Joan Biskupic: “Trump revives Bush v. Gore in his crusade against mail-in voting”
Reporting at CNN.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
Breaking and Analysis: Federal Court Steps Aside for Now in Dispute over Drop Boxes and Other Pennsylvania Election Rules
In a thoughtful 37-page opinion, in one of the most closely watched pieces of litigation surrounding the conduct of the 2020 election, a federal court (Trump appointee Judge Nicholas Ranjan) has used Pullman abstention to decline to consider the… Continue reading
Angelo Genova, Lawyer for DNC in the RNC Consent Decree Case for 40 Years, Sends Along Thoughts on Trump’s Comments About Sending Law Enforcement to the Polls in November
Angelo Genova, speaking for himself and not the DNC, writes:
Rick : I read your piece today. I too have watched and heard with great disappointment , but no surprise , the recurring narrative emanating from President Trump and the… Continue reading
Echoing Reasons for Issuance of 1981 Consent Decree Against the RNC, Trump Threatens to Send Law Enforcement to Watch Polls. What Happens Next?
Back in 1981, the RNC agreed to a consent decree, which remained in place in various forms until 2017. It prevented the RNC from engaging in certain activities which intimidated minority voters. As I explained in this January 2019 Slate… Continue reading
Republican National Committee Goes to Supreme Court to Try to Overturn Consent Decree Making It Easier to Vote by Mail in Rhode Island During Pandemic
Expect quick action in this case given the upcoming deadlines.
Today’s Must Read is David Graham in the Atlantic: “The ‘Blue Shift’ Will Decide the Election Something fundamental has changed about the ways Americans vote.”
The Atlantic:
This sort of late-breaking Democratic vote is the new, though still underappreciated, normal in national elections. Americans have become accustomed to knowing who won our elections promptly, but there are many legitimate votes that are not counted immediately… Continue reading
“The Voting Will End Nov. 3. The Legal Battle Probably Won’t.”
NYT:
The stormy once-in-a-lifetime Florida recount battle that polarized the nation in 2000 and left the Supreme Court to decide the presidency may soon look like a high school student council election compared with what could be coming after this… Continue reading
“Fifth Circuit Slow-Walks Argument in Critical Texas Voting Rights Case”
CAC:
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit announced that it will not hear oral argument in a critical Texas voting rights case until August 31, pushing its decision-making process dangerously close to the… Continue reading
“2020 election strategy: Hire all the lawyers”
Kansas Files Supreme Court Cert Petition in Schwab v. Fish (Formerly Fish v. Kobach), Seeking Right to Require Voters to Prove Their Citizenship with Birth or Naturalization Certificate Before Registering to Vote
The cert. petition is here.
I wrote extensively about this case, and the lack of evidence that such a law is justified by a problem with noncitizen voting, in Election Meltdown.
“Wealthy donors pour millions into fight over mail-in voting”
AP:
Deep-pocketed and often anonymous donors are pouring over $100 million into an intensifying dispute about whether it should be easier to vote by mail, a fight that could determine President Donald Trump’s fate in the November election.In the… Continue reading
New Poll Finds American Public About Evenly Divided on Whether Voter Fraud or Denying Eligible Voters the Ballots is a Bigger Problem; Deep Partisan Split
This YouGov poll confirms what we’ve seen elsewhere. Huge problem.