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“Voting Rights Groups Raise Alarms About Case Before the Supreme Court”

On a cloudy Sunday afternoon, voting rights advocates, Democratic leaders and some who were on the front lines of the civil rights movement, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the ...
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“Trump says he won’t sign any bills into law until SAVE Act passes”; Adds Anti-Trans Message Not Part of Bills

President Trump on Sunday threatened to not sign any bills into law until the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act is approved by the Senate, doubling down on his push to change ...
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Some Creatively Misleading Ads on Virginia Redistricting Ballot Measure

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump”

One evening last November, word spread around the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., that an inmate who had spent heavily to pursue clemency had hit pay dirt, winning a pardon from President ...
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“Early voting on redistricting referendum begins after Virginia Supreme Court cleared the way”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Watson v. RNC: Six Flaws in the Argument that Federal Statutes Bar Mailing Ballots Through Election Day”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Former Bucks County man who voted twice for Trump convicted of voter fraud”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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Ken Paxton Floats Dropping Out of Texas Republican Senate Race if Senate Blows Up the Filibuster to Pass the Disenfranchising SAVE America Act

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Virginia’s highest court says controversial redistricting proposal will go to voters as planned”

Virginia voters will be able to weigh in on a controversial mid-decade redistricting proposal starting on Friday as planned, says the Supreme Court of Virginia. On Wednesday, March 4, the Supreme ...
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Texas Democratic Primary: “Crockett, after warning of disenfranchisement, concedes to Talarico in Texas Senate race”

Politico: Crockett said thousands of votes from her home base of Dallas County could potentially end up uncounted, as a pair of court rulings over poll closing times led to uncertainty about which ...
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“GOP powerbroker in North Carolina, who led redistricting, trails in primary by two votes”

North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger (R), an enormous figure in the state’s politics, is trailing his primary challenger by two votes in a race that could dramatically reshape the power dynamics ...
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Rethinking Preclearance in the Age of Trump

With Monday’s shadow docket decision in Malliotakis v. Williams, the Staten Island NYVRA case, the Supreme Court has doubled-down on its resistance to lower courts issuing preliminary injunctions ...