“S.C. founding father at center of U.S. Supreme Court election case”
In anticipation of the Moore v. Harper argument, Dallas Woodhouse defends the Pinckney Plan papers that have been subject to historical controversy.
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Next Week on the Blog…
Derek Muller will be primary ELB blogger next week.
On Wednesday, December 7, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the Moore v. Harper case. I will be live blogging the audio of the oral arguments right here on… Continue reading
“Voting Without State Checks and Balances? A Close Look at the Independent State Legislature Theory”
The New York City Bar Association hosted this excellent panel discussion, co-sponsored by the Brennan Center, in advance of next week’s oral arguments in Moore v. Harper. The panel featured Carter Phillips (Sidley Austin LLP, Counsel of Record for… Continue reading
“Cochise County complies with judge’s order and certifies election results”
The latest:
On Thursday, a judge ruled the board had “exceeded its lawful authority” by not certifying the election results on time and ordered the board to hold an emergency meeting by the end of the day.
The judge said… Continue reading
“Voting under the Federal Constitution”
Travis Crum has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of American Election Law). Here is the abstract:
There is no explicit, affirmative right to vote in the federal Constitution. At the Founding, the franchise was largely limited to… Continue reading
“Manchin and Klobuchar: Omnibus likely place for electoral count overhaul”
Roll Call:
Legislation to overhaul how Congress counts presidential electoral votes should hop on the must-pass spending omnibus on its way out of the Senate, Sens. Joe Manchin III and Amy Klobuchar said Wednesday.
Speaking at a National Council… Continue reading
“The Jolt: Finger-pointing starts over long waits for Georgia voters”
AJC:
Voters are having to wait in line for more than two hours at some crowded voting locations before casting a ballot in the U.S. Senate runoff, a consequence of both high turnout and a shorter early voting period, The… Continue reading
On Party Line Vote, Luzerne County, PA Certifies the 2022 Vote
Hansi Lo Wang:
NEW: Pennsylvania's Luzerne County board of elections votes 3-2 to certify its local midterm election results two days after the state's legal deadline as it faces a lawsuit by Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright after putting some 117,000… Continue reading
Scheduled to Be on MSNBC Around 11:25 AM ET Talking About the Refusal of a Few Counties to Certify Election Results
Tune in!
“Trump Immunity Claim in 2020 Civil Rights Suit Rejected by Judge”
Bloomberg:
Donald Trump can’t claim presidential immunity to avoid a lawsuit that accuses him of civil rights violations in his efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Trump had argued that he was… Continue reading
“G.O.P.-Controlled County in Arizona Holds Up Election Results”
“State Dept says Salvadorans’ attempts to ‘directly influence’ a U.S. congressional election are ‘unacceptable'”
NBC News:
After winning re-election to her seat in the U.S. House, Norma Torres, a Democrat from California, issued a press release making a startling accusation: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele participated in “foreign election interference” in her race.
Bukele,… Continue reading
“Election deniers performed especially poorly in races to oversee voting in key states”
NPR:
Over nearly two years, the political future of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had looked somewhere between uncertain and untenable.
In 2020, sitting President Donald Trump called him an “enemy of the people” after Trump lost Georgia… Continue reading
“Maricopa County says printer glitches didn’t prevent anyone from voting”
WaPo:
Maricopa County, facing a storm of GOP criticism over its handling of the Nov. 8 election, said in a report issued Sunday that problems with printers that surfaced on Election Day did not violate the Arizona Constitution or other… Continue reading