This Week at the NYU Democracy Project, We’re Running Essays on Election Related Issues
On Monday, we ran Brad Smith’s skeptical essay about election reforms, titled Too Much to Ask: Voting Reforms Can Only Do So Much, which I blogged about on Monday. Yesterday, Josh Sellers published an essay with a more optimistic take,… Continue reading
Preparing for next year’s midterms
This morning Rick linked to David Graham’s story for the December issue of The Atlantic, entitled Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way.
As someone who wrote a law review article in advance of the 2020… Continue reading
“Johnson says he’s spoken with Trump about ‘the constrictions of the Constitution’ on a third term”
CNN:
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday said he has spoken with Donald Trump about the possibility of the president seeking a third-term but that he sees no path for it as any change to the US Constitution would be… Continue reading
“New polling illuminates how the Supreme Court got Citizens United wrong and shows bipartisan momentum for money-in-politics reforms, including proposed Montana ballot measure”
Issue One release:
New polling commissioned by Issue One and conducted this month by YouGov reveals that overwhelming majorities of Americans — and Montanans — broadly believe that large-scale political spending by corporations, dark money groups, and wealthy donors undermines… Continue reading
“Maine and Texas are the latest fronts in voting battles, with voter ID, citizenship on the ballot”
Donald Trump Files Appellate Brief Raising Strong Arguments to Overturn His New York Conviction in Stormy Daniels Campaign Finance Case
You can find the brief here.
The first argument raised is that of federal preemption, and there are a number of other strong arguments as well.
This was not the case that should have been brought against Donald Trump.… Continue reading
“How big a deal is California’s Proposition 50?”
My explainer at the UCLA Newsroom.
“Secretary LaRose refers more than 1,200 criminal cases to DOJ”
Portsmouth Daily Times:
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced on Tuesday that his office has referred 1,200 criminal cases to the United States Department of Justice for consideration of federal prosecution.
“Ohio has earned its reputation as the… Continue reading
“Trump’s Most Reviled Voting Company Sold to a GOP Official. That’s Not the Worst of It.”
Susan Greenhalgh for Slate:
Earlier this month, news broke that Dominion Voting Systems had been sold to a former Republican election official.
The announcement that the second-largest U.S. voting system vendor would be in the hands of a self-declared partisan… Continue reading
“Newsom to Redistricting Donors: Stop Giving Me Money”
NYT:
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed onto his regular Zoom call with his political brain trust last Friday as they ticked through the latest developments in the high-stakes redistricting measure headed for a vote next week.
They were far ahead… Continue reading
“Trump administration proposal for online voter registration form raises concerns”
Votebeat:
State election officials are raising legal and practical concerns about a new Trump administration plan to create a digital version of the existing federal voter registration form.
Under the proposal, the federal government would both verify voter… Continue reading
“Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms is Already Underway”
David Graham cover story in The Atlantic.
“Lawsuit Plunges New York Into the National Gerrymandering Fight”
NYT:
A lawsuit filed on Monday on behalf of four New Yorkers charges that the state’s congressional map unconstitutionally dilutes Black and Latino votes in a district that covers Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn, according to a copy… Continue reading