Election Law Blog12h
My New One at Slate with Jeremy Stahl: “Judge Merchan’s Plan to Sentence Trump Sends a Courageous But Likely Doomed Message”
I have written this piece with Jeremy Stahl for Slate. It begins: In a surprising move on a lightning quick timetable that is unlikely to stand if challenged, the New York court that presided over the ...
Election Law Blog18h
“For 1st time in history, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House members serving together”
The 2024 election and a court-ordered redistricting led to this result: next year, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House members serving together, for the first time in history. Shomari Figures, ...
Election Law Blog19h
Proposed Republican Rules Package Would Prohibit Amendments on Congressional Bill to Require Documentary Proof of Citizenship Before Voting
Voting in the U.S. Shouldn’t Be This Hard, MSNBC Opinion, Nov. 5, 2024. Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thanks SCOTUS, Slate, Nov. 4, 2024. W ...
Election Law Blog19h
“Meta will appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, as Nick Clegg steps down”
Semafor: Meta is revamping its global policy team, with President Nick Clegg stepping down and being replaced by Joel Kaplan, his deputy and the company’s most prominent Republican, people familiar ...
Election Law Blog11h
“Roberts Calls Court’s Relationship With Congress ‘Strained.’ Who’s to Blame?”
Jimmy Hoover for the NLJ. I offered some thoughts in this one: Many commentators say that a similar dynamic is responsible for today’s partisan rancor in light of the Supreme Court’s now solidly 6-3 ...
Election Law Blog13h
“Judge Upholds Trump’s Conviction but Signals No Jail Time”
NYT: A New York judge on Friday upheld President-elect Donald J. Trump’s criminal conviction but signaled that he was inclined to spare him any punishment, a striking development in a case that had ...
Election Law Blog19h
“F.B.I. Offers New Details in Hunt for Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect”
NYT: F.B.I. officials on Thursday released new details of their investigation into the still-unidentified suspect believed to have placed pipe bombs in Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, ...
Election Law Blog14h
“Olivas Award Goes to Harvard Law Professor Guy-Uriel Charles”
Guy-Uriel Charles, Faculty Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice and Charles Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is the recipient of the Michael A.
Election Law Blog20h
Dark Money’ Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks. A New Report Shows It’s Worse Than You Think.”
Politico: Washington’s think-tank industry, which sets the terms of debate for so much of American policymaking, is floating on a sea of foreign-government and Pentagon-contractor dollars. That’s the ...
Election Law Blog1d
“The year in recall elections”
Joshua Spivak at Pluribus.
Election Law Blog1d
Electionline’s “In and Out” List
Always fun to read.
Election Law Blog1d
On remand, divided Michigan Court of Appeals allows 2020 political robocall prosecution to proceed
Back in June, the Michigan Supreme Court narrowed the construction of its “voter intimidation statute.” Five justices agreed the case should be remanded, while two would have held the conduct outside ...