CNN:
Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in… Continue reading
Years ago at an APSA conference, Fred Schauer corrected me as pronouncing this with a Spanish pronunciation (“Torniyyo”) but the plaintiff was Italian and the “L’s” should be pronounced.
Arguments are just beginning, and at some point I’ll have to leave for class.
At this early point, it appears that Roberts, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Kagan have all expressed great skepticism of these rules.
Justice Jackson pointed to some of… Continue reading
NBC News:
U.S. officials and experts are most concerned that Russia could try to interfere in the election through a “deepfake” audio or video using artificial intelligence tools or through a “hack and leak,” such as the politically damaging theft… Continue reading
I had missed this NYT piece from a few days ago:
State Republican parties in roughly half of the most important battleground states are awash in various degrees of dysfunction, debt and disarray.
In Arizona, the chairman of the state’s… Continue reading
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
The most important First Amendment cases of the internet era, to be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, may turn on a single question: Do platforms like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and X most closely… Continue reading
Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare this week cited federal law to support his opposition to reimbursing Trinity Metro for free fares on primary Election Day. But, does that law actually prohibit free rides to the polls?… Continue reading
You can listen to this great conversation here:
A Series of Lawsuits That We Call an Election
How to fix the laws, and the gaps in the law, that are breaking American democracy.
Dahlia Lithwick is drinking from the… Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:’
Assembly officials have admitted former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman violated public records laws while taxpayers paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars to probe the 2020 election — an investigation that did not turn … Continue reading
Lee Drutman and Farbod Faraji Boston Globe oped:
Our antiquated system of single-member, winner-take-all elections — if a candidate wins 51 percent of the vote, she wins 100 percent of the representation — is not up to the extraordinary… Continue reading
The Atlantic:
Murray and other legal scholars say that, absent clear guidance from the Supreme Court, a Trump win could lead to a constitutional crisis in Congress. Democrats would have to choose between confirming a winner many of them believe… Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a pair of cases out of Texas and Florida that could force major social media platforms to carry posts from Donald Trump… Continue reading