I Spoke with Joe Trippi on His “That Trippi Show” Podcast About My Cheap Speech Book and Threats to U.S. Democracy
You can listen here.
“Three Friends Chatting: How the Steele Dossier Was Created”
WSJ:
Hours after the publication in early 2017 of a dossier claiming President-elect Donald Trump conspired with Russia to steer the U.S. election, a public relations executive in Washington tapped out an email to a client whose company was cited… Continue reading
“Pro-Trump OAN network admits there was no widespread fraud in Georgia in the 2020 election after extensively pushing the claim”
Insider:
The right-wing One America News Network admitted in a Monday legal statement that there was no widespread voter fraud by Georgia election officials in the 2020 presidential election after having extensively pushed the groundless claim.In a 30-second … Continue reading
W & M’s Election Law Program is Hiring
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The Election Law Program (ELP), a joint project of William & Mary Law School and the National Center for State Courts, provides resources for judges called upon to resolve election disputes. The… Continue reading
“Ohio’s redistricting mess threatens a smooth election in November”
Carrie Levine reports for VoteBeat.
Watch My Conversation with Danielle Citron About Cheap Speech, Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter, and the Risk of Election Subversion
Great conversation:
“N.Y. Redistricting Master Holds Key to Congressional Power”
Bloomberg Law:
For the next two weeks, one of the most powerful people in politics is a professor whose professional life has been devoted to studying demographics, political behavior, and mapping.Jonathan Cervas has until May 20 to redraw New… Continue reading
“How 6 GOP candidates shifted their tones on ‘stolen election’ claims”
Aaron Blake for WaPo.
I Talked to Bloomberg’s June Grasso About My Cheap Speech Book for Bloomberg Podcast
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“Inside Mark Meadows’s final push to keep Trump in power”
WaPo:
A review of Meadows’s actions in that periodby The Washington Post — based on interviews, depositions, text messages, emails, congressional documents, recently published memoirs by key players and other material — showshowMeadows played a pivotal role in advancing… Continue reading
“Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less”
This piece, in American Purpose by Peter Ackerman, Larry Diamond, Cara Brown McCormick, responds to a critique of RCV by former member of Congress Mickey Edwards. Some excerpts:
Edwards’ principled view is that a two-round runoff… Continue reading
Issacharoff: “Democracy Under Total War”
New post from Sam Issacharoff:
Ukraine is engaged in an existential war for survival. One need not accept the full role of the exception from Carl Schmitt to acknowledge that the struggle to withstand a brutal assault on civilians transcends… Continue reading
More on How Internally Fragmented Our Political Parties Are
The title of this Politico story is “Idaho GOP riven by primary civil war.” An excerpt:
Idaho’s dominant Republican Party is at war with itself up and down the ballot ahead of its May 17 primaries.
It’s not just Gov.… Continue reading
Eliminating plurality-winner primaries?
Following upon on my previous post A Rational Two-Party System?, which was prompted by a N.Y. Times story on one of Ohio’s GOP primaries last week, this post is prompted by a N.Y. Times account of Nebraska’s upcoming GOP… Continue reading