“How race sets Trump’s Georgia indictment apart from other cases”
I spoke with ABC Radio Australia about my recent Slate piece. Listen.
“The Still Secret Ballot: The Limited Privacy Cost of Transparent Election Results”
Shiro Kuriwaki (Yale Political Science), Jeff Lewis (UCLA Political Science), and Michael Morse (Penn Law) have posted this draft about whether releasing individual-level cast vote records would violate the secret ballot. Here is the abstract:
After an election, should election… Continue reading
“To Protect Elections, Protect Researchers”
“Can deliberation cure our divisions about democracy?”
Boston Globe opinion essay by James Fishkin and Larry Diamond describing the results of their deliberative poll on various electoral reforms. The whole essay is a “must read”; here’s a bit of it:
“Partisan differences seem immovable, some say even … Continue reading
“Trump and his allies double down on election lies after indictments for trying to undo 2020 results”
AP:
A federal indictment and one in Georgia charging Donald Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn President Joe Biden’s win have done nothing to slow the geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former president and his… Continue reading
“Violent threats, racist messages: Bipartisan officials call the aftermath of the 2020 election ‘terrifying'”
“These Voters Share Almost No Political Beliefs, but They Agree on One Thing: We’re Failing as a Nation”
NYT:
There are few things that Republicans and Democrats agree on. But one area where a significant share of each party finds common ground is a belief that the country is headed toward failure.
Overall, 37 percent of registered voters… Continue reading
“Judge partially strikes down Georgia ban on giving voters food and water in polling lines”
Ned blogged about a different aspect of this decision last week.
From CNN:
A federal judge on Friday narrowed a section of Georgia election law that banned the practice of handing out food and water to voters waiting… Continue reading
“New district lines will scramble key New York House races”
Politico:
Candidates are eager to run in competitive House seats in New York next year. There’s just one problem: They have no clear sense of where to campaign.
The interminable legal fight over redistricting in New York will likely leave… Continue reading
“The Manhattan Democratic Party broke state law during its judicial nominating convention”
Thanks to Ned Foley
for blogging last week and a few other weeks over the summer, and especially for his comprehensive coverage of the 14th Amendment, section 3 issue with Trump.
I’m now back on pretty much full time as primary ELB blogger through… Continue reading
Noah Feldman on section 3 & Trump
Bloomberg Opinion (via Washington Post):
“There are two problems with the notion that Trump can and should be kept off the ballot by state election authorities.
“First, although Baude and Paulsen’s originalism is honest and conscientious, originalists outside of… Continue reading
Luttig & Tribe on CNN discussing section 3
This video clip includes, starting 3 minutes into it, Judge Luttig’s discussion of how the issue of Trump’s status under section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment can–and should–be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court before the 2024 election. At the… Continue reading
“Could Trump be barred under the constitution’s ‘engaged in insurrection’ clause?”
Sam Levine for The Guardian:
“Disqualification under the 14th amendment does not require a criminal conviction, Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), said in an interview earlier this… Continue reading