Josh Douglas for USA Today.

Bloomberg: In the immediate run up to the U.S. presidential election and on Election Day, the homepage of YouTube is set to advertise just one candidate: Donald Trump. The president’s re-election campaign purchased the coveted advertising space atop the country’s… Continue reading

WaPo: In anticipation of the presidential election season, The Fact Checker last year worked with The Washington Post video department to produce a guide to manipulated video. The goal was to produce a common language to identify and… Continue reading

WaPo: The ad that interrupted some Hulu subscribers as they watched the NBC comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” this month opened with a clip of President Trump speaking.“The ‘deep state’ is trying to inject our health system with socialist price controls,” a… Continue reading

NYT: Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, in a disclosure that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that… Continue reading

David Holtzman makes the case.

WaPo: Maguire had been considered a leading candidate to be nominated for the DNI post, White House aides had said. But Trump’s opinion shifted last week, after he heard from a GOP ally that the intelligence official in charge of… Continue reading

Travis Crum has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Duke Law Journal). Here is the abstract: Racially polarized voting makes minorities more vulnerable to discriminatory changes in election laws and therefore implicates nearly every voting rights doctrine. In Thornburg… Continue reading

Politico: President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee are pumping more than $10 million into a legal campaign challenging Democratic voting-related lawsuits and building a massive Election Day operation. The multi-million-dollar effort pits the two parties against… Continue reading

AP:  A top Republican lawmaker on Wednesday came out in opposition to legislation that would ease Michigan election clerks’ ability to process an expected influx of absentee ballots, saying it would set a “dangerous precedent.”Local officials want legislators to let… Continue reading

NBC News: A new early-voting system, high turnout and questions about a never-before-used digital tool being used to process results could threaten the success of the Nevada Democratic caucuses on Saturday, election experts told NBC News.“I don’t see how any… Continue reading

Joshua Spivak: Iowa and New Hampshire have voted, but the Democratic field has not appreciably thinned. With no candidate even gaining 30 percent in the first two states, political forecasters have noted that the odds are greatly increasing that no… Continue reading

The following is the last of four guest posts by Prof. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, writing about her new book, Political Brands. Professor Hasen offered me the opportunity to excerpt my new book Political Brands on ELB. My publisher Edward … Continue reading