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

NYT: Since it went into effect, critics have raised concerns that the law would impede voters with disabilities, elderly voters and voters who do not speak English. The federal trial, now entering its second week, is providing an unusual opportunity… Continue reading

Greg Sargent WaPo column: Democrats won a whole lot of elections in 2022, in no small part on their vow to strengthen and defend democracy. But if they hope to turn the issue into a sustained political winner, they have… Continue reading

How Should Platforms Handle Election Speech and Disinformation in 2024?Tuesday, September 26, 12:15pm – 1:15pmKatie Harbath (Anchor Change), Josh Lawson (Advisor to the Aspen Institute on A.I. and democracy-related risk, formerly of Meta) Yoel Roth (formerly of Twitter), and Brandon… Continue reading

Adam Liptak NYT column: A little more than a month ago, a law professor who helped found the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, enthusiastically endorsed a new law review article arguing that Donald J. Trump was ineligible to be… Continue reading

AP: One of the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tapped to investigate impeaching newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz for taking Democratic Party money accepted donations from the state Republican Party when he was on the court. The former justice, Republican… Continue reading