Watch Archive Video of My Humphrey School Conversation with Jennifer Morrell and Larry Jacobs, “The Threat to the 2024 Elections”
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Category Archives: election subversion risk
“The other Jan. 6 Democrats are worried about”
Politico, expressing what I’ve also had as my biggest concern about the 2024 elections:
Democrats have spent much of the 2024 campaign reminding Americans of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. But on Capitol Hill, some are already growing… Continue reading
Election Deniers on the Ballot as State Chief Election Officers
Bolts:
In some of these states, including Missouri, Oregon, and Vermont, a candidate is once again running who has clearly embraced false conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. They’ve proposed taking drastic actions such as ending… Continue reading
Download the Revised Draft of My Forthcoming Yale Law Journal Piece, “The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law”
You can find the revised draft here. The new draft incorporates discussion of the Supreme Court shadow docket order in the Arizona voter registration case and greatly expands Part III of the paper, discussing democratic theory and international human… Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “From Here to There How States Can and Should Certify the Results of the 2024 Elections”
You can watch this great conversation, featuring Ben Berwick, Head of Election Law & Litigation Team & Counsel (Protect Democracy), Lauren Miller Karalunas, (Brennan Center for Justice), and Michael Morley (Florida State University College of Law) at this link.
Blockbuster NYT Reporting from Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak Reveals Key Details on Trump v. Anderson, the Trump Immunity Case, and the Fischer Obstruction Case, Showing a Conservative Majority Less Willing to Compromise
This reporting is remarkable, not only for its substance but for the fact that so much inside information has been leaked. (This is the biggest leak since the leak of the draft Dobbs abortion decision, although this of course is… Continue reading
“Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About Jan. 6. Trump Can’t Help Himself.”
NYT:
When a moderator asked Donald J. Trump about Jan. 6, 2021, at the presidential debate, the former president slipped immediately into a now-familiar revisionist history of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He falsely claimed that he had nothing… Continue reading
“Georgia’s lieutenant governor won’t be charged in election interference case”
AJC:
A state prosecutor on Friday announced he would decline to pursue criminal charges against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones regarding his efforts to aid Donald Trump as the former president sought to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.
After spending five… Continue reading
“Harris or Trump? Once Again, Election Results Could Take a While.”
NYT:
The hosts of election night parties may want to book a room for more than just one night.
For the second straight presidential election, it is becoming increasingly likely that there will be no clear and immediate winner on… Continue reading
“Fears mount that election deniers could disrupt vote count in US swing states”
Ed Pilkington in The Guardian:
Fears are rising that the vote count in November’s presidential election could be disrupted as a result of the proliferation of Donald Trump’s lies about stolen elections and rampant voter fraud in the key swing… Continue reading
“Rich Bernstein: Trump Had 2020 Court Challenges Rejected ‘On the Merits'”
At Society for the Rule of Law:
At Tuesday’s debate, Donald Trump stated that his side lost the court cases brought to overturn the 2020 election results solely on the technicality of standing: “They said we didn’t have standing. A… Continue reading
“14 pro-Trump electors linked to efforts to reverse his 2020 loss are back for 2024”
“Sweeping Section Three under the Rug: A Comment on Trump v. Anderson”
William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Harvard Law Review). Here is the abstract:
In Trump v. Anderson, the Supreme Court was confronted with the explosive question of whether former President Donald Trump was constitutionally… Continue reading
“Feds increase security for Jan. 6 in effort to prevent Capitol attack repeat”
WaPo:
The federal government will dramatically increase security protections for the joint session of Congress where lawmakers count states’ electoral votes, an escalation of government-wide efforts to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,… Continue reading