WaPo: Yet for Trump — who since entering politics in 2015 has proved to have more lives than even the luckiest of felines — the latest developments could also prove little more than distractions that don’t fundamentally undermine his support… Continue reading

ADN reports.

Brad Smith has written this article for the U Pa Journal of Constitutional Law. From the Introduction: There is a crisis in American elections. A large and apparently growing percentage of Americans are simply unwilling to accept that an election… Continue reading

Donald Trump:

I’m pleased to share this draft now up on SSRN. Comments welcome! The piece is called “Election Subversion and the Writ of Mandamus.” Here’s the abstract: Election subversion threatens democratic self-governance. Recently, we have seen election officials try to… Continue reading

NYT: The Manhattan district attorney’s office recently signaled to Donald J. Trump’s lawyers that he could face criminal charges for his role in the payment of hush money to a porn star, the strongest indication yet that prosecutors are nearing… Continue reading

Here is the schedule: More information and to RSVP: https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/safeguarding-democracy-project/can-american-democracy-survive-2024-elections

For this to happen in Arizona is pretty amazing. Includings Ken Bennett (former Republican SOS) and former Maricopa administrator Hellen Purcell.

This seems to be an important development: On January 3, 2023, two days after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had been sworn in as Brazil’s president, a Facebook user posted a video with a caption in Portuguese. The caption includes… Continue reading

Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein of Propublica, and Nick Surgey of Documented, report: A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project. Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme… Continue reading

Alex Burns for Politico: Weeks before the 2020 election, a secret 87-page document outlined in matter-of-fact language the threat posed by Donald Trump’s still-to-come campaign of election denial. The private paper — the existence of which has not been reported… Continue reading

WaPo: As activists staked out a suburban ballot drop box last year, some toting guns and dressed in tactical gear, law enforcement officers found themselves also playing the role of front-line election workers. In interacting with these observers, local sheriff’s… Continue reading

Colorado Newsline: Jenna Ellis, the Colorado attorney who was former President Donald Trump’s senior legal advisor as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, has been censured by a Colorado judge for misconduct. The public censure order was signed… Continue reading

WSJ: An Ohio jury is about to decide whether politicians enlisted by an energy company to seek a $1.3 billion state bailout of its two failing nuclear plants pushed the bounds of campaign spending too far. Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. secretly spent… Continue reading