Watch My Interview with Hari Sreenivasan for PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Coming Supreme Court Decisions, Election Subversion, Voting Rights, and My Cheap Speech Book
You can watch the full interview here:
“Betraying the Bench: Could the SCOTUS Leaker Face Criminal Charges?”
From three former federal prosecutors, one of whom is a federal judge. In Bloomberg Law:
Corruptly Influencing an Official Proceeding
Enacted with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) makes it criminal to, among other things, corruptly… Continue reading
Florida: “Judge announces he’ll block DeSantis’ redistricting plan”
AP with an early report.
“Will the Utah Senate Race Break the Partisan Doom Loop?”
Beau Tremitiere for The Bulwark:
In late April, the Utah Democratic Party declined to endorse its own candidate against incumbent Republican Senator Mike Lee. Instead, the party rallied behind independent candidate Evan McMullin, the former Republican and vocal Trump… Continue reading
“Jail is the new threat facing election workers”
Breaking: Texas’s Highest Criminal Court Orders New Trial for Crystal Mason
Sam Levine:
Breaking news: Texas' highest criminal court gives a major win to Crystal Mason, the Texas woman sentenced to five years in prison for casting a provisional vote in 2016. The TX Court of Criminal Appeals told a… Continue reading
John Eastman Proposed that Pennsylvania Legislators Do Some Creative Math About Ballot Fraud to “Provide Some Cover” for Appointing an Alternative Slate of Electors to Help Trump Steal Election
Politico on how the Eastman revelations get worse and worse:
Attorney John Eastman urged Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to retabulate the state’s popular vote — and throw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots — in order to show… Continue reading
“Paper Ballots Helped Secure the 2020 Election — What Will 2022 Look Like?”
Brennan Center:
Nationwide, we estimate that 93 percent of all votes cast during the 2020 election had a paper record, whether filled out by hand or printed by a machine for the voter to review before casting their… Continue reading
Occam’s razor and election fraud
I’m hardly the first to think about the relationship between Occam’s razor and election fraud. But a recent movie release has prompted a lot of 2020 claims to resurface (again). As I explained to the Associated Press:
There’s no… Continue reading
Jeff Kosseff Review of Cheap Speech: “Confronting Misinformation in the Age of Cheap Speech”
Jeff Kosseff reviews my book Cheap Speech at Lawfare:
To say that Volokh’s article was prophetic would be an understatement. More than a quarter-century later, the cheap speech that Volokh predicted has upended commerce, art, politics, news and community. Many… Continue reading
“The One Group That Can Stop Elon Musk From Unbanning Trump on Twitter”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
Elon Musk’s apparent decision to restore former President Donald Trump’s privileges to post on Twitter if his purchase of the company closes is a dangerous one for American democracy. And there’s… Continue reading
“New York Election Chaos and the ‘Purcell’ Principle”
Jerry Goldfeder and Andrew Vazquez in the NYLJ:
With the dust mainly settled in the New York redistricting litigation, let’s take a quick look back at how the state Court of Appeals missed the boat in its decision to… Continue reading
Eighth Circuit panel finds no threat of enforcement of certain provisions of the Minnesota Fair Campaign Practices Act
From the summary of the decision in Minnesota RFL Caucus v. Freeman:
The relevant section of the Minnesota Fair Campaign Practices Act – Minn. Stat. Sec. 211B.02 – prohibits a candidate from falsely stating that a candidate or ballot… Continue reading
“Wisconsin voters with disabilities say their right to vote is at risk”
NPR reports.