“‘You talk to people that you may never talk to:’ Ranked choice voting can elevate our political campaigns, Gehrke writes”
Salt Lake Tribune column.
Supreme Court’s developing Compact Clause jurisprudence may affect National Popular Vote
Years ago, as a law student (!), I published a piece in the Election Law Journal on the Compact Clause and the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. I wrote a follow-up there, too. In these pieces, I argued… Continue reading
Texas: “Tarrant County’s celebrated elections chief resigns, citing differences with new county executive”
Votebeat:
A North Texas elections official who was lauded by top state officials — and his critics — as one of the best administrators in the field has submitted his resignation.
Heider Garcia, who has been the elections director in… Continue reading
“As Fox News case heads to trial, far right St. Louis site faces its own defamation suit; A trial is scheduled for May 9 in St. Louis in a lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers against The Gateway Pundit”
Missouri Independent:
They didn’t know it at the time, but Dec. 3, 2020, was the start of a nightmare for Wandrea Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman.
Both were election workers in Atlanta, and that was the day Rudy… Continue reading
“No consequences so far after Trump supporters copied Georgia election data”
Mark Niesse for AJC:
Caught by surveillance video, text messages and emails, overwhelming evidence shows that supporters of then-President Donald Trump copied Georgia’s statewide voting software from an election office in rural Coffee County in early 2021.
Yet no… Continue reading
“Trump team prepares to fight efforts to block him from ballots over Jan. 6”
WaPo:
Donald Trump’s campaign team is preparing for a state-by-state legal battle later this year over untested claims that a Civil War-era clause in the U.S. Constitution bars the former president from appearing on Republican primary ballots because of his… Continue reading
“Trump calls on Rupert Murdoch to back false 2020 election fraud claims ahead of Dominion trial”
USA Today:
Former President Donald Trump on Monday called on Rupert Murdoch to back false information about the 2020 presidential election ahead of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems has pursued against Fox News and its parent company.
Trump on… Continue reading
Dan Backer Behind FEC Complaint Against Marc Elias Claiming DCCC Submitted False Expenditures to His Firm for “Recount Services”
Exclusive to Fox News, of course.
I’ll be quite surprised if this amounts to anything.
“Testing Political Antitrust”
Sepehr Shahshahani and Nolan McCarty have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, NYU Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Observers fear that large corporations have amassed too much political power. The central fact that animates this concern is growing economic… Continue reading
“Nikki Haley’s fuzzy fundraising math”
Politico:
When Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign announced its first quarterly fundraising haul earlier this month, the figure sounded impressive.
The former U.N. ambassador’s campaign said it had raised $11 million between her mid-February launch and the end of the quarter… Continue reading
“How megadonors circumvent laws to give huge checks to politicians”
David Byler WaPo column on JFCs.
“Fox News, Dominion Defamation Trial Delayed Amid Network’s Push to Settle”
WSJ:
A Delaware judge delayed the start of the widely anticipated trial on a voting-machine company’s defamation claims against Fox News, an announcement that came as the network is looking for a possible way to settle the case.
Superior Court… Continue reading
Better Parties? Are they possible and how will SCOTUS shape that project?
I recently had the pleasure of talking about both of these questions with Lee Drutman on Politics in Question. As I have been spending more time talking to others about prospects for party reform–including this past week at More … Continue reading
“Quid Pro Crow”
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern in Slate (with maybe the best pun in an article title I’ve ever seen):
When news broke last week, by way of dogged reporting in ProPublica, that Justice Clarence Thomas had accepted decades’ worth… Continue reading