Ethan Herenstein and Brian Palmer Politico piece: Supporters of a legal challenge to completely upend our electoral system are citing a fraudulent document in their brief to the Supreme Court. It’s an embarrassing error — and it underscores how flimsy… Continue reading

CNN: The Justice Department is investigating felony violations of false statements, conspiracy and obstruction as part of its January 6, 2021, probe that led to a recent search of former Trump administration official Jeffrey Clark’s home, according… Continue reading

LOL: Republican members of the FEC blocked a probe of the “election integrity” services provided by True the Vote to the Georgia GOP in the 2021 runoffs on grounds the services weren’t designed to influence an election https://t.co/pTFhEOymWC pic.twitter.com/ov0QRgnWfS… Continue reading

Excited to be one of the keynote speakers (along with Sarah Longwell) at this conference: In partnership with the University of Wisconsin’s State Democracy Research Initiative, the Center for Constitutional Design will host an interdisciplinary conference on electoral… Continue reading

NYT: From outside the walls of the Justice Department, the sprawling investigation into efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election seems only to be accelerating, with prosecutors last week subpoenaing about 40 associates of former President Donald J.… Continue reading

CNN: Justice Department criminal prosecutors are now examining nearly every aspect of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election – including the fraudulent electors plot, efforts to push baseless election fraud claims and how money flowed to… Continue reading

Join us if you are at APSA in Montreal, with a panel on Lani Guinier’s legacy and one on my Cheap Speech book: Lifting Every Voice: The Legacy of Lani Guinier Sat, September 17, 2:00 to 3:30pm, TBA Session Submission… Continue reading

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Times-Union: Jason T. Schofield, the Republican Rensselaer County Board of Elections commissioner, was arrested Tuesday morning by the FBI as he left his residence and was on his way to the county office building where he works, according to multiple… Continue reading

NPR reports.

Christian Haas, Peter Miller, and Steven Kimbrough have posted this very interesting paper using a redistricting algorithm to estimate the impact on minority representation of changing the apportionment base from total population to CVAP. Their results are consistent with this… Continue reading

Sept. 13 NYC bar association event.

Axios: About one in three Americans prefers strong unelected leaders to weak elected leaders and says presidents should be able to remove judges over their decisions, according to the latest findings from our Axios-Ipsos Two Americas Index.Why it matters: … Continue reading

Useful from Politico.