“Experts warn of election disruptions after Trump says campaign was hacked”

August 12, 2024, 5:09 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

Thus bad begins (with a nod to Javier Marais). From the Wash Post: Analysts and intelligence experts warned Sunday that wider efforts may be underway by foreign powers to disrupt the U.S. presidential election, after the Trump campaign said it … Continue reading

JD Vance Says Proposal to Give More Votes to Parents with Children Was a Mere “Thought Experiment”

August 11, 2024, 8:02 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

So does that mean he would not support the actual proposal? Watch: Vance on ABC struggles to defend his comments about giving parents extra voting rights as a mere "thought experiment" and not something he seriously meant pic.twitter.com/mBIH2i4c32—… Continue reading

Luttig and Johnson on MSNBC About Certification and the Risk of Election Subversion

August 10, 2024, 11:02 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

From the 8/8 “Deadline White House” with Nicole Wallace: Judge Luttig: Without a question, a score of more of American lawyers played an ignoble role in the 2020 effort by the former president to overturn that presidential election. And, the… Continue reading

“Harris may need less of popular vote to win electoral college”

August 10, 2024, 10:59 amelectoral collegeRick Hasen

WaPo: In 2020, Joe Biden won the national popular vote for president by 4.5 percentage points, a seemingly safe margin that should have easily put him in the White House. But under the hood, the presidential race was extremely close.… Continue reading

“Direct Democracy Scores a Win in Michigan’s High Court. Can It Survive November?”

August 10, 2024, 9:51 amdirect democracystate supreme courts, threats to democracyTabatha Abu El-Haj

Bolts Magazine: Michigan’s Republican legislature’s seemingly duplicitous strategy to get around progressive ballot measures struck down by the state’s high court. “Michigan progressives gathered enough signatures in 2018 to put two labor measures on the ballot: one to raise… Continue reading

2024 Supplement to The Law of Democracy Now Available

August 10, 2024, 9:20 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

The 2024 Supplement to our casebook contains new material on AI and democracy; the social-media cases the Court decided this Term; the cases implicating election-law issues involving former President Trump, including the ballot-disqualification decision; and the most recent Court decision… Continue reading

Ground Game: LULAC Endorses Harris

August 10, 2024, 5:38 amvoting2024 Election Cycle, mobilization, multiracial democracy, voter registrationTabatha Abu El-Haj

CBS News: The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the nation’s oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization with a membership-base of over 130,000 breaks with a 90-year tradition and endorses Harris. “LULAC has a formidable grassroots operation… Continue reading

Shawn McCutcheon is Back

August 9, 2024, 1:30 pmcampaign financeMaine, RCVTabatha Abu El-Haj

Shawn McCutcheon: People running in races with ranked choice voting states should be allowed to accept several times the legal limit. On August 7, the Commission made public an advisory opinion request from Shaun McCutcheon. The requestor asks whether for… Continue reading

“Republicans Ask US Supreme Court To Reinstate Arizona Voter Suppression Laws”

August 9, 2024, 1:22 pmNVRA (motor voter), Uncategorized, voter idArizonaTabatha Abu El-Haj

The Democracy Docket: The Republican National Committee and Arizona Republicans applied to the Supreme Court for emergency relief to reinstate Arizona’s strict proof of citizenship law. “Republicans ask the Supreme Court to reject state voter registration forms if the… Continue reading

“Foreign TikTok Networks Are Pushing Political Lies to Americans”

August 9, 2024, 1:08 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

Revelatory WSJ report: Intelligence officials have warned that the 2024 presidential contest could face an unprecedented flood of fake news, fueled by AI, from foreign actors. A Journal analysis of videos on TikTok has found it’s already happening. Amid… Continue reading

Monday August 12 Wikimedia Foundation Online Event: “Legal and Policy Perspectives on How to Combat Disinformation in 2024 Election Cycles”

August 9, 2024, 11:33 amcheap speechRick Hasen

I’m looking forward to participating in this event put on by the Wikimedia Foundation (free registration required): Monday, August 12 Join us for a discussion on tackling fake news and misinformation during the 2024 elections, focusing on legal and policy… Continue reading

Race and Representation in the Battleground Counties

August 9, 2024, 6:47 amvoting2020 Election Cycle, new vote denial, race, swing states, voter turnoutTabatha Abu El-Haj

Voter turnout nationally during the 2020 Presidential Election was 66%—the highest since 1900. But a recent analysis from The Union of Concerned Scientists of voter turnout by precinct in 11 battleground counties found clear racial disparities, driven in part by… Continue reading

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith seeks delay to assess implications of SCOTUS ruling on Trump Jan. 6 case

August 9, 2024, 6:46 amUncategorizedFederal case, January 6, presidential immunityTabatha Abu El-Haj

Axios‘ article offers a summary of the implications of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a two-week continuance to further analyze the Supreme Court’s immunity cases. Meanwhile, Politico provides a helpful analysis of the nuances of the Supreme Court’s… Continue reading

“Case that could keep RFK Jr. off New York’s presidential ballot ends”

August 9, 2024, 6:32 amballot access, third partiesTabatha Abu El-Haj

Michael Hill (AP) reports that the bench trial “in Albany over whether Kennedy’s New York nominating petitions should be invalidated ended Thursday without Justice Christina Ryba issuing an immediate decision. Any ruling by the trial judge is expected to be… Continue reading