Politico on the DOJ focusing on the involvement of the RNC’s director for “election integrity,” Joshua Findlay, in fake electors schemes in Arizona and Georgia. In addition to a group of former President Donald Trump’s top lawyers, the Justice Department’s… Continue reading

San Francisco Chronicle: A San Francisco law allowing noncitizen parents to vote in local school board elections was overturned Friday by a judge who said the California Constitution permits only citizens to vote.The ordinance, the first of its kind in… Continue reading

WaPo. Federal authorities charged a Russian man Friday with a years-long malign influence campaign targeting American politics — alleging that he used American groups in Florida, Georgia and California to sow discord and push pro-Russia propaganda.Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, who… Continue reading

Barton Gellman in The Atlantic on the potential implications of Moore v. Harper for presidential elections (if, a big if, any independent state legislature holding in the congressional election context extends to presidential elections, too). To understand the stakes, and… Continue reading

AP on a Nevada county commission that decided to recommend hand-counting all ballots for the odd reason that this would supposedly improve the security and accuracy of vote counts. For months, conspiracy theories fueled on social media by those repeating … Continue reading

NPR on how Republican candidates for secretary of state who lie about the 2020 election being stolen are faring. Across the country, numerous Republican candidates for these positions — and others with some role in election administration, like governor and… Continue reading

My article, part of the AALS conference on Rebuilding Democracy and the Rule of Law, is now published. Here’s the abstract: Congress should enact a law requiring a candidate for a seat in Congress to receive a majority… Continue reading

WaPo. Only this activist’s point isn’t the one he thought he was making, since there’s no evidence of widespread absentee voting fraud in Wisconsin. A Wisconsin man this week ordered absentee ballots for himself in the names of a mayor… Continue reading

This Lawfare essay by Irina Manta and Cassandra Burke Robertson discusses a pending cert petition that raises the issue of who exactly is entitled to birthright citizenship and offers the Court an opportunity to overrule the Insular Cases. In the… Continue reading

Happy to have been a guest on this episode of 1A with Miles Parks and Carly Koppes. Listen.

This New York Times article describes a criminal complaint filed in federal district court.  It alleged that a Manhattan resident, Louis Koch, requested absentee ballots in over one hundred people’s names.  They included notable lawyers, politicians, and journalists.  The New… Continue reading

This CNN report notes that the Justice Department procured a warrant to search the contents of John Eastman’s cell phone.  The Department does so as part of its criminal probe into the efforts of Eastman and others to convince former… Continue reading

This Wall Street Journal op-ed by Karl Rove discusses former President Trump’s four PACs.  As of June 30, they held $121 million.  In contrast, the combined chests of the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the National… Continue reading

This NPR investigation with WABE and Georgia Public Broadcasting addresses barriers to voting via drop box.  In 2021, the Georgia legislature passed Senate Bill 202.  The new law restricted access to drop boxes in the counties most reliant on them. … Continue reading