Thread on Twitter starts here: We don't know exactly what Cohen will produce tomorrow in terms of documents, but if the only documents produced prove that the Trump Org paid Cohen with Trump's knowledge for hush money payments to Stormy … Continue reading
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The GA Secretary of State is trying to ram through a bill to force GA voters to continue to vote on electronic voting machines which will cost over 3x more than using hand-marked paper ballots, a boondoggle to the vendor. … Continue reading
There is still a chance Harris could face criminal liability in the first election.There's also now the issue of the law passed in the #ncga lame duck subjecting #nc09 to a new primary. Will Democrats now challenge? https://t.co/7qWGQELjQ8— Rick Hasen … Continue reading
I’ve got some personal and writing commitments that will keep me mostly off the blog at the beginning of March. Dan Tokaji and then Justin Levitt will be steering the ELB ship from March 1-9. If there’s any key breaking … Continue reading
Watch: Trump addresses the new election in North Carolina…sort of pic.twitter.com/pXDCfVhnrU— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) February 22, 2019 … Continue reading
https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1099031834174861313 … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: For the second time, the Senate Nominations Committee met this week to approve the governor’s appointees — and for the second time, the Republican-dominated committee did not call a vote on David Whitley, the governor’s embattled pick for … Continue reading
News & Observer: After a stunning reversal by Republican Mark Harris, North Carolina election officials Thursday unanimously ordered a new election in the 9th Congressional District.Their vote came after four days of testimony about what election officials called “a coordinated, … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Jon Eguia: In a previous post I introduced a measure of partisan advantage in redistricting. This measure compares the election outcome to a benchmark seat distribution that is not directly influenced by redistricting. More … Continue reading
Well the drama continues: In a startling statement, Republican candidate Mark Harris Thursday called for a new election in the 9th Congressional District “to restore the confidence of voters.”Harris’ statement came after a break in a hearing after he had … Continue reading
Mark Harris says "my 27-year-old son" is "a little judgmental and has a little taste of arrogance and some other things. And I'm very proud of him and and love him with all my heart." #nc09— Amy Gardner (@AmyEGardner) February … Continue reading
Matt Dunlap: An election may have been stolen in North Carolina. While evidence continues to be gathered, officials are investigating whether a paid Republican campaign contractor collected mail-in ballots from likely Democratic voters and never turned them in, possibly changing the result of the … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Jon Eguia: I propose a measure of partisan advantage in redistricting. A distinctive feature of this measure is that it captures only the partisan advantage that is due to the redistricting map in … Continue reading
https://twitter.com/MarilynRMarks1/status/1097046640312094720 … Continue reading
AP: An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official … Continue reading
The federal court redrawing portions of Virginia’s House of Delegates map recently announced the new configuration of the district lines. PlanScore evaluated both the old plan and the new one. As you can see below, the improvement is dramatic. The … Continue reading
Joe Bruno, who is a must-follow for the NC09 story, has the details. … Continue reading
Lyle Denniston for Constitution Daily. … Continue reading
Seattle Times: Seattle is mailing out “democracy vouchers” for residents to donate to candidates in this year’s hotly contested City Council elections.Officials intend to send the vouchers to 463,000 residents Tuesday, weather permitting.All seven of the council’s district seats are up for grabs … Continue reading
From the NY brief: Respondents recognize, however, that the resolution of this dispute over the Secretary’s decision to add a citizenship question to the decennial census has consequences for the Nation that may lead this Court to conclude that its … Continue reading
Politifact analysis. … Continue reading
In yesterday’s post, I described the data and methods that Chris Warshaw and I use in a new paper on the effects of partisan gerrymandering on parties’ associational activities. Today I’ll discuss our findings and their implications. In a nutshell, … Continue reading
In her concurring opinion in Whitford, Justice Kagan suggested that partisan gerrymandering might be unconstitutional not just because it dilutes the votes of a party’s supporters but also because it burdens their associational rights. “Members of the ‘disfavored party’ in … Continue reading
Trump says that some of America's greatest accomplishments, including the "abolition of civil rights," have been led by people of faith. Via Fox pic.twitter.com/Gqa8e74jLz— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 7, 2019 … Continue reading
