Election Law Blog2h
“The Possibility of Majority Winners When Politics is Multidimensional”
The second in a series of Common Ground Democracy essays on the philosophy of democracy and its implications for electoral systems.
Election Law Blog2h
“Election denial returns as focus with Vance’s ‘non-answer,’ new Trump indictment details”
Democrats Sure Aren’t Acting as If Trump Beating Biden is an Existential Threat to Democracy, Slate, July 10, 2024. Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to Ameri ...
Election Law Blog3h
“Power for the People: Recognizing the Constitutional Right to Vote for President”
Charlie Martel as written this article for the Cardozo Law Review. Here is the abstract: This article is an argument for a federal constitutional right to vote for president at a time when voting ...
Election Law Blog3h
“Arizona labeled longtime residents as citizens without proof for years, leading to voter roll errors”
Votebeat: Arizona election officials who suddenly discovered that they hadn’t obtained proof of citizenship from nearly 100,000 registered voters were relieved last month when the Arizona Supreme ...
Election Law Blog3h
Impolitic Podcast: “24 American Election: Legal Fact vs. Fiction”
I was happy to be a guest for this great discussion.
Election Law Blog3h
“State attorney general wants L.A. to redraw council districts, confidential document says”
LAT: California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has begun pressing Los Angeles political leaders to sign a legal agreement that would force them to draw new boundaries for the city’s 15 council districts — a ...
Election Law Blog9h
“Mike Johnson refuses to say Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden”
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 Blog9h
“Trump’s Election Bid Is a Wild Card as Supreme Court Term Opens”
The US Supreme Court opens its new term under the shadow of a presidential election that threatens to create fresh strains at a court already deeply enmeshed in the nation’s political divisions. Three ...
Election Law Blog3d
The Return of the Independent State Legislature Issue to the Court?
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 Blog4d
My New One at Slate: “Jack Smith’s Big New Jan. 6 Brief Is a Major Indictment of the Supreme Court”
It’s rare to simultaneously feel red hot anger and wistfulness, especially when merely reading a document. But that’s exactly the emotions that washed over me when I read the redacted version … ...
Election Law Blog4d
Breaking: Federal District Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Barring Enforcement of California Law Against Election-Related Deepfakes
You can read the 21-page opinion at this link. The key point from the judge is the view that counterspeech is a more narrowly tailored alternative to the regulation of political speech. I agree with ...
Election Law Blog4d
“Georgia Republicans sow doubt about Dominion voting machines in 2020 throwback”
CNN: Just weeks before early voting begins in Georgia, Republican Party officials and Donald Trump allies are trying to preemptively sow doubt about the viability of Dominion systems used across the ...