My Interview on NPR’s Here and Now: “Election expert: It will be harder for Trump to challenge the 2024 election”
You can listen here.
“Chutkan says 2024 election ‘not relevant’ in deciding Trump criminal case timeline”
Politico:
The imminent presidential election will have no bearing on the schedule of Donald Trump’s criminal proceedings for seeking to subvert the last one, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan vowed Thursday.
“The electoral process and the timing of the election… Continue reading
“The Narrow Reach of Targeted Corrections: No Impact on Broader Beliefs About Election Integrity”
John M. Carey et al new paper in Political Behavior. Abstract:
Fact-checks have been shown to be effective in correcting specific false beliefs, but do they also cause people to update their broader views about the phenomenon in question? We… Continue reading
“Moore v. Harper, Evasion, and the Ordinary Bounds of Judicial Review”
David Gans, Brianne Gorod, and Anna Jessurun have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Boston College Law Review). Here is the abstract:
In Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court confronted head on for the first time the so-called independent state… Continue reading
“Wisconsin voter ID law still causing confusion, stifles turnout in Milwaukee, voting advocates say”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Nearly a decade ago, Wisconsin traded its designation as one of the easiest places to cast ballots for stricter voting rules that set off a still-ongoing debate over voter access.
The implementation of a state law that… Continue reading
Sept. 12 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “From Here to There: How States Can and Should Certify the Results of the 2024 Elections”
Join us! (Free registration required):
Thursday, September 12, 12:15pm-1:15pm PT, Webinar
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Ben Berwick, Head of Election Law & Litigation Team & Counsel (Protect Democracy), Lauren Miller Karalunas, (Brennan Center for Justice), and Michael Morley (Florida State University… Continue reading
“GOP lawsuits set the stage for state challenges if Trump loses the election”
AP:
Despite the flurry of litigation, the cases have tended to be fairly small-bore, with few likely impacts for most voters.
“When you have all this money to spend on litigation, you end up litigating less and less important stuff,”… Continue reading
“Federal appeals court says Montana’s ‘double voting’ law is vague, redundant”
Daily Montanan:
A three-judge federal appeals panel said that a law passed by Republicans in the Legislature to eliminate double-voting, something already illegal, violates the U.S. Constitution, siding with a federal judge in Montana who stopped the law.
House Bill… Continue reading
“Republicans Seize on False Theories About Immigrant Voting”
NYT:
In late July, a group of Republican activists met on a Zoom call to discuss preparations for the November election. The topic was how to keep undocumented immigrants from voting in November, a problem they claim, inaccurately, to be… Continue reading
“GOP appeals date ruling on mail-in ballots to Pa. Supreme Court”
Trib Live:
The Republican National Committee and Republican Party of Pennsylvania are appealing a Commonwealth Court ruling that mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates on their outer envelopes should be counted.
The appeal to the state Supreme Court was… Continue reading
“DOJ alleges Russia funded US media company linked to right-wing social media stars”
CNN:
The unnamed Tennessee-based company that the Justice Department alleges was being funded by Russian operatives working as part of a Kremlin-orchestrated influence operation targeting the 2024 US election is Tenet Media, which is linked to right-wing commentators with millions… Continue reading
“Texas Attorney General Sues to Stop Voter Registration Push in San Antonio”
NYT:
Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas went to court on Wednesday to try to stop county leaders in San Antonio from sending out more than 200,000 voter registration applications to unregistered residents of Bexar County.
The lawsuit by Mr.… Continue reading
ELB Book Corner: Kareem Crayton: “HBCU’s and Election Integrity” (in Zelizer/Greenberg Volume)
I am very pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner three contributors to the edited volume, Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue (Julian E. Zelizer & Karen J. Greenberg eds. NYU Press 2024). The third… Continue reading
“‘Bigger threat’: Feds accuse Russia’s RT network in $10 million election misinformation plot”
USA Today:
The Justice Department charged two Russian citizens with directing a $10 million campaign to influence the 2024 election through online platforms that flooded millions of Americans with disinformation, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday.
The… Continue reading