Election Law Blog11h
The Attempt to Hold Donald Trump Responsible for Election Subversion Ends with a Whimper, and With Renewed Dangers for American Democracy
The attempt to hold Donald Trump accountable for seeking to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election ended shortly after midnight on Tuesday with a whimper, as the United States Department ...
Election Law Blog9h
“The Real Preference of the Voters”: Madison’s Idea of a Top-Three Election and The Present Necessity of Reform
I have posted this new paper on SSRN. It will be published in the Wisconsin Law Review as part of a symposium held last September. The paper focuses on an 1823 letter written by James Madison, the ...
Election Law Blog14h
Is PR the panacea?
The New York Times has a big piece posted this morning by Jesse Wegman and Lee Drutman advocating for using proportional representation (PR) to elect members of the federal House of Representatives ...
Election Law Blog14h
“Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case”
NYT: Jack Smith, the special counsel who indicted President-elect Donald J. Trump on charges of illegally seeking to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, said in a final report released ...
Election Law Blog13h
“Fifteen Years Later, Citizens United Defined the 2024 Election”
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., 2024) Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill ...
Election Law Blog15h
“Jan. 6 committee members talk to White House about pardons”
Punchbowl: With President-elect Donald Trump set to take office in less than a week, members of the Jan. 6 Select Committee and White House are privately discussing whether to issue presidential ...
Election Law Blog15h
“How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem”
Jesse Wegman and Lee Drutman in NYT Opinion advocating for proportional representation for Congress.