AP: Just hours after it began, legal betting on the outcome of U.S. Congressional elections has been put on hold by a federal appeals court. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order Thursday… Continue reading

Richard Primus: On Oct. 30, 2020, just days before the U.S. presidential election, a Biden-Harris campaign bus was traveling along Interstate 35 between Austin and San Antonio when a group of Trump supporters in cars and trucks—a “Trump Train”—surrounded … Continue reading

I had been flagging this case as a potential first U.S. Supreme Court test for the independent state legislature theory post-Moore v. Harper. But the PA Supreme Court rejected the case because the plaintiffs did not sue all of Pennsylvania’s… Continue reading

NPR reports.

Politico: More than 30 House members, including a half-dozen Republicans, have signed a bipartisan pledge to uphold the results of the 2024 election amid an increased focus on Congress’ role in certifying the tally next January. A pair of House… Continue reading

NBC News: he judge in the election interference case against Donald Trump and several co-defendants in Georgia has thrown out three counts in the indictment — including two counts brought against the former president. The original 41-count indictment accused Trump… Continue reading

Harvard Law Today covers TrueViews, the new tool for seeing public opinion on many policies and at many geographic levels. [T]hanks to a new freeware data tool created by experts from Harvard Law School and the Bloomberg Center for… Continue reading

Votebeat: But this close to an election, the risk of disenfranchising or discouraging eligible voters is high. Efforts to “clean” the voter rolls have indeed wrongly or improperly ensnared eligible voters in the past. In 2019, for example, Texas officials … Continue reading

New at Bolts.

In the first one to two minutes of this clip, Republican Rep. Donalds lambasts PA for not permitting officials to start processing absentee ballots before Election Day. He notes that his state of Florida, along with Georgia and many others,… Continue reading

The Election Law at Ohio State program is hosting a webinar on the multiple efforts around the country this year to reform the structure of elections (including the effort in Alaska to repeal that state’s previous reform). Date & Time:… Continue reading

Very important topic and great lineup for this conference at Hofstra’s Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal ethics.

E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Sasha Issenberg for Smithsonian Magazine.