“The California Democrat is surrounded by a large retinue of aides at all times, who tell her how and when to vote, explain what is going on when she is confused, and shield her from the press and public.” Story… Continue reading

Registration is free and here. Here’s the description: The Elections & Voting Information Center (EVIC) at Reed College has conducted a survey of local election officials (LEOs) for the past 4 years that provides local officials with an important… Continue reading

Trump plays by rules afforded no other candidate. He might luck out again with a large field in 2024.” Will the 2024 Republican Primary be like the 2016 primary? This story from Politico.

Story here. Paxton is suspended from office. (Thanks to Hugh Brady for the correction). He now awaits a trial by the state Senate.

This fascinating New York Times post-mortem on the Dominion defamation lawsuit against Fox. If your interest is Election Law and Civil Procedure, this is an absolute must-read.

Aaron Navarro has this story for CBS News. From the article: Campaign finance experts called the move “unprecedented” and had mixed reactions on if it violated FEC regulations.The transfer of “hard” campaign dollars — money raised under federal fundraising limits… Continue reading

Professors Hellman and Gilbert has this article, Political Corruption, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed.). The abstract: This chapter studies political corruption and its many relationships to the law of democracy. It begins with… Continue reading

David Ettinger blogs about it here.

More from Ivonne Wingett Sanchez here.

This Washington Post story by Molly Hennessy-Fiske. The lede: The Texas House plans to vote Saturday on whether to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, presaging a potential state Senate trial that could lead to the ouster of one of… Continue reading

Ruth Greenwood and I have posted this article on state voting rights acts (SVRAs), which will be published in a symposium issue of the Emory Law Journal. Here’s the abstract: It’s well-known that the federal Voting Rights Act is… Continue reading

Zach Montellaro of Politico with this report on the partisan divide on voter confidence. A notable paragraph from the story: That growth comes almost entirely from Republicans, even as a dramatic partisan gap remains. Democrats’ confidence in the nationwide count… Continue reading

This story from Politico‘s Kyle Cheney. A key paragraph from the story: “You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the republic and to the very fabric of our democracy,” said U.S. District Court Judge… Continue reading

This story from the New York Times by Tracey Tully and William K. Rashbaum. Here’s the lede: Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are investigating whether Senator Robert Menendez or his wife received unreported gifts of a luxury car and an… Continue reading