Will Anti-Abortion Presidential Candidate Randall Terry, on the Constitution Party’s Ballot Line in at Least 12 States, Be a Factor in 2024?
With so much attention focused on RFK Jr., Cornell West, etc., don’t sleep on this news, via Ballot Access news.
If ever there was an election year to move to ranked choice voting for President so that third party… Continue reading
“Georgia’s election integrity laws could create ‘hovering threat’ for poll workers in 2024”
USA Today:
In Georgia, in particular, a series of election rules passed over the last three years threaten to overburden election officials and, in some cases, issue criminal penalties against them. New election measures passed by the Republican-led state… Continue reading
Thanks to Ned Foley
…for serving as primary ELB blogger these last few weeks.
I’ll be blogging this week, then we will start another rotation of folks next week.
Limits on Potential Criminal Prosecutions of Ex-Presidents, According to the Special Counsel
During last week’s arguments on this issue, the Special Counsel took the position that there are a significant number of limitations on potential criminal prosecutions of ex-Presidents. These limitations would provide ex-Presidents with functional immunity, when they apply. They are… Continue reading
“Former lawmakers have ideas on fixing Congress. Will anyone listen?”
Very interesting report from Paul Kane of the Washington Post of a day-long meeting of 7 former Republican and six former Democratic members of Congress:
“Their ideas ranged from a major rethinking of how the body works to symbolic changes… Continue reading
Robust Third Parties Requires Electoral Reform
I very much appreciate Tabatha’s follow-up to my earlier post, and I especially appreciate her discussion of the new article Dismantling the Party System: Party Fluidity and the Mechanisms of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Politics by Rachel A. Shelden and Erik… Continue reading
“Republican Party sues over absentee ballots, voter rolls in battleground states”
USA Today reports. The article begins: “The Republican National Committee and its lawyers are going state to state seeking to influence what laws and procedures will govern the November election.” I think it’s only fair to point out, which the… Continue reading
Top New York Election Lawyers Cannot Recall Anyone Ever Prosecuted for the NY Election Law Being Used to Try to Turn Trump’s Hush Money Payments into a Felony
Business Insider confirms what I suspected:
Now, Manhattan prosecutors now say an old, rarely used section of the state election law is their favorite on the menu of potential underlying crimes.
“As the court is aware, falsifying business records in… Continue reading
“Trump camp plans sit-down with outside groups after FEC relaxes coordination rules”
POLITICO:
“On Tuesday, the Trump campaign sent a letter to pro-Trump, external organizations asking them to attend an “entirely off-the-record, private,” and “invite-only” meeting with senior campaign officials, according to a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO. The… Continue reading
Virtue and Institutions
A new Common Ground Democracy essay, drawing upon Rick Pildes’s work, to discuss why it’s wrong to rely solely on a hope for increased civic virtue, among either politicians or voters, to protect democracy from authoritarianism. Instead, institutional reforms… Continue reading
“Cyberattack forces Georgia county to sever connection to state voter registration system”
Disturbing development as reported by CNN:
“Georgia’s Coffee County suffered a cyberattack this month that forced the county to sever its connection to the state’s voter registration system as a precautionary measure, three sources familiar with the matter told… Continue reading
Democratic Backsliding
The journal PS: Political Science and Politics has published a special issue on the topic of Democracy Backsliding. Papers include The Resilience of Democracy’s Third Wave by Stephen Levitsky and Lucan Way. Other papers concern how to measure democratic backsliding… Continue reading
If Nebraska changes to winner-take-all, so might Maine
That’s the message of the majority leader in Maine’s House of Representatives. For more, Newsweek has a story. So do several Maine media outlets (available on Google News, although at least one is behind a paywall).