Category Archives: election subversion risk
ELB Book Corner: Lindsay Langholz: “The Electoral Count: New and Improved” (in Zelizer/Greenberg Volume)
I am very pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner three contributors to the edited volume, Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue (Julian E. Zelizer & Karen J. Greenberg eds. NYU Press 2024). The first… Continue reading
“Democrats grow concerned Republicans are planting seeds with legal suits to overturn a Trump defeat”
Peter Nicholas for NBC News:
Republicans are setting off a slew of legal fights in the battleground states ahead of the November election, raising suspicions among Kamala Harris and her Democratic allies that the underlying goal is to gin up… Continue reading
“Trump said he had ‘every right’ to interfere with 2020 election”
Axios, on a story that is getting surprisingly little attention:
Former President Trump said he had “every right” to interfere with the results of the 2020 presidential election a Fox News interview that aired Sunday.
Why it matters: Trump’s recent remarks… Continue reading
My New Essay in the Wall Street Journal: “Why It Will Be Harder for Trump to Challenge This Year’s Election”
I have written this Essay for the Wall Street Journal (appearing in print on Saturday). It begins:
There are abundant signs that Republican nominee Donald Trump won’t accept the results of the 2024 election if he loses. He has taken… Continue reading
“Trump indicted again in election subversion case brought by Jack Smith”
Politico:
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has reindicted Donald Trump on four felony charges related to his effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
The 36-page indictment, secured Tuesday by special counsel Jack Smith, is an… Continue reading
“The Election Interference Merry-Go-Round”
Jon Allsop in The New Yorker:
But claims and counterclaims of “election interference” are, it seems, ubiquitous these days. Recently, the right has accused the left of election interference for a wide array of behavior: directing federal agencies to promote… Continue reading
Fantasy of Trump “Mini-Trial” on Election Interference Charges Goes Away
After the Supreme Court’s atrocious immunity ruling in Turmp v. United States, which had the effect of pushing back until after the 2024 election Trump’s trial on very serious election interference charges related to to the 2020 election, some had … Continue reading
“Six ‘America First’ Candidates, Vying to Take Over Florida Elections, Advance to November”
Bolts:
Followers of Donald Trump are pursuing an unusually coordinated effort to capture local election offices in his home state of Florida. Still motivated by his false claims of widespread voter fraud, they have formed a slate of self-described “America … Continue reading
Rich Bernstein: “Protecting Elections Under U.S. v. Trump”
New at Society for the Rule of Law.
My Forthcoming Yale Law Journal Feature: “The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law”
I have written this draft, forthcoming this spring in Volume 134 of the Yale Law Journal. I consider it my most important law review article (or at least the most important that I’ve written in some time). It offers… Continue reading
“Trump’s ‘pit bulls’ on Georgia election board face new pressure”
AJC:
Three right-wing Republicans behind a series of rules changes praised by former President Donald Trump face intensifying political pressure as the State Election Board considers new rules for ballot-counting and election certification at its Monday meeting.
Georgia House Democrats… Continue reading
“With false ‘coup’ claims, Trump primes supporters to challenge a Harris win”
WaPo:
From the moment Vice President Kamala Harris emerged as the surprise Democratic presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump began arguing that she was anointed through a “coup” rather than chosen by primary voters. After barely mentioning election integrity at… Continue reading
“How a Far-Right Takeover of Georgia’s Election Board Could Swing the Election”
NYT:
Like similar entities in other states, Georgia’s elections board was established to be an independent agency that determines voting rules and issues guidance for poll workers to maintain order and integrity in elections without consideration of their political impact.… Continue reading