General Services Administration updates guidance for 2024 presidential transition

September 16, 2024, 1:16 pmelectoral collegeDerek Muller

The Electoral Count Reform Act was only a part of the reforms a bipartisan Senate working group developed in relation to presidential elections. Another was the Presidential Transition Improvement Act to help facilitate a new administration’s ability to hit the… Continue reading

Julie Zavon: “Fixing Pennsylvania’s Polling Place Lookup Tool”

September 16, 2024, 11:24 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Julie Zavon, which shows how citizens seeking to improve the process of election administration really can make a difference, especially when they can get a reporter interested in a story: The PA polling… Continue reading

Download the Revised Draft of My Forthcoming Yale Law Journal Piece, “The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law”

September 16, 2024, 8:15 amelection subversion risk, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find the revised draft here. The new draft incorporates discussion of the Supreme Court shadow docket order in the Arizona voter registration case and greatly expands Part III of the paper, discussing democratic theory and international human… Continue reading

“New Survey Reveals Strong Shareholder Support for Companies to Follow a Code of Conduct for Political Spending”

September 16, 2024, 8:13 amcampaign financeRick Hasen

CLS Blue Sky Blog.

“How the Election Denial Mindset Works”

September 16, 2024, 8:10 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Elaine Godfrey for The Atlantic.

“Brief – Generating Confusion: Stress-Testing AI Chatbot Responses on Voting with a Disability”

September 16, 2024, 8:10 amcheap speech, voters with disabilitiesRick Hasen

New from CDT: Even as the “year of elections” draws to a close, the United States’ elections loom. From cyberattacks to mis- and disinformation spread on social media by foreign and domestic actors, digital technology has impacted the discourse, information… Continue reading

“A secretive group recruited far-right candidates in key US House races. It could help Democrats”

September 16, 2024, 7:05 amchicaneryRick Hasen

AP: Joe Wiederien was an unlikely candidate to challenge a Republican congressman in one of the nation’s most competitive House districts. A fervent supporter of former President Donald Trump, Wiederien was registered as a Republican until months earlier. A… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Bob Bauer: “The Impeachment Process in an Era of Polarization and Expanded Presidential Immunity”

September 16, 2024, 6:48 amconflict of interest laws, ELB Book CornerRick Hasen

I’m pleased to welcome Bob Bauer to the ELB Book Corner, writing about his new book, The Unraveling. Here is the third of three guest posts: In a chapter about impeachment in The Unraveling, I single out the… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “From Here to There How States Can and Should Certify the Results of the 2024 Elections”

September 16, 2024, 6:48 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

You can watch this great conversation, featuring Ben Berwick, Head of Election Law & Litigation Team & Counsel (Protect Democracy), Lauren Miller Karalunas, (Brennan Center for Justice), and Michael Morley (Florida State University College of Law) at this link.

Complimentary copy of new “Every Vote Equal” book available to Election Law Blog Readers

September 16, 2024, 6:48 amelectoral collegeRick Hasen

Readers of the Election Law Blog can receive a complimentary FREE copy of the new edition of Every Vote Equal: A State-Based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote. The book has 1,214 pages, 226 tables, 92 figures,… Continue reading

My Picks for Exemplary Legal Writing in Books (2023) for the Green Bag (Southworth, Biskupic, Vladeck, and Issacharoff)

September 16, 2024, 6:47 ampedagogyRick Hasen

You can read my mini-reviews here from the new 2024 Green Bag Almanac and Reader of Ann Southworth, Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign toDeregulate Election Spending (University of Chicago Press 2023); Joan Biskupic, Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s … Continue reading

“Elon Musk Writes, Then Deletes, a Post Musing About Threats to Biden and Harris”

September 16, 2024, 6:44 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Hours after what the F.B.I. called a second attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump, Elon Musk wrote on his social media site — and then deleted — a post suggesting it was odd that nobody had… Continue reading

The Horrific Second Assassination Attempt Against Donald Trump Deserves Everyone’s Condemnation

September 16, 2024, 6:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

As with the first assassination attempt on President Trump, I condemn in the strongest possible way the second attempted assassination which occurred on Sunday. We must solve our disagreements through the democratic process not through political violence. And we must… Continue reading

Blockbuster NYT Reporting from Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak Reveals Key Details on Trump v. Anderson, the Trump Immunity Case, and the Fischer Obstruction Case, Showing a Conservative Majority Less Willing to Compromise

September 15, 2024, 9:34 amelection subversion risk, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

This reporting is remarkable, not only for its substance but for the fact that so much inside information has been leaked. (This is the biggest leak since the leak of the draft Dobbs abortion decision, although this of course is… Continue reading