Bolts:
Robert Sutherland and Doug Basler have a lot in common.
The two Republicans have spent the better part of the past three years sowing doubt about Washington state’s election system, filing frivolous lawsuits that questioned the mail ballot… Continue reading
Florida Politics:
Six months since prior vote-by-mail requests expired, just a fraction of voters have renewed their absentee request, arousing fear that millions of Floridians could discover too late that their ballot is not arriving in the mail.
It’s… Continue reading
From WaPo, some voting rights history: “In the 1960s, Richmond was plagued by a suffering economy, rotting infrastructure and widespread poverty, prompting the city to begin a years-long campaign to widen its boundaries. On Jan. 1, 1970, it annexed… Continue reading
Politico:
The 37-year-old Republican is launching the “Vivek Kitchen Cabinet,” a scheme that promises to pay participants 10 percent of any money they raise for his campaign. It’s the latest attention-grabbing initiative by the longshot candidate, highlighting the frantic race… Continue reading
AP reports:
Congress in the coming weeks will consider shoring up voting and election laws — efforts that will reflect the vast gulf between Democrats and Republicans on protecting a foundation of American democracy.
The parties will unveil separate… Continue reading
Sam Issacharoff has this post on Just Security, identifying four factors that should be considered in making this momentous decision. Here’s the conclusion:
Ultimately, for democracy’s sake, the prosecution of a former president relies on prevailing in the court of… Continue reading
This is the first in a few posts looking at litigation comparable to the issues in Moore v. Harper to see if any lessons can be learned from those areas. I’ll start with the Takings Clause.
From Axios:
House Republicans are working on new legislation to prevent foreign nationals from influencing America’s political process, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The last two presidential elections have been colored by allegations that foreign influence helped the GOP.… Continue reading
NYT:
Of all the distortions and paranoia that Tucker Carlson promoted on his since-canceled Fox News program, one looms large: a conspiracy theory that an Arizona man working as a covert government agent incited the Jan. 6, 2021, assault… Continue reading
As Rick noted, I’ll be doing the daily blogging for the next three weeks. Taking a few weeks at the helm of Election Law Blog is becoming an annual thing for me, and I’m grateful to him for giving… Continue reading
WaPo:
A July 4 injunction that places extraordinary limits on the government’s communications with tech companies undermines initiatives to harden social media companies against election interference, civil rights groups, academics and tech industry insiders say.
After companies and the federal… Continue reading
WaPo:
Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses will be held on Jan. 15, state Republicans voted on Saturday, kicking off the 2024 presidential nomination process.
The vote by the Iowa Republican Party’s state central committee, which scheduled the contest on the Martin… Continue reading
Politico:
Over the past year and a half, eight Republican-led states quit a nonpartisan program designed to keep voter rolls accurate and up to date.
Top Republican election officials in those states publicly argued the program was mismanaged. The conspiracy… Continue reading