Monthly Archives: July 2017
Today’s Must Read: “Exclusive: Read the Previously Undisclosed Plan to Counter Russian Hacking on Election Day”
Quite a wow from Time:
President Obama’s White House quietly produced a plan in October to counter a possible Election Day cyber attack that included extraordinary measures like sending armed federal law enforcement agents to polling places, mobilizing components of… Continue reading
“What I Heard – And Didn’t – At Yesterday’s PACEI Meeting”
“Donald Trump debuts new election integrity panel by hinting at big-league voter fraud”
Celeste Katz for Mic.
“Hacking the Vote: Who Helped Whom?”
NYR Daily:
Similarly, bots can be programmed to search for certain keywords and particular users. That could account for why Russian bots were propagating anti-Clinton messages in places like Wisconsin: they might have simply been following the lead of other… Continue reading
“North Carolina Court to Rule on Law on Gov’s Elections Role”
AP:
The state Supreme Court said Wednesday it will take up Gov. Roy Cooper’s lawsuit against state legislative leaders. The decision bypasses an intermediate appeals court and schedules a Supreme Court hearing on Aug. 28.
“Campaign Finance Reform without Law?”
Robert Yablon has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Iowa L. Rev). Here is the abstract:
Conventionally understood, campaign finance reform is a matter of public regulation. Reformers believe that, without adequate government intervention, wealthy individuals and entities are destined… Continue reading
“Congress, Statutory Interpretation, and the Failure of Formalism”
Can’t wait to read this new one from Abbe Gluck in U Chicago L. Rev:
The formalist project in statutory interpretation, as it has defined itself, has been a failure. That project—typified by but not limited to Justice Antonin Scalia’s… Continue reading
Applying the Foreign Solicitation Ban Against the Russian Government Consistent with the First Amendment
One issue which has arisen over possible campaign finance charges against Donald Trump Jr. concerns whether the statute is substantially overbroad in violation of the First Amendment. Eugene Volokh makes the case here, and I argue against application of… Continue reading
Me SOS Dunlap Promises to Be “in a bear cage with a bullhorn” on Pence-Kobach Fraud Committee
Uh-huh.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
SOS Kobach Says “We May Never Know the Answer” Whether Hillary Clinton Won Popular Vote for President in 2016
Maine SOS Dunlap, Who Promised to Butt Heads, Says Virtually Nothing to Challenge Voter Fraud Focus of Pence-Kobach Commission
Maine SOS Dunlap, one of the few credible Democrats on the Pence-Kobach fraud commission, promised “head-butting” on the push to make this commission about voter fraud.
The first meeting of the Commission has just concluded. And if anyone expected Dunlap… Continue reading
“Trump stokes voter fraud fears as commission convenes”
Supreme Court Will Hear Oral Argument in WI Partisan Gerrymandering Case Oct 3
Greg Stohr tweets.