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Aug 27, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
The APSA Law and Political Process Study group has organized the roundtable panel “Building the Future of Multiracial Democracy: The Role of Political Scientists and Law Professors.” The panel will take place on Thursday, September 5, 4:00 to 5:30pm, in Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, 502. Session Description: This panel delves into the critical role that political scientists and law professors play in addressing the challenges to and opportunities for fostering a robust multiracial democracy.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
Thanks to Rick Hasen for the opportunity to guest blog over the past 14 days. In maintaining this blog Rick builds community and provides a service to us all. I’m so appreciative of the blog an his many other contributions to our field. I’m excited to turn the blog over to Dr. Tabatha Abu El-Haj of the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, a friend and prolific First Amendment and political process scholar who recently wrapped up her term as chair of the AALS Election Law Section.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
Washington Post:The federal judge presiding over the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump rejected Saturday a defense effort to dismiss the indictment on claims that he was prosecuted for vindictive and political purposes.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
NY Times:Former President Donald J. Trump suggested without evidence on Saturday that Georgia’s Republican governor was hampering his efforts to win the battleground state in November, a claim that carried echoes of Mr. Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat to President Biden there in 2020….
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
American Bar Association:Emmet Bondurant “embodies the purpose of the ” said American Bar Association President Mary Smith as she bestowed the association’s highest honor on the Atlanta lawyer who has pursued justice with integrity and demonstrated a commitment to community service and pro bono litigation. . . . In 1963, at the age of 26, he successfully argued Wesberry v.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
ProPublica:On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations, the Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged to ProPublica that it had identified multiple such attempts — including unsuccessful efforts to cancel the registrations of two prominent Republicans, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
NY Post:A lefty nonprofit is encouraging Democrats to vote in the districts where their vacation homes are in order to “maximize” their voting power — a “morally reprehensible” strategy experts said gives an unfair advantage to the rich and motivated. Even if it “feels weird” or people are invested in politics at home, MoveIndigo needs “all hands on deck in the most competitive districts,” according to a letter received by NYC residents.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
CNBC:….If a user lives in a state that is not considered competitive in the presidential election, like California or Wyoming for example, they’ll be prompted to enter their email addresses and ZIP code and then directed quickly to a voter registration page for their state, or back to the original sign-up section. But for users who enter a ZIP code that indicates they live in a battleground state, like Pennsylvania or Georgia, the process is very different.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
Politico:The stalled criminal case against Donald Trump for seeking to subvert the 2020 election is starting to move. The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on presidential immunity — a breathtaking legal victory for Trump’s bid to sideline his criminal prosecutions — had kept the election-subversion case on ice for months. Even after the July 1 ruling, the high court’s rules required a one-month delay to give prosecutors the chance to ask the justices to reconsider the outcome.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
electionlawblog.org | Spencer Overton
The Hill:When the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy officially launches Thursday, it will call on America’s lawyers to take up the “clarion call” to defend the U.S. constitutional democracy against the “serious threat” of “rising authoritarianism.”“Our country and democracy face a wide variety of serious threats, including that of rising authoritarianism,” the bipartisan task force wrote in its opening report.
