Kornacki: “How redistricting could change the fight for the House majority”
Steve Kornacki for NBC News, breaking down the impact of potential re-redistrictings in Texas and Ohio.
“As Texas dives into federal SAVE database to verify voter citizenship, some experts are worried”
Votebeat:
Texas is one of the earliest states to start using the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ overhauled SAVE database to check voters’ eligibility. That comes after the Trump administration, in its campaign to eliminate the risk of noncitizen… Continue reading
Corey Brettschneider and Aidan Calvelli Review My Book, “A Real Right to Vote,” in Political Science Quarterly
“Miami postponed its 2025 elections. A judge says it’s illegal. Why did the city do it?”
Washington Post:
A circuit court judge ruled Monday that a controversial decision by Miami commissioners in June to postpone the city’s November elections until 2026 without voter approval is unconstitutional and unlawful.
The ruling by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Valerie Manno… Continue reading
USC Report on California’s 2024 Turnout Drop
From the Center for Inclusive Democracy:
After historically high turnout in the 2020 presidential election amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2024 presidential election saw a decline in turnout across California. Despite the hopeful expectations of many that the voter… Continue reading
“How Democrats might stop the Ohio GOP from gerrymandering again”
The Downballot: “Ohio must pass a new congressional map this year, but Democrats are threatening to qualify a referendum for the ballot that could stop Republicans from further gerrymandering the state’s already skewed districts.”
“Kenneth Chesebro and the Ethics of Election Subversion”
Sung Hui Kim has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This Article examines the role of attorney Kenneth Chesebro in orchestrating the “fake electors plot” following the 2020 U.S. presidential election. It traces Chesebro’s transformation from a… Continue reading
Brennan Center: “Homeland Security’s ‘SAVE’ Program Exacerbates Risks to Voters”
Jasleen Singh and Spencer Reynolds:
The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states verify the citizenship and immigration status of people applying for government benefits…. But SAVE’s results — sometimes based on incomplete… Continue reading
“Trump Admin Defying Court By Stonewalling on Anti-Voting Order, Plaintiffs Say”
Democracy Docket:
The Trump administration is defying a court order by refusing to say how federal agencies may be implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping anti-voting executive order, pro-voting groups and Democrats alleged in a filing Friday.
Among the order’s… Continue reading
“Texas Republicans Look to Jam Democrats With Vote on Redistricting”
NYT: “Republicans in the Texas Legislature are planning to hold off on voting on measures to address the state’s deadly July 4 flooding until after they approve a partisan redistricting of Texas’ U.S. House boundaries, hoping to thwart Democrats’… Continue reading
“NC county election boards weren’t allowed to meet for a month. State Chairman says no harm done”
NC Newsline:
North Carolina’s county election boards have not been able to meet for about a month, requiring the state Board of Elections at its meeting Monday to allow newly appointed officials to make some overdue decisions about upcoming… Continue reading
“Jim Jordan subpoenas DOJ prosecutor who helped investigate Donald Trump”
Politico: “The Ohio Republican sent the subpoena to Thomas Windom, former senior assistant special counsel who worked under then-special counsel Jack Smith. Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland had appointed Smith to lead the Justice Department’s cases around Trump’s retention of… Continue reading
“Why Can Trump Sue You, But You Can’t Sue Him?”
Ankush Khardori in Politico Magazine:
The Supreme Court has been steadily building up an extraordinary level of immunity for presidents, on both civil and criminal fronts. And Trump has benefited from — and exploited — the law like no… Continue reading
Congressional Freethought Caucus Asks IRS to Reconsider Decision to Allow Church Endorsements of Candidates
Here’s the letter opposing the proposed consent decree in National Religious Broadcasters Association et al v. Long, arguing that it adopts a “stunningly inaccurate reinterpretation of the Johnson Amendment.”