Election Law Blog11m
“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 Blog32m
“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 Blog19m
“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 ...
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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 ...
Election Law Blog1d
“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 ...
Election Law Blog1d
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 ...
Election Law Blog1d
“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 ...
Election Law Blog1d
“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 ...
Election Law Blog2d
“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 ...
Election Law Blog4d
“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 ...
Election Law Blog3d
“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 ...
Election Law Blog8d
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 ...