“Democratic Group Says Trump Is Breaking Campaign Law by Not Declaring for 2024”
NYT reports.
“Fearing political violence in 2024, judges sentence Jan. 6 defendants to probation through the next election”
WaPo:
U.S. judges including those appointed by Republican presidents are increasingly sentencing defendants who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol to three-year terms of court supervision, fearing they could be misled into committing political violence… Continue reading
Podcast on “Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the West”
Yale Law School professors Sam Moyn and David Schleicher have a terrific podcast devoted to discussing new work in legal scholarship. I was pleased to be asked to speak, and be questioned about, my current work on what I call… Continue reading
“‘Gutted’: What happened when a Georgia elections office was targeted for takeover by those who claim the 2020 election was a fraud”
WaPo:
Any thought they’d had that the atmosphere might calm down was gone. What amounted to a grass-roots uprising had gained momentum, become more organized and started coming after the election office.New people had been showing up for the… Continue reading
David Folkenflik for NPR: “Could libel lawsuits squash misinformation?”
David Folkenflik asks attorney John Langford about using libel laws to combat misinformation in the media.
“Short-Term SCOTUS Win for Democrats, Long Term Worry”
I spoke to Bloomberg Radio’s June Grasso about the independent state legislature theory and SCOTUS.
“Bye Bye Iowa? Democrats to Debate Changes to Primary Calendar”
“First Amendment Scholars Want to See the Media Lose These Cases”
NYT story re-visists NYT v. Sullivan:
The lawyers and First Amendment scholars who have made it their life’s work to defend the well-established but newly threatened constitutional protections for journalists don’t usually root for the media to lose in court.… Continue reading
“Unaffiliated voters overtake Democrats, now largest voting bloc in North Carolina”
WRAL.com:
Raleigh, N.C. — The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Saturday said unaffiliated voters now represent the largest share of the state’s electorate.The latest weekly update reflects a sizable increase in voters choosing to either switch out of… Continue reading
“Democratic campaign chair Sean Patrick Maloney faces toughest job in politics”
Washington Post:
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) has spent years preparing to helm the Democratic political operation.
Maloney led an investigation into the disappointing 2016 campaign. In late 2018, he ran to become chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee… Continue reading
“Some in GOP want ballots to be counted by hand, not machines”
AP News:
Growing suspicion about the security of voting systems has kindled a back-to-the future moment among conservatives in some parts of the U.S.Republican lawmakers in at least six states have introduced legislation that would require all election ballots to… Continue reading
“Barr says he stands by his pre-election comments raising unsubstantiated concerns over voter fraud”
Tierney Sneed at CNN:
Former Attorney General William Barr on Friday stood by his widely criticized comments before the 2020 election that mail voting was vulnerable to fraud, even as he condemned former President Donald Trump’s false post-election… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court Did the Right Thing. I’m Still Worried.”
I was glad to see the recognition in this Jamel Bouie piece of the important historical work of my former NYU student, Hayward Smith. As Hayward says in the piece quoted here, he first wrote about the independent state legislature… Continue reading
More on the ERIC System for Keeping Voter Rolls Up to Date
FRom Jessica Huseman at Votebeat:
We’re back to exploring the truth about the Electronic Registration Information Center and explaining the important role ERIC has in securing elections. First we looked at why Louisiana seems to have suspended its participation in… Continue reading