Watch Rick Hasen & Melissa Murray on MSNBC Discussing Democracy Dangers of Trump Voting EO and NC Supreme Court Contest
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The NC Judicial Election Litigation: Federal Due Process Prohibits All State Actors, Including State Courts, From Changing State Election Law and Practice After The Votes Have Been Cast
The recent 2-1 decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals calls into question the legitimacy of over 61,000 ballots cast in the Griffin-Riggs battle over a critical seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. The court’s decision appears to… Continue reading
ELB Podcast 6:7: Combatting False Election Information: Lessons from 2024 and a Look to the Future (Marwick, Starbird, Tucker)
Season 6, Episode 7 of the ELB Podcast:
How did campaigning and false information in campaigns change in the 2024 elections?
What role did platform content moderation play in 2024?
Is generative AI going to change campaigns in 2028 and… Continue reading
“President’s Third Term Talk Defies Constitution and Tests Democracy”
Peter Baker for the NYT:
After President Trump said last year that he wanted to be a dictator for a day, he insisted that he was only joking. Now he is saying that he may try to hold onto… Continue reading
Fake Quote of the Day
“That’s when I was trying to buy the election in Wisconsin. I’m an idiot. I should have just bought Wisconsin.”
–“Elon Musk,” played by Mike Myers, in SNL cold opening, explaining why he came out to a White House… Continue reading
“Assessing Alaska’s Top-4 Primary and Ranked Choice Voting Electoral Reform: More Moderate Winners, More Moderate Policy”
Glenn Wright, Ben Reilly and David Lublin have published this article in the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy. Here is the abstract:
In recent years, ranked choice voting (RCV) has emerged as a leading electoral reform, often in… Continue reading
“‘Hands Off!’ protesters across US rally against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk”
CNN:
Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday, organized by a pro-democracy movement in response to what they call a “hostile takeover” and attack on… Continue reading
“Trump Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses at a Moment of Rising Danger”
NYT:
When President Trump abruptly fired the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command on Thursday, it was the latest in a series of moves that have torn away at the country’s cyberdefenses just as they are… Continue reading
“Hundreds of law firms back Perkins Coie in fight against Trump sanctions”
WaPo:
More than 500 law firms on Friday denounced President Donald Trump’s campaign to punish individual firms, calling his actions abuses of power that endanger the rule of law.
The firms said in a court filing thatTrump’s orders are… Continue reading
“A Real Comparative Insight on President Trump’s Voting Executive Order “
This is a guest post by a team of students in Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic:
Election administration is a marriage of rules, laws, and norms that together create a system to elect a candidate. When reviewing an election… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
“By changing the rules of the game after it’s been played to potentially disenfranchise as many as 60,000 voters, this court has gone where no court has gone before . .. Until this decision, courts facing challenges to ballots cast… Continue reading
Chenowith and Levitsky Video of Ash Center Event on Backsliding
You can watch at this link.
Breaking: North Carolina Appeals Court, Over Strong Dissent, Sides with Judge Griffin in Election Contest, Gives Some Voters Chance to Cure Failure to Provide Certain Information to Election Officials (That Officials Did Not Demand)
You can find the 2-1 opinion and dissent at this link. I’m at a meeting so no chance to read this closely right now, but it appears that the majority held that many of the ballots cast by challenged voters… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania officials plead guilty to election fraud offenses, effort to ‘steal’ election”
ABC 27:
Two Pennsylvania borough officials and one former official pled guilty to election fraud offenses after working to “steal” a local election.
United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that MD Nurul Hasan, 48, MD Munsur Ali, 48, and MD… Continue reading