Lawsuit to Watch If It Comes Down to Pennsylvania
Hamm v. Boockvar, a state court case attacking some PA Secretary of State curing procedures. Hearing on Wednesday.
Keep your eye on this one, and the other suit I wrote about earlier today.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“As Voting Ends, Battle Intensifies Over Which Ballots Will Count”
NYT:
With the election coming to a close, the Trump and Biden campaigns, voting rights organizations and conservative groups are raising money and dispatching armies of lawyers for what could become a state-by-state, county-by-county legal battle over which ballots will… Continue reading
“So Far, Trump’s ‘Army’ of Poll Watchers Looks More Like a Small Platoon”
Jessica Huseman:
Donald Trump Jr. looked straight into a camera at the end of September as triumphant music rose in a crescendo. “The radical left are laying the groundwork to steal this election from my father,” he said. “We… Continue reading
“How Trump-appointed judges have made it harder to vote”
Josh Douglas at CNN:
In at least 18 cases this year, federal trial courts ruled in favor of plaintiffs and put on hold various election rules, often due to the challenges of voting during the pandemic, only to see federal… Continue reading
“Polarized electorate, mail-in ballots could spark post-election legal ‘fight of our lives'”
“A Giant Test for Election Law”
I spoke with Mary Harris of Slate’s “What’s Next” podcast about the state of play in the courts.
“Judges nominated by President Trump play key role in upholding voting limits ahead of Election Day”
WaPo:
Federal judges nominated by President Trump have largely ruled against efforts to loosen voting rules in the 2020 campaign amid the coronavirus pandemic and sided with Republicans seeking to enforce restrictions, underscoring Trump’s impact in reshaping the judiciary.An analysis… Continue reading
The list of COVID-19 election cases hits 325
Justin here. I’m tracking the litigation over election issues related to COVID-19 … and the list of cases just hit 325. (The Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project also has a really useful sortable database of these cases, with more info.… Continue reading
“Texas legal battles highlight how the 2020 election is being fought in the courts”
Guy Charles NBC oped:
We turn to courts to help us address deficiencies in voting rules that are really not designed to stand up under any type of pressure, whether it is the pressure of close elections or the… Continue reading
“With All Eyes on Wisconsin, Partisan Gridlock at State Elections Commission Frustrates Voters and Local Officials”
ProPublica:
As ballots began pouring in by mail after Wisconsin’s April 7 primary, local election officials became increasingly perplexed over which ones to count.A federal judge had ordered that ballots arriving as many as six days after the election should… Continue reading
“‘There is a voter-suppression wing’: An ugly American tradition clouds the 2020 presidential race”
L.A. Times:
A Memphis, Tenn., poll worker turned away people wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts, saying they couldn’t vote. Robocalls warned thousands of Michigan residents that mail-in voting could put their personal information in the hands of debt collectors and… Continue reading
I Talked with Ari Shapiro of NPR’s All Things Considered About the Current Election Litigation Environment, and the Supreme Court PA Voting Ruling
You can listen here.
“In a 4-4 Split, the Supreme Court Lets Pennsylvania Make Voting Easier—For Now; The decision signals that Amy Coney Barrett will cast the deciding vote in any upcoming election disputes.”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
After a very long delay in an emergency election case, the shorthanded United States Supreme Court came to a 4-4 tie in an election law case out of Pennsylvania on Monday… Continue reading
“Federal Appeals Courts Emerge as Crucial for Trump in Voting Cases”
NYT:
The Texas case is one of at least eight major election disputes around the country in which Federal District Court judges sided with civil rights groups and Democrats in voting cases only to be stayed by the federal appeals… Continue reading