“Is the Tide on Campaign Finance Disclosure Quietly Shifting? A Look One Year After Americans for Prosperity v. Bonta”
Link to recent ABA program.
Georgia: “Election officials brace for disruptions as midterms loom”
AJC:
As early voting is underway in Georgia’s first general election since the razor-thin 2020 presidential contest, law enforcement and election officials are watching for disruptions by radicalized individuals feeding off conspiracy theories and disproven allegations of fraud.This year’s… Continue reading
“Why US Courts Are Allowing Voters in 4 States to Use Rejected Congressional Maps”
VOA on Purcell.
“Democratic Secretary of State Candidates Struggle Against Election Deniers”
NYT:
Ted Pappageorge, the head of Culinary Union Local 226, whipped up the crowd of canvassers into a frenzy on a recent Monday morning, earning him “sí, se puede!” chants. But before he sent the canvassers out to knock on… Continue reading
“Cleta Mitchell Is Training Thousands of Trump Loyalists to Monitor the Polls on Election Day. What Could Go Wrong?”
David Freedlander deep dive for New York:
“It really makes me sad to see what happened to Cleta Mitchell,” said Rick Hasen, a legal scholar at UCLA who served on an election-law committee with Mitchell through the American Law… Continue reading
Must-read NYT: “How Disinformation Splintered and Became More Intractable”
NYT:
On the morning of July 8, former President Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social, a social media platform he founded with people close to him, to claim that he had in fact won the 2020 presidential vote… Continue reading
“Texas County Asks for U.S. Election Monitors as State Plans to Send Inspectors”
NYT:
Officials from Harris County in Texas on Thursday requested federal election monitors from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division after the State of Texas confirmed this week that it would send a contingent of election inspectors there during the… Continue reading
“Alleged voter intimidation at Arizona drop box puts officials on watch”
WaPo:
The report landed in the Arizona secretary of state’s online portal Monday night, around dinnertime. It contained an urgent message.“There’s a group of people hanging out near the ballot dropbox filming and photographing my wife and I as… Continue reading
“Michigan Ballot Measure Seeks to Shield State Elections from Trumpian Conspiracies”
New at Bolts.
Conservative Luminaries (including former DC Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith) File Amicus Brief in Moore v. Harper Siding with Respondents
This is an interesting one that will get some Justices’ attention. It argues that the North Carolina Republicans are wrong even if one accepts the concurrence by Chief Justice Rehnquist in Bush v. Gore and the dissent by Chief Justice… Continue reading
More on the Varying Meanings of “Congress” and “Legislature”
This is a guest post from Professor Michael Herz:
In a recent Election Law Blog post regarding the Independent State Legislature doctrine, Rick Pildes observes that the term “Congress” in the U.S. Constitution sometimes means Congress acting alone and sometimes… Continue reading
“Records Show Massive Disenfranchisement and Racial Disparities in 2022 Texas Primary”
Brennan Center:
Spurred by false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, Texas enacted a voting law in 2021 with many egregious provisions. These ranged from new limits on assistance for voters with disabilities or language-access needs to… Continue reading
“Election deniers could make deep changes to Arizona voting”
AP:
Gathered at a table in the state Capitol a little less than two years ago, two Republicans and a Democrat took part in a ceremony prescribed by state law that made official Joe Biden’s 10,500-vote victory in Arizona’s 2020… Continue reading
Joining NBC News/MSNBC as Election Law Analyst for the 2022 Elections
Announcement:
.@Rickhasen, an internationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, has joined @MSNBC as an Election Law Analyst. Tonight he discussed the upcoming midterm election with @chrislhayes. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/pmUHadbNT1— MSNBC Public Relations… Continue reading