Watch Video of My Appearance with Anderson Cooper on CNN Discussing Supreme Court Taking Trump Disqualification Case
You can watch the video at this link.
Monthly Archives: January 2024
Watch Video of My Appearance with Ari Melber on MSNBC Discussing Supreme Court Taking Trump Disqualification Case
You can watch at this link.
Breaking: Supreme Court Will Hear Trump’s Challenge to Disqualification in Colorado on Expedited Schedule; Oral Argument Feb. 8: What It Means
You can find the Court’s order granting cert. and expediting the case at this link.
The cert. grant and expediting of time was expected, given the national importance of this issue and in particular of removing a major candidate from… Continue reading
Must-Read Sam Issacharoff: “Old Constitutional Provisions and Presidential Selection: The folly of exhuming Section 3 of the 14th Amendment”
Sam, at Just Security:
The moves to disqualify former President Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine will doubtless force the Supreme Court to confront the obscure Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. In his petition for certiorari, and in… Continue reading
“Trump’s campaign guided filing of Michigan’s false electors certificate, emails show”
Craig Mauger for the Detroit News:
Then-President Donald Trump’s campaign directly orchestrated the filing of a certificate, signed by 16 Michigan Republicans, that falsely claimed he won the state’s 2020 election, according to internal campaign emails obtained by The Detroit… Continue reading
Must-read Jamelle Bouie: “If Trump Is Not an Insurrectionist, What is He?”
In the NYT:
The unspoken assumption behind the idea that Trump should be allowed on the ballot and that the public should have the chance to choose for or against him yet again is that he will respect the… Continue reading
What happens to votes cast in Colorado for Trump in the primary?
From the conclusion of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision in Anderson v. Griswold:
“Twelve Questions Shaping Democracy and Voting Rights in 2024”
New at Bolts.
Trump Cert. Petition 23-719 Now Docketed on SCOTUS Website
“In Tense Election Year, Public Officials Face Climate of Intimidation”
NYT:
The caller had tipped off the authorities in Maine on Friday night: He told them that he had broken into the home of Shenna Bellows, the state’s top election official, a Democrat who one night earlier had disqualified former … Continue reading
“Democracy Hypocrisy: Examining America’s Fragile Democratic Convictions”
New report via the Democracy Fund by Joe Goldman, Lee Drutman, and Oscar Pocasangre:
Key Findings
While the vast majority of Americans claim to support democracy (more than 80 percent say democracy is a fairly or very good political system… Continue reading
“8 Ways To Protect American Democracy”
New report from CAP.
NRSC brief relies on U.S. Term Limits to argue that judging Trump’s qualifications today is an unconstitutional additional qualification
This amicus brief by the NRSC in the Trump Colorado ballot access case presents a very plausible path forward for the Supreme Court–but not one without its own challenges. From the brief’s opening:
Merits issues versus procedural issues in Trump’s cert petition
Like Rick, I’ve argued repeatedly here on ELB as well as earlier this week at Common Ground Democracy that the merits of whether or not Trump is disqualified from the presidency again by section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment… Continue reading