Election Law Blog7h
“Trump is already testing Republicans, and some seem unwilling to defy him”
WaPo: The soon-to-be president, who vowed to shake up Washington, this week tapped several highly unconventional candidates for his Cabinet, pressured Senate leadership candidates to back his plans ...
Election Law Blog1d
“These voter fraud claims circulated in Tarrant County. What happened to them?”
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., forthcoming 2024), draft available: Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters”
WaPo: Muslims in Michigan began seeing pro-Israel ads this fall praising Vice President Kamala Harris for marrying a Jewish man and backing the Jewish state. Jews in Pennsylvania, meanwhile, saw ads ...
Election Law Blog2d
Ed Whelan: “Mike Johnson must block Trump’s scheme on recess appointments”
WaPo: President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to turn the Constitution’s appointment process for Cabinet officers on its head. If what I’m hearing on the conservative legal grapevine is correct, ...
Election Law Blog2d
Pennsylvania: “Dave McCormick once fought to have undated mail ballots counted. Now, in tight race with Bob Casey, he’s suing to block them.”
As vote counting continues this week in Pennsylvania’s tight Senate race, attention is once again shifting toward the largest and most hotly contested tranche of remaining votes that could help ...
Election Law Blog2d
I Spoke to the “Speech Matters” Podcast About the 2024 Election and U.S. Democracy’s Future
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming ...
Election Law Blog2d
“Republicans Ran a Dysfunctional House. Voters Shrugged and Re-elected Them.”
NYT: A historically long and divisive fight to choose one speaker. A near default on the federal debt, followed by a mutiny on the House floor and multiple government shutdown scares. The ouster of ...
Election Law Blog2d
“Prosecutors say they mistakenly gave jurors access to evidence in Menendez case”
Politico: Jurors in former Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial had access to evidence they should not have seen, federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday in a surprise legal filing. During Menendez’s ...
Election Law Blog2d
“Clashes, confusion and secrecy consume the Harris campaign’s finances”
If Kamala Harris’ campaign was known for anything, it was its blockbuster fundraising. In just a matter of months, it crossed the $1 billion mark, in a stunning and record-breaking pace. Now, less ...
Election Law Blog3d
“As Trump Refers to Third Term, Democrat Wants to Leave No Constitutional Loophole”
NYT: When President-elect Donald J. Trump met with House Republicans on Wednesday morning, he suggested he might need their help to try to circumvent the Constitution and run for a third term in the ...
Election Law Blog3d
“Hovde tells talk radio host he lost, but stops short of conceding to Baldwin”
Breaking a six-day silence after unofficial returns showed him losing to Sen. Tammy Baldwin, whom AP declared the winner of the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race by less than 1 percentage point, Republican ...
Election Law Blog3d
“Jack Smith Plans to Step Down as Special Counsel Before Trump Takes Office”
NYT: Jack Smith, the special counsel who pursued two federal prosecutions of Donald J. Trump, plans to finish his work and resign along with other members of his team before Mr. Trump takes office in ...