“Disqualified President’s Day: Navigating the Enforcement of Section 3 in a ‘Dangerously Unclear’ Legal Framework”
Important points from Michael Stern.
Monthly Archives: February 2024
“Trump permits Jan. 6-related lawsuits against him to advance — for now”
Politico:
Donald Trump is passing up the chance to add a fourth case to a trio of Trump-related appeals already stacked up at the Supreme Court.
Trump elected not to ask the justices to reverse a federal appeals court ruling… Continue reading
Jonathan Mitchell Tells NYT on Record (!) That He Hopes Trump Doesn’t Learn About the Comstock Act on Abortion and Starts Talking About It in Public
This quote is amazing, given that it is in the New York Times on the record:
“We don’t need a federal ban when we have Comstock on the books,” said Jonathan F. Mitchell, the legal force behind a 2021 Texas … Continue reading
Washington Post: Federalist Society Lawyers Are Conflicted About Working for a Second Trump Administration Amidst Demands for Greater Personal Loyalty
WaPo:
Now the dominant front-runner for his party’s presidential nomination, Trump has broken with many of the leaders and allies of the Federalist Society, a powerful conservative legal organization that boosted his campaign eight years ago and helped him stock… Continue reading
Yale Law Journal Forum Collection: State and Local Corruption After Percoco and Ciminelli
This looks like it will be very useful:
FORUM
What Are Federal Corruption Prosecutions for?
Lauren M. Ouziel
This Essay considers the role of prosecutors in the Supreme Court’s decades-long contraction of public corruption law. It examines how federal prosecutors’… Continue reading
Big Fat Liar’s Dividend
New Mark Brown Book on Section 1983 Litigation
In Trump Immunity Case at SCOTUS, Alabama and 21 States Ask for Stay Because of “Speculation,” “True or Not” That Trump Election Subversion Prosecution “was Calculated to Silence or Imprison President Biden’s Political Rival”
Shameless:
The sudden urgency has invited public speculation that this case has an improper purpose—to influence the 2024 election. Amici States represent millions of Americans, many of whom worry that the timing of this prosecution was calculated to silence or… Continue reading
“2020 Election Lies Keep Unraveling as Courts Push for Evidence”
NYT:
More than three years after a swirl of conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the originators of many of the false allegations are now being forced to… Continue reading
“Multiple Threats Converge to Heighten Disinformation Risks to This Year’s US Elections”
Lawrence Norden, Mekela Panditharatne, and David Harris at Just Security.
Protect Democracy SCOTUS Brief: It is Against the Public Interest to Stay Trump’s Election Subversion Trial; It Denies Voters Relevant Information About His Actions in 2020
From the brief:
While defendant Trump no doubt hopes that this Court will grant him the absolute immunity from legal accountability he has long sought, his primary strategy is to delay the trial until after the 2024 election for the… Continue reading
“Trial Will Test Trump’s Limits of Reaping Political Gain From Legal Woes”
NYT:
For all their bluster, nobody in Donald J. Trump’s political inner circle actually thinks a criminal conviction will help him with the independent voters and suburban women who lost him the presidency in 2020.
But since Mr. Trump was… Continue reading
Feb. 21 Event: “Has Citizens United Undermined Democracy?”
This event in Chicago looks great.
ELB Book Corner: Ann Southworth: “Some Implications”
I am pleased to welcome Ann Southworth to the ELB Book Corner, author of the new book, Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending (Chicago). The discount code for ELB readers is BIGMONEY2023. This is the final… Continue reading