“Trump targets top Wisconsin GOP lawmaker for not overturning election”
WaPo:
One year ago this month, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) sat on a private plane with Donald Trump and updatedthe former president on the investigation he had launched into the 2020 election, even though there was… Continue reading
Georgia: “Federal judge rules PSC election ‘unlawfully dilutes’ Black voting power”
AJC:
A federal judge ruled Friday that Georgia must end statewide elections for the Public Service Commission because they discriminate against Black voters, a decision that could bar state officials from holding a November election to fill two seats.U.S.… Continue reading
Mark Rush Reviews My “Cheap Speech” Book for the Law and Politics Book Review
You can read the review at this link.
Friday Facebook Fail: “Meta quieter on election misinformation as midterms loom”
AP:
Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting misinformation or foreign interference in U.S. elections as the November midterm vote approaches.It’s a sharp departure from the social media giant’s multibillion-dollar efforts to… Continue reading
No Matter What the Supreme Court Decides about the Independent State Legislature Theory, State Legislatures Will Still Be Bound by Federal Law and the U.S. Constitution
A large group of election-law experts has made this point. Nonetheless, there continues to be confusion and misunderstanding in some public commentary about this fundamental legal fact. This confusion has also slipped into some discussions about the Electoral Count Reform… Continue reading
“Senate GOP escalates its attack on Google over email spam”
WaPo:
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of the Republican caucus, is preparing to escalate its attack on Google over the company’s email spam filter, which it blames for recent fundraising disappointments, according to documents obtained by… Continue reading
“Force multipliers: How one donor network is pushing the envelope on California campaign money”
Cal Matters:
Sift through the campaign contributions to Robert Rivas, the Salinas Democrat angling to become the next speaker of the California Assembly, and a name keeps popping up: Govern For California.The organization’s statewide chapter gave the maximum $9,800… Continue reading
Election Denier Kari Lake Wins Republican Nomination for Governor of Arizona
NYT:
Kari Lake, who in the span of two years transformed herself from a veteran local television news anchor into a tribune of the far-right political movement, won Arizona’s Republican primary for governor, according to The Associated Press.Ms. Lake… Continue reading
Election Law Professor Steve Mulroy Defeats Shelby County (Tn) District Attorney Amy Weirich After Controversial Voting Prosecution of Pamela Moses
Big news from the other Shelby County.
More on the Moses controversy and the race from Bolts Magazine.
“How Do You Actually Stop the Steal?; A new bipartisan bill would revise how the presidential vote is certified. But it could come with risky loopholes.”
Russell Berman for The Atlantic.
“Momentum Builds for Overhaul of Rules Governing the Electoral Count”
Carl Hulse for the NYT:
Determined to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, backers of an overhaul of the federal law governing the count of presidential electoral ballots pressed lawmakers on Wednesday to repair… Continue reading
“Trump’s Pandora’s Box: Election-Denying Candidates are Refusing to Concede”
Axios on the new trend across the country. Here’s what I told them: “If people believe the other side is consistently stealing elections, first of all, you completely delegitimize people in office … but second, you create the conditions… Continue reading
“Election Law Localism and Democracy”
Richard Briffault has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, North Carolina Law Review). Here is the abstract:
American federal and state elections are largely run by local officials. Although election law is almost entirely determined by the federal government and… Continue reading