2011 flashback: could Arizona determine whether presidential candidates were “natural born citizens”?
In light of some current disputes, here’s a flashback from 2011, with excerpts from three news stories out of Arizona:
Ming-Sung Kuo: Law, Institution, and Constitutional Time in Politics As Markets
The following is a guest post from Ming-Sung Kuo, part of the Politics as Markets at 25 symposium.
A View from an Outsider
When Politics As Markets (PAM) was published in 1998, I was a law clerk with the… Continue reading
“‘You’re screwed’: Romney’s exit threatens a collapse of Senate’s middle”
Politico: “If Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema follow the Utahn out the door, they’ll leave a void in a chamber that’s handed Joe Biden remarkable bipartisan deals.”
“Fulton judge splits Fulton Trump defendants into two groups”
AJC:
The Fulton County judge overseeing the sprawling election interference probe involving former President Donald Trump on Thursday split the case’s 19 defendants into two groups for trial — and suggested that more divisions could be merited.
Superior Court Judge… Continue reading
“Protecting Democracy Online in 2024 and Beyond”
New report from CAP:
This new report specifically anticipates risks to and from the major social media platforms in the 2024 elections, continuing CAP’s work to promote election integrity online and ensure free and fair elections globally. The report’s recommendations… Continue reading
Linda Jenness, “John Ewards,” and qualifications disputes in Minnesota presidential elections
Rick H. linked to the complaint filed in Minnesota challenging Donald Trump’s eligibility. Setting aside the ripeness issues present in this challenge (like so many already filed), I wanted to dig into some of the history in Minnesota. There’s a… Continue reading
The Contributions of Politics as Markets
I’ve long thought of Politics as Markets as the most important contribution to election law in memory (noting that I’m using Politics as Markets as a metonym for the whole series of related articles by Rick and Sam). What made Politics as Markets so groundbreaking? At… Continue reading
David Levine: “Countering the Distortion of Election Administrator Errors”
The following is a guest post from David Levine:
On September 1, Harris County, Texas’ two-year-old elections department was eliminated after the Texas Legislature passed legislation earlier this year abolishing it and the State Supreme Court refused to stop the… Continue reading
Sounds Like Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Gableman’s Testimony at John Eastman’s California Disbarment Trial Did Not Go Well
LA Times:
Cross-examining Gableman last week in Eastman’s trial, Duncan Carling, an attorney representing the California State Bar, asked Gableman if there had been any successful legal challenges to the CTCL grants.
“Not yet,” Gableman replied.
Was he aware of… Continue reading
“NC’s top judicial official is behind ‘political hit job,’ Democrats say”
WRAL:
North Carolina’s highest-ranking judicial official is personally behind the push for an investigation into a fellow justice, a state lawmaker claimed Wednesday, calling it a politically motivated attack.
Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls was recently put under investigation, WRAL… Continue reading
Niels Petersen and Emanuel V. Towfigh: Politics as Markets in Germany
The following is a guest post from Niels Petersen and Emanuel V. Towfigh, part of the Politics as Markets at 25 symposium:
Politics as Markets by Professors Samuel Issacharoff and Rick Pildes is a seminal, path-breaking piece of scholarship… Continue reading
The Case for Proportional Representation
The Democracy Journal, in partnership with Protect Democracy and Democracy Fund, has published a symposium making The Case for Proportional Representation. In a series of essays, Didi Kuo, Guy-Uriel Charles, and other leading scholars explore how winner-take-all elections are aggravating some of our… Continue reading
We’ve Issued a Major New Report, “24 for ’24: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech for Fair and Legitimate 2024 Elections”
Back in March, the UCLA Law Safeguarding Democracy Project held a conference, Can American Democracy Survive the 2024 Elections?
Following the conference some of the participants met as an ad hoc committee to consider recommendations in law, politics, media, and… Continue reading
North Carolina: “Mark Harris, center of 2018 ballot scandal, announces new congressional campaign”
Charlotte Observer:
Mark Harris, whose 2018 congressional campaign was at the center of a ballot-harvesting scandal ending in a new election and felony indictments for an operative who worked for him, announced his campaign for Congress on Tuesday.
Harris’s own… Continue reading