Baude and Paulsen: Donald Trump Disqualified to Serve as President Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
Will Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, two eminent conservative legal scholars, have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming University of Pennsylvania Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids holding office by former office holders… Continue reading
“DeSantis, With a Subtle Maneuver, Hides His Small-Dollar Donations”
NYT:
When WinRed, the company that processes nearly all online Republican campaign contributions, recently released its enormous trove of donor data for the first half of the year, donations were conspicuously absent for one presidential candidate: Gov. Ron DeSantis of… Continue reading
“Atlanta-area prosecutor expected to seek more than a dozen indictments in Trump case”
CNN:
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek more than a dozen indictments when she presents her case regarding efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia before a… Continue reading
“Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel”
Blockbuster ProPublica report.
Ned Foley Blogging Next Week
Thanks to Ned. Please direct any tips and queries to him.
Alabama Attorney General Praises State Legislature for Defying the Supreme Court in Not Drawing District Required by the Voting Rights Act
Alabama Daily News:
The Supreme Court upheld a ruling by a lower state court that ordered Alabama lawmakers to adopt a new map that either created two majority-Black districts, or “something quite close” to it. Instead, the Legislature approved a… Continue reading
“Special counsel obtained search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account”
Politico:
Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, earlier this year, according to newly revealed court documents.
Twitter’s initial resistance to complying with the Jan. 17 warrant resulted in a federal judge holding… Continue reading
Judge Luttig and Jeh Johnson to Chair Bipartisan ABA Task Force for American Democracy
From the mission statement (Task force members):
Clearly, our American democracy is not as strong as we once thought and there are those who seem determined to push it to the breaking point. The time for answers and action… Continue reading
“Textualism and Anti-Novelty Under Moore v. Harper”
Michael Weingartner writes.
“Applying Militant Democracy to Defend Against Social Media Harms”
Neil Netanel has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Cardozo Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Social media inflict multiple harms on liberal democracy. Comprehensive meta-analyses of the scholarly literature conclude that social media are a significant factor in emergent… Continue reading
ELB Book Corner: Mary Zielger: “Abortion and Overcoming Popular Will”
I am pleased to welcome Mary Ziegler to the ELB Book Corner, author of the new book, Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment (Yale, 2022). Here is the final of three posts:… Continue reading
“Previously Secret Memo Laid Out Strategy for Trump to Overturn Biden’s Win”
NYT:
A lawyer allied with President Donald J. Trump first laid out a plot to use false slates of electors to subvert the 2020 election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link… Continue reading
“Ohio Issue 1 fails: Big cities, suburban and many rural counties voted down issue”
Columbus Dispatch:
Issue 1 was projected to fail on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, dealing a blow to Ohio Republicans who wanted to hamstring a November ballot question on abortion rights.
Decision Desk HQ, an election results reporting agency… Continue reading