officials determined they violated state law. The state board voted unanimously to dismiss Surry County elections secretary… Continue reading

Alan Greenblatt for Governing.

WaPo: Former president Donald Trump opened the first mega-rally of his 2024 campaign by playing a recording of the national anthem sung by inmates charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In the 90-minute… Continue reading

NBC News: Top Senate Republicans broke with former President Donald Trump on Monday over his decision to feature video of Jan. 6 rioters at his weekend rally in Texas. Some disagreed with his judgment in playing a video that exalts… Continue reading

Garrett Epps in the Washington Monthly: I reached out to Eastman for an interview, and to my surprise, he accepted gladly. When we spoke on the phone, he was exactly as I remembered—charming, voluble, seemingly candid, eager to engage in… Continue reading

Here: Current Issue: Volume 1, Issue 2 (2022) Articles PDF Moore v. Harper and the Consequential Effects of the Independent State Legislature TheoryChase Cooper PDF The Looming Threat of the Independent State Legislature Theory and the Erosion of … Continue reading

Hearing today will be livestreamed.

In response to a FOIA lawsuit brought by Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic on behalf of Columbia political scientist Justin Phillips, the Census Bureau announced today that it will release the data needed to assess the performance of the… Continue reading

Release: Today, Issue One and the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund released a new report that outlines thirteen steps the federal government and state legislatures should take to make our elections stronger and more secure going… Continue reading

WaPo: He’s our reigning master of the macabre, whose ghostly imagination still transports us to the eeriest of places. But one of Edgar Allan Poe’s darkest stories didn’t come from his pen. It’s the haunting mystery of his own death.… Continue reading