I’ve written this piece from NYU’s Just Security blog, on the relationship between preventing electoral subversion and ECA reform. A key line is this: “Proper reform of the ECA would also do much more to address the risk of electoral… Continue reading

Here: Top Downloads For: LSN: Election Law & Voting Rights (Topic) Recent Top Papers (60 days) As of: 04 Dec 2021 – 02 Feb 2022 RankPaperDownloads1.A Realistic Risk Assessment of the Presidential Election of 2024Matthew SeligmanYale Law… Continue reading

From Shane Goldmacher, at the NYT: A series of new remarks by Donald J. Trump about the aftermath of the 2020 election and new disclosures about his actions in trying to forestall its result — including discussing the use of… Continue reading

From Politico: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in another sign that he may veto a new congressional map being drawn by the state Legislature, asked the state’s highest court on Tuesday to tell him whether or not a 200-mile congressional district… Continue reading

Plan Score, the tool the Campaign Legal Center created to evaluate redistricting maps, concludes the proposed NY congressional map is more favorable to the Democratic Party than 91% of prior plans (on one measure) or 78% of prior plans (on… Continue reading

From NPR: INSKEEP: Well, let’s talk this through for a moment. It seems to me that, on one level, the law is clear. Vice President Pence, who was presiding over the joint session of Congress, looked into this. Constitutional scholars… Continue reading

WP: Donald Trump speaks directly to the camera in the first television ad aired by Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue, underscoring how much that race centers on the former president and his grievances about the 2020 election.The 30-second spot, which… Continue reading

From Ross Douhat, NYT: Republicans have long feared voter fraud and noncitizen voting, for instance, but the fear — and for liberals, the oft-discussed hope — that demographic change could deliver permanent Democratic power have raised the salience of these… Continue reading

Following up on my earlier post, I now see this Washington Post op-ed by attorneys Cliff Sloan and Brendan Gants. They argue, as do I, that before the 2024 election Congress needs to enact a statute giving DOJ power… Continue reading

Bruce Ackerman and Gerard Magliocca have co-authored a piece for Politico on the chaos that could ensue over efforts to disqualify Trump from becoming president again pursuant to section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. I’ve addressed this topic previously for … Continue reading

A modeling agency alleged a political ad implied that it was involved in sex trafficking. A candidate had created the agency and his opponent attacked him in the relevant ad. The AZ Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision held that… Continue reading