AP: After being in office for over a decade, Mississippi state Sen. Dean Kirby got challenged in the Republican primary. He won with 70% of the vote. That was in 2003 — and it remains the last time Kirby faced… Continue reading

Beau Tremitiere and Aisha Woodward at Lawfare.

Aaron Blake: Earlier this year, we learned about how the American political right’s most trusted news outlet proactively aired claims that its higher-ups understood to be baseless and false, and resisted fact-checking them. Fox News’s viewers were sold a fantasy… Continue reading

NYT:  federal judge reinstated a gag order on former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday that had been temporarily placed on hold nine days earlier, reimposing restrictions on what Mr. Trump can say about witnesses and prosecutors in the case… Continue reading

NYT: Former Vice President Mike Pence, who spent four years dutifully serving President Donald J. Trump but refused to carry out Mr. Trump’s demand that he block the 2020 election results, ended his presidential bid on Saturday, with a final… Continue reading

AP: A vote by the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate last month to fire the state’s nonpartisan top elections official had no legal effect, and lawmakers are barred from ousting her while a lawsuit plays out, a Dane County judge ruled on… Continue reading

Doug Jones CNN oped on the potential for a contingent election in 2024.

Bolts reports.

Here’s the brief. This was an issue I flagged in my recent conversation with Genevieve Lakier and Eugene Volokh.

Rick linked earlier today to a new analysis of the risk that a No Labels presidential ticket could cause no candidate to win a majority of electoral votes, triggering the Twelfth Amendment’s antiquated “contingent election” procedure (last used in 1824).… Continue reading

Marc Elias has a theory: One possibility is simply bad legal strategy. Republicans and their attorneys regularly make litigation decisions that defy common sense and at least some of the attorneys in this case have a history of bringing meritless… Continue reading

New from R Street: In the past several years, various states across the country have experienced delays in reporting their election results. These delays have been especially scrutinized in slow-counting jurisdictions when the window of time between the polls closing… Continue reading

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