Politico:
While the full scale of what the White House is planning remains unclear, Biden is expected to deliver a speech connecting the day to the defense of the ballot, aides said.But aides also recognize that a full-court press…
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As I explained to NPR’s Mara Liasson for All Things Considered:
ANGUS KING: One of our great political parties has embraced the idea that our last election was fraudulent, that our current president is illegitimate, that they must move legislatures…
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NYT:
Senate Republicans were expected again on Wednesday to block action on voting rights legislation, intensifying calls by activists and lawmakers for Democrats to finally do away with the filibuster or find themselves at a steep disadvantage in next year’s…
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The following is a guest post from
Travis Crum:
In today’s decision in
Brnovich v. DNC, the Supreme Court established a new, more stringent discriminatory-effects test for vote-denial claims brought under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.…
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Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill, 46 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (forthcoming 2023) (festschrift symposium honoring Ellen Aprill), draft available,
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4353037
Election Reform: Past, Present, and Future in …
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AP:
On the floor of Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where NBA stars like Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan once dunked basketballs and Hulk Hogan wrestled King Kong Bundy, 46 tables are arrayed in neat rows, each with a Lazy Susan…
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Tierney Sneed for TPM:
As the global pandemic required election officials to drastically rethink how voting would work in 2020, philanthropic groups stepped up and contributed millions of dollars that paid for much of the changes needed to election…
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NYT:
President Biden is signed an executive order on Sunday that directed the government to take steps to make voting easier, marking the 56th anniversary of
the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., which swiftly turned voting rights into a…
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The Hill:
A bipartisan group of senators on Sunday urged their colleagues to support the Electoral College vote, as at least a dozen GOP senators prepare to challenge the election results on Wednesday. GOP Sens.
Susan Collins (Maine),
Bill Cassidy…
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I haven’t seen much coverage of these measures that come out of the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission (which included executive branch members) Congress had created before the Solar Winds story broke. The NDAA includes 26 amendments the commission recommended on…
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Michael Dorf:
Yesterday, Stephen Miller crammed himself into the clown-car of sycophants making absurd claims on behalf of the would-be Clown-Tyrant-King Donald I. With a claim as deranged and dangerous as any to have oozed out of the skull of…
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WaPo deep dive:
The facts were indisputable: President Trump had lost.But Trump refused to see it that way. Sequestered in the White House and brooding out of public view after his election defeat, rageful and at times delirious in a…
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here:
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