Rick Pildes: Johns Hopkins Agora Institute Event on Executive Power and the Courts
I’m happy to be doing this event shortly. The link to watch the event is here: https://hopkinsathome.jhu.edu/watch-now
“How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives”
NPR:
One of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency lieutenants working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing dubious claims about noncitizens voting, apparently using access to data that court records suggest DOGE isn’t supposed to have.
The staffer,… Continue reading
Must-read NYT: “Trump Escalates Use of Official Power to Intimidate and Punish His Perceived Foes”
Savage, Haberman, Swan, and Schmidt in the NYT:
President Trump’s first-term efforts to spur law enforcement officials to pursue his political enemies were haphazard, informal and often hashed out in private.
Now, his demands for investigations are starting to… Continue reading
“Trump is Already Undermining the Next Election”
Paul Rozenzweig for The Atlantic:
An unfortunate reality now confronts Americans who value the rule of law: The court system has limited capability to act as a guardrail against Trumpist authoritarianism. And so elections matter—vitally. The final and most powerful… Continue reading
“At the Supreme Court, the Trump Agenda Is Always an ‘Emergency'”
Abbie VanSickle for the NYT:
The Trump administration has in recent weeks asked the Supreme Court to allow it to end birthright citizenship, to freeze more than a billion dollars in foreign aid and to permit the deportation of… Continue reading
Historians Keyssar and Wilentz Put SAVE Act’s Proposed Disenfranchisement in Historical Perspective
Democracy Docket:
Voting-rights advocates and Democratic officials have already made clear the massive threat the SAVE Act poses to access to the ballot in the here and now, warning that it could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters. But in… Continue reading
“House passes bill that could make it harder for married women to vote” (SAVE Act)
The 19th:
The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans, including married women, to vote.
The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted for the Safeguard American Voter… Continue reading
An Important Reminder about the Special Danger of the Chris Krebs Trump Announcement
Politico:
A president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the traditional wall of separation between the White House and the Justice Department. Under that norm of separation,… Continue reading
Sixth Circuit on 2-1 Vote Lifts Stay in Longrunning Dispute over Ohio AG’s Failure to Approve Ballot Language Summary for Petition Circulation; AG Goes to SCOTUS
You can find the Sixth Circuit’s order and dissent at this link.
The AG is already off to SCOTUS.
“Fear and loathing over California ballot counting”
Politico:
California’s notoriously slow vote-counting process has led to a rare bipartisan realization in Sacramento — the state needs to dramatically pick up the pace in producing election results.
But Democrats and Republicans are nowhere near in agreement on how… Continue reading
Trump Targets CISA’s Chris Krebs (and Miles Taylor)
AP:
President Donald Trump intensified his efforts to punish his critics on Wednesday by signing a pair of memoranda directing the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first administration and stripping them of any security clearances they… Continue reading
“Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company”
NPR:
A Delaware judge, once again, has found that a conservative news outlet broadcast false and defamatory claims about the role a voting technology company played in the 2020 presidential election. This time, that network is Newsmax, Fox News’ upstart… Continue reading
“Tulsi Gabbard Declared Her Residency in Texas. Then She Voted in Hawaii”
CNN:
As Tulsi Gabbard completed her transformation from a Hawaii Democratic politician to a MAGA surrogate last year, she put down stakes in a far redder state. Gabbard and her husband bought a home outside of Austin and declared under… Continue reading
“DOJ: Some Jan. 6 defendants should be repaid money they sent to Congress”
Politico:
Jan. 6 defendants whose convictions were wiped out by President Donald Trump are entitled to a refund of restitution payments they made to cover damage to the Capitol, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
The department’s determination could result in… Continue reading