Release: Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution jumped to 83.5 percent in 2021, up from 75.7 percent in 2020 according to analysis based on shareholder voting data from Proxy Insight.… Continue reading

Reform of the Electoral Count Act is one of the most important things Congress can do to reduce the risk of electoral subversion of the 2024 presidential election. Along with other election law experts, I’ve been urging reform of the… Continue reading

Dan Balz: President Biden’s impassioned rhetoric on Friday about securing voting rights collided once again with the realities of the Democrats’ limited options to turn words into action. Democrats end the year in an even worse place than when… Continue reading

Jessica Huseman: The Heritage Foundation released a “scorecard” this week ranking states on election security. It is, as I’ll explain here, extremely flawed in both its methodology and its conclusions. It has received almost no attention, aside from … Continue reading

Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg have written this oped for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. It begins: The recent pattern of attempted intimidation of state and local election officials, combined with attempts to inject partisan influence over the casting and counting of… Continue reading

Greg Sargent: I’m told Manchin and a dozen other Senate Democrats met with an expert on Senate rules and discussed various ways of carving out a filibuster exception or otherwise reforming it to allow passage of voting rights legislation.… Continue reading

Orlando Sentinel: Early in the evening of Nov. 26, 2019, the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week, a political consultant working for utility giant Florida Power & Light sent a pair of confidential documents to an email address created under the… Continue reading

Texas Tribune: Texas’ last attempt to scour its voting rolls for noncitizens two years ago quickly devolved into a calamity.The state flagged nearly 100,000 voters for citizenship checks and set them up for possible criminal investigation based on… Continue reading

Release: On behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Public Citizen Litigation Group and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced today a settlement in the case NAACP v. United States Postal… Continue reading

CNN:  A judge in Delaware has found that Fox News’ coverage of election fraud after the 2020 election may have been inaccurate, and is allowing a major defamation case against the right-wing TV network to move forward.Judge Eric Davis… Continue reading

I’m looking forward to participating in this virtual event (free registration required): Tuesday, January 4, 202210:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PacificWebinar The aftermath of the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol reflected and further impacted the… Continue reading

At the Lectern: The Supreme Court today denied an original writ petition filed two weeks ago seeking relief against the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is responsible for drafting Congressional, state legislative, and Board of Equalization district maps for… Continue reading

Ryan D’Ercole has published this student note in the Washington and Lee Law Review. Here is the abstract: Throughout the 1960s, young people protested for racial and LGBTQ+ equality, women’s rights, and an end to the Vietnam war. In… Continue reading

Texas Tribune: Texas’ highest court for criminal cases on Wednesday struck down a law that allows the attorney general to unilaterally prosecute election cases.The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals issued an 8-1 opinion saying a provision of the law… Continue reading