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Cornel West is Going to Go to the Third Circuit to Try to Get on the Pennsylvania Ballot
See this filing, which is a precursor to asking the Third Circuit for a stay. Given the extremely late timing, I don’t give this much chance of success.
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“Trump’s Big Lie Attorneys Are Back”
Across battleground states, attorneys who helped former President Donald Trump undermine confidence in the 2020 election results are back at it, filing lawsuits that seed doubt in advance about this ...
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Federal District Court Issues TRO Barring the State of Florida from Threatening TV Stations That Air Advertising Supporting Abortion Rights Amendment
Order: By threatening criminal proceedings for broadcasting a “political advertisement claiming that current Florida law does not allow physicians to perform abortions necessary to preserve the lives ...
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En Banc Sixth Circuit Rejects Attempt to Reconsider Ruling Rejecting RFK Jr.’s Attempt to Get Off Michigan Ballot
You can read a set of opinions here. From Judge Clay’s concurrence: Plaintiff’s complaint also suffers from flaws on the merits. Plaintiff’s theory of injury, for example, argues that that “once the ...
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“At least 30 election deniers and 2020 fake electors serving as Trump electors this year”
CNN: More than a dozen Republicans who were “fake electors” in 2020, including several facing criminal charges, are serving as former President Donald Trump’s official electors in battleground states ...
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“The Pipeline: How Russian Propaganda Reaches and Influences the U.S.”
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...
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“Voters distrust delayed election results, but a prebunking message inoculates against distrust”
Important new paper from Mackenzie Lockhart, Jennifer Gaudette, Seth J. Hill, Thad Kousser, Mindy Romero, and Laura Uribe. Here is the abstract: Counting and certifying election results in the United ...
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“Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts”
On Instagram, creator Mrs. Frazzled can get more than a million viewers for her goofy videos “parenting” misbehaving adults. One recent hit showed bartenders how to talk to drunk customers like ...
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Election Law Blog“ Vance says ‘no,’ Trump did not lose the 2020 election”
Did Donald Trump lose the election in 2020? Not by the words that I would use.” Vance has been repeatedly asked in recent weeks if he thinks his running mate lost … Continue reading → ...
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“Preliminary Injunction Entered in Justice Department Suit to Stop Alabama’s Systematic Removal of Voters from Registration Rolls”
DOJ release.
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“Inside the Republican legal blitz to sow election doubt: ‘The claims are garbage'”
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...
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“Right-Wing Activists Pushed False Claims About Election Fraud. Now They’re Recruiting Poll Workers in Swing States.”
ProPublica: Right-wing strategists still talk about what happened in Detroit in 2020, when poll watchers stood outside the absentee ballot counting center, banging on windows and shouting “Stop the ...