“Defending a Free and Fair Election”
Robert Kuttner for TAP.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“GOP lawsuits set the stage for state challenges if Trump loses the election”
AP:
Despite the flurry of litigation, the cases have tended to be fairly small-bore, with few likely impacts for most voters.
“When you have all this money to spend on litigation, you end up litigating less and less important stuff,”… Continue reading
“Federal appeals court says Montana’s ‘double voting’ law is vague, redundant”
Daily Montanan:
A three-judge federal appeals panel said that a law passed by Republicans in the Legislature to eliminate double-voting, something already illegal, violates the U.S. Constitution, siding with a federal judge in Montana who stopped the law.
House Bill… Continue reading
“Republicans Seize on False Theories About Immigrant Voting”
NYT:
In late July, a group of Republican activists met on a Zoom call to discuss preparations for the November election. The topic was how to keep undocumented immigrants from voting in November, a problem they claim, inaccurately, to be… Continue reading
“GOP appeals date ruling on mail-in ballots to Pa. Supreme Court”
Trib Live:
The Republican National Committee and Republican Party of Pennsylvania are appealing a Commonwealth Court ruling that mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates on their outer envelopes should be counted.
The appeal to the state Supreme Court was… Continue reading
“Texas Attorney General Sues to Stop Voter Registration Push in San Antonio”
NYT:
Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas went to court on Wednesday to try to stop county leaders in San Antonio from sending out more than 200,000 voter registration applications to unregistered residents of Bexar County.
The lawsuit by Mr.… Continue reading
Announcement: UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project Fall Calendar of Events
As we prepare for another fall semester, we’re excited to bring you a robust series of events on the 2024 Elections, Election Law, and the risks facing democracy in the U.S.
This semester, we present a mix of live, online,… 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
“Paxton’s election fraud charges upend lives but result in few convictions”
WaPo deep dive:
The church leader’s case fits a pattern that has emerged in Texas under Paxton: Aggressive prosecutions for alleged election fraud crimes that upend lives but result in few cases that go to trial and end in a… Continue reading
“Voting Rights Leaders Step Up Election Initiatives After Texas Raids”
NYT:
Republican officials in Texas in recent days have investigated a number of Latino voting activists and political organizers as part of an election fraud inquiry, conducting a series of raids that led one group to appeal to the federal… Continue reading
“Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote”
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
“Harris Campaign’s Legal Team Takes Shape as Election Battles Heat Up”
NYT:
Amid threats of certification battles and mass voter challenges, Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has assembled an expansive senior legal team that will oversee hundreds of lawyers and thousands of volunteers in a sprawling operation designed to be… Continue reading
Must-Read from Justin Levitt: “Get Ready for the Scourge of Election Season: Electoral-Process Porn”
Provocative Justin Levitt piece at Slate:
You’ve seen the long-form think pieces, ominous and lurid and anxiety-producing. With titles like “How Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election,” they offer a revealing glimpse into a pocket of underrecognized… Continue reading