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Chutzpah Department: DOJ, with Its Sole Argument for a Supreme Court Stay Mooted in Trump Mail-in Ballot Case, Still Asks SCOTUS to Keep a Stay in Place

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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Cameron Kistler: “Hog Barns and Ballot Boxes: The Disenfranchisement Tort the 8th Circuit Missed in Minnesota Voters Alliance”

The following is a guest post by Cameron Kistler of Protect Democracy United: The Eighth Circuit has held that a state may criminalize lies used to gain access to a hog barn, because the First ...
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John Fortier on SCOTUS Watson Case: “Mail Voting Deadlines Come to the Supreme Court”

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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“Republicans Are Fighting With One Another in Deep-Red Indiana. Here’s Why.”

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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Unanimous Alaska Supreme Court Issues Significant Opinion on Ranked Choice Voting

The following is a guest post by Mike Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow at FairVote and Program Affiliate Scholar at NYU Law): On Friday, the Alaska Supreme Court issued an unanimous decision that could ...
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“Judge dismisses election security case but voices ‘concerns’ about Georgia’s voting computers”

A federal judge has dismissed an epic court case challenging Georgia’s touchscreen voting system, ending the seven-year lawsuit that uncovered election security vulnerabilities and a breach in Coffee ...
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“Texas counties receive subpoenas for voters’ records from Department of Homeland Security”

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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“Americans are increasingly worried about voting, new poll shows”

Rebecca linked earlier to an NPR story on a new NPR/PBS/Marist poll on voter attitudes toward elections in the United States. The NPR story focused on armed guards at polls, but there’s a lot of other ...
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“Redistricting Push Creates Chaos for Incumbents in Both Parties”

When President Trump set out to force a gerrymander in Texas that would help Republicans keep control of the closely divided House, he argued it was a simple matter of fairness. “We are entitled to ...
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“Judge who had sex in courthouse and attended political event agrees to exit Georgia election case”

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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“Kobach files lawsuit to stop census from counting illegal aliens”

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 ...