WaPo:
One day after rioters ransacked the Capitol in a bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Republican lobbyist Geoff Verhoff sent a searing email to top GOP officials.Verhoff, a bundler who works at the lobbying firm Akin Gump,… Continue reading
NYT:
Thirteen of President Donald J. Trump’s most senior aides — including his son-in-law and his chief of staff — campaigned illegally for Mr. Trump’s re-election in violation of a law designed to prevent federal employees from abusing the… Continue reading
WaPo:
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas Tuesday to 10 Trump administration officials, including some of former president Donald Trump’s closest advisers who were in the White House that day.Those… Continue reading
Craig Holman has written this draft. Here is the abstract:
The District of Columbia experienced its first full election cycle in the 2020 elections under its new small donor public financing program, known as the Fair Elections Program (FEP).… Continue reading
NYT:
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued new subpoenas on Monday for a half-dozen allies of former President Donald J. Trump, including his former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, as it moved its… Continue reading
Reuters:
In Arizona, a stay-at-home dad and part-time Lyft driver told the state’s chief election officer she would hang for treason. In Utah, a youth treatment center staffer warned Colorado’s election chief that he knew where she lived and watched her… Continue reading
Oregon Live:
Oregon lawmakers do not have to follow a state law that prohibits drawing political maps to benefit a specific individual because as legislators they have authority to override that statute, according to a new court filing by lawyers… Continue reading
NYC Bar Association virtual event Nov. 16:
Join us for a discussion of the most critical legislative and procedural changes needed to ensure smooth election administration and voting in 2022. Election administration and the laws and rules that govern it… Continue reading
On Season 3, Episode 4 of the ELB Podcast:
Can the United States continue to run free and fair elections amidst a sea of election disinformation? What has the path of the voting wars looked like since the disputed… Continue reading
Spotlight PA:
Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday revealed his wife, First Lady Frances Wolf, dropped his mail ballot off for him, a violation of Pennsylvania election law.State law currently prohibits, in most cases, anyone other than the voter from returning… Continue reading
The Bulwark:
The sun rises on January 6, 2021 while a nation is in crisis.Michigan’s presidential electors are in dispute after a mysterious fire in Detroit destroyed thousands of mail-in ballots, ultimately throwing the election to Congress.The nation’s capital is… Continue reading