Election Law Blog12h
“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 Blog15h
“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 Blog1d
“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 Blog1d
“Republicans inch toward ‘trifecta’ control of House, Senate, White House”
WaPo: Republicans are on the cusp of regaining the House majority for the 119th Congress and securing total control of Washington, days after the party won the presidency and control of the Senate.
Election Law Blog1d
“Trump’s Gains Among Latinos Push a Civil Rights Group to Reflect on Its Past”
NYT: Nearly a century later, as President-elect Donald J. Trump is set to return to the White House, LULAC is preparing to stand on the front lines of clashes with the incoming administration over ...
Election Law Blog3d
“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
“Trump Holds Up Transition Process Over Ethics Code”
NYT: President-elect Donald J. Trump has not yet submitted a legally required ethics pledge stating that he will avoid conflicts of interest and other ethical concerns while in office, raising ...
Election Law Blog7d
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 ...
Election Law Blog4d
“Ballot measures to upend state election systems failed across the country”
NPR: Statewide efforts to adopt open and nonpartisan primaries, as well as ranked choice voting, failed in this year’s election, delivering a stinging setback to the election reform movement. The ...
Election Law Blog5d
NY State Judge Strikes Down New York State Voting Rights Act as Violating the U.S. Constitution (Now Updated with Link to Opinion)
See here. This will no doubt be appealed to higher courts in NY. Given the federal basis for striking it down, this could potentially make it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. UPDATE: Here is a ...
Election Law Blog4d
“Special counsel Jack Smith calls for a halt in Trump prosecution”
Politico: Special counsel Jack Smith has moved to cancel a series of deadlines in his Washington, D.C. criminal case against Donald Trump for seeking to subvert the 2020 election. It’s the first ...
Election Law Blog4d
“Election Denial Conspiracy Theories Are Exploding on X. This Time They’re Coming From the Left”
Wired: It took just minutes for the conspiracy theories about the 2024 US presidential election to flood Elon Musk’s X platform after Donald Trump was announced as the winner in the early hours of ...