“Ariz. Republican who stood up to Trump after 2020 won’t seek reelection”
WaPo:
After years of violent threats and harassment for accepting the results of the 2020 election in Arizona’s largest county of Maricopa, the Republican who led the Board of Supervisors during the last presidential election said Thursday that he will… Continue reading
Special Counsel Urges Supreme Court to Reject Trump Stay Request to Delay “Election Subversion” Trial on Immunity Grounds, Especially Because It Involves Election Subversion
This footnote in Jack Smith’s filing is particularly interesting and important:
A sufficient basis for resolving this case would be that, whatever the rule in other contexts not presented here, no immunity attaches to a President’s commission of federal crimes… Continue reading
“New York hush money case will be first Trump criminal trial, scheduled for March”
WaPo:
A judge said Thursday that jury selection for Donald Trump’s trial would begin on March 25, setting a date with history for what would be the first criminal prosecution of an ex-president — one who also leads the Republican… Continue reading
Gerard Magliocca: “The Electoral Count Reform Act and Section 3”
The following is a guest post from Gerard Magliocca:
During oral argument in Trump v. Anderson, many Supreme Court Justices expressed serious reservations about permitting states to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment against a presidential candidate. These… Continue reading
In Person Washington D.C. “Real Right to Vote Event” Feb. 17 with Sherrilyn Ifill, Jamie Raskin, and Pam Fessler
I recently noted some in-person and virtual events to discuss my new book, A Real Right to Vote, out February 20th. (Preorder from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop, and read the Kirkus Review). Looking forward… Continue reading
“Can Trump Stay on the Ballot? Recapping Trump v. Anderson (with Rick Hasen and Derek Muller)”
New “Voting Booth” podcast, hosted by John Fortier and Don Palmer.
ELB Book Corner: Ann Southworth: “The Players and the Process”
I am pleased to welcome Ann Southworth to the ELB Book Corner, author of the new book, Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending (Chicago). The discount code for ELB readers is BIGMONEY2023. This is the second… Continue reading
On January 6, 2025
When Congress convenes to count electoral votes on January 6, 2025, it will face intense pressure. If the Supreme Court rejects Colorado’s effort to bar Donald Trump from the primary ballot, its path seems likely to leave the door open… Continue reading
Article II & Australian Ballots
Rick linked yesterday to a Slate column arguing that an originalist perspective on the pending Colorado case would need to conclude that states don’t have the authority to remove candidates from the ballot in a presidential election because there were… Continue reading
Listen to My Discussion with NPR’s “Here and Now” About My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote”
You can listen here:
Election law expert Richard Hasen is calling for a Constitutional Amendment, that would affirmatively lay out Americans’ right to vote. He argues that it would protect voting rights, reduce discrimination at the ballot box, and also protect… Continue reading
Watch My Appearance on Morning Joe Talking About My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote,” Out Next Week
You can watch here.
“True the Vote fails to reveal evidence of Georgia voting fraud claims”
AJC:
Bombastic claims of voting fraud in the right-wing conspiracy movie “2000 Mules” sounded alarming, and Georgia election officials wanted to get to the bottom of it.
If there really was a massive plot to stuff ballot drop boxes and… Continue reading
“The Supreme Pressure Campaign: Trump Attorneys Gamed Out Which Supreme Court Justices Might Help Them Steal the Election”
TPM:
Donnald Trump’s attorneys in 2020 thought that they had one advantage which nobody — not the Democrats, not lower-court judges, not Congress — could outmatch: the Supreme Court.
At their most feverish, attorneys for Trump believed that the Supreme… Continue reading