WaPo: Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, would be the third such House Republican to lose in a primary this year, joining Rep. Peter… Continue reading

Journal Sentinel: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who narrowly won a primary Tuesday night, called Michael Gableman, the man he hired to investigate the 2020 presidential election, “an embarrassment.”Despite Vos hiring Gableman well over a year ago and… Continue reading

Today in a remarkable development FBI agents raided Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. The search may be related to classified documents that Trump allegedly took from the White House illegally. (The search could have been about something else, like January… Continue reading

Here in The New Yorker.

I’m thrilled to announce the fall schedule for UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. All events (aside from the co-sponsored event with Stanford) start at 12 pm Pacific online and require free registration. Can Proposed New Congressional Legislation on Counting… Continue reading

Release.

Release.

The bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act has no “fatal flaw,” as some incorrectly argue. Rather, the Senate bill is well-designed to suit its essential purpose of requiring ballots cast in presidential elections be counted according to the rules established… Continue reading

For the National Constitution Center’s podcast, the Center’s President and CEO, Jeff Rosen, moderated this discussion. Available at this link.

From Aug. 1 piece by Philip Bump in Wash. Post: In February 2021, soon after President Biden took office, CBS News and its pollster YouGov released data showing that most Republicans viewed Democrats in precisely that way. Asked to evaluate… Continue reading

WaPo: One year ago this month, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) sat on a private plane with Donald Trump and updatedthe former president on the investigation he had launched into the 2020 election, even though there was… Continue reading

A large group of election-law experts has made this point.  Nonetheless, there continues to be confusion and misunderstanding in some public commentary about this fundamental legal fact.  This confusion has also slipped into some discussions about the Electoral Count Reform… Continue reading

NYT: Kari Lake, who in the span of two years transformed herself from a veteran local television news anchor into a tribune of the far-right political movement, won Arizona’s Republican primary for governor, according to The Associated Press.Ms. Lake… Continue reading

Richard Briffault has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, North Carolina Law Review). Here is the abstract: American federal and state elections are largely run by local officials. Although election law is almost entirely determined by the federal government and… Continue reading