I very much enjoyed talking with Scott Anderson about the need to revise the Electoral Count Act in order to mitigate the risk of Congress, in a future joint session under the Twelfth Amendment, subverting a valid Electoral College victory… Continue reading

Washington Post columnist James Hohmann forcefully echoes the point Rick Hasen made in the aftermath of President Biden’s press conference remarks about the upcoming midterms. There are a lot of good lines in the piece, but I found this… Continue reading

Wow: The man who stepped down as chair of the St. Croix County Republican Party after urging people to “prepare for war” will get to serve as an election judge in Hudson—and a council member who criticized the move… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Two Republican lawmakers were surreptitiously filmed Thursday as one called for cheating in elections and another slammed a Capitol office door in the face of a man distributing a petition to oust Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.  The videos… Continue reading

Politico: Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.”POLITICO… Continue reading

Jane Mayer in the New Yorker.

Andrew Prokup for Vox: Sometimes there is no plan.Democrats’ big voting rights push is headed for a brick wall in the Senate — again. To get their bill past the filibuster, they need all 50 Senate Democrats to support… Continue reading