Chris Geidner at Law Dork:
In a late-night filing Monday, Donald Trump’s lawyers argued that the special counsel’s D.C. federal case against Trump should be dismissed on multiple constitutional grounds.
The motion primarily relies upon an argument that there can… Continue reading
The decision in Frank v. Wyoming Secretary of State is here. The 10th Circuit sent the case back to the district court to factor in the 45-day temporal constraint in addition to the geographic constraint.
WaPo:
As Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) waged his battle to become House speaker, some House Republicans were uncomfortable with the possibility of having an election denier occupying the most powerful legislative seat in the U.S. government heading into a presidential… Continue reading
New Yorker:
In rural Coffee County, Georgia, three and a half hours southeast of Atlanta, at least a few employees of the election office agreed. After a recount of Georgia’s votes was completed, on December 4th, the county’s elections supervisor,… Continue reading
It was great to speak with Lisa Desjardins on the PBS News Hour Weekend about the risks to fair and safe elections in 2024 and the recommendations in our recent “24 for ’24” report on how to make… Continue reading
Clear-eyed and frightening—though Ian is more optimistic than I am. Great sense of where the risks of election subversion are in the U.S. today.
Worth a close listen.
CNN: Colorado judge presiding over the trial rejected on Friday three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to dismiss the lawsuit seeking to block him from appearing as a presidential candidate in Colorado in… Continue reading
The 24-hour news cycle is brutal even on the Election Law Blog, so I want to use the relative quiet of the weekend to re-surface those articles that I “highly recommend”–to borrow Larry Solum’s phrase.
“Black Voters Have New Power … Continue reading
Voting Laws Roundup: October 2023, published by the Brennan Center, offers an overview of the trends in election law around the country. There is good news, including:
“Nearly half of all states enacted at least one expansive voting law… Continue reading