Tom Edsall NYT column:
Why did the national emergency brought about by the Covid pandemic not only fail to unite the country but instead provoke the exact opposite development, further polarization?I posed this question to Nolan McCarty, a… Continue reading
Daniel Dale for CNN:
Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday — a day after another social media platform, YouTube, removed a Republican congressman’s campaign… Continue reading
You can find the application at this link. The Supreme Court is likely to first grant a brief administrative stay while it decides what to do on the stay application. It would not be surprising to see the Court set… Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
The state Elections Commission kept in place its policies on absentee ballot drop boxes Friday after Democrats and Republicans on the panel split on what to do. The use of drop boxes faces challenges in court… Continue reading
Release:
Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) today announced that, as part of its investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and its causes, the Select Committee has issued subpoenas to 14 individuals who participated as… Continue reading
Jordan Wilkie for Carolina Public Press:
The challenge, brought by a left-leaning nonprofit called Free Speech for People, seeks to make Cawthorn ineligible for public office by arguing that his conduct on and around Jan. 6, 2021, violated… Continue reading
Mother Jones:
States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared last year.Facts on the ground in Georgia tell a different story. A new data analysis by Mother Jones shows that… Continue reading
AP:
A statewide court on Friday declared that Pennsylvania’s expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting after then-President Donald Trump began baselessly attacking it as rife with fraud in… Continue reading
Reid Wilson for The Hill:
An arch conservative member of Arizona’s state House of Representatives has proposed a mammoth overhaul of the state’s voting procedures that would allow legislators to overturn the results of a primary or general election… Continue reading
Carl Hulse for the NYT:
So as a rump group of senators in both parties has recently ramped up discussions aimed at reaching a compromise on voting legislation, leading Democrats who saw their far broader voting rights package stall… Continue reading
Click 2 Houston:
Harris County man fears new voting laws may prevent him from voting by absentee ballot for the first time in his lifetime.Kenneth Thompson, 95, has been checking his mail daily in hopes his mail-in ballot is… Continue reading