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“Conspiracy-promoting sheriffs claim vast election authority”

July 23, 2022, 11:29 amUncategorizedNed Foley
AP reports on the “constitutional sheriffs” movement, which maintains that “a sheriff’s power in a county is greater than that of any other official.” To debunk the movement, the article quotes Steve McAllister, whose career includes serving as dean… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 hearings traced an arc of ‘carnage’ wrought by Trump”

July 23, 2022, 9:08 amUncategorizedNed Foley
AP summary, and retelling, of the evidence presented at the hearings, starting with Trump’s desperate distortion of the truth over ginger mints in Georgia, and ending with a comparison to “Bonfire of the Vanities.”

Some thoughts on the judicial review mechanism in the Electoral Count Reform Act

July 22, 2022, 9:54 amelectoral collegeDerek Muller
I was pleased to join a statement with Professors Foley, McConnell, Pildes, and Smith in support of the Electoral Count Reform Act. That statement includes a nice summary of the highlights of the legislation. I wanted to drill down on… Continue reading

“Judge criticizes Atlanta DA who hosted fundraiser for opponent of Trump grand jury target: ‘What were you thinking?'”

July 22, 2022, 8:02 amUncategorizedNed Foley
CNN has news from Georgia. “The optics are horrific,” said Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, referring to the fundraiser that District Attorney Fani Willis held “for a Democratic candidate running against one of the investigation’s potential targets.”

“The Electoral College Makes a Coup Very Tempting”

July 22, 2022, 5:09 amUncategorizedNed Foley
Jamelle Bouie’s new column applauds the bipartisan Senate bill to revise the Electoral Count Act but prefer to eliminate the Electoral College and replace it with a national popular vote. After detailing provisions of the bill, he sums up: “I… Continue reading

“Trump Electors Targeted in Georgia Criminal Inquiry”

July 19, 2022, 5:54 pmUncategorizedNed Foley
N.Y. Times reports. Here’s the opening paragraph: ‘Prosecutors in Atlanta have informed 16 Trump supporters who formed an alternate slate of 2020 presidential electors from Georgia that they could face charges in an ongoing criminal investigation into election interference, underscoring… Continue reading

“How Announcing His 2024 Campaign Could Be Trump’s Best Legal Defense”

July 15, 2022, 12:47 pmelection subversion risk, UncategorizedDan Tokaji
Interesting perspective from Ankush Khardori in Politico Magazine: [I]t has been clear for quite some time that a reelection bid would be one of Trump’s most potent legal defense strategies, both against the ongoing criminal investigation in Georgia stemming… Continue reading

“Criminalizing the vote: GOP-led states enacted 102 new election penalties after 2020”

July 14, 2022, 12:34 pmUncategorizedDan Tokaji
News from the States: Since the 2020 election, 26 states have enacted, expanded, or increased the severity of 120 election-related criminal penalties, according to an analysis by States Newsroom of state legislation and data from the Voting Rights Lab. … Continue reading

Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith: The North Carolina Case in Perspective:  and Why the Danger of a Subverted Presidential Election Lies Elsewhere

July 13, 2022, 5:43 pmelection subversion risk, Supreme CourtRick Hasen
The following is a guest post from Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith: A wave of panic greeted the Supreme Court’s recent announcement that it will review a case involving North Carolina’s gerrymandered congressional map. The ultimate concern is that… Continue reading

“Black Church Leaders in Georgia Intensify Their Voting Rights Push”

July 13, 2022, 5:33 amUncategorized, voter registrationDan Tokaji
NYT: [A]fter Georgia Republicans passed an extensive law last year with a variety of balloting restrictions, Jackson and other Black faith leaders across the state worry that they need to do more to help Black Georgians exercise their right… Continue reading

Center for Democracy & Technology Report on Ballot-Marking Devices

July 12, 2022, 2:55 pmvoting technologyDan Tokaji
Available here. From the summary: BMDs are widely used in U.S. elections and come with several benefits for election officials and voters. Because of their accessibility features — for example, allowing users to increase the displayed font size, use… Continue reading

“Fulton grand jury subpoenas Giuliani, Graham, Trump campaign lawyers”

July 5, 2022, 9:19 pmelection subversion riskDan Tokaji
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections has subpoenaed key members of former President Donald Trump’s legal team, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to copies obtained by… Continue reading

“Despite rebukes, Trump’s legal brigade is thriving”

July 5, 2022, 4:34 amelection subversion riskDan Tokaji
Politico reports: In total, at least 16 lawyers who represented plaintiffs in five federal lawsuits promoting Trump’s baseless election fraud claims in the key battlegrounds of Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona remain in good standing or have no record… Continue reading

January 6 and abuse of legislative & executive powers

July 1, 2022, 2:15 pmUncategorizedNed Foley
In a recent essay on the need to revise the Electoral Count Act (as well as in a recent New Yorker interview), I have emphasized the need to focus on the abuse of Article I legislative powers in connection with the… Continue reading

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Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
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Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
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Nate Persily

James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
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Richard H. Pildes

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Recent Books by Rick Hasen

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–and How to Cure It

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–and How to Cure It

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics--and How to Cure It (Yale University Press, 2022)
Cheap Speech book website

