As a follow-up to my previous post on this development, the N.Y. Times is now reporting that Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those indicted: “They were among a number of defendants whose names ...

Indeed. This is an argument I made, at much greater length, in my book Presidential Elections and Majority Rule. The problem is that we seem unable to engage in the structural reforms we need in order ...

Benjamin Sevart, at the University of Wisconsin, has posted this Comment on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This Comment presents the first extensive academic analysis to argue that the writ of mandamus ...

Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill, 46 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (forthcoming 2023 ...

This Washington Post summary of yesterday’s testimony highlights how the prosecution is attempting to turn a potential federal campaign finance violation into a state-law criminal offense. The “secret ...

Brian Kalt has this important new article, forthcoming in Cardozo Law Review (of which I was fortunate to read an earlier draft). Here’s the abstract: The current presidential-succession statute uses ...

Beast reports on a financial arrangement that may violate federal campaign finance laws. From my perspective, with all the serious threats facing American democracy, this particular story is not a ...

A more optimistic note on Ohio’s handling of the Biden ballot mess (h/t Derek Muller): ‘DeWine told 10TV that he doesn’t think anyone should worry. “We’ve got some technicalities that are going on, ...

AL.com reports. “It could get final passage as early as next week.” It “bipartisan support and no opposition.” Maybe now Ohio can be embarrassed enough to do the same. For Ohio’s mess, see Can Ohio ...

That’s the headline of this Houston Chronicle article, but the body of the article (which is behind a paywall) notes that there is a disagreement among experts on the point. Because the podcast ...

This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting equipment or hire poll workers ...

N.Y. Times reports. The country shouldn’t be in the position where a sitting governor and potential vice-presidential nominee won’t say that Mike Pence did the right thing by accepting Biden’s valid ...