Category Archives: ELB Podcast

ELB Podcast 5:2: The Roberts Court and American Democracy (Joan Biskupic)

October 18, 2023, 4:11 pmELB Podcast, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: Is the Roberts Court shifting on its protection of voting rights? How has the addition of three Trump-appointed Justices changed the nature of the Supreme Court? Should we expect a new ethics code for Supreme Court Justices?… Continue reading

ELB Podcast 5:1: The Trump Indictments, the 2024 Elections, and the Public Peace (Ginsberg, Ben-Ghiat, and Kleinfeld)

September 11, 2023, 8:13 amELB Podcast, election subversion riskRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast 4:10: U.S. Democracy and the Independent State Legislature Theory after Moore v. Harper

June 28, 2023, 5:15 pmELB Podcast, legislation and legislatures, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast 4:9: Charles, Katz, Pildes: The Future of the Voting Rights Act after Milligan

June 21, 2023, 6:56 amELB Podcast, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast 4:8: Mary Ziegler: Dollars for Life: Money, Politics and Abortion

May 18, 2023, 4:09 pmcampaign finance, ELB PodcastRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 4:7: Sarah Longwell: Election Denialism and the Future of the Republican Party

April 11, 2023, 1:32 pmELB Podcast, election subversion riskRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 4:6: Jake Grumbach: Laboratories Against Democracy

February 20, 2023, 4:17 pmELB PodcastRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 4:5: Rachel Maddow: What “Ultra” Can Teach Us About Threats to Democracy Today

February 1, 2023, 5:57 pmELB Podcast, election subversion riskRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 4:4: Lynn Vavreck & Chris Tausanovitch: Lessons for Democracy from the 2022 Midterm Elections

December 2, 2022, 1:30 pmELB Podcast, election subversion riskRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 4:3: Maggie Haberman: Trump, Trumpism, and the Threats to American Democracy

November 1, 2022, 11:49 amELB PodcastRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast, Season 4, Episode 2: Moore v. Harper and Potential Threats to American Democracy

September 18, 2022, 5:43 amELB Podcast, legislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast, Season 4, Episode 1: Fixing the Electoral Count Act to Stop Future Stolen Elections

September 1, 2022, 2:14 pmELB Podcast, election subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 3:8: Wendy Weiser: Assessing the State of American Elections and Democracy

April 27, 2022, 1:15 pmELB Podcast, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 3:7: Mike Haas: The Mess with Wisconsin’s Elections

March 28, 2022, 6:12 pmELB Podcast, election administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: 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… Continue reading

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