Tweet of the Day (from Nate Persily)
Read the thread, starting here:
https://twitter.com/persily/status/1135973410117341184
Monthly Archives: June 2019
“Top U.S. House judiciary panel Republican urges hearings into Russian election meddling”
“The Crooked Path to Women’s Suffrage The Senate ratified the 19th Amendment a century ago. What took so long?”
Susan Schulten NYT oped.
“2020 Census Could Lead To Worst Undercount Of Black, Latinx People In 30 Years”
Hansi Lo Wang for NPR:
Challenges threatening the upcoming 2020 census could risk more than 4 million people to be missing from next year’s national head count, according to new projections by the Urban Institute.The nonpartisan think tank found… Continue reading
“With 2020 Looming, Parties Fight State by State Over Voting Access”
“DOJ calls new census allegations a ‘baseless attack on the integrity’ of department and its employees”
“Black voters sue Mississippi over Jim Crow-era laws that benefit white candidates”
Think Progress:
A group of black voters is challenging Mississippi’s racist, Jim Crow-era laws that try to give a decided advantage to white candidates vying for statewide office, ahead of a critically important election for governor that is expected to… Continue reading
“Everyone Knows Money Influences Politics … Except Scientists”
“Texas officials called ‘laggards’ for resisting House investigation of botched voter purge”
“Ex-NSA hacker wants to give 2020 candidates free cybersecurity tool. The FEC may stop him”
“The 2020 campaigns aren’t ready for deepfakes”
Axios:
The 2020 presidential campaigns appear to have done little to prepare for what experts predict could be a flood of fake videos depicting candidates doing or saying something incriminating or embarrassing.Driving the news: The recent manipulated video of… Continue reading
“Trump normalizes foreign election intervention ahead of 2020”
Jonathan Allen for NBC News:
On one level, Trump’s brash lobbying in foreign countries is just another case of norm-busting for a president who often rejects the niceties of both domestic and international politics. But at a deeper level, Trump’s… Continue reading
DOJ Responds to Census Plaintiffs on Hofeller, Claiming There Were No False Statements in DOJ Testimony and No Evidence Hofeller Material Was Used in DOJ Position on Citizenship Question on Census
Here is the letter, painting a starkly different picture of both the facts and legal relevance of the Hofeller materials.
This will no doubt have to be hashed out by the district court, while the Supreme Court drafts its opinion… Continue reading
JFC: FEC Deadlocks on Rules for Joint Fundraising Committees, Bringing Us Closer to Concerns of Huge Fundraising Raised by SCOTUS Dissenters in McCutcheon Case
Michael Beckel:
Latest example of @FEC gridlock on a major enforcement issue: On Friday, #FEC announced the commission deadlocked 2-2 in complaints against the joint fundraising committees (JFCs) that aided Hillary Clinton & Donald Trump in 2016 https://t.co/vjZsNYECtt &… Continue reading