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Election Law Blog
14h ago
New Jersey Monitor reports. Also the New Jersey Globe. And NorthJersey.com
(If I have any comments on the opinion that I think worth blogging, I will update this post accordingly.)
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Election Law Blog
14h ago
Greg Bluestein in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution with more evidence that currently we really have three political parties that don’t fit easily into our existing two-party electoral system. (The solution is the kind of Top Three electoral system I’ve been advocating…
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Election Law Blog
21h ago
On Friday (April 19), Rick Pildes is delivering the Dunwody Lecture, sponsored by the Florida Law Review. His topic is “Combatting Political Extremism,” something I’ve been very fortunate to work with him (among others) on over the last few…
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Election Law Blog
23h ago
Rick LaRue in the Fulcrum. This piece echoes the one earlier this year by Larry Schwartztol and Justin Florence in The Atlantic: “Amending the Constitution Is Impossible Until Suddenly It’s Not.” It is also possible that the threat …
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Election Law Blog
23h ago
Via electionline.
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Election Law Blog
23h ago
Detailed discussion of yesterday’s oral argument in the Washington Post. Another politically divided ruling seems likely, unfortunately, on an issue that would be better to decide unanimously, if at all possible.
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Election Law Blog
23h ago
Update from the N.Y. Times. Subtitle: “Georgia, Michigan and Nevada have already brought charges against people who posed as electors for Donald Trump, and Arizona and Wisconsin have active investigations.”
Also this snippet:
“Mr. Chesebro, who pleaded guilty to a…
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Election Law Blog
2d ago
Courthouse News Service.
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Election Law Blog
2d ago
Must-read commentary by Nick Troiano, who is a leader of the effort to replace partisan primaries with the kind of all-candidates first-round elections that California and Alaska have as part of their top-2 and top-4 systems, respectively.
Here’s the…
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Election Law Blog
2d ago
Useful analysis of this year’s Electoral College battlegrounds by Doug Sosnick, arguing that Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada are most likely to be decisive.
The post “Why Biden Has a Narrower Path to the Presidency Than Trump, in 11 Maps” appeared first on Election Law Blog ..read more