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Election law
May 11, 2023
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Matt Ford
George Santos Can’t Even Do Corruption Right
The charges leveled against the New York lawmaker highlight how little thought he put into his grift.
November 7, 2022
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Daniel Strauss
The Real Battle Starts When the Voting Ends. Are Democrats Ready?
Democratic groups say they’ve got hundreds of people lined up to fight for voters on Election Day and after. Will it be enough?
September 13, 2022
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Matt Ford
Trump’s Personal Coup Lawyer Looks to the Supreme Court for His Next Election Fix
John Eastman has some wild-eyed ideas about “independent state legislature theory,” and he’s hoping the high court’s majority will be willing to play along next term.
August 4, 2022
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Matt Ford
The Next Big Threat to American Democracy Is Headed to the Supreme Court
The right-wing legal movement’s latest dangerous idea is “independent state legislature theory,” and the high court’s conservative bloc just might dream it into existence.
March 9, 2022
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Matt Ford
The Obscure Legal Doctrine That Conservatives May Use to Destroy Free Elections
A radical reimagining of the Constitution, dismissed by legal scholars as “rubbish,” may have found a receptive audience in the Supreme Court.
October 13, 2021
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Matt Ford
The Laughable Defenses of Trump’s Personal Coup Lawyer
The Claremont Institute tried to respond to critics of faculty member John Eastman and fell flat on its face.
September 17, 2021
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Alex Shephard
Why Did Senate Democrats Strip Ethics Reform From Their Voting Rights Bill?
The upper chamber’s alternative to the For the People Act does not include any of that bill’s safeguards against the abuses of the Trump era.
July 16, 2021
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Jeff Burdick
The Republicans’ Latest Skeezy Campaign Trick: Cash Swaps to Help Each Other
Members of Congress aren’t allowed to spend leadership PAC funds on their own campaigns. But wouldn’t you know it: They’ve found a way.
June 25, 2021
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Matt Ford
The Obscure Law That Enabled Trump’s Subversion of the Electoral College
The events of January 6 have made reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 a vital step to protect our democracy.
March 22, 2021
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Matt Ford
The Obscure House Election That’s Put Democrats in a Bitter, No-Win Situation
They can pick up a vital seat in Iowa and get tarred as hypocrites, or honor the sanctity of an election and hurt their majority.
February 26, 2021
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Matt Ford
Welcome to the Census Crisis
The pandemic’s ravages caused havoc with our decennial head count. Our elections will be the first to pay the price.
November 4, 2020
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Matt Ford
Trump’s Legal Threats Have More Bravado Than Merit
So far, the election results have provided the president with lots of fuel for bluster but few avenues for the courts to interfere.
October 27, 2020
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Matt Ford
Brett Kavanaugh Will Have His Revenge on America
He and Amy Barrett have demonstrated this week that they should be thought of as political operatives, not justices.
May 22, 2020
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Matt Ford
The Blue Wave That Saved the Vote
Democrats may soon discover that their most important accomplishment in the last election wasn’t retaking the House of Representatives.
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