Hi, all.  Justin again.  I’ll be your friendly neighborhood blogtender this week. Flags and references are, as always, welcome: just shoot me an email. 

Please direct any comments and tips to Justin for the week of May 1. The full May blogging rotation is here. Thanks for reading ELB!

WaPo: Former president Donald Trump on Thursday praised and embraced a woman convicted of defying police orders on the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021. “Listen, you just hang in there,” Trump told the woman, Micki Larson-Olson,… Continue reading

AJC: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was in Chicago Thursday speaking to national political reporters at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. Georgia’s top election official discussed overseeing the 2020 Georgia elections, the lessons he learned and some… Continue reading

Gothamist: A small fraction of New Yorkers who are 16 and 17 years old have completed the process to preregister and automatically be added to voting rolls when they turn 18, according to a new report. The report by… Continue reading

New from Issue One.

GPB: Voting rights groups are going to federal court to block part of a law the General Assembly passed two years ago prohibiting volunteers from providing food and water to voters waiting in long lines at the polls. Groups including… Continue reading

JH Snider with 223 pages on state constitutional conventions. And another using the U.S. Virgin Islands as a case study.

As Rick noted, the Alaska Supreme Court held on Friday that “partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional under the Alaska Constitution,” specifically, its equality guarantee in Article I, Section 1. This ruling is notable in at least two respects. First, it’s… Continue reading

WSJ: President Biden is framing the 2024 election as a fundamental choice about the future of freedom and democracy in the U.S., casting Republicans—who want to focus on the faltering economy and Mr. Biden’s age—as a danger to the nation.… Continue reading

As it was last summer, this summer will be filled with various ELB contributors taking the helm of ELB. Here are the primary ELB bloggers for the month of May: Week of May 1, 2023: Justin Levitt Week of May… Continue reading

At NJ.com, advocating fusion.

WaPo: Mandatory stop-and-frisk. Deploying the military to fight street crime, break up gangs and deport immigrants. Purging the federal workforce and charging leakers. Former president Donald Trump has steadily begun outlining his vision for a second-term agenda, focusing on unfinished… Continue reading

This virtual event at the Brennan Center today looks great: Misinformation is on the rise. From cable news to social media, we’re very aware that what we’re hearing or reading could be wrong. And it seems our skepticism of the… Continue reading