In light of the removal of McCarthy as Speaker, last week I invoked my previous advocacy of a majority winner requirement for congressional elections. This week I want to highlight my more recent advocacy of the need to avoid plurality… Continue reading

Announcement via email from “Reform for Illinois”: Civil Disagreements: Does the 14th Amendment Bar Trump from Office? Join us for the latest installment of our “Civil Disagreements” series! We’re hosting a virtual panel discussion exploring whether the 14th Amendment to… Continue reading

Kurt Lash (who will be speaking at the October 20th virtual conference on Trump’s potential disqualification sponsored by the Safeguarding Democracy Project) has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualified anyone… Continue reading

A couple of astute readers of my earlier blog post today asked me whether Georgia’s version of a runoff system would satisfy my proposed majority-winner requirement for congressional elections. The simple answer is no, for a reason that is explained… Continue reading

Steven Sholk’s latest iteration of his useful guide.

As I’ve watched this week’s removal of McCarthy from the Speakership and the ensuing sense that the House may be ungovernable because of the fragmentation within its Republican conference, I return to the idea that I first advocated shortly after … Continue reading

Politico Q & A with Theda Skocpol.

Via the indispensable Laura Brill/Civics Center. That’s 100,000 potential voters. You can’t vote if you are not registered. So….

ABC News: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation into law on Wednesday that will limit the ability of local governments to manually count ballots less than a year after one northern county’s governing board ditched its contract with Dominion Voting… Continue reading

NYT: Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump asked a judge on Thursday to throw out a federal indictment accusing him of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election and claimed that because the charges relate to actions he took as… Continue reading

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez for WaPo: If the 2024 presidential election is close in Arizona, a newly enacted state law will mandate a ballot recount that will probably cause the state to miss crucial deadlines for certifying the vote, according… Continue reading

Click Orlando: According to a complaint filed by Sumter County Elections Supervisor Bill Keen with the Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security, Rivernider is accused of signing a vote-by-mail ballot for his father in 2020. Keen said the… Continue reading

Rick LaRue in The Fulcrum.

NYT: The New York judge presiding over Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud trial ordered the former president Tuesday not to attack or even comment on court staff after Mr. Trump posted a message to social media targeting the judge’s law… Continue reading