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15 Dec 2021, 5:01 am by Emily Dai
The inspector general reports that following the announcement by then-President Trump that a planned large gathering would be held at the Capitol to protest Congress confirming the Electoral College votes, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a Request for Assistance (RFA) on Dec. 31 asking for DCNG reinforcement from Jan. 5 through Jan. 6. [read post]
14 Dec 2021, 8:49 am by Roger Parloff
A joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote was not the sort of “official proceeding” Congress had in mind, they contend. [read post]
On January 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying the electoral college votes designating Joe Biden’s election. [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
29 Nov 2021, 8:20 am by Bill
Bayh is good on the strategic issues, and I am struck by how the process and procedure he used informed his later efforts at abolishing the Electoral College. [read post]
28 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 9:22 am
Subsequent chapters address civil rights, abortion, defamation, strict liability, federalism, preemption, the Commerce Clause, adverse possession, respondeat superior, and the Electoral College (i.e., why “an individual’s vote in Wyoming carries about four times more influence than a vote in California”). [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Only a month after Donald Trump’s shocking Electoral College win in 2016, in “The Democrats Now Have One, and Only One, Priority,” I argued that “they have to restore voting rights in every way possible. [read post]
14 Nov 2021, 4:21 pm by INFORRM
 Media Law in Other Jurisdictions Australia Documents filed for the Defendant network in the defamation case between Marcus Bastiaan (Claimant) and Nine Network allege the Federal Liberal MP and Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar was involved in a scheme placing factional operatives into taxpayer-funded electorate office jobs, to carry out internal Liberal Party work in Victoria in a possible breach of staff rules. [read post]
9 Nov 2021, 1:23 pm by James Romoser
The Electoral College and the requirement that all states get two senators, Kavanaugh said, favor less populous states. [read post]
8 Nov 2021, 11:44 am by Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, David Landau
On the other hand, there is a risk that the power to set rules for the democratic game will be used to fence out disfavored groups, to entrench incumbents beyond electoral challenge or to create the image of democratic competition without its substance. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
None were charged with crimes, and all denied being part of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of President Biden’s electoral college win. [read post]
20 Oct 2021, 12:13 pm by Paul Rosenzweig
In the aftermath of the November 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection, attention is increasingly being paid to the role lawyers played in the run-up to and aftermath of those events. [read post]
18 Oct 2021, 7:22 am by Eugene Volokh
"Political Affiliation or Belief": Lansing Lansing (Mich.) ban discrimination based in public accommodations and housing on "political affiliation or belief," with no express definition.[16] This covers beliefs about politics that go beyond electoral politics—in the related area of prohibitions on public employment discrimination based on political belief, "political beliefs" has been defined to include any "matter of public concern as to how… [read post]
But in December 2020, weeks before the certification of the Electoral College vote, Trump asked Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen if he knew “some guy named Jeff Clark. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 5:01 am by Dan Farber
" Pre-election misconduct was also discussed, including the risk that a President might gain office by corrupting the members of the Electoral College. [read post]