Named one of the best books on disinformation by the New York Times

Election Law–Cases and Materials

Election Law–Cases and Materials

Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (with Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Daniel P. Tokaji, and Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos)

Election Meltdown

Election Meltdown book cover

Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
(Yale University Press, 2020)

Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples & Explanations

Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples & Explanations

Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples & Explanations (2d ed. Wolters Kluwer, 2020)

Recent ELB Podcast Episodes

The ELB Podcast

The ELB Podcast

Season 3, Episode 8 Wendy Weiser: Assessing the State of American Elections and Democracy
Season 3, Episode 7: Mike Haas: The Mess with Wisconsin's Elections
Season 3, Episode 6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Case, But Were Too Confused to Ask
Season 3, Episode 5: Bart Gellman, Jessica Huseman, and Margaret Sullivan: What Can (and Should) Journalists Do to Prevent Election Subversion and Another January 6?
Season 3, Episode 4: Pam Fessler: The Voting Wars and the Media, Then and Now
Season 3, Episode 3: Guy Charles: Race and Election Law in Today's United States
Season 3, Episode 2: Brad Raffensperger & Isabel Longoria: The Risk of Election Subversion
Season 3, Episode 1: Nate Persily: A Redistricting Season Like No Other

More podcast episodes ›

Recent Op-Eds & Commentaries by Rick Hasen

It’s Hard to Overstate the Danger of the Voting Case the Supreme Court Just Agreed to Hear, Slate, June 30, 2022

No One is Above the Law, and that Starts with Donald Trump, N.Y. Times, June 24, 2022

The Jan. 6 Committee Should Be Looking Ahead to Election Threats in 2024, Wash. Post, June 8, 2022

The One Group That Can Stop Elon Musk from Unbanning Trump on Twitter, Slate, May 10, 2022

Facebook and Twitter Could Let Trump Back Online. But He’s Still a Danger, Washington Post, Mar. 9, 2022

How Supreme Court Radicalism Could Threaten Democracy Itself, Slate, Mar. 8, 2022

How to Keep the Rising Tide of Fake News from Drowning Our Democracy, N.Y. Times, Mar. 7, 2022

North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Decimate Voting Rights in Every State, Slate, Feb. 25, 2022

What Democrats Need From Mitch McConnell to Make an Election Reform Deal Worth It, Slate, Jan. 4, 2022

No One is Coming to Save Us from the ‘Dagger at the Throat of America,’ N.Y. Times, Jan. 7, 2022

More op-eds and commentaries by Rick ›

Recent Academic Articles and Working Papers by Rick Hasen

Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States, 135 Harvard Law Review Forum 265 (2022)

Research Note: Record Election Litigation Rates in the 2020 Election: An Aberration or a Sign of Things to Come?, Election Law Journal, https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.1089/elj.2021.0050 (2022)

Optimism and Despair About a 2020 “Election Meltdown” and Beyond, 100 Boston University Law Review Online 298 (2020) (part of symposium on my book, Election Meltdown)

Three Pathologies of American Voting Rights Illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and How to Treat and Cure Them, Election Law Journal (2020)

More academic articles by Rick Hasen ›

Recent Books by ELB Contributors

Gerkin – The Democracy Index

Gerkin – The Democracy Index

The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It
by Heather K. Gerken

Persily – Social Media and Democracy

Persily – Social Media and Democracy

Social Media and Democracy
(Cambridge Press, 2020)
by Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker

Pildes – The Law of Democracy

Pildes – The Law of Democracy

The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process, 6th ed.
(Foundation Press, 2022)
by Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela S. Karlan, Richard H. Pildes, Nathaniel Persily, and Franita Tolson

Tokaji – Election Law in a Nutshell

Tokaji – Election Law in a Nutshell

Election Law in a Nutshell (2d ed., West Academic Publishing, 2017)
by Daniel P. Tokaji

Podcasts by ELB Contributors

Tolson – Free and Fair Podcast

Tolson – Free and Fair Podcast

Free & Fair with Franita and Foley
Franita Tolson and Edward Foley

Recent Articles by ELB Contributors

Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Networking the Party: First Amendment Rights & the Pursuit of Responsive Party Government, 118 Colum. L. Rev. 1225 (2018).

Bruce E. Cain, Wendy K. Tam Cho, Yan Y. Liu & Emily R. Zhang, A Reasonable Bias Approach to Gerrymandering: Using Automated Plan Generation to Evaluate Redistricting Proposals, 59 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1521 (2018).

Edward B. Foley, Requiring Majority Winners for Congressional Elections: Harnessing Federalism to Combat Extremism (May 10, 2021). Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 61

Anita S. Krishnakumar, Cracking the Whole Code Rule (February 19, 2020). St. John’s Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-0002, New York University Law Review, Forthcoming

Justin Levitt, Failed Elections and the Legislative Selection of Electors, __ N.Y.U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2021)

Derek T. Muller, Weaponizing the Ballot. 48 Florida State University Law Review 61 (2021)

Spencer Overton, Power to Regulate Social Media Companies to Prevent Voter Suppression. GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-23, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2020-23, 53 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1793 (2020)

Nicholas Stephanopoulos, The Sweep of the Electoral Power (October 20, 2020). Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 21-07

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