“A Must-Read Analysis of Why U.S. Elections Aren’t Working and What to Do About It”
A new Common Ground Democracy column on a superb paper by Nate Atkinson and Scott Ganz. Here’s the subtitle of the column: “If you read one thing about the structural problem afflicting American elections, including an explanation of the institutional… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Seems Wary of State Laws Regulating Social Media Platforms”
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical on Monday of laws in Florida and Texas that bar major social media companies from making editorial judgments about which messages to allow.
The laws were enacted in an effort… Continue reading
New Jersey: “Andy Kim Sues to Block Preferential Treatment on Ballots in Senate Race”
NYT:
Representative Andy Kim, a Democrat running for Senate in New Jersey against the state’s first lady, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday that seeks to redesign the ballot before June’s contentious primary election, arguing the current layout unfairly benefits… Continue reading
“Exclusive: Key figure in fake electors plot concealed damning posts on secret Twitter account from investigators”
CNN:
Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in… Continue reading
Justices and Lawyers are Mispronouncing “Tornillo” Case
Years ago at an APSA conference, Fred Schauer corrected me as pronouncing this with a Spanish pronunciation (“Torniyyo”) but the plaintiff was Italian and the “L’s” should be pronounced.
Florida’s Lawyer Having Hard Time at Beginning of Oral Argument in Social Media Cases, Suggesting Law Could Well Be Struck Down [Corrected]
Arguments are just beginning, and at some point I’ll have to leave for class.
At this early point, it appears that Roberts, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Kagan have all expressed great skepticism of these rules.
Justice Jackson pointed to some of… Continue reading
“NYS Legislature to vote down redistricting map, offer new one, source says”
“Russia’s 2024 election interference has already begun”
NBC News:
U.S. officials and experts are most concerned that Russia could try to interfere in the election through a “deepfake” audio or video using artificial intelligence tools or through a “hack and leak,” such as the politically damaging theft… Continue reading
“Inside the G.O.P.’s State Party Problem”
I had missed this NYT piece from a few days ago:
State Republican parties in roughly half of the most important battleground states are awash in various degrees of dysfunction, debt and disarray.
In Arizona, the chairman of the state’s… Continue reading
“They Could Decide the 2024 Election. If They Vote”
Marcela Valdes in NYT Magazine.
“Supreme Court to Decide How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media”
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
The most important First Amendment cases of the internet era, to be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, may turn on a single question: Do platforms like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and X most closely… Continue reading
Texas: “Does federal law cited by Tarrant County judge really ban free transit rides to polls?”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare this week cited federal law to support his opposition to reimbursing Trinity Metro for free fares on primary Election Day. But, does that law actually prohibit free rides to the polls?… Continue reading
I Spoke to Dahlia Lithwick’s “Amicus” Podcast at Slate About My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote” (And Other Stuff!)
You can listen to this great conversation here:
A Series of Lawsuits That We Call an Election
How to fix the laws, and the gaps in the law, that are breaking American democracy.
Dahlia Lithwick is drinking from the… Continue reading