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“Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Judicial Independence”
NYT: Judicial independence is under grave threat on several fronts, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote on Tuesday in an unusually urgent and somber year-end report on the state of the federal ...
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“Vote-swapping returned in 2024 amid protest movement, but fell short of its aims again”
Votebeat: Progressives determined to defeat Donald Trump but unsatisfied with Kamala Harris’s position on the war in Gaza were offered an 11th-hour voting option this year: In October, a group called ...
Election Law Blog1d
Remembering Jimmy Carter and His Legacy for Election Law
President Jimmy Carter died at 100. He was a moral, decent man, committed to the cause of justice. One of his passions was ...
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“The 118th Congress passed the fewest laws in decades”
Axios: If measured by the number of bills signed into law, the 118th Congress was by far the most unproductive since at least ...
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“State Law and Federal Elections After Moore v. Harper”
Carolyn Shapiro has written this article for the NYU Law Review. Here is the abstract: In Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court rejected the extreme proposition that state legislatures operate free from ...
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“Elon Musk’s Political Influence Wears Down Global Resistance to Starlink”
Bloomberg reports.
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“Kansas once required voters to prove citizenship. That didn’t work out so well”
AP: Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging and plan to push legislation in the new Congress requiring voters to provide proof of U.S ...
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“Some Justice Department Lawyers Look for Protection—and the Exits”
WSJ: ustice Department lawyers who have angered President-elect Donald Trump and his allies are facing tough decisions about whether to stay in government—and how to best protect themselves from ...
Election Law Blog4d
Sixth Circuit finds no standing for Michigan legislators to challenge ballot initiative under Elections Clause
Opinion in Lindsey v. Whitmer by Chief Judge Sutton, joined by Judges Bush and Murphy (excerpts lightly revised): In 2022, voters passed Proposal 2, which created new voter-identification options, ...
Election Law Blog5d
“Trump has pressed for new voting requirements. Republicans in Congress will try to make that happen”
AP: Republicans plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress to push through ...
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“A Razor-Thin House Majority Creates Headaches for Republicans”
WSJ: They won, but barely. Republicans held on to control of the House of Representatives in November by one of the thinnest margins in the country’s history—even smaller than in the current ...
Election Law Blog5d
“How prosecutors’ evidence mistakes could let Menendez walk away from corruption charges”
Politico: Five months after a jury convicted Sen. Bob Menendez of corruption-related charges that ended his political career, federal prosecutors have admitted to a series of errors that could upend ...