More from Ivonne Wingett Sanchez here.
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This Washington Post story by Molly Hennessy-Fiske. The lede:
The Texas House plans to vote Saturday on whether to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, presaging a potential state Senate trial that could lead to the ouster of one of… Continue reading
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Ruth Greenwood and I have posted this article on state voting rights acts (SVRAs), which will be published in a symposium issue of the Emory Law Journal. Here’s the abstract:
It’s well-known that the federal Voting Rights Act is… Continue reading
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Zach Montellaro of Politico with this report on the partisan divide on voter confidence. A notable paragraph from the story:
That growth comes almost entirely from Republicans, even as a dramatic partisan gap remains. Democrats’ confidence in the nationwide count… Continue reading
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This story from Politico‘s Kyle Cheney. A key paragraph from the story:
“You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the republic and to the very fabric of our democracy,” said U.S. District Court Judge… Continue reading
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This story from the New York Times by Tracey Tully and William K. Rashbaum. Here’s the lede:
Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are investigating whether Senator Robert Menendez or his wife received unreported gifts of a luxury car and an… Continue reading
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As the independent state legislature theory remains in limbo in Moore v. Harper, I’ve thought back on Chief Justice Rehnquist’s dissent from denial of cert in  Colorado General Assembly v. Salazar (2004) (a case that few other than Derek Muller… Continue reading
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