Three men accused of developing and implementing the 2020 “false electors” scheme pleaded not guilty to felony forgery charges in Dane County Circuit Court Tuesday. 

Jim Troupis, who served as Trump’s Wisconsin campaign lawyer that year, entered his plea… Continue reading

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A federal judge who was disciplined after an investigation found that she had sex with a police officer in her chambers and attended a partisan event, then lied when confronted with the allegations, has recused herself in a fight… Continue reading

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When Alani Bankhead, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Montana, announced that she would hold a news conference Monday afternoon, many fellow Democrats hoped she would announce that she was dropping out.

The idea was to make way for… Continue reading

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Main findings

1. Social media and video networks overtake news websites and apps

As audiences’ use of traditional news sources continues to decline, the role of news consumption via social media and video networks… Continue reading

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As we reported last week, some House Republicans are privately resisting the idea of redrawing the 2028 political boundaries during the special session that begins Wednesday.

Even if the map fight stalls, legislators would still return to Atlanta… Continue reading

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The Voting Rights Act granted my parents and a generation of Black citizens a say in our democracy; it brought America closer to delivering on its promise of equality. The Supreme Court’s decisions have obliterated the… Continue reading

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Corporate political spending has entered a new era and is no longer just a government relations matter, but one that requires the attention of the board. This recasting of political… Continue reading

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A record number of groups are exploiting a gap in campaign finance law to flood this year’s primary elections with money — without disclosing their donors until long after the race is over.

More than $48 million has already… Continue reading

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The post “US Senate candidate with same name as incumbent Dan Sullivan ineligible for ballot, official rules” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch-conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed… Continue reading

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First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli — President Trump’s loyalist federal prosecutor in Los Angeles — has not been shy in recent days about his intention to ferret out voter fraud in California’s primary election and criminally charge those… Continue reading

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Over the last decade, California became a national leader in voter accessibility and security, expanding options for when and how ballots can be cast while also strengthening election safeguards.

But those reforms came at a cost: speed. And in… Continue reading

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I’m grateful to Rick Pildes for his response and willingness to continue the conversation. Rather than engage in point-by-point exchange, I want to use this opportunity to move toward what… Continue reading

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“[L]itigants cannot circumvent” the rule “that claims of partisan gerrymandering are not justiciable in federal court” by “dressing [those] claims in racial garb.” Louisiana v. Callais, 146 S.Ct. 1131, 1158 (2026). In… Continue reading

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Federal agents on Thursday conducted searches of a group in Ohio that conducts voter registration drives, part of a broader push by the Trump administration to find election fraud that critics have derided as a campaign to intimidate voters.… Continue reading

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Many spreading this story are doing so with little or no evidence of wrongdoing and are instead relying on information that is false or can be explained by more benign reasons.

One TikTok user, laneedsspencerpratt, posted video interviews with… Continue reading

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In recent days, the Trump administration has taken new steps to erect the architecture it would need tto implement key pieces of the president’s most recent election executive order, which called in March for the… Continue reading

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[A]t this moment, when citizens should be reflecting on the constitutional ideas and aspirations of the Founding generation, a working historian who spends his waking hours in… Continue reading

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