“Texas’s Primaries are Happening on a Legally Disputed Congressional Map”
WaPo interactive on growing Latino voting power.
“Pushing falsehoods about Biden’s election is a plus for Republicans vying to be Texas’ top lawyer”
Texas Tribune:
Baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and rallying cries for “election integrity” have become recurring themes in the Republican primary for Texas attorney general — a job from which the state’s current top lawyer has sought to… Continue reading
“North Carolina Court Imposes New District Map, Eliminating G.O.P. Edge”
NYT:
A North Carolina court rejected a Republican-drawn map of the state’s 14 congressional districts on Wednesday and substituted its own version, the second time in less than two weeks that a court in the state has invalidated a… Continue reading
Arizona: “Attorney for secretary of state tells judge AG Brnovich is abusing his powers”
Tuscon.com:
Attorney General Mark Brnovich is abusing his powers in threats to prosecute and possibly imprison Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, an attorney for her told a judge on Wednesday.Roopali Desai said the decision by Hobbs to take down… Continue reading
“Finger-pointing, apologies, pleas for more time: Ohio Redistricting Commission members explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt of court”
Cleveland.com:
Asked to explain why the Ohio Supreme Court shouldn’t punish them for failing to pass state legislative maps late last week, majority Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission pointed fingers at each other Wednesday, saying in court filings… Continue reading
Political Fragmentation, Democratic Party Edition
From Politico: Squad member to deliver response to Biden SOTU
A member of the liberal “Squad” is delivering a formal response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday.
In the speech, given on behalf of the… Continue reading
“Report: Universities Are Vital to Restoring Public Trust in Election”
Release:
Today, Columbia World Projects (CWP) issued a new report, “Building Trust: Election Administration and the Role of Higher Education.” The report highlights the need to address the alarming erosion of trust in elections in the United… Continue reading
“Trump’s Truth Social’s disastrous launch raises doubts about its long-term viability”
WaPo:
Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own.His long-promised social network, Truth Social, has been almost entirely inaccessible in the first days of its … Continue reading
“How an obscure far-right website with 3 employees dominates Facebook in 2022”
Popular Information:
Most people have probably never heard of the website Conservative Brief. It employs just three writers and it does not produce any original reporting. Nearly all of its articles are aggregations of Tweets, YouTube videos, or other… Continue reading
“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has picked a new congressional map”
Philly Inquirer:
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has selected a new congressional map that will shape power and politics in the state for the next decade.In a 4-3 decision Wednesday, the court chose a map that was drawn by a Stanford… Continue reading
Anti-Democracy Harvard Law Review Tweet was Just a Joke, Says Author of Student Note and Article Arguing Against American Democracy
Balls and Strikes:
Against this purported historical backdrop, the author argues that judges should adopt a more “hands-off approach” to modern conflicts over state laws that affect voting rights, which are characterized as “partisan bickering” that courts are ill-suited… Continue reading
“Fighting Jan. 6 committee, John Eastman details how he came into Trump’s post-election fold”
Politico:
Attorney John Eastman, a key ally in Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election, says he began advising Trump two months before Election Day, when a prominent conservative attorney recruited him to “begin preparing for anticipated… Continue reading
ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused to Ask
New ELB Podcast:
ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused to AskWhy did the Supreme Court put on hold a federal district court order… Continue reading
“Trump’s Truth Social Launches on Apple’s App Store, With Glitches”
WSJ:
Donald Trump’s social-networking platform, Truth Social, has gone live in the U.S., but some would-be users reported being unable to create an account or received error messages when trying to do so. Others were prompted to… Continue reading