Wisconsin: “Secretary of State Doug La Follette to retire, Gov. Tony Evers appoints Sarah Godlewski to post”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Doug La Follette, Wisconsin’s Secretary of State and the longest serving statewide elected official in the nation, is retiring after holding the office for nearly five decades.
La Follette, 82, is leaving the post he has held onto… Continue reading
“Pair of Reforms to Expand the Electorate Become Law in D.C.; The city has overhauled its approach to voter registration and also enabled noncitizens to vote in local elections.”
“Group that fought ‘dark money’ ballot measure files lawsuit to block Arizona voter-approved law”
Arizona Republic:
A new state law that requires disclosure of major anonymous campaign contributors is facing another legal challenge.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, comes as the voter-approved Proposition 211 was already challenged in Arizona courts.
Americans for… Continue reading
“New York’s Libertarian and Green Parties Petition Supreme Court Over New York’s Restrictive Ballot Access Laws”
“Florida Faces Federal Lawsuit Over Signature Rules for New Voters”
NY Times:
A national get-out-the-vote group and the N.A.A.C.P. on Thursday challenged a Florida law that bars the use of digital signatures on voter registration forms, bringing a federal lawsuit against the state similar to ones pending in Texas and… Continue reading
“US probing voter fraud accusations at ‘Borscht Belt’ resort town in Catskills: sources”
“Democracy on the Precipice?”
Archon Fong assesses the state of U.S. democracy.
California Supreme Court Gets Ready to Set Oral Argument in Santa Monica’s California Voting Rights Act Lawsuit
This is a long time coming and will be big.
“At center of Fox News lawsuit, Sidney Powell and a ‘wackadoodle’ email”
WaPo:
It was the first of a dozen appearances Powell would make on Fox programs over the next month in which she helped inject far-fetched and debunked claims of widespread fraud into the mainstream — and which are now at… Continue reading
“Stormy Daniels speaks to New York prosecutors as possible Trump indictment looms”
Politico:
The porn actor at the center of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump spoke Wednesday to prosecutors as the probe enters its final stages, according to her attorney.
Stormy Daniels, who received $130,000 in… Continue reading
“The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment”
Looking forward to reading this piece from Travis Crum (forthcoming, Yale Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
In the legal histories of Reconstruction, the Fifteenth Amendment’s drafting and ratification is an afterthought compared to the Fourteenth Amendment. This oversight is… Continue reading
“Dividing the Body Politic”
Jim Gardner has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, University of Chicago Law Forum). Here is the abstract:
It has long been assumed in large, modern, democratic states that the successful practice of democratic politics requires some kind of internal… Continue reading
“EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes of the Trump grand jury”
AJC:
They also divulged details from the investigation that had yet to become public.
One was that they had heard a recording of a phone call Trump placed to late Georgia House Speaker David Ralstonin which the president asked… Continue reading