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“NC elections officials reject GOP request to throw out 60,000 votes. Races for Supreme Court, state legislature affected”
WRAL: State elections officials on Wednesday denied efforts by the North Carolina Republican Party to throw out tens of thousands of ballots cast by voters in this year’s elections. The GOP had ...
Election Law Blog9h
“With protested override, NC lawmakers sap power from governor, attorney general, other incoming Democrats”
WRAL: North Carolina Republicans will have new powers over elections, public schools, utilities and more under a wide-ranging new law that strips control from the governor, attorney general and other ...
Election Law Blog8h
“Explainer: Lame-Duck Power Grabs in North Carolina and Beyond”
Muller, Election Subversion and the Writ of Mandamus, William & Mary Law Review (forthcoming) Spencer Overton, Power to Regulate Social Media Companies to Prevent Voter Suppression. GWU Legal Studies ...
Election Law Blog16h
Jaffer & Lakier: “The Supreme Court Must Intervene in the TikTok Case”
Last week, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a federal law that threatens to shut down TikTok in the United States. The court’s most consequential conclusion: The First ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Trump’s claim that Democrats are ‘fighting hard’ to keep the Electoral College sparks confusion”
President-elect Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Sunday night and declared that Democrats were “fighting ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Trump lawyers and aide face additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors”
AP: Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Manhattan DA urges judge not to toss out guilty verdict in Trump hush money case”
Politico: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says Donald Trump’s imminent return to the presidency is not a reason to throw out the 34-count conviction that jurors delivered in the hush money ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Wisconsin Republicans sue to resolve conflict of when Electoral College votes must be cast for Trump”
That’s the headline from the Associated Press. The Electoral Count Reform Act pushed back the date the electors meet by one day to allow an extra day for resolving disputes in the states, without ...
Election Law Blog2d
“This Race Was Decided by 734 Votes. The G.O.P. Wants to Disqualify 60,000 Ballots.”
From voter ID laws to district map-drawing to judges redeciding cases, North Carolina has long been a laboratory of sorts in ways to amass political power. In recent years, Republicans in particular ...
Election Law Blog1d
“The recount is over. Alaska will keep ranked choice voting.”
Election officials finished recounting the results of Ballot Measure 2 on Monday, and the outcome remains unchanged. Alaska will keep ranked choice voting and open primaries. The repeal effort failed ...
Election Law Blog1d
“As Trump’s legal cloud lifts, 45 allies still threatened by state-level 2020 election charges”
CNN: Donald Trump derailed his 2020 election subversion indictments by winning back the White House, but dozens of his allies still face state criminal prosecutions that he, even as president, can’t ...
Election Law Blog2d
“Surprise! America is less polarized than it used to be.”
I wrote this column for the Washington Post on the surprising trend of depolarization in last month’s election. If it holds, this trend has enormous implications for American politics. Here’s a ...