Maureen Edobor is a new election-law academic recently hired as an assistant professor at Washington and Lee. Here’s an excerpt from a piece she just published in The Hill, which criticizes the 8th Circuit’s holding that no private right of… Continue reading

From Randall Elliason in the NYT: If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024, it’s now clear he will likely still have criminal indictments hanging over his head on Election Day. It’s possible that his criminal liability… Continue reading

Scoop from @jonkarl: “They plan to spend tens of millions to try to defeat Trump in the primaries” https://x.com/jonkarl/status/1729508317557317665?s=20

This is an issue that comes up regularly: whether legislators can be deposed in redistricting and voting-rights litigation when purpose-based challenges are made to these laws. From Scotus blog: The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon denied a request from the… Continue reading

Must read: A lot of significant new information in this ABC story . One of the most significant is that Pence, and presumably many others around him, fully understood that that there would be a shift in the vote toward… Continue reading

I’ll be on a panel with Joshua Sellers on legal issues and the 2024 election. You can register for a free livestream. Conference schedule: Agenda Please scroll for descriptions of the conference panels. 8:55 amWelcome Remarks9:00 amPanel I — A Presidential… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: The Republican Party’s finances are increasingly worrisome to party members, advisers to former president Donald Trump, and other operatives involved in the 2024 election effort, according to 10 people familiar with the matter…. Donors have… Continue reading

This piece is from @gideonrachman, the Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator (I believe it’s paywalled.) For an extended academic discussion of these issues, see my piece, “Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the West.” From Rachman: “Political groups… Continue reading

This Nate Cohn piece for the NYT argues that we should take seriously the results from a number of recent polls which converge on the finding that young voters are more divided on a Biden-Trump contest than in 2020. But… Continue reading

One county in critical swing state of PA continues to have problems with its touch-screen voting machines. It’s a good thing the system prints out paper recordings of their vote that voters can check, which is one of the policies… Continue reading

Boulder elected its mayor for the first time and also used ranked-choice voting to do so. This was an example of a “come from behind” RCV win. In the initial tally, two candidates from the Boulder Progressives split the vote… Continue reading

Sherrilyn Ifill for WaPo oped: The 14th Amendment is treated as a suggestion but rarely imposed in full measure when the status quo will be upended. This was perhaps most famously on display in 1955, in the case of Brown II,… Continue reading

NYT: Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to publicly release thousands of hours of Capitol security footage from Jan. 6, 2021, has fueled a renewed effort by Republican lawmakers and far-right activists to rewrite the history of the attack that day and… Continue reading