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Here: Top Downloads For: LSN: Election Law & Voting Rights (Topic) As of: 08 Aug 2019 – 07 Oct 2019 RankPaperDownloads1.Was the Democratic Nomination Rigged? A Reexamination of the Clinton-Sanders Presidential RaceAnthony J. GaughanDrake University – Law SchoolDate Posted: 19 Sep … Continue reading
Peter Baker for the NYT: President Trump insists he and his attorney general did nothing wrong by seeking damaging information about his domestic opponents from Ukraine, Australia, Italy and Britain or by publicly calling on China to investigate his most prominent Democratic challenger. But … Continue reading
I spoke to Tamara Keith of NPR for Weekend Edition Saturday. … Continue reading
Ned Foley for Politico. … Continue reading
Zoe Tillman for BuzzFeed. … Continue reading
David Daley: Entire transcript, along with Tom Farr shoutout to @rickhasen, is here."Suddenly the media … and the guy named Rick Hasen, who is the leading election law professor in the country. Suddenly North Carolina became the worst gerrymander in … Continue reading
You can find the opinion in Americans for Prosperity v. Grewal at this link. The NJ law goes much farther than federal and most state disclosure laws in covering political issue advocacy unconnected to elections. … Continue reading
WaPo: But the whistleblower complaint that spurred the investigation described an “official word-for-word transcript” of the call — words closely matching the ones used by Trump on Wednesday — creating uncertainty about what was included in the document the White … Continue reading
Washington Post: Attorney General William P. Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies’ examination of possible connections between Russia and … Continue reading
NYT: The United States issued new economic sanctions on Monday against seven Russians linked to an internet troll factory in what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called a warning to foreigners who seek to interfere in American elections.The penalties were … Continue reading
WaPo: Officials in Montana are warning residents for the second time this year about surveys sent by the Republican National Committee that mimic the look of federal census forms, with the goal of soliciting money for President Trump’s reelection campaign.The … Continue reading
The Idaho Law Review is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a special symposium volume entitled “Democracy Evolved: The Future of American Elections.” In 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified, formally prohibiting vote denial on the basis of race. In … Continue reading
AP: An Iowa judge has upheld voter ID as allowable under the Iowa Constitution but struck down as unconstitutional portions of a 2017 voting reform law challenged by a Hispanic civil rights group and an Iowa State University student. … Continue reading
This Friday in D.C., former White House Counsels to Presidents Trump (Don McGahn) and Obama (Bob Bauer) will be jointly holding a public, keynote conversation as part of a George Mason Symposium titled “The Administration of Democracy.” Perhaps fittingly, the … Continue reading
KC Star: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who believes Google should be investigated for treason and once wrote that American democracy has been in decline since women won the right to vote, is investing heavily in two of the Kansas … Continue reading
NYT: The Federal Election Commission chairwoman, Ellen L. Weintraub, on Friday took the dramatic step of using Twitter to release the entire draft of a memo addressing foreign election interference after its disputed publication in the agency’s weekly digest.Ms. Weintraub, a Democrat … Continue reading
A combination of personal and professional obligations will cut into blogging time over the next few weeks. Those who receive daily emails from me via the Election Law Listserv will find them somewhat less frequently. Thanks for your patience. … Continue reading
Mother Jones reports. … Continue reading
The other speaker will be Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho. I’ll be talking about Cheap Speech (and What It Has Done to American Democracy). Join us! … Continue reading
Watch: WATCH: Chuck Todd asks Rick Hasen whether Bill Barr is going to have to appoint a special counsel if he recuses himself. #mtpdaily @rickhasen: “I don’t expect anything to come out of the Justice Department. … The next question … Continue reading
In a NYT article today, John Schwartz accurately quotes me as expressing skepticism about whether various political reforms are likely to fundamentally transform the hyerpolarized politics of our era. I want to elaborate briefly on those comments, since John could … Continue reading
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Mark Sherman of the AP: RBG identifies Kennedy as the author of the principal opinion in Bush v. Gore, which was an unsigned per curiam opinion. #SCOTUS— Mark Sherman (@shermancourt) September 25, 2019 … Continue reading
