Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN
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RankPaperDownloads1.Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State CourtsJessica Bulman-Pozen and Miriam SeifterColumbia University – Law School and University of Wisconsin Law SchoolDate Posted: 01 Aug 2022Last Revised: 01 Aug… Continue reading
“Talk of ‘Civil War,’ Ignited by Mar-a-Lago Search, Is Flaring Online”
According to this article in The New York Times, in the hours after the FBI seized documents from Mar-a-Lago, social media saw a marked increase in posts that mentioned “civil war,” a trend that has only escalated in recent weeks.… Continue reading
“Election Deniers in U.S. Push Idea That Brazil’s Voting Was Tainted”
The New York Times has the story here.
“The Ongoing Electoral Efforts to up the Anti-Democratic Ante”
Important New Yorker article on the difficulties that election administrators face going into the midterm elections. Election administration has been a challenge because of newly enacted voting restrictions enacted by Republican-led legislatures and, importantly, the enforcement of some of those… Continue reading
A Concise Analysis of Oral Argument in the AL Voting Rights Act Case
The argument traversed a wide range of detail and touched on many important issues. The Court did not seem interested in the most sweeping challenges to the VRA that Alabama’s brief put forward. At the end of the day, I… Continue reading
Oral Argument Analysis of Merrill v. Milligan: Alabama Won’t Get All It Wants in Voting Rights Redistricting Case, But It May Well Get Enough
I listened to this morning’s argument in Merrill v. Milligan, and live-tweeted it here. My sense is that Alabama is not likely to get the Court to adopt its radical approach to rewrite Section 2 of the Voting Rights… Continue reading
Stanford/UCLA October 14 Event: “Should Donald Trump Be Returned to Social Media?” (Free Webcast)
Very excited about this event:
The Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) at Stanford University and UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project will host a half-day streamed conference, “Should Donald Trump Be Returned to Social Media?” Leading scholars in the… Continue reading
Ned Foley discusses the history of election denials and disputes on the “History Behind News” Podcast.
The conversation, with host Adel Aali, is available on Apple, Spotify, Google, or at this link.
“There is Absolutely Nothing to Support the ‘Independent State Legislature’ Theory”
Must read article by Judge Luttig in The Atlantic on the independent state legislature theory. Judge Luttig argues that there is nothing in the text or structure of the Constitution that insulates the decisions of state legislatures, regarding the times,… Continue reading
Supreme Court declines to hear Pennsylvania Redistricting Case raising ISL theory
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Costello v. Carter, which involved a challenge to Pennsylvania’s court approved congressional map. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted the map after a deadlock between the Republican legislature and the Democratic governor. Notably,… Continue reading
“Alabama GOP chairman made the photo ID he used to vote”
You can’t make this up.
“Election officials brace for confrontational poll watchers”
Important reporting from the AP about the surge of election deniers signing up to be poll watchers ahead of the 2022 midterms.
Sad News Out of Pennsylvania
Bolts Magazine reports that the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Max Baer, passed away on Friday. He had long been a strong supporter of voting rights, ruling against efforts to undermine the right to vote through partisan gerrymandering… Continue reading