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“Veteran Election Lawyers from Both Parties Launch the Bipartisan American Election Project to Defend Constitutional Principles Governing U.S. Elections”

Lawyers affiliated with both the Democratic and Republican parties today announced the formation of the Bipartisan American Election Project (BAEP), a nonpartisan organization...

My Academic Scholarship and Today’s Argument in the Watson Case on Absentee Ballot Deadlines (Rick Pildes)

In today’s oral argument in Watson v. RNC, Justice Kavanaugh quoted from my academic work, which Paul Clement, arguing for the respondents, also...

I Spoke to NPR’s “Here and Now” About the Watson Oral Argument

 Republicans Are Suing to Kill California’s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem, Slate, Nov. 18, 2025 (with Matthew Cooke) The Supreme Court Just...

Richard Bernstein: “Two Important Errors at the Watson v. RNC Oral Argument” 

The following is a guest post from Rich Bernstein: Lawyers and Justices sometimes mistakenly describe the facts.  Whichever way any decision goes, the law...

Supreme Court Likely to Divide Closely in Watson over Whether States May Count Ballots Received after Election Day in Federal Elections; Key Justices Don’t...

This morning the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Watson v. RNC. The case concerns whether federal statutes setting Election Day for federal...

William & Mary Election Law Society Symposium: Lines of Power: The Case For and Against Mid-Decade Redistricting, April 2

Very much looking forward to this event Thursday, April 2 3:30-5:30. Will feature a fantastic panel on re-redistricting law and litigation nationally followed...

More coverage of Watson v. RNC

Greg Stohr at Bloomberg: “Mail-In Ballot Deadlines Put Supreme Court in 2026 Election Fray” Tierney Sneed at CNN: “Trump’s efforts to curb mail-in voting...

AK: “Cast a ballot and wait for the plane. In Alaska, a grace period for ballots is seen as a necessity”

Associated Press: “These processes have been in place for a long time just to ensure that our ballots are counted,” said Rhonda Pitka, a...

“A California sheriff seized 650,000 ballots. Election experts say it’s a big deal”

Election security expert Gowri Ramachandran said the seizure by Bianco, a Republican candidate for governor investigating a group’s disputed claim of a 45,000-vote...

“Super PAC spending passes $200M, with some groups hiding their cause”

WaPo: The political arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee funneled over $5 million to othergroupsas part of its work to defeat Illinois...

“ ‘Not a done deal’: Democrats start to sweat over Virginia’s redistricting referendum”

NBC News: Some supporters of the Virginia referendum acknowledge the challenge of convincing voters to back a gerrymandered map when Democrats, who several years...

“More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race”

LA Times: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is a leading Republican candidate for governor, has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s...

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