What’s Good for the Donald Is Good for the Hunter

July 18, 2024, 3:44 pmDepartment of JusticeDan Tokaji

AP reports on Hunter Biden’s motion to dismiss the special counsel’s case against him, based on Judge Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case against Trump: President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, asked federal judges on Thursday to dismiss tax and … Continue reading

Trump Senior Advisor Channels Yogi Berra

July 18, 2024, 3:17 pmelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

Sort of: “‘It’s not over on Election Day. It’s over on Inauguration Day,’ [Trump campaign senior advisor Chris] LaCivita told Politico’s Jonathan Martin during a Thursday interview at the RNC.”

En Banc Fifth Circuit Upholds Mississippi Felony Disenfranchisement Law

July 18, 2024, 1:03 pmfelon votingDan Tokaji

AP: Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state’s practice of stripping voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.… Continue reading

“GOP lawsuit over Nevada mail ballot deadline tossed”

July 18, 2024, 12:50 pmabsentee ballotsDan Tokaji

Courthouse News Service: A federal judge in Nevada on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee and Donald Trump’s campaign claiming the state’s deadline for mail-in ballots, four days after Election Day, is unconstitutional. Chief U.S. District… Continue reading

“Federal judge finds no Colorado voter intimidation by ‘election integrity’ organizers”

July 18, 2024, 12:47 pmvoter registrationDan Tokaji

Colorado Politics: A federal judge on Thursday concluded three civic organizations failed to provide evidence that the leaders of an “election integrity” effort illegally intimidated Colorado voters through a door-to-door canvassing project to search for election fraud in the… Continue reading

“Indicted election deniers from several states are Republican Convention delegates”

July 18, 2024, 12:12 pmelection subversion risk, political partiesDan Tokaji

NPR: … GOP Arizona state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, as well as Nancy Cottle [all Arizona delegates], are among the 18 people indicted by an Arizona grand jury for their roles in an alleged scheme to upend… Continue reading

“Ohio voter advocates warn group is making troubling challenges, ask Sec. of State to guide counties”

July 18, 2024, 6:18 amvoter registrationDan Tokaji

Ohio Capital Journal: Voting rights advocacy organizations are calling on the Ohio Secretary of State to create consistency within the county boards of elections when it comes to voter registration challenges. The urgency comes in particular because of one… Continue reading

“Growing number of US states target ‘prison gerrymandering’”

July 18, 2024, 5:44 amredistrictingDan Tokaji

Reuters reports that more than a dozen states and 200 localities have moved to end or change the practice of counting people where they’re incarcerated instead of where they’re from: “The Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), which has closely tracked and… Continue reading

“J.D. Vance Once Warned Trump About Lying About Elections. That Was Then.”

July 18, 2024, 5:18 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

And this is now, according to the NYT: “As Mr. Trump’s running mate, the most consequential part of this journey may be his transformation from a critic of Mr. Trump’s false 2016 claims about election fraud to a defender… Continue reading

“DNC sticks with Biden virtual roll call, despite doubts that it’s necessary”

July 18, 2024, 5:12 amballot access, political partiesDan Tokaji

The Washington Post has the latest on this story: The Democratic National Committee pressed forward Wednesday with a plan to hold a virtual roll call to nominate President Biden for reelection during the first week of August, a process… Continue reading

Two Florida Voter Fraud Cases Live on after Appellate Reversals

July 18, 2024, 5:07 amfelon votingDan Tokaji

Miami Herald reports: Ronald Lee Miller, 59, and Terry Hubbard, 66, were two of the roughly 20 people targeted by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election fraud office during a high-profile news conference in 2022…. [J]udges in Miami-Dade and Broward… Continue reading

“Global Perspectives on Judicial Politics and Democratic Backsliding”

July 18, 2024, 4:56 amauthoritarian threats in US, Supreme CourtDan Tokaji

A special issue of Law & Policy, edited by Michael Dichio and Igor Logvinenko. Here’s a description: This Special Issue “Global Perspectives on Judicial Politics and Democratic Backsliding” includes ten articles by fifteen scholars, providing an in-depth analysis of the… Continue reading

“The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times”

July 17, 2024, 4:09 pmFirst Amendment theory, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I was pleased to contribute a chapter to this project from the Knight First Amendment Institute: “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times,” piloted by the Institute’s 2023-2024 Senior Visiting Research Scholars RonNell Andersen … Continue reading

The Free 2024 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, and Stephanopoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th Edition) is Now Available

July 17, 2024, 2:17 pmpedagogy, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can download the free Supplement here. The Supplement is current through the Supreme Court’s October 2023 term ending July 2, 2024, and it includes edited versions of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in Moore v. Harper and Trump… Continue reading