Will the multiple indictments and expected trials of former President Donald Trump lead to violence or unrest?
Are the risks of political violence in the U.S. increasing or decreasing?
What can the United States learn from other countries that reversed democratic backsliding?
On Season 5, Episode 1 of the ELB podcast, we have a roundtable with Ben Ginsberg, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and Rachel Kleinfeld.
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New ELB Podcast (the Season 4 Finale!):
What are the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Moore v. Harper for American democracy?
What will the case mean for 2024 election challenges?
Does the decision shut down attempts to submit slates of fake electors and subvert presidential elections?
On the Season 4 finale of the ELB podcast, a voting rights roundtable with Derek Muller, Carolyn Shapiro, Bertrall Ross, and Rick Pildes.
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Why did two conservative justices on the Supreme Court join the Court’s liberals to save section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Allen v. Milligan?
Will voting rights plaintiffs see more success in Section 2 cases in other states including Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas?
What are the political implications of the Court siding with minority plaintiffs in Milligan?
On Season 4, Episode 9 of the ELB Podcast, we have a voting rights roundtable with Professors Guy Charles, Ellen Katz, and Rick Pildes.
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To what extent have abortion politics been the driver of campaign finance fights in the courts?
How much of a force has anti-abortion lawyer Jim Bopp been in the campaign finance cases?
Are new efforts to make it harder to pass abortion initiatives going to change voters’ access to direct democracy?
On Season 4, Episode 8 of the ELB Podcast, we speak with law professor and historian Mary Ziegler, author of the new book, Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment.
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How do Republican voters think about Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election?
What are voters’ attitudes towards authoritarianism and the rule of law?
How will election denialism play out in the 2024 Republican presidential primary?
On Season 4, Episode 7 of the ELB podcast, we speak with GOP pollster and publisher of The Bulwark, Sarah Longwell.
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Does our decentralized system of government create conditions to strengthen or weaken democratic institutions?
Why have red and blue states adopted different sets of election rules, with some Republican states adopting restrictive registration and voting laws?
Would more a more national election process in the United States protect against the risk of election subversion?
On Season 4, Episode 6 of the ELB Podcast we speak with University of Washington Professor Jake Grumbach, author of the book “Laboratories Against Democracy.”
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Can an attempt an election subversion in the 1940s teach us how to handle current threats to American democracy?
Do failed attempts to hold Nazi sympathizers in the American government accountable through criminal litigation show the limits of the law in protecting democracy?
What role can and should journalists play in safeguarding free and fair elections today?
On Season 4, Episode 5 of the ELB Podcast, we speak with journalist Rachel Maddow, producer and narrator of the new podcast series, “Ultra.”
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Did the 2022 U.S. midterm elections demonstrate that we have moved beyond risks to American democracy?
What explains continued, persistent divisions across the American public along party lines?
Does there remain a potential for violence associated with future U.S. elections?
On Season 4, Episode 4 of the ELB Podcast, we speak with Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch of UCLA’s political science department.
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Does former president Donald Trump know—and does he care—that the statements he has made undermining the integrity of the 2020 electionrun the risk of undermining the core of American democracy?
Is election denialism bigger than Trump’s hold over the GOP?
What should the Republicans, Democrats, the Press, and others do to counter concerns about threats to free elections in the United States?
On Season 4 episode 3 of the ELB Podcast, we speak with New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, author of the new book, Confidence Man.
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What is the “independent state legislature theory,” and does a potential Supreme Court embrace threaten American democracy?
Will use of the doctrine raise the risk of election subversion or stolen elections?
How far could the theory go in insulating legislative voting rules from state constitutional review?
On Season 4, Episode 2 of the ELB Podcast, we hear a recent conversation that I moderated with Vik Amar, Derek Muller, Rick Pildes, Carolyn Shapiro, and Franita Tolson.
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Will Congress pass bipartisan legislation to fix the Electoral Count Act, that Donald Trump tried to exploit in 2020?
Is the new Electoral Count Reform Act the right way to go to stop election subversion?
Are there ways of improving the act before Congress may pass it as soon as this fall?
On Season 4, Episode 1 of the ELB Podcast, we hear a recent conversation that I moderated with Norm Eisen, Ned Foley, Rebecca Green, J. Michael Luttig and Janai Nelson.
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Why has it gotten harder rather than easier to vote in the United States over the past decade?
What can be done about the risk of stolen elections in the United States?
How have the Supreme Court’s decisions on redistricting, voting rights, and gerrymandering affected the quality of American democracy?
On season 3, Episode 8 of the ELB podcast, we speak with Wendy Weiser, Vice President for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School.
[This the final episode of Season 3 of the podcast.]
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How did Wisconsin go from the gold standard for election administration in the United States to its laughing stock?
What does the partisan investigation into the 2020 election say about how to once again achieve bipartisan cooperation in running elections?
What is the future of free and fair elections in Wisconsin and beyond?
On season 3, Episode 7 of the ELB podcast, we speak with longtime Wisconsin election administrator and attorney Michael Haas.
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New ELB Podcast:
ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused to Ask
Why did the Supreme Court put on hold a federal district court order requiring the state of Alabama to draw another Black majority congressional district?
What does the stay order in Merrill v. Milligan mean for the future of the Voting Rights Act?
Are minority voting rights under threat by new arguments to weaken the Voting Rights Act?
On season 3, Episode 6 of the ELB podcast, we speak with NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Senior Counsel and Director of Development, Deuel Ross.
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