Supreme Court Rejects Racial Gerrymandering Claim Out of North Dakota Redistricting
Michael Li explains:
“‘I Think Things Are Going to Be Bad, Really Bad’: The US Military Debates Possible Deployment on US Soil Under Trump”
Michael Hirsh for Politico Magazine:
According to nearly a dozen retired officers and current military lawyers, as well as scholars who teach at West Point and Annapolis, an intense if quiet debate is underway inside the U.S. military community about… Continue reading
“The Good Lawyers of January 6”
W. Bradley Wendel has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Much of the response by the community of legal ethics and professional responsibility scholars to the 2020 presidential election has been focused on the wrongs committed by… Continue reading
“The ‘Determinative Popular Vote’: Measuring the Margin in U.S. Presidential Elections”
Mark Haidar and Aidan Calvelli have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Election Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
Presidential elections are often close; that much is clear. But the standard ways of measuring the margins in these elections-the national… Continue reading
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Redistricting Commissions in the 2021 Cycle”
Sam Wang and Zacharia Sippy have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy). here is the abstract:
In the last decade, redistricting commissions have proliferated across the United States as a means of… Continue reading
“Republicans Saved Democracy Once. Will They Do It Again?”
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz in POLITICO Magazine:
n the coming weeks and months, after Donald Trump takes the oath of office for the second time, Democrats are going to take every opportunity to mobilize voters and… Continue reading
“Despite Trump’s Attacks, Republicans Made Big Gains in Mail Voting”
NYT:
Republicans made almost universal gains in mail voting during the 2024 election, eroding a key Democratic advantage in nearly every state that tracks party registration, according to a data analysis by The New York Times.
The Republican rise in… Continue reading
“Jack Smith, Who Led Prosecutions of Trump, Resigns”
NYT:
Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two failed federal prosecutions against President-elect Donald J. Trump, resigned this week, according to a footnote buried in court papers — a remarkably muted conclusion to a fight that redefined the nation’s… Continue reading
“In North Carolina, Republicans Try to Reverse a Supreme Court Election Loss”
NYT:
Judge Griffin’s protest includes two arguments against counting a few thousand ballots cast by overseas voters that one Republican justice said this week may have merit. But its centerpiece is a claim that some 60,000 voters in the Supreme… Continue reading
Fourth Circuit Sets Expedited Briefing Schedule in North Carolina Supreme Court Election Dispute, But Does Not Issue Any Orders for Now
Here is the order (via Democracy Docket).
As things stand on the question of removing this case to federal court, the case for now remains before the North Carolina Supreme Court, which would be deciding an issue relating to the… Continue reading
“Trump Inauguration, Awash in Cash, Runs Out of Perks for Big Donors”
NYT:
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural committee is no longer selling tickets for major donors to attend his swearing-in and accompanying private events in Washington, according to five people briefed on the conversations.
The committee has raised over $170 million,… Continue reading
“Rudy Giuliani held in contempt for second time this week”
Politico:
A federal judge has held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for continuing to falsely accuse two Georgia women of election fraud in 2020, breaching a court order against further attacking them after the pair won a $148 million defamation suit… Continue reading
“Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era”
NYT:
Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small.
Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company’s approach to online… Continue reading
“Fox Corp must face Smartmatic $2.7 billion defamation claim”
Reuters:
Fox Corp (FOXA.O), opens new tab, the parent of Fox News Network, failed to convince a New York state appeals court to dismiss a defamation claim in electronic voting systems company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit over the network’s… Continue reading