“NC’s top judicial official is behind ‘political hit job,’ Democrats say”

September 13, 2023, 1:41 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WRAL: North Carolina’s highest-ranking judicial official is personally behind the push for an investigation into a fellow justice, a state lawmaker claimed Wednesday, calling it a politically motivated attack. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls was recently put under investigation, WRAL… Continue reading

Niels Petersen and Emanuel V. Towfigh: Politics as Markets in Germany

September 13, 2023, 9:02 amPoliticsMarkets25Rick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Niels Petersen and Emanuel V. Towfigh, part of the Politics as Markets at 25 symposium: Politics as Markets by Professors Samuel Issacharoff and Rick Pildes is a seminal, path-breaking piece of scholarship… Continue reading

The Case for Proportional Representation

September 13, 2023, 8:53 amUncategorizedProportional Representation, ScholarshipTabatha Abu El-Haj

The Democracy Journal, in partnership with Protect Democracy and Democracy Fund, has published a symposium making The Case for Proportional Representation. In a series of essays, Didi Kuo, Guy-Uriel Charles, and other leading scholars explore how winner-take-all elections are aggravating some of our… Continue reading

We’ve Issued a Major New Report, “24 for ’24: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech for Fair and Legitimate 2024 Elections”

September 13, 2023, 7:34 amabsentee ballots, election administration, election subversion risk, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights Act, voting technologyRick Hasen

Back in March, the UCLA Law Safeguarding Democracy Project held a conference, Can American Democracy Survive the 2024 Elections? Following the conference some of the participants met as an ad hoc committee to consider recommendations in law, politics, media, and… Continue reading

North Carolina: “Mark Harris, center of 2018 ballot scandal, announces new congressional campaign”

September 13, 2023, 7:15 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Charlotte Observer: Mark Harris, whose 2018 congressional campaign was at the center of a ballot-harvesting scandal ending in a new election and felony indictments for an operative who worked for him, announced his campaign for Congress on Tuesday. Harris’s own… Continue reading

Steven Calabresi (of Federalist Society) Reverses View on Whether Trump Is Disqualified under the 14th Amendment

September 13, 2023, 7:11 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Via Josh Blackman (who has a new draft article with Seth Tillman disputing the originalist account that Will Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen offered on this question).

Justice Thomas Asks for Response from Voting Rights Plaintiffs by Sept. 19 in Alabama’s Emergency Motion to Avoid Creating Second Black Opportunity District for Congress

September 13, 2023, 7:07 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Docket.

“Wisconsin’s Democratic governor rejects GOP’s surprise redistricting plan”

September 13, 2023, 6:52 amredistrictingRick Hasen

AP: Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers shot down as “bogus” a surprise plan Republicans floated Tuesday that would have the Legislature approve new maps drawn by nonpartisan staff, preempting the state Supreme Court from tossing the current GOP-drawn boundaries. The… Continue reading

“GOP lawyer with ties to three Trump rivals enters 14th Amendment fray”

September 12, 2023, 3:10 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: A Republican election lawyer with ties to three of former president Donald Trump’s GOP primary opponents has joined a crowded field of individuals and groups exploring whether the former president can be kept off the ballot for his role… Continue reading

“A Trump Appointee is Trying to Gut the FEC’s Ability to Investigate Campaign Finance Crimes”

September 12, 2023, 1:56 pmfederal election commissionRick Hasen

The Intercept: The government agency tasked with investigating campaign finance violations is on its way to intentionally making that very obligation more difficult to accomplish. The Federal Election Commission is a notoriously deadlocked agency that has nonetheless taken some significant… Continue reading

“How the Supreme Court Should Respond to Alabama’s Defiance”

September 12, 2023, 10:22 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Kate Shaw for the NYT: Alabama’s appeal confronts the Supreme Court with a profound test. The case may appear to involve a set of technical questions about one state’s legislative map. But it is more fundamentally about whether the Supreme… Continue reading

Stephen Gardbaum: Politics As Markets: Then and Now

September 12, 2023, 8:58 amPoliticsMarkets25Rick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Stephen Gardbaum, part of the Politics as Markets at 25 symposium: In retrospect, Politics As Markets appeared at the high point of global democracy. In 1998, towards the end of the third… Continue reading

Bruce Cain: Politics as Markets???

September 12, 2023, 7:47 amPoliticsMarkets25Rick Hasen

The following is Bruce Cain’s contribution to the symposium on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Issacharoff and Pildes’s Politics as Markets: After complaining about my harsh treatment of them when they first came into the Election Law field,… Continue reading

“Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Revisit Dispute Over Congressional Map”

September 12, 2023, 7:44 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT: Alabama filed an emergency application in the Supreme Court on Monday evening, asking the justices to keep in place for now a congressional map that a lower court had found failed to comply with orders to establish a second… Continue reading