“Rudy Giuliani: Ethics charges for election fraud claims take major step forward with trial-like hearing in DC”
Tierney Sneed at CNN:
The efforts to discipline attorneys who aided former President Donald Trump’s legal gambits to undermine the 2020 election take a major step forward Monday with the start of key disciplinary proceedings in Washington, DC, that… Continue reading
“What a first-in-the-nation SC primary could mean: Hope, money and amplifying Black voters”
Caitlin Byrd at the Post and Courier.
And in other news on the DNC calendar shuffle, Brianne Pfannenstiel at the Des Moines Register has this piece, “Democrats’ new presidential calendar may invite chaos. Iowa, New Hampshire vow to … Continue reading
“Defamation Suit Against Fox Grows More Contentious”
The New York Times:
Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of the Fox Corporation, is expected to be deposed on Monday as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for amplifying bogus claims that rigged machines from… Continue reading
“Are close elections that drag out for weeks the new normal?”
Interesting piece in the Orange County Register on one potential effect of the California Voting Rights Act:
More than three weeks after the election, most contests on Orange County voters’ ballots have long since been settled – but until the… Continue reading
The ISLT: The Remedial Version
In my testimony to the House outlining different potential versions of an ISLT the Court might adopt, I mentioned a remedial version of such a doctrine. Without endorsing it, I want to explain further what this version would mean.
This… Continue reading
Republican Confidence in Election Administration Up in 2022 Compared to 2020, But There’s a Ways to Go on Mail-in Balloting
Pew Research Center:
Voters are generally confident ballots were counted accurately in this year’s election, yet they express greater confidence in in-person ballots being counted accurately than they do in counts for absentee or mail-in ballots. Republican voters are more… Continue reading
The ISLT: How State Statutes and State Constitutions Differ
With the argument coming up next week in Moore v. Harper, I’ve thought more deeply about some of the less obvious legal issues underlying the case. I plan to do a few posts on these issues.
At least several Justices… Continue reading
“Elon Musk’s promised Twitter exposé on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people”
The Verge:
Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn’t happy with Twitter’s years-old decision to suppress a news story about Hunter Biden’s laptop just ahead of the 2020 presidential election. So in an effort “to restore public trust” in Twitter, Musk indicated… Continue reading
Morgan Kousser on the PBS News Hour: WATCH: The racist history behind Georgia’s runoff elections
Donald Trump Calls to Suspend U.S. Constitution and Throw Out the Results of the 2020 Election. Have We Become Immune to How Radical and Dangerous This is?
Have we become immune to how radical and dangerous this all is?
Just some casual Saturday treason. pic.twitter.com/iPZgyUPmJP— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 3, 2022
“‘Furthering false narratives’: Lake, Finchem lawsuit draws sanction order from judge”
Arizona Republic:
In a blistering 30-page opinion, a federal judge ordered sanctions against the attorneys of Kari Lake and Mark Finchem in their lawsuit against voting machines, hoping to deter “similarly baseless suits in the future.”
Lake and Finchem, Trump-endorsed… Continue reading
“Arizona secretary of state seeks investigation of Republicans who balked at certifying election”
CNN:
The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office on Friday asked state and local prosecutors to investigate and take enforcement action against two Republican officials who had balked at certifying their county’s election results by the legal deadline.
In the referral… Continue reading
“Michigan’s boards of canvassers didn’t derail election certification this year; And now Prop 2 eliminates the threat for good.”
VoteBeat:
Republican secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo had something to say in Lansing on Monday as the Board of State Canvassers prepared to certify her loss, and she swore it wasn’t sour grapes.
The election, Karamo charged without evidence… Continue reading