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“US Senate Warns Big Tech to Act Fast Against Election Meddling”
Wired: Top officials from Google, Apple, and Meta testified Wednesday before the United States Senate Intelligence Committee about each of their company’s ongoing efforts to identify and disrupt ...
Election Law Blog14h
Federal Court Rejects Facial Challenge to Minnesota Law Barring Material False Statements Made with Intent to Prevent Someone from Voting
This decision seems right, given how plaintiffs have filed their challenge as a facial challenge but don’t meet that burden. (Via Zoe Tillman) ...
Election Law Blog15h
“Trump Tries to Close Off a Chief Line of Attack: That He’s a Danger to Democracy”
NYT: For months, Donald J. Trump and his allies have described a nation facing almost unthinkable darkness. The United States is under “under invasion” from “thousands and thousands and thousands of ...
Election Law Blog15h
“Travis County sues top Texas officials, accusing them of violating National Voter Registration Act”
Travis County officials sued Attorney General Ken Paxton and Secretary of State Jane Nelson on Tuesday over the state’s attempt to block voter registration efforts ahead of a hotly contested ...
Election Law Blog12h
“California Anti-Deepfake Laws Target of Free Speech Lawsuit”
The creator of a parody video criticizing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is suing California over new legislation that he says would restrict his content. Christopher Kohls, who goes by ...
Election Law Blog16h
“New Guides to Protecting Election Certification from Interference in Battleground States”
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...
Election Law Blog1d
CA: “Gavin Newsom signs election ‘deepfake’ ban in rebuke to Elon Musk” (I Think It’s Likely Unconstitutional)
Politico: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the country’s toughest law banning digitally altered political “deepfakes” on Tuesday, following through on a vow to act after rebuking Elon Musk for ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Where third-party candidates have gotten on — or off — the ballot in key swing states”
This is very handy from NBC News: ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Elon Musk has often inflamed politically tense moments, raising worries for the US election”
AP: Hours after an apparent attempt on Donald Trump’s life over the weekend, Elon Musk took to his social platform X to post a thinking emoji and a comment that “no one is even trying to assassinate” ...
Election Law Blog1d
Delivering 68th Miller Lecture at Georgia State University September 25: “A Real Right to Vote”
Very excited to be joining the great group of those scholars who have given the Miller Lecture. Details: The 68th Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series “A” Featuring Rick L. HasenUCLA LawGary T ...
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ELB Book Corner: Bob Bauer: “The Impeachment Process in an Era of Polarization and Expanded Presidential Immunity”
I’m pleased to welcome Bob Bauer to the ELB Book Corner, writing about his new book, The Unraveling. Here is the third of ...
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General Services Administration updates guidance for 2024 presidential transition
The Electoral Count Reform Act was only a part of the reforms a bipartisan Senate working group developed in relation to presidential elections. Another was the Presidential Transition Improvement Act ...