EJ Dionne: “Opinion: Giving up on voting rights now would be unconscionable”
New WaPo column.
Robert Kuttner Comes Out Against Stand-Alone Electoral College Act Reform
Here at TAP.
Lawfare podcast on ECA reform
I very much enjoyed talking with Scott Anderson about the need to revise the Electoral Count Act in order to mitigate the risk of Congress, in a future joint session under the Twelfth Amendment, subverting a valid Electoral College victory… Continue reading
“Jan. 6 Panel and State Officials Seek Answers on Fake Trump Electors”
NYT:
Law enforcement officials, members of Congress and the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are digging deeper into the role that fake slates of electors played in efforts by former President Donald J. Trump to… Continue reading
“Why Millions Think It Is Trump Who Cannot Tell a Lie”
I had missed this Tom Edsall column.
Watch Video of My CNN Segment with Brianna Keilar on “Democracy in Peril” and What to Do About Risk of Election Subversion
You can watch here:
“Opinion: When Biden imitates Trump, he is on a dangerous path”
Washington Post columnist James Hohmann forcefully echoes the point Rick Hasen made in the aftermath of President Biden’s press conference remarks about the upcoming midterms. There are a lot of good lines in the piece, but I found this… Continue reading
Wisconsin: “Ex-GOP Official Who Told People to ‘Prepare for War’ Will Be a Hudson Election Worker”
Wow:
The man who stepped down as chair of the St. Croix County Republican Party after urging people to “prepare for war” will get to serve as an election judge in Hudson—and a council member who criticized the move… Continue reading
“Scoop: Biden taps new election money regulator”
Axios:
President Biden plans to nominate election law attorney Dara Lindenbaum to the Federal Election Commission, Axios has learned.Why it matters: The nomination gives Biden an opportunity to try to shape some U.S. election rules in the wake of… Continue reading
Hidden Video: Wisconsin Republican Legislator Says said Republicans should “cheat like the Democrats”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Two Republican lawmakers were surreptitiously filmed Thursday as one called for cheating in elections and another slammed a Capitol office door in the face of a man distributing a petition to oust Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The videos… Continue reading
“Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines”
Politico:
Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.”POLITICO… Continue reading
“Texas man charged with threatening election, government officials in Georgia”
Washington Post:
The Justice Department on Friday arrested a Texas man and charged him with threatening election and other government officials in Georgia, in the first case brought by a task force formed over the summer to combat such… Continue reading
My New One at Slate: “What Democrats Need From Mitch McConnell to Make an Election Reform Deal Worth It”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
The debate over whether Democrats should pursue their large voting rights package or a narrower law aimed against election subversion became moot on Wednesday when Democrats could not muster up enough… Continue reading
Must-Read Jane Mayer “Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?”
Jane Mayer in the New Yorker.