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“Trump signals plans to use all levers of power against the media”
WaPo: For many years, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to sue the press but often didn’t follow through. When he did, he almost always lost. But Trump’s recent settlement with ABC News and a cascade ...
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Pennsylvania: “Delaware County prosecutors allege paid canvasser tried to register dead people to vote in the 2024 election”
Delaware County prosecutors announced charges Thursday against a Collingdale woman who they say repeatedly tried to submit voter registration forms for dead people and against an elderly man who cast ...
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“Rep. Kay Granger confirms she has ‘unforeseen health challenges’ but denies report she is in Memory Care”
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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ELB Book Corner: Nick Stephanopoulos: “Aligning Election Law – Aligning (and Misaligning) Institutions”
I am pleased to welcome Nick Stephanopoulos to the ELB Book Corner, writing about his new book, Aligning Election Law. This ...
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“Judges increasingly alarmed as Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency decision nears”
Politico: U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she has often reassured police officers traumatized by the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, that “the rule of law still applies.” But as President-elect ...
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“Trump Moves to Replace Officials Whom New Presidents Traditionally Leave Alone”
President-elect Donald J. Trump has moved to install loyalists in jobs that Congress did not intend for new presidents to replace at the start of their terms, eroding a traditional constraint on ...
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ELB Book Corner: Nick Stephanopoulos: “Aligning Election Law – The Law of Alignment”
I am pleased to welcome Nick Stephanopoulos to the ELB Book Corner, writing about his new book, Aligning Election Law. This ...
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“Online Ad Spending in the 2024 Election Topped $1.35 Billion”
New from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, OpenSecrets, and the Wesleyan Media Project. Key findings: As the authors explain, transparency rules for online spending are weak compared to those ...
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Co-president’ Elon Musk? Trump ally tests influence in spending fight”
WaPo: Elon Musk has never been elected to office. President-elect Donald Trump has not tapped him to serve in any role inside the government. Until the July assassination attempt, he never even ...
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ELB Book Corner: Nick Stephanopoulos: “Aligning Election Law – The Concept of Alignment”
I am pleased to welcome Nick Stephanopoulos to the ELB Book Corner, writing about his new book, Aligning Election Law. This ...
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“Patel floated criminally probing police, lawmakers involved in Jan. 6 committee”
WaPo: Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, has suggested that multiple individuals previously critical of the president-elect should be criminally investigated, according to a review by ...
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“Republican Appeals Court Judge Griffin asks the NC Supreme Court to throw out votes”
Republican Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to do what the state Board of Elections would not — throw out tens of thousands of votes on the belief that ...