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Monthly Archives: January 2022
“New Hampshire’s Top Election Official Announces Retirement”
NYT:
Bill Gardner, who for decades as secretary of state has fiercely defended New Hampshire’s right to hold the country’s first presidential primaries, said on Monday that he would step down after 45 years.Mr. Gardner, a Democrat first elected in… Continue reading
“Odds of Gerrymandering Grow in New York as Redistricting Panel Falters”
NYT:
The independent commission created to strip politics from New York’s redistricting process veered toward collapse on Monday, as the same partisan forces the panel was designed to circumvent threatened to undo it.With time running out, the panel’s Republican… Continue reading
“Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro is promoting an election fraud board game”
“Detroit lawmakers plan to challenge redistricting maps over racial fairness”
Detroit News:
A group of Detroit lawmakers said Monday they plan to file suit in the Michigan Supreme Court over redistricting maps they argue disenfranchise Black candidates and, by extension, Black voters. The congressional, state Senate and state House… Continue reading
Slight Delay in Shipping 7th Edition of Election Law—Cases and Materials (Information for Instructors and Students)
Global supply chain issues are affecting the arrival time of books, and the 7th edition of Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, and Stephanopoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials is running a bit late—shipping by the end of this week.
If you are an… Continue reading
Sen. Schumer Leans Into Filibuster Reform for Voting Rights
New letter.
Does he have the votes?
“Jan. 6 Panel Faces Difficult Questions as Anniversary of Capitol Riot Approaches”
NYT:
The anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot arrives this week with the congressional committee investigating the attack confronting a series of difficult questions, including how forcefully to flex its subpoena power and whether the Supreme Court will stymie… Continue reading
“A Former Facebook Executive Pushes to Open Social Media’s ‘Black Boxes’”
Ben Smith NYT column:
Much of what Americans know about what happens inside companies like Google and Facebook these days comes from employees who tire of the corporate spin and leak internal documents. Congress is responding to documents leaked first … Continue reading
“If American democracy is going to survive, the media must make this crucial shift”
Margaret Sullivan WaPo column:
Similarly, NPR recently ran a seven-minute segment on what it called “the clear and present danger of Trump’s enduring ‘Big Lie.’ ” As NYU’s Jay Rosen noted, the piece was admirably direct in its… Continue reading
“Voting Rights Should Not Be the Focus of Election Reform”
Yuval Levin NYT oped:
Some Republicans insist that the process of counting and certifying the vote in some states was corrupt in 2020. There is no evidence — none — to support any specific claims on this front. But… Continue reading
“Why Democrats haven’t given up on Joe Manchin and voting rights”
John Harwood for CNN:
Along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Manchin continues to publicly hold the line against steps to weaken the filibuster, much less abolish it. They insist filibusters force Senate majorities to seek bipartisan consensus rather than… Continue reading
“Minnesota mathematicians, data scientists use new technology to shape political districts”
Star Tribune:
Political map-making requires a tedious series of adjustments, each one with the potential to disrupt the balance.Trying to evenly redistribute population among districts — required by the U.S. Constitution each decade after the census count — may mean… Continue reading
Georgia’s Cobb County Republican Party Plans to Honor Insurrectionists on January 6
AJC:
The deadly events of Jan. 6 will mostly be marked around the country by solemn ceremonies to remember the day that the pro-Donald Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol.But at the Cobb County GOP headquarters, a group… Continue reading