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WaPo Editorial: “Democrats thumb their nose at the rule of law in Pennsylvania” (Recount Starts Today)
Before the Nov. 5 election, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that provisional ballots must be signed in two required places and that mail-in votes must be dated. Yet elected Democratic officials in ...
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Tabatha Abu El-Haj Blogging This Week and Next; Justin Levitt Blogging Week of December 2
Please direct your comments and tips to Tabatha and Justin and thanks to them both!
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“Liberals Are Left Out in the Cold as Social Media Veers Right”
After Donald J. Trump won the election this month, his supporters gravitated to a panoply of online destinations to celebrate. Hundreds of thousands of posts lauding Mr. Trump’s victory filled Truth ...
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New Report Find X’s Algorithms Changed in July 2024 to Boost Republican-Leaning Accounts and Elon Musk’s Account After Musk’s Trump Endorsement
Abstract: This technical report presents findings from a two-phase analysis investigating potential algorithmic bias in engagement metrics on X (formerly Twitter) by examining Elon Musk’s account ...
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Felony disclosure candidate for federal candidates in North Carolina is not an impermissible additional qualification, Fourth Circuit holds
From Sharma v. Hirsch, an opinion by Judge Wilkinson, joined by Judges Richardson and Rushing: The plaintiff here lodges a challenge to the felony-disclosure requirement for a candidate running for ...
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Party Politics is Transactional Politics
The theory of associational party building, which Didi Kuo and I have written about, started with my in-depth look at the work of Harry Reid in Nevada. It is perhaps not surprising then that of all ...
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“Trump is already testing Republicans, and some seem unwilling to defy him”
WaPo: The soon-to-be president, who vowed to shake up Washington, this week tapped several highly unconventional candidates for his Cabinet, pressured Senate leadership candidates to back his plans ...
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“These voter fraud claims circulated in Tarrant County. What happened to them?”
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., forthcoming 2024), draft available: Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: ...
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“Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters”
WaPo: Muslims in Michigan began seeing pro-Israel ads this fall praising Vice President Kamala Harris for marrying a Jewish man and backing the Jewish state. Jews in Pennsylvania, meanwhile, saw ads ...
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Ed Whelan: “Mike Johnson must block Trump’s scheme on recess appointments”
WaPo: President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to turn the Constitution’s appointment process for Cabinet officers on its head. If what I’m hearing on the conservative legal grapevine is correct, ...
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Pennsylvania: “Dave McCormick once fought to have undated mail ballots counted. Now, in tight race with Bob Casey, he’s suing to block them.”
As vote counting continues this week in Pennsylvania’s tight Senate race, attention is once again shifting toward the largest and most hotly contested tranche of remaining votes that could help ...
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“Prosecutors say they mistakenly gave jurors access to evidence in Menendez case”
Politico: Jurors in former Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial had access to evidence they should not have seen, federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday in a surprise legal filing. During Menendez’s ...