Kevin Johnson opinion for The Fulcrum: In recent months, we’ve gotten a crash course in the ways that our election systems are now dangerously vulnerable to partisan interference and disorder. Numerous candidates for secretary of state deny the results… Continue reading

Politico: Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election depended on one key thing that he never received: the blessing of Republican-controlled state legislatures. But it wasn’t for a lack of trying.The select committee intends to lay out Tuesday how… Continue reading

NYDN: New York celebrated Juneteenth and paid tribute to the late civil rights icon and congressman John Lewis on Monday by enacting sweeping new voter protections.The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York, signed into law… Continue reading

Jennifer Rubin WaPo column: The ECA reforms that negotiators have discussed, if in place in 2020, could have acted as a tripwire — if not a complete barrier — to the efforts to overturn the election. Specifically, there are… Continue reading

Election law does not take the summer off, and I’ve been grateful to Tabatha, Guy, and Ned for serving as primary bloggers these last few weeks. There’s so much to cover and comment on, and they’ve done it beautifully. I’m… Continue reading

AP previews the possible news this week that SCOTUS may grant review of the North Carolina case raising the so-called “independent state legislature” doctrine. As we wait, it’s worth remembering this: whatever one thinks of the doctrine itself, it cannot… Continue reading

The latest news from Arizona.

Max Fisher in the N.Y. Times discusses scholarship on how political elites handle constitutional crises over election outcomes in democracies. This research shows that presidential systems are more vulnerable to elite subversion of the electorate’s will than parliamentary systems, a… Continue reading

Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman report that “M. Evan Corcoran, a white-collar defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor brought on by Mr. Trump, was involved in drafting the document, according to two people briefed on the matter.”

I know this is far afield from this blog’s focus, but this is such an interesting constitutional issue, with significant practical implications, that I wanted to flag it here for those interested in constitutional law. The en banc Fourth Circuit… Continue reading

The Hill has a story on the effort of three midwestern states–Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois–to be among the first in the revamped schedule for the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries in 2024. With the goal of putting an Electoral College swing… Continue reading

In Just Security, they respond to his questions about the evidence of Trump’s criminality as shown in the January 6 Committee’s hearings. I was struck that several of these former prosecutors said that, as significant as it may be… Continue reading

In my previous post, I linked to Larry Diamond’s new essay in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. The piece deserves a post of its own–and its entirety definitely deserves a careful read. Larry offers a multi-pronged plan for protecting… Continue reading

Ron Elving of NPR adds his voice to those of us who’ve been singing this tune. Like Larry Diamond, Rick Pildes, and me (just to list a few), Elving specifically cites the new Alaska system as worthy… Continue reading