Election Law Blog2h
“Travis County sues top Texas officials, accusing them of violating National Voter Registration Act”
Travis County officials sued Attorney General Ken Paxton and Secretary of State Jane Nelson on Tuesday over the state’s attempt to block voter registration efforts ahead of a hotly contested ...
Election Law Blog2h
“New Guides to Protecting Election Certification from Interference in Battleground States”
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 ...
Election Law Blog22h
“Where third-party candidates have gotten on — or off — the ballot in key swing states”
This is very handy from NBC News: ...
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CA: “Gavin Newsom signs election ‘deepfake’ ban in rebuke to Elon Musk” (I Think It’s Likely Unconstitutional)
Politico: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the country’s toughest law banning digitally altered political “deepfakes” on Tuesday, following through on a vow to act after rebuking Elon Musk for ...
Election Law Blog8h
Federal Court Rejects Facial Challenge to Minnesota Law Barring Material False Statements Made with Intent to Prevent Someone from Voting
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 Blog8h
“Georgia election officials worry a GOP-led board will OK last-minute voting changes”
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
I Spoke with Jon Weiner on The Nation’s Podcast About Threats to the 2024 Election
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 Tries to Close Off a Chief Line of Attack: That He’s a Danger to Democracy”
For months, Donald J. Trump and his allies have described a nation facing almost unthinkable darkness. The United States is under “under invasion” from “thousands and thousands and thousands of ...
Election Law Blog1d
“The other Jan. 6 Democrats are worried about”
Politico, expressing what I’ve also had as my biggest concern about the 2024 elections: Democrats have spent much of the 2024 campaign reminding Americans of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. But on ...
Election Law Blog1d
“2020 déjà vu: Why the 2024 election could take days to call”
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 ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Elon Musk has often inflamed politically tense moments, raising worries for the US election”
AP: Hours after an apparent attempt on Donald Trump’s life over the weekend, Elon Musk took to his social platform X to post a thinking emoji and a comment that “no one is even trying to assassinate” ...
Election Law Blog1d
Delivering 68th Miller Lecture at Georgia State University September 25: “A Real Right to Vote”
Very excited to be joining the great group of those scholars who have given the Miller Lecture. Details: The 68th Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series “A” Featuring Rick L. HasenUCLA LawGary T ...