“Deepfake Election Laws Spread Amid Court Challenges”
Bloomberg News out this morning with an analysis of the legislative landscape for deepfakes in the electoral process.
Category Archives: legislation and legislatures
“Senate Fight Over Gas-Powered Vehicles Is Also a Filibuster Showdown”
NYT:
Senate Republicans plan to move on Wednesday to overturn California’s landmark vehicle emissions law, using a little-known federal statute that allows Congress to strike down regulations and that Democrats claim would erode the filibuster.
The fight has serious implications… Continue reading
“US Supreme Court rejects Michigan GOP bid to overturn new voting rules”
Votebeat:
The U.S. Supreme Court this week turned away a petition by 11 Republican Michigan legislators who sought to overturn expanded voting measures enacted through statewide ballot initiatives, bringing an end to the federal case known as Lindsey v. Whitmer. … Continue reading
“Republicans in Congress Use Obscure Law to Roll Back Biden-Era Regulations”
NYT:
As President Trump moves unilaterally to slash the federal bureaucracy and upend longstanding policies, Republicans in Congress have embarked on a spree of deregulation, using an obscure law to quietly but steadily chip away at Biden-era rules they say… Continue reading
Wisconsin Supreme Court on 4-3 Ideological Vote Upholds Governor Evers’ Crazy Rewriting of State Law to Protect School Funding for 402 Years Instead of 2 Years
You can find the majority decision, a concurrence, and the dissent at this link. It’s not every day I side with the conservative justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, but they are surely right here. As the majority explained: “As… Continue reading
“Senate Republicans set to bypass parliamentarian on Trump tax cuts”
Alexander Bolton for The Hill:
Republicans are set to make the audacious play of bypassing the Senate parliamentarian and moving forward with a budget resolution based on a scoring baseline set by Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would… Continue reading
Election Litigation Hits Record, Increasing More than 14 Percent in the 2024 Election Cycle Compared to the 2020 Election Cycle, Despite End of Covid Pandemic
As described in my forthcoming Essay, the results of updating my data on the rates of election litigation to include 2023 and 2024:
The voting wars also brought a significant increase in litigation. The rate of election administration has… Continue reading
My New Draft: “Bush v. Gore’s Ironic Legacy”
I have written this draft for a symposium issue of the Florida State University Law Review on 25 Years after Bush v. Gore. Here is the abstract:
The Supreme Court framed its holding in its 2000 case, Bush v. Gore,… Continue reading
“Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence”
NYT:
The Republican-led Congress isn’t just watching the Trump administration gobble up its constitutional powers. It is enthusiastically turning them over to the White House.
G.O.P. lawmakers are doing so this week by embracing a stopgap spending bill that gives… Continue reading
ELB Podcast 6:5: Fair Elections and Voting Rights: What Ahead in the Next Four Years? (Gardner, Karlan, Richer)
Season 6, Episode 5 of the ELB Podcast:
What will the new Trump Administration and the new Congress do when it comes to voting rights and fair elections?
What challenges face state and local election officials going forward?
Will the… Continue reading
Pennsylvania Republicans, in Jones Day Petition, Try Again to Get U.S. Supreme Court Interested in Second Guessing State Election Law Decisions Through Independent State Legislature Theory
SCOTUS recently passed on taking up a case out of Montana, but Pennsylvania Republicans are trying again, with this cert petition involving a PA Supreme Court ruling allowing under state law those voters who filed a technically defective mail-in ballot… Continue reading
“Trump Kicks Congress to the Curb, With Little Protest From Republicans”
Carl Hulse for the NYT:
Congress passed a law shutting down TikTok, and President Trump flouted it. Congress required advance notification for firing inspectors general, and the Trump administration ignored it. Congress approved trillions of dollars in spending on a… Continue reading
“Roberts Calls Court’s Relationship With Congress ‘Strained.’ Who’s to Blame?”
Jimmy Hoover for the NLJ.
I offered some thoughts in this one:
Many commentators say that a similar dynamic is responsible for today’s partisan rancor in light of the Supreme Court’s now solidly 6-3 supermajority of Republican appointees.
“The Supreme… Continue reading
“Democrats rage as Johnson restricts their ability to oust him”
Axios:
House Democrats are pushing back furiously against a proposed change to House rules that would allow only Republicans to force a vote on removing the speaker of the House.
Why it matters: Top Democrats are arguing the move would… Continue reading