Watch Archived Video of Safeguarding Democracy Program on Partisan Primaries, Polarization and the Risk of Extremism (with Azari, Foley, Masket, and Pildes)
Very enlightening conversation. Watch:
“Trump’s order seeks to force states to buy costly new voting machines”
WaPo:
President Donald Trump’s plan to overhaul elections could hurl 2026 into turmoil by forcing states to hand-count ballots or scramble to spend millions of dollars on voting systems that aren’t yet on the market, according to election officials and… Continue reading
“Gov. Shapiro and Family Evacuated After Arson at Pennsylvania Residence”
NYT:
Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and his family were forced to flee from their residence early Sunday during an arson attack on the mansion in Harrisburg that significantly damaged a section of the building, the governor and state authorities… Continue reading
Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Certification of North Carolina Supreme Court Race as It Allows State-Court-Ordered Review of Overseas Ballots to Continue
Here’s the order issued Saturday:
This matter comes before the court on Intervenor-Defendant Allison Riggs’ emergency motion for injunction and motion for status conference [DE 37]. Pursuant to the court’s authority under the All Writs Act, the motion is GRANTED… Continue reading
Read Justice Riggs’ Federal Court Motion for a Preliminary Injunction to Stop State Supreme Court Order That May Unconstitutionally Overturn Results of State Supreme Court Election
You can read the filing raising due process and equal protection issues at this link.
Here is my earlier coverage.
In a 4-2 Opinion that Will Disenfranchise Military and Other Voters and Likely Overturn the Results of a Valid Election in Violation of Due Process, North Carolina Supreme Court Allows Griffin Election Contest to Go Forward, in Part
WRAL:
Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin has won, in part, his effort to throw out thousands of voters’ ballots from the 2024 elections. On Friday the North Carolina Supreme Court rejected some of Griffin’s challenges but kept others alive, paving the… Continue reading
“Justice Kavanaugh Stays District Court Order in Ohio Ballot Initiative Dispute”
Jonathan Adler:
On Wednesday evening, in Yost v. Brown, Justice Brett Kavanaugh entered a stay of a district court order in requiring Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost to publish two contest ballot initiative summaries. Justice Kavanaugh also called for a response… Continue reading
“LDF Exits Meta’s Civil Rights Advisory Committee Over Harmful Content Moderation Practices, Urges Company to Reverse Course on DEIA Rollbacks”
Release via email:
In two letters sent to Mark Zuckerberg today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has removed itself from Meta’s external civil rights advisory group due to concerns over its content moderation and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policy… Continue reading
Rick Pildes: Johns Hopkins Agora Institute Event on Executive Power and the Courts
I’m happy to be doing this event shortly. The link to watch the event is here: https://hopkinsathome.jhu.edu/watch-now
“How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives”
NPR:
One of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency lieutenants working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing dubious claims about noncitizens voting, apparently using access to data that court records suggest DOGE isn’t supposed to have.
The staffer,… Continue reading
Must-read NYT: “Trump Escalates Use of Official Power to Intimidate and Punish His Perceived Foes”
Savage, Haberman, Swan, and Schmidt in the NYT:
President Trump’s first-term efforts to spur law enforcement officials to pursue his political enemies were haphazard, informal and often hashed out in private.
Now, his demands for investigations are starting to… Continue reading
“Trump is Already Undermining the Next Election”
Paul Rozenzweig for The Atlantic:
An unfortunate reality now confronts Americans who value the rule of law: The court system has limited capability to act as a guardrail against Trumpist authoritarianism. And so elections matter—vitally. The final and most powerful… Continue reading
“At the Supreme Court, the Trump Agenda Is Always an ‘Emergency'”
Abbie VanSickle for the NYT:
The Trump administration has in recent weeks asked the Supreme Court to allow it to end birthright citizenship, to freeze more than a billion dollars in foreign aid and to permit the deportation of… Continue reading
Historians Keyssar and Wilentz Put SAVE Act’s Proposed Disenfranchisement in Historical Perspective
Democracy Docket:
Voting-rights advocates and Democratic officials have already made clear the massive threat the SAVE Act poses to access to the ballot in the here and now, warning that it could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters. But in… Continue reading