NYT: The whistle-blower, moreover, identified multiple White House officials as witnesses to potential presidential misconduct who could corroborate the complaint, the people said — adding that the inspector general for the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, interviewed witnesses.Mr. Atkinson eventually concluded … Continue reading
Details: Friday, September 27 • 2:30pm – 3:30pmRepresentation NationProgrammed in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network.ModeratorAlexa UraDemographics Reporter for The Texas TribuneUra covers the intersection between politics and race, with an emphasis on the state’s surging Hispanic population, as the … Continue reading
Ned in Politico. … Continue reading
As I explain here: This is totally wrong. Even Mueller concluded opposition research is a thing of value for campaign finance purposes.I spell it out @slate: https://t.co/iWuMT40G4J https://t.co/gQhxkMJH6L— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) September 25, 2019 Trump's DOJ concluded that Ukraine gov … Continue reading
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Josh Douglas: In April 2019, Tennessee enacted a law that would make it harder for individuals and organizations to register people to vote. On September 12, 2019, a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction against the law, finding that the law would unconstitutionally … Continue reading
Here is the order. No surprise: That Judge Willett dissent in the Mississippi section 2 case is not strong. Nonetheless, given the increasingly conservative nature of the 5th Circuit overall, it would not surprise me to see the state successfully … Continue reading
LOL: Thank you. Please vote tonight between 8-10pm. Text SEAN 10 times to 21523 and then vote 10 more on https://t.co/in3iBKszaD https://t.co/ds5xb0uZHs— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) September 23, 2019 (h/t Jessica Huseman) … Continue reading
SF Chronicle: If the state Legislature has its way, the 52-year-old American Independent Party is going to need to find a new name, and it’s going to need to do it in a hurry. A bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk would … Continue reading
Politico is running a piece called “99 Ways to Fix American Elections,” with brief suggestions from 99 commentators. One of the most original and intriguing comes from Elaine Kamarck, of the Brookings Institution: In our constitutional system, presidents don’t govern … Continue reading
In light of the Ukraine story, reupping this: Trump Says He Would Accept Foreign Government In-Kind Contributions of Opposition Research in the 2020 Elections, in Violation of American Law Posted on June 12, 2019 5:31 pm by Rick Hasen Watch the clip: EXCLUSIVE: … Continue reading
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Bloomberg: The Iowa Democratic Party proposed instituting “satellite caucuses” to let voters participate even if they can’t get to an official caucus site, according to Democratic National Committee members who have been briefed on the plan.The proposal, which would take … Continue reading
Watch here: It was a great conversation! … Continue reading
Josh Douglas and Adam Eichen oped in the NYDN. … Continue reading
Tom Edsall: Money is the mother’s milk of politics, as the old saying goes, and the slow motion realignment of our two major political parties has changed who raises more money from the rich and who raises more from small … Continue reading
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AJC: Two computers that are used to check in voters were stolen from a west Atlanta precinct hours before polls opened Tuesday for a city school board election.Officials replaced the computers before voters arrived, and the election wasn’t disrupted, according to the … Continue reading
Earlier today, the North Carolina legislature approved remedial maps to replace the state house and state senate plans that were recently struck down as partisan gerrymanders. PlanScore assessed the remedial maps, and here are the results. For the state house, … Continue reading
That’s the title of an op-ed today in the NY Times, by David Shribram of McGill University, with the subtitle: “The campaign for prime minister just started. And it’s almost over.” The piece points out many ways in which Canadian … Continue reading
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy oped. … Continue reading
NPR: After its failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the Trump administration has forged ahead with ordering the Census Bureau to use government records to produce data about the U.S. citizenship status of every person … Continue reading
HuffPost: A Texas appeals court appeared hesitant on Tuesday to overturn the criminal conviction of Crystal Mason, a 44-year old woman sentenced to five years in prison for illegally voting in the 2016 election.Mason cast a provisional ballot in 2016 while … Continue reading
Disgusting: This article describes how Cooper was there; a source on the ground tells me other Democrats were also attending a 9/11 memorial event. https://t.co/fYk9lOJIx6— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) September 11, 2019 More: While North Carolina Democrats were at a … Continue reading
The latest from Issue One. … Continue reading