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“Mike Johnson set to huddle with Indiana Republicans amid redistricting fight”

Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to huddle via conference call with Indiana House Republicans this weekend ahead of their upcoming state House session to redraw congressional maps, according to two ...
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“Wisconsin congressional map lawsuits move forward as state Supreme Court appoints panels; The move could threaten the state’s current congressional map, which gives ...

Whether those panels will actually redraw the maps remains an open question, said Bryna Godar, an attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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Voting Technology Experts Respond to New York Times Article on Anchorage “Vote by Phone” Experiment

The following statement was shared with me from some leading voting technology experts in response to this NY Times article: As experts who have studied online voting for years, we were disturbed to ...
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11th Circuit find no error in dismissing Donald Trump’s RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, sanctioning Alina Habba

The unanimous decision by Chief Judge Pryor, joined by Judges Brasher and Kidd, in Trump v. Clinton et al.: These four consolidated appeals concern five separate orders. In 2022, between his terms of ...
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Texas Files Its Reply in Supreme Court in Re-Redistricting Stay Request; Expect an Opinion from SCOTUS Any Time (Maybe Before the Thanksgiving Break?)

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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“Why NYC’s Multiparty Politics Feel So Chaotic; The city blends reforms meant to curtail party power with rules designed to enhance it. No wonder the outcomes are messy”

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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“Welcome to the Gerrymandering Apocalypse”

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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“Man accused of double voting in 2020 election says Trump pardon applies to him”

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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Not a turf war’: GOP lawmakers say they’ll appeal Utah’s new congressional map to the Supreme Court”

Responding to a stinging legal defeat in the state’s redistricting battle, Utah Republican legislators said Tuesday that they will convene a special session Dec. 9 to put a constitutional amendment on ...
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It’s Not You, It’s Me (Election Law Blog Has Been Down, Apparently from a DDOS Attack)

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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Did President Trump accidentally pardon acts of legitimate election administration undertaken in the 2020 election?

Yesterday, Derek pointed out that President Trump’s November 7 blanket pardon for acts connected to the 2020 election might be broader than he anticipated. The operative language grants a full, ...
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Will the Supreme Court’s Big Campaign Finance Case End with a Whimper? Court-Appointed Amicus Argues SCOTUS Has No Jurisdiction over the Case, Partly Because VP Vance Has Not ...

Read the unusual motion from SCOTUS-appointed amicus in the NRSC case to file a supplemental brief on jurisdiction after oral argument.