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“Trump Can Restrict A.P. Journalists’ Access, Appeals Court Rules”
NYT on what is perhaps the worst ruling on freedom of the press that I’ve ever read: A federal appeals court on Friday paused a lower court’s ruling that had required the White House to allow ...
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“Georgian falsely accused in ‘2000 Mules’ of voting fraud wants filmmaker to pay”
AJC: A man falsely accused of voting fraud in the conspiracy film “2000 Mules” tried to hold its producers responsible Friday, asking a federal judge to rule in his favor. But the moviemakers, ...
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Thanks to Justin and Derek for ELB Blogging These Last Two Weeks….and Here’s What’s Coming
Always appreciate the excellent work of my fellow ELB contributors! I’m back in this week, before a big stretch of ELB contributors through June and July: Week of June 16, 2025 Rick Pildes Week of ...
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Issacharoff and Muller, “Relocating Nationwide Injunctions”
I wrote about how potential reform over the “universal” or “nationwide” injunction might affect a set of election law cases. The Supreme Court’s recent oral argument in Trump v. CASA has brought the ...
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No standing for NAACP to sue over ex-felon documentation voter registration policy in Tennessee, 6th Circuit holds
Decision by Judge Murphy, joined by Judges Bush and Larsen, in Tennessee Conference of the NAACP v. Lee. From the introduction: Tennessee grants the right to vote only to some convicted criminals.
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“Ethics legislation stalls in Springfield as Senate president tries ‘brazen’ move that would have helped his election case”
In the closing hours of the Illinois General Assembly’s spring session, Senate President Don Harmon tried to pass legislation that would have wiped clean a potential multimillion-dollar fine against ...
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Metzger, “Disqualification, Immunity, and the Presidency”
This essay analyzes Trump v. Anderson and Trump v. United States. It argues that, despite surface similarities—not least that they both helped smooth the path to Trump’s re-election as President—the ...
Election Law Blog1d
Handing primary blogging back over to Rick
Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Who Gets to Be Italian? Voters Face a Choice.”
Long after seeing millions of Italians emigrate as they fled poverty and war, Italy has now become a country to which millions of people have migrated, its schools and neighborhoods filling with ...
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Deep dive into elections in Michigan’s “conservation districts”
Conservation district elections occur in unconventional locations like vineyards, barns and park gazebos. Votes are sometimes handwritten and manually tallied without privacy booths or computerized ...
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Kim, “Restoring Public Trust in Elections: An Empirical Study of How Campaign Finance Reform Can Restore Public Trust in Elections”
Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“A US territory’s colonial history emerges in state disputes over voting and citizenship”
Squeezed between glacier-packed mountains and Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the cruise-ship stop of Whittier is isolated enough that it’s reachable by just a single road, through a long, one-lane ...