NYT: The judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s trial on charges of seeking to overturn the 2020 election denied on Wednesday his attempt to disqualify her from the case for supposedly being biased against him. In a strongly worded… Continue reading

Votebeat: In North Carolina, Local Labs wanted obscure voter records that would take weeks, or even months, to prepare. In Georgia, the company requested a copy of every envelope voters used to mail in their ballots. And in dozens of… Continue reading

PlanScore is now updated with partisan fairness data about congressional and state legislative plans through the 2022 election. Below are maps showing the biases of congressional plans in 2022 and 2012 (in that order). The improvement in 2022 in states… Continue reading

Ohio Capital Journal: After discussion, LaRose’s office said it would provide a spreadsheet identifying the number of allegations per county, broken down into broad categories of potential offenses. It took five months for the office to provide that document. As… Continue reading

New report from Issue One.

Joe Burns oped at Syracuse.com.

NYT: Shortly before Gov. Roy Cooper, a North Carolina Democrat, began his first term in 2017, his rivals in the Republican-controlled legislature voted to strip the position of key powers, including the governor’s longstanding authority to appoint majorities to… Continue reading

AP: The Colorado judge overseeing the first significant lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot on Friday issued a protective order prohibiting threats and intimidation in the case, saying the safety of those involved… Continue reading

Charlie Savage for the NYT: The request by prosecutors that a judge impose a gag order on former President Donald J. Trump in the federal election-subversion case presents a thorny conflict between the scope of his First Amendment rights and… Continue reading

Zach Roth for News from the States.

National Review: Republican candidates in competitive House and Senate races who align themselves with former president Donald Trump’s false claims that he won the 2020 election could face “considerable voter backlash” on Election Day, according to a new poll from… Continue reading

Rick LaRue talks to Jamie Raskin at The Fulcrum: What revisions to the Constitution rise to the top of your need-to-be-changed list? The Equal Rights Amendment, obviously. I also believe that we must get rid of unaccountable dark money in… Continue reading

AJC: Three Republicans who cast Electoral College votes for Donald Trump after the 2020 presidential election were acting as federal officers and doing what the law allowed, defense lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday. The Trump electors — former… Continue reading

Politico: Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is overhauling its strategy to fight misinformation on social media in the 2024 race, recruiting hundreds of staffers and volunteers to monitor platforms, buying advertising to fight bogus claims, pushing its own countermessages out through… Continue reading