Katherine Clayton and Robb Willer have posted this draft on SSRN. Abstract: Since the 2020 U.S. presidential election, perceptions of the validity of the outcome and broader trust in the American electoral process have reached historically low levels among Republicans.… Continue reading

New Jerry Goldfeder article in the Fordham Law Review.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is calling on Wisconsin lawmakers to take over elections and tell local officials to ignore the work of the bipartisan Elections Commission they set up six years ago. The Oshkosh Republican on Wednesday… Continue reading

James Clapper and Michael Hayden WaPo oped: By now, it is well documented that in 2020 a sitting president and his allies tried to overturn the results of an election, triggering the worst political violence this country has seen… Continue reading

Politico: A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s effort to block Jan. 6 investigators from accessing White House records related to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, determining that he has no authority to overrule President Joe… Continue reading

WaPo: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas Tuesday to 10 Trump administration officials, including some of former president Donald Trump’s closest advisers who were in the White House that day.Those… Continue reading

The Bulwark: The sun rises on January 6, 2021 while a nation is in crisis.Michigan’s presidential electors are in dispute after a mysterious fire in Detroit destroyed thousands of mail-in ballots, ultimately throwing the election to Congress.The nation’s capital is… Continue reading

New report from the Brennan Center: Over the past few months, the drive to allow partisan sabotage of the election process had a series of frightening public successes. The Arizona State Senate concluded its partisan review of the 2020 election… Continue reading

NYT: As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights to extract testimony and documents from Donald J. Trump’s White House, an Atlanta district attorney is moving toward convening a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of… Continue reading