Category Archives: authoritarian threats in US

NYT: “Trump Tells Supporters He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ the White House; Donald J. Trump, who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election, also joked that he didn’t mind if reporters were shot.”

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NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump told supporters on Sunday that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House at the end of his term during an end-of-campaign rally where he vented angrily about a spate of new public polls showing… Continue reading

Why Is This Not the Top Story in Every Newspaper, on Every News Website, and on Every Television News Program? “Trump sparks outrage after calling for army to handle enemies on election day”

authoritarian threats in US, election subversion risk
The Guardian story is here. My earlier coverage: “Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day citing ‘radical left lunatics’ and ‘the enemy from within’” The Independent: Donald Trump has chillingly suggested sending the military or … Continue reading

My Forthcoming Yale Law Journal Feature: “The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law”

authoritarian threats in US, ballot access, Bush v. Gore reflections, campaign finance, cheap speech, chicanery, Constitutional Right to Vote, election administration, election law and constitutional law, Election Meltdown, election subversion risk, First Amendment theory, legislation and legislatures, political equality, political parties, political polarization, primaries, Real Right to Vote, social media and social protests, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voting, Voting Rights Act
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