Politico: A Dec. 31 Ellis memo delivered to Trump’s office suggested that Pence — who was constitutionally responsible for presiding over Congress’ counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6 — should simply refuse to open envelopes from states whose election… Continue reading

It is ironic that the U.S. is hosting a “Summit for Democracy” while being the site of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and election subversion that are distant memories in many other countries. President Joe Biden kicked off the inaugural White House … Continue reading

Rolling Stone: The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol has obtained a trove of electronic messages from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, including an email referring to a PowerPoint suggesting Trump… Continue reading

Coverage from Politico. Nearly a million noncitizens in New York City will be able to vote in municipal elections under legislation that passed the City Council on Thursday.New York will become the largest city in the country to approve… Continue reading

CNN coverage of the D.C. Circuit’s decision here. The decision itself is here. The central question in this case is whether, despite the exceptional and imperative circumstances underlying the Committee’s request and President Biden’s decision, a federal court… Continue reading

The district court hearing the challenge to SB 202, Georgia’s recent package of voting restrictions, denied in its entirety the defendants’ motion to dismiss. Of note, the court treated Brnovich as simply identifying a few more factors that courts may… Continue reading

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The House passed this major bill seeking to prevent various Trump-era presidential abuses from recurring. From the NYT: The House on Thursday passed a sweeping package of constraints on presidential power, which Democrats framed as a response to Donald J.… Continue reading

Kevin Johnson and Alexander Vanderklipp on the ongoing effort in Wisconsin to go in exactly the wrong direction by giving the gerrymandered legislature more control over elections. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has repeated the call for his state’s legislature to… Continue reading

It is worth paying attention to how the redistricting process appears to be playing out as it reaches the final stages in Virginia. Though the process was to some extent ad hoc, with the state supreme court creating a mechanism… Continue reading

David Perdue is the self-proclaimed candidate of election subversion, publicly declaring that unlike Brian Kemp (and Brian Raffensperger) he would have attempted to thwart Joe Biden’s recount-confirmed victory in Georgia last year, if he (Perdue) had been governor then.… Continue reading

Bernie Grofman and Sean Trende released their draft maps for the Virginia Supreme Court’s review. Of particular interest, they explicitly considered partisan fairness in their analysis of their maps, concluding that they were quite balanced. The Statutory Criteria also require… Continue reading