Howard has the details. … Continue reading
Tampa Bay Times: Whether they meant to or not, more than 83,000 Florida voters didn’t cast a valid vote for governor, according to a new report prepared by state officials.The combined total of invalid ballots outnumbered Republican Ron DeSantis’s margin … Continue reading
Daily Kos: Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood is running for governor of Mississippi this year, and as we’ve noted before, a Jim Crow-era law means that Hood could lose even if he wins the most votes on Election Day. That’s because the … Continue reading
Bridge MI: New evidence submitted on the eve of a landmark trial challenging Michigan’s GOP-drawn legislative districts appears to strengthen the claim the maps were drawn in 2011 for partisan, Republican gain.Emails and other documents filed over the weekend in … Continue reading
Complaint (via Chris Geidner). … Continue reading
Josh Douglas for CNN Opinion: As a professor of election law and voting rights at the University of Kentucky College of Law — your state’s flagship institution and your alma mater — I invite you to come sit in on … Continue reading
Jerry Goldfeder NYT letter to the editor. … Continue reading
Release: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and its allies today won a major court ruling that allows them to proceed with a federal lawsuit challenging the government’s inadequate preparations for the 2020 Census.“[T]he census must be conducted … Continue reading
Topeka Capital-Journal: The Kansas attorney general said Tuesday the state agreed to drop former Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s appeal of a federal court judge’s contempt order in exchange for the American Civil Liberties Union accepting only $20,000 for attorney … Continue reading
Governing reports. … Continue reading
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY Witness List Time Date Place 10:00 AM Tuesday, January 29, 2019 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Subject: H.R. 1, the “For the People Act of 2019” Ms. Vanita Gupta President and Chief Executive Officer Leadership Conference on Civil and Human … Continue reading
Democratic governor Roy Cooper will get to name a replacement for North Carolina Chief Justice Mark Martin. This increases the chances that a state Supreme Court strikes down North Carolinas districts as partisan gerrymanders, which perhaps takes the heat off … Continue reading
WRAL: GOP officials have repeatedly said there are simply not enough votes in question to change the outcome of the race, so Harris should be declared the winner. But during a court hearing Tuesday on Harris’ motion, Special Deputy Attorney … Continue reading
Holy cow from the Tallahassee Democrat: Michael Ertel, the newly appointed Secretary of State of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has resigned after photos emerged of him posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim in blackface at a private Halloween party 14 years ago.The photos obtained … Continue reading
Crazy story via Electionline: FBI agents questioned state and county election officials and state political party leaders about two international election observers who toured Nebraska before November’s general election.In at least two interviews, federal law enforcement agents asked if the … Continue reading
New report from Issue One. … Continue reading
From McConnell’s oped opposing H.R. 1: “Correction: An earlier version of this column stated incorrectly that 23,000 ineligible voters were permitted to register to vote recently in California. The figure referred to registration errors such as wrongly recorded party affiliations, not … Continue reading
Hansi Lo Wang reports. I think the Court will be likely to grant this motion and to hear the case this term, given printing deadlines in June. … Continue reading
Via email I learned that Caplin & Drysdale “has launched a website focused exclusively on the Foreign Agents Registration Act. www.FARA.us is a centralized resource that might help in research work of various parties moving forward, as it features FARA … Continue reading
The Detroit News reports. … Continue reading
On this subject, I have a new essay, along with others writing on the same theme, published in the current edition of The American Prospect. Here’s an excerpt on one issue I think has not received enough critical discussion: among … Continue reading
BPC event on Feb 14 (which will be webcast): WHEN: Thursday, February 14, 2019 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET WHERE: The Sofitel, 806 15th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005 ➤ REGISTER NOW ADD TO CALENDAR Please join us as the Bipartisan … Continue reading
It’s not interesting that Mitch McConnell isn’t a fan of H.R. 1. He was the lead plaintiff against the last major campaign finance reforms that Congress passed. So of course he isn’t going to like H.R. 1’s heightened disclosure requirements, … Continue reading
In a post on Tuesday, I said that in light of Judge Furman’s ruling, I thought the Supreme Court would end up getting rid of the current census case before it, because the issue there is basically moot. Today the … Continue reading
Politico reports. Update: Letter explaining the basis for suspension. … Continue reading