“How Trump is rewriting the GOP’s rules to win in 2024”
Politico: “Trump’s team has worked behind the scenes to ensure delegate selection rules play to their favor — or, in their rivals’ telling, to ‘rig’ the system.”
“What Meta’s New Studies Do—and Don’t—Reveal About Social Media and Polarization”
Wired:
LAST WEEK, THE first papers from a collaboration between Meta’s Facebook and a team of external researchers studying the 2020 election were finally published. Two of these studies asked: Are we trapped in filter bubbles, and are they tearing… Continue reading
“Trump, Arraigned on Election Charges, Pleads Not Guilty”
NYT:
Former President Donald J. Trump appeared in federal court in Washington on Thursday for the first time to face charges that he conspired to remain in office despite his 2020 election loss, pleading not guilty at a hearing conducted… Continue reading
“Trump plans to use charges to revisit 2020 election, a fraught topic for GOP”
WaPo:
Former president Donald Trump and some of his legal advisers see an upside to the latest criminal case against him: He can use his upcoming trial to further argue his false claims of a stolen 2020 election.
The looming… Continue reading
“The Jolt: Fulton DA Fani Willis ‘ready’ after feds indict Trump”
The latest on a possible Trump state indictment in Georgia.
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Enjoyed Speaking to Adam Conover on His Factually! Podcast About Voting Rights in the United States
Listen or watch here:
And Adam has a link to pre-order my book, A Real Right to Vote, at a discount.
“How Can Jack Smith Prove That Trump Knew He Lost the Election?”
Orin Kerr:
The indictment focuses mostly on what Trump was told, and the overall implausibility of him thinking he had won. But I wonder if Smith might have more direct evidence than the indictment lets on.
In particular, there have… Continue reading
“Prosecutors Took Cautious Path in Connecting Trump to Jan. 6 Violence”
NYT:
There was something noticeably absent when the special counsel, Jack Smith, unsealed an indictment this week charging former President Donald J. Trump with multiple conspiracies to overturn the 2020 election: any count that directly accused Mr. Trump of being… Continue reading
On CNN, I Just Talked About What It Means that Bill Barr, Who Has Deeply Criticized Trump’s Post-2020 Conduct, Says He May Still Vote for Trump in 2024
Watch the video here:
Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss: Rudy Giuliani Has Not Contested Civil Conspiracy Charge with Donald Trump and Others to Defame Them Regarding False Claims of 2020 Election Fraud in Georgia [Corrected headline]
According to the filing:
Defendant Giuliani had now stipulated to:
All elements of Plaintiffs’ defamation and defamation per se claims,including that he published his statements with actual malice;
All elements of Plaintiffs intentional infliction of emotional distress claim,including that… Continue reading
I Spoke with A Martinez of NPR’s Morning Edition, CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes About What the Trump Election Subversion Indictment Means for American Democracy
NPR: NPR’s A Martinez talks to UCLA election law expert Rick Hasen of the Safeguarding Democracy Project, who calls U.S. v. Donald Trump “the most important case in our nation’s history.”
CNN: Watch here at the 36 minute mark… Continue reading
ELB Book Corner: Sam Issacharoff: “Faith in Democracy”
I am pleased to welcome Sam Issacharoff to ELB Book Corner, author of the new book, Democracy Unmoored. Here’s the final of four posts:
According to most recent OECD survey data, in only 16 countries did more than… Continue reading