I Will Be Discussing My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote” with Larry Mantle at Feb. 21 Free “America at the Crossroads” Webinar
Looking forward to this conversation Feb. 21 at 5 pm PT:
Join us!
“Gov. Tony Evers signs new election maps, ending Wisconsin Republicans’ grip on legislative power”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Wisconsin Republicans lost their more than decade-long grip on control of the state Legislature Monday after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed into law new electoral maps that reshape down-ballot races in this battleground state.
Evers signed a bill … Continue reading
Free UCLA Law Webinar: February 20, 12:15pm – 1:15pm: “Lessons and Warning Signs: A Conversation with a January 6th Investigator”
At UCLA Law:
Register here for in-person or virtual attendance.
Organized by the Promise Institute for Human Rights; co-sponsored by the Safeguarding Democracy Project
With introductions by Director of the International & Comparative Law Program, Jess Peake, the conversation will… Continue reading
“San Francisco Appoints First Noncitizen to Serve on Elections Commission”
KQED:
The newest member of the San Francisco Elections Commission, a seven-member civilian body that oversees and creates policy for the city’s Department of Elections, isn’t legally allowed to vote.
Kelly Wong, an immigrant rights advocate, is believed to be… Continue reading
“A Top-3 Presidential Election System”
Happy President’s Day. Here’s a new Common Ground Democracy column explaining why and how to apply the top-3 electoral system that Eric Maskin and I describe in our Project Syndicate column to presidential elections. The key, as explained at the… Continue reading
“Trump VP contender Tim Scott doesn’t want to talk about vice president’s role in certifying election”
AP:
Sen. Tim Scott, a potential running mate if Donald Trump becomes the Republican presidential nominee, is treading carefully on questions about whether he would have certified the 2020 election had he been vice president at that time.
On Jan.… Continue reading
“No, Your Honor, You Can’t Call Yourself ‘High Justice’ on the Ballot in Chinese”
NYT:
Hong Le still remembers meeting a charismatic woman campaigning for San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In Cantonese, that woman’s name was 賀錦麗, which is pronounced Ho Gam-lai and means “Congratulate Brocade Beautiful.”
Most Americans know her by another… Continue reading
“College Leaders Urged to Act on Campus Voting Sites”
Bard News:
A letter sent today to higher education leaders across New York State calls on them to help fulfill the promise of 2022 legislation designed to promote poll sites on college campuses across New York State. It urges them to… Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of My Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill, Jamie Raskin, and Pam Fessler About My Book, A Real Right to Vote
Huge crowd and a great conversation at Politics and Prose in Washington DC. Watch here:
“Disqualified President’s Day: Navigating the Enforcement of Section 3 in a ‘Dangerously Unclear’ Legal Framework”
Important points from Michael Stern.
“Trump permits Jan. 6-related lawsuits against him to advance — for now”
Politico:
Donald Trump is passing up the chance to add a fourth case to a trio of Trump-related appeals already stacked up at the Supreme Court.
Trump elected not to ask the justices to reverse a federal appeals court ruling… Continue reading
Jonathan Mitchell Tells NYT on Record (!) That He Hopes Trump Doesn’t Learn About the Comstock Act on Abortion and Starts Talking About It in Public
This quote is amazing, given that it is in the New York Times on the record:
“We don’t need a federal ban when we have Comstock on the books,” said Jonathan F. Mitchell, the legal force behind a 2021 Texas … Continue reading
Washington Post: Federalist Society Lawyers Are Conflicted About Working for a Second Trump Administration Amidst Demands for Greater Personal Loyalty
WaPo:
Now the dominant front-runner for his party’s presidential nomination, Trump has broken with many of the leaders and allies of the Federalist Society, a powerful conservative legal organization that boosted his campaign eight years ago and helped him stock… Continue reading
Yale Law Journal Forum Collection: State and Local Corruption After Percoco and Ciminelli
This looks like it will be very useful:
FORUM
What Are Federal Corruption Prosecutions for?
Lauren M. Ouziel
This Essay considers the role of prosecutors in the Supreme Court’s decades-long contraction of public corruption law. It examines how federal prosecutors’… Continue reading