Today at 10am ET.Adam Liptak has a preview. One thing I’ll be looking for in the argument, from an election law perspective, is the extent to which the immunity issue focuses more narrowly on the specific context of alleged… Continue reading
As a follow-up to my previous post on this development, the N.Y. Times is now reporting that Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those indicted:
“They were among a number of defendants whose names were redacted from the indictment, though… Continue reading
Benjamin Sevart, at the University of Wisconsin, has posted this Comment on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:
This Comment presents the first extensive academic analysis to argue that the writ of mandamus enables the federal courts to compel the Vice President… Continue reading
Arizona Republic provides a comprehensive analysis of the indictment:
“A grand jury has charged 11 Arizona Republicans and seven others in a scheme to keep Donald Trump in the White House by falsely certifying he won the state in 2020,… Continue reading
In the Washington Post, adapted from his forthcoming book. His essay is eloquent. Here’s some excerpts:
A healthy republic would not be debating whether Trump and his followers seek the overthrow of the Founders’ system of liberal democracy. …… Continue reading
This Washington Post summary of yesterday’s testimony highlights how the prosecution is attempting to turn a potential federal campaign finance violation into a state-law criminal offense. The “secret pact” to influence the election through a “catch-and-kill” scheme to suppress stories… Continue reading
Bloomberg covers a new report released by Center for American Progress, which advocates more aggressive use of shareholder suits to curb the kind of campaign spending permitted after Citizens United (and especially the D.C. Circuit’s decision in SpeechNow on superPACs):… Continue reading
There is much that’s accurate in this explainer in The Washington Post. But there is one sentence that jumped out to me as highly inaccurate and misleading: “For much of U.S. history, there were more than two major political parties,… Continue reading
Detroit News:
Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan’s 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office testified Wednesday… Continue reading
Brian Kalt has this important new article, forthcoming in Cardozo Law Review (of which I was fortunate to read an earlier draft). Here’s the abstract:
The current presidential-succession statute uses the same line of succession for every conceivable situation.… Continue reading
Daily Beast reports on a financial arrangement that may violate federal campaign finance laws. From my perspective, with all the serious threats facing American democracy, this particular story is not a high priority. (Maybe the media could devote some more… Continue reading