“2024: Like No Other Presidential Election in Our History”
Jerry Goldfeder reflects.
Wisconsin: “Senate elections committee votes against keeping elections chief Meagan Wolfe”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Republicans who control the state Legislature took a step Monday toward firing Wisconsin’s top election official, setting the stage for a court battle over who leads this battleground state’s system of elections just months before voters begin casting… Continue reading
“Trump’s Electoral College Edge Seems to Be Fading”
NYT‘s “The Tilt:”
The early polls show Donald J. Trump and President Biden tied nationwide. Does that mean Mr. Trump has a clear advantage in the battleground states that decide the Electoral College?
It’s a reasonable question, and one… Continue reading
Brennan Center Launches “State Court Report”
Release:
Today the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law launched State Court Report, a nonpartisan website devoted to state constitutions and courts. It features commentary and analysis by a wide range of experts, including Judge Pierre Bergeron of… Continue reading
“Response by Tax-Exempt Organization Scholars to Request for Information”
Ellen Aprill, Roger Colinvaux, Brian Galle, Philip Hackney, and Lloyd Mayer (the five who are among the most respected nonprofit tax law scholars in the nation) have posted this piece on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
A group of academics… Continue reading
Yen-tu Su: ‘Politics as Markets’ and Phantom Voter Laws
The following is a guest post from Yen-tu Su, part of the symposium on Politics as Markets at 25:
Politics as Markets has often been read as a structuralist manifesto for the then emerging field of the law of… Continue reading
ELB Podcast 5:1: The Trump Indictments, the 2024 Elections, and the Public Peace (Ginsberg, Ben-Ghiat, and Kleinfeld)
New ELB Podcast:
Will the multiple indictments and expected trials of former President Donald Trump lead to violence or unrest?
Are the risks of political violence in the U.S. increasing or decreasing?
What can the United States learn from other… Continue reading
Democracy, Twenty-Five Years On
(This post is co-authored with Sam Issacharoff)
Our thanks to Rick Hasen for organizing this symposium and for giving us the chance to revisit our work from 25 years ago. Neither of us had read Politics as Markets in more… Continue reading
“How a New City Council Map of L.A. Turned Into a Political Brawl”
NYT:
The redistricting battle in Los Angeles underscores how some big city leaders — often Democrats — have used gerrymandering for their political advantage, much the way Republican lawmakers have redrawn legislative lines to secure or expand their control over… Continue reading
“Dems inch toward House majority with recent court wins”
Politico:
The fundamentals of the 2024 campaign are still taking shape, but one thing is already clear: A flurry of court actions might cost Republicans the House majority.
In the past nine days, state and federal judges threw out two… Continue reading
“The political perils of using the 14th Amendment on Trump”
Aaron Blake for WaPo:
To the extent that Democratic secretaries of state and others in the party have entertained the idea of disqualification, it’s been to say that the Supreme Court should decide the issue. (A prominent and Trump-critical Republican… Continue reading
“What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement”
Very deep dive by Politico’s Heidi Pryzybyla:
At the time, the Citizens United ruling was widely expected, as the court had already signaled its intentions. When it came, it upended nearly 100 years of campaign spending restrictions.
The conservative legal movement seized… Continue reading
“5th Circuit finds Biden White House, CDC likely violated First Amendment”
WaPo:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Friday ruled that the Biden White House, top government health officials and the FBI likelyviolated the First Amendment by improperly influencing tech companies’ decisions to remove or suppress posts… Continue reading
“BREAKING: Judge denies Meadows’ bid to move Fulton case to fed court”
AJC:
A federal judge on Friday rejected a request from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to move his Fulton County election interference case to U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
In a 49-page ruling, U.S. District … Continue reading