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Federal District Court Issues TRO Barring the State of Florida from Threatening TV Stations That Air Advertising Supporting Abortion Rights Amendment
Order: By threatening criminal proceedings for broadcasting a “political advertisement claiming that current Florida law does not allow physicians to perform abortions necessary to preserve the lives ...
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Cornel West is Going to Go to the Third Circuit to Try to Get on the Pennsylvania Ballot
See this filing, which is a precursor to asking the Third Circuit for a stay. Given the extremely late timing, I don’t give this much chance of success.
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“Trump’s Big Lie Attorneys Are Back”
Across battleground states, attorneys who helped former President Donald Trump undermine confidence in the 2020 election results are back at it, filing lawsuits that seed doubt in advance about this ...
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“Trump drops the pretense, labels Jan. 6 insurrectionists ‘we'”
Shortly after the dust settled on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump’s allies went to great and strained lengths to distance the then-president from the insurrectionists who had stormed the U.S. Capitol. They ...
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“Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts”
On Instagram, creator Mrs. Frazzled can get more than a million viewers for her goofy videos “parenting” misbehaving adults. One recent hit showed bartenders how to talk to drunk customers like ...
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En Banc Sixth Circuit Rejects Attempt to Reconsider Ruling Rejecting RFK Jr.’s Attempt to Get Off Michigan Ballot
You can read a set of opinions here. From Judge Clay’s concurrence: Plaintiff’s complaint also suffers from flaws on the merits. Plaintiff’s theory of injury, for example, argues that that “once the ...
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“At least 30 election deniers and 2020 fake electors serving as Trump electors this year”
CNN: More than a dozen Republicans who were “fake electors” in 2020, including several facing criminal charges, are serving as former President Donald Trump’s official electors in battleground states ...
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“Nebraskans Rush to Undo Harm, After Court Rebuffs GOP Bid to Block Thousands of Voters”
Bolts: Voting rights advocates celebrated the court’s decision but they remain outraged at Evnen and Hilgers for the confusion and delays they created. The timing of the court’s decision gives ...
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“Voters distrust delayed election results, but a prebunking message inoculates against distrust”
Important new paper from Mackenzie Lockhart, Jennifer Gaudette, Seth J. Hill, Thad Kousser, Mindy Romero, and Laura Uribe. Here is the abstract: Counting and certifying election results in the United ...
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“The Pipeline: How Russian Propaganda Reaches and Influences the U.S.”
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 ...
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Election Law Blog“ Vance says ‘no,’ Trump did not lose the 2020 election”
Did Donald Trump lose the election in 2020? Not by the words that I would use.” Vance has been repeatedly asked in recent weeks if he thinks his running mate lost … Continue reading → ...
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“Elon Musk Might Have Broken the Law Against Bribing Voters. Whoops!”
Federal law has long prohibited providing payments or making expenditures to induce voting, whether or not those inducements are limited to those who might vote for a particular candidate. The ...