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“The Trump Administration Has No Legal Authority To Invoke National Security and Take Over Elections”

New CAP report: The Trump administration is reportedly considering a plan for the president to issue an executive order (EO) that would declare a national emergency...

“Town of Newburgh will become second locality in New York to use ranked-choice voting”

Coverage of a settlement in a New York Voting Rights Act case against the town of Newburgh over its at-large elections. On the...

2028 presidential ballot access disputes have already begun

ELB readers will recall the slow moving train wreck of ballot access disputes on a range of fronts in 2024, from litigation over...

Breaking: Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Order That Redrew Congressional Map in Staten Island, with Ominous Implications for Voting Rights Act

I’m on the road so this will be brief. The Supreme Court over the dissent of the three liberal Justices reversed a lower...

5th Circuit okays Texas ban on professional ballot harvesting

Judge Jones, joined by Judges Engelhardt and Summerhays, in a decision from a couple of weeks ago, with a bit of editorializing about...

“Explainer: SAVE, SAVE America and MEGA Acts; What These Three Election Bills Could Mean for Voters, States, and Election Officials”

 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...

“Trump’s call to heavily restrict mail ballots draws a lukewarm response”

When President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a bill mandating voter ID and proof of citizenship during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night,...

“Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms”

ProPublica: Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the...

“How Wesley Hunt of Texas Is Working in Plain Sight With Outside Groups”

NYT: “Running out of money,” read the post on the social media platform X, “less than $400 remains in my pocket.” It landed on...

Eileen Hasen (z’l), 1932-2026 – Election Law Blog

I make it a rule that I don’t use this blog to write about things going on in my personal life. But today...

“Could the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act Decision Affect the Midterms?”

N.Y. Times: A looming Supreme Court decision on a critical provision of the Voting Rights Act could shift the long-term balance of power in the House...

Draft Executive Order Madness – Election Law Blog

Well, it’s a Friday late afternoon and so of course news drops…. A draft executive order dated April 2025 has been released, related...

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