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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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“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 ...
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“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 ...
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“Trump Allies Gain Power Over Elections in Arizona’s Largest County”
Bolts: Justin Heap, an Arizona lawmaker who has pushed for severe voting restrictions and whose campaign was led by an indicted 2020 “fake elector” for Donald Trump, has won control of one of the ...
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Cleta Mitchell Wants Every Lawyer in the Voting Section (and Likely in the Civil Rights Division) of the Department of Justice to Be Terminated
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: https://papers ...
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“Injunction Halting Kansas Election Law Reversed on Appeal”
An injunction blocking a Kansas law barring organizations from sending mail ballot applications to voters containing personalized information was reversed by the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday, The court ...
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“Elon Musk’s PAC spent an estimated $200 million to help elect Trump, AP source says”
AP: Elon Musk’s super PAC spent around $200 million to help elect Donald Trump , according to a person familiar with the group’s spending, funding an effort that sets a new standard for how ...
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“Meta’s Threads is ‘overrun’ with liberal election fraud conspiracies”
Over the past several days, Meta’s Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies. The conspiracies range from skepticism about vote tallies in key swing states, to allegations ...
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“Schumer withholds Senate orientation invite from McCormick”
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: https://papers ...
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Milwaukee Results, Already Not Expected to Be Mostly Complete Until 2-3 am, Will Be Further Delayed Because of Tabulation Issue
States as Bulwarks Against, or Potential Facilitators of, Election Subversion, in Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a ...