Miriam Seifter and Adam  Sopko have posted this essay to SSRN, which will be published as part of a symposium held by the Illinois Law Review. As a participant in this symposium, I had the opportunity to see an… The post “Standing for Elections in State Courts” appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “Souls to the Polls on Thursday called for the removal of the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s new executive director over Election Day 2020 text messages in which he asked about getting supporters of then-President Donald Trump to… The post “Souls to the Polls calls for removal of Wisconsin GOP executive director over text messages” appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more

Interesting Washington Post report on the front lines of the “voting wars”–in particular, the practice in Arizona of observers watching drop boxes and the role of local law enforcement in avoiding conflicts between the observers and voters. The story contains… The post “Video offers rare glimpse of police enforcing Arizona’s election laws” appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more

You can watch here: The post Rick Hasen on CNN’s The Lead With Jake Tapper Discussing Fake Electors and Trump Immunity Claim (Video) appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more

I was very fortunate to be able to attend this symposium at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, where I presented the idea of a “Top 3” presidential election system based on Common Ground Democracy … The post “Electoral College Symposium: What’s to be Done?” appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more

[This post is in progress.] I have called the federal case against Donald Trump for attempting to subvert the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election perhaps the most important case in U.S. history, at least when it comes… The post Rick Hasen’s Live Blog of the Supreme Court’s Oral Argument Over Trump’s Claim of Immunity in the Federal Election Subversion Case (Refresh this page frequently for updates) appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more

Worthwhile read on the role of Justice Bradley in the Hayes-Tilden dispute. The post “The Supreme Court justice who actually picked a president” appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more

Today at 10am ET. Adam Liptak has a preview. One thing I’ll be looking for in the argument, from an election law perspective, is the extent to which the immunity issue focuses more narrowly on the specific context of alleged… The post The SCOTUS presidential immunity argument appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more

As a follow-up to my previous post on this development, the N.Y. Times is now reporting that Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those indicted. The post “Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case” appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more

Indeed. This is an argument I made, at much greater length, in my book Presidential Elections and Majority Rule. The problem is that we seem unable to engage in the structural reforms we need in order to make sure… The post “There’s a solution to Democrats’ RFK Jr. problem: Ranked-choice voting” appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more