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“Interview: NC GOP chair defends challenge of 65,000 votes in Supreme Court election”
Raleigh News & Observer.
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“Meta vows to curtail false content, deepfakes ahead of Australia election”
Reuters: Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta Platforms said on Tuesday its independent fact-checking program in Australia would help detect and remove false content and deepfakes, as it aims to curb ...
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In 6-1 decision, New York high court finds New York City’s non-citizen voting law violates state constitution
On December 9, 2021, the New York City Council passed a bill entitled “A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to allowing lawful permanent residents in New … Continue reading In 6 ...
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“How Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More”
NYT: President Trump called for one federal judge seeking basic information about his deportation efforts to be impeached amid mounting concern about a constitutional showdown. Another judge found ...
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Are at-large v. single member district elections affecting how Texas school boards behave?
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., 2024) Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill ...
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“California elections officials rejected 122,000 ballots in 2024 election. Here’s why”
Nice look at the data in the Sacramento Bee.
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“Kansans to vote on constitutional amendment to directly elect state Supreme Court”
Kansas lawmakers voted to change how Kansas appoints its Supreme Court nominations from a commission-led process to direct elections. Currently, the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission provides ...
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March 28-29 Yale Conference: “Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment”
Recently, the law of free speech has been marked by two seemingly inconsistent phenomena. On the one hand, the Roberts Court has been both praised and decried for its highly … Continue reading March 2 ...
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“Georgia Supreme Court questions State Election Board on last-minute voting rule changes”
The Georgia Supreme Court debated Wednesday whether the State Election Board went too far when it attempted to pass new voting rules weeks before last year’s election. The case tests whether the board ...
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9th Circuit will go en banc to reconsider Arizona voter registration decision
I noted the sharply divided panel decision in Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans v. Mayes on whether the plaintiffs had standing to challenge parts of an Arizona voter registration law. The ...
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“Congressional watchdog office left powerless as House leaders have yet to fill board seats”
House leaders have yet to appoint board members to an independent office designed to investigate ethics complaints against lawmakers and their staff members, leaving the entity powerless for the time ...
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How Will Markets React if the Executive Branch Refuses to Comply with Court Orders
In the NYT essay I wrote with Trevor Morrison on the tools courts have to deal with executive defiance of court orders, we concluded by noting that a major confrontation between the two branches might ...