Amy Howe for SCOTUSBlog:
The Biden administration on Thursday afternoon asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a lower court’s order that would limit its ability to communicate with social media companies over content moderation policies. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth… Continue reading
Bolts:
In a decision that landed days before the 2022 midterms, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered elections officials not to count any mail ballots on which a voter had forgotten to include a date or scribbled an incorrect one, even… Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Fueled by lingering outrage over the 2020 election within the Wisconsin GOP, Senate Republicans voted Thursday to fire the state’s top election official — a move that catapulted Wisconsin’s election agency into a legal battle over who oversees… Continue reading
Jocelyn Benson WaPo oped:
Is it up to secretaries of state to determine whether Donald Trump can ever serve in elective office again?
That seems to be the nearly universal view of those who say the former president is disqualified… Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Ming-Sung Kuo, part of the Politics as Markets at 25 symposium.
A View from an Outsider
When Politics As Markets (PAM) was published in 1998, I was a law clerk with the… Continue reading
Politico: “If Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema follow the Utahn out the door, they’ll leave a void in a chamber that’s handed Joe Biden remarkable bipartisan deals.”
AJC:
The Fulton County judge overseeing the sprawling election interference probe involving former President Donald Trump on Thursday split the case’s 19 defendants into two groups for trial — and suggested that more divisions could be merited.
Superior Court Judge… Continue reading
New report from CAP:
This new report specifically anticipates risks to and from the major social media platforms in the 2024 elections, continuing CAP’s work to promote election integrity online and ensure free and fair elections globally. The report’s recommendations… Continue reading
Rick H. linked to the complaint filed in Minnesota challenging Donald Trump’s eligibility. Setting aside the ripeness issues present in this challenge (like so many already filed), I wanted to dig into some of the history in Minnesota. There’s a… Continue reading
I’ve long thought of Politics as Markets as the most important contribution to election law in memory (noting that I’m using Politics as Markets as a metonym for the whole series of related articles by Rick and Sam). What made Politics as Markets so groundbreaking? At… Continue reading