| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.08.2026 | FACT FOCUS: Census Bureau report does not prove Trump’s claim about noncitizen voting in 2020 | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MELISSA GOLDIN
In his most recent challenge to the results of the 2020 U.S. election, President Donald Trump this week cited a report claiming to show that thousands of noncitizens voted, a prac... |
| 16.10.2025 | Prop 50, The Better Of Two Bad Choices | It’s a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t choice appearing on the California ballot this Election Day: choose gerrymandering, or have gerrymandering chosen for you. It’s an ugly decision to be forced to make. But, for the moment, at leas... |
| 03.06.2025 | The Judicial Tug-of-War: Democracy at Stake | In the grand theater of American politics, the judiciary stands as a silent sentinel. Yet, its role is increasingly under siege. Populist leaders, like former President Trump, have turned judges into scapegoats. They paint them as obstacles... |
| 01.06.2025 | Opinion: Michael Gregory: Like many populist leaders, Trump accuses judges of being illegitimate obstacles to safety and democracy | Trump, for example, has called for the impeachment of James Boasberg, a federal judge who also issued orders blocking the deportation of immigrants in the U.S. to El Salvador. Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that Boasberg was “trying to... |
| 22.10.2024 | The Legal Labyrinth: Defamation and Election Ethics in the Age of Trump and Musk | In the swirling chaos of American politics, two figures stand out: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Each has carved a niche in the public consciousness, but their recent actions raise questions about legality and ethics. The Central Park Five's ... |
| 21.10.2024 | The $1M Question: Is Elon Musk’s ‘Petition’ Drive Actually Legal? | Remember a few weeks ago when Elon Musk misleadingly claimed that George Soros was secretly “buying a propaganda machine to influence how you think”? Can you imagine the kind of shitstorm that would be playing out on ExTwitter and Fox News ... |
| 21.10.2024 | National Politics | Musk offers voters $1 million a day to sign PAC petition backing the Constitution. Is that legal? | What is Musk doing?
Musk promised on Saturday that he would give away $1 million a day, until the Nov. 5 election, for people signing his PAC’s petition supporting the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech, and the Second Amendm... |
| 25.07.2024 | South Africa's Drug Crisis: A Growing Threat**
** | ** In the heart of South Africa, a hidden menace lurks. Recently, three Mexicans and two South Africans were arrested in a police raid on a crystal meth lab. This operation, tucked away on a remote farm north of Johannesburg, was not just a... |
| 22.07.2024 | National Politics | Experts skeptical of Speaker Mike Johnson’s prediction of legal challenges to replacing Biden | “Joe Biden was chosen after a long, ‘small-d’ democratic process by 14 million people emerging through that primary,” Johnson told Tapper. “It will be interesting to see if the so-called party of democracy, the Democrats, go into a back roo... |
| 19.12.2023 | Politics | Colorado Supreme Court bars Donald Trump from the state’s ballot in 2024, ruling he’s disqualified by Jan. 6 actions | Donald Trump cannot appear on the state’s primary ballot, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a legal challenge that has gained national notice as the former president seeks the 2024 Republican nomination.
The Supreme Court, in a 4-... |
| 24.07.2022 | Correcting Misconceptions About the Electoral Count Reform Act | The Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA) recently introduced by a bipartisan group of senators is an exceptionally promising development in our polarized era. It has been apparent for a long time that the Electoral Count Act (ECA)—the 1887 law... |
| 04.04.2022 | Here’s What Electoral Count Act Reform Should Look Like | People across the political spectrum (including a majority of voters) agree that the United States’ process for electing presidents is flawed. The rules meant to ensure peaceful transitions of power are unnecessarily vulnerable to misunders... |
| 04.02.2022 | As Part of Electoral Count Act Reform, Liberals Should Learn to Love Bush v. Gore | The big fear from many liberals is that revising the Electoral Count Act (ECA), to prevent Congress from negating a Democratic presidential candidate’s valid victory in the way that Sen. Josh Hawley and Rep. Mo Brooks wanted to do last time... |
| 24.01.2022 | What the Supreme Court’s Rejection of the Employer Vaccinate-or-Test Rule Means for Biden’s Agenda | The Biden administration’s pandemic response strategy suffered a setback on Jan. 13. The Supreme Court handed down a rushed decision that stayed a workplace safety rule issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in N... |
| 20.09.2021 | Democrats’ ‘bold’ new attempt at bipartisan voting rights reform is failing to win over Manchin’s GOP allies | Martin Luther King III hugs Cliff Albright, executive director of Black Voters Matter, as he arrives to speak at a rally for voting rights, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Senate Democrats w... |
| 02.07.2021 | How the Supreme Court threw the Biden administration’s ramped-up voting rights agenda off the rails | A recent Supreme Court decision throws a wrench into the Biden administration’s voting rights efforts Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
The Supreme Court just threw the Biden admin’s voting rights agenda off the rails.
The Court made it harder f... |
| 20.05.2021 | Trump, Pelosi, and other fundraising juggernauts just got put on notice by the feds that they could be breaking the law with their spammy '5x match' fundraising gimmicks | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among the many politicians that use a misleading political fundraising gimmick. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Politicians love promising they'll double or triple your campaign contribution.
Bu... |
| 08.12.2020 | Federal judges in Georgia and Michigan eviscerated 2 of Sidney Powell’s ‘Kraken’ lawsuits in one morning | Sidney Powell Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Federal judges in Georgia and Michigan rebuked two sweeping legal challenges brought by conservative attorney Sidney Powell seeking to overturn both states’ presidential election... |
| 05.11.2020 | Recounts And Ballot Challenges In The 2020 Presidential Election: Legal Expert Provides Insights | Got election angst? In the article below, a law professor answers questions about state recounts and ... [+] ballot challenges in the 2020 presidential election.Getty Images |
| 02.11.2020 | Trump and Biden camps are bracing for the election to go into overtime. Meet 8 of the top attorneys Republicans and Democrats have tapped for the job. | Lawyers for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump are bracing for drawn-out court fights after the November election. REUTERS/Leah Millis; REUTERS/Alan Freed; Insider
Democrats and Republicans are bracing for ... |
| 29.10.2020 | Mail Voting Litigation in 2020, Part IV: Verifying Mail Ballots | This post is the fourth of a five-part series on litigation about mail voting during the 2020 general election. This series is part of Lawfare's collaboration with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project.
The first three parts of this se... |
| 29.10.2020 | Mail Voting Litigation in 2020, Part V: Efforts to Halt Vote-by-Mail Expansion | This post is the fifth of a five-part series on litigation about mail voting during the 2020 general election. This series is part of Lawfare's collaboration with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project.
The potential disruption of in-pe... |
| 28.10.2020 | Mail Voting Litigation in 2020, Part II: Submission of Mail-In Ballots | This post is the second of a five-part series on litigation about mail voting during the 2020 general election. This series is part of Lawfare's collaboration with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project.
As the coronavirus pandemic has ... |
| 28.10.2020 | Mail Voting Litigation in 2020, Part III: Challenges Seeking to Expand Delivery Options | This post is the third of a five-part series on litigation about mail voting during the 2020 general election. This series is part of Lawfare's collaboration with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project.
This election will see a greater ... |
| 27.10.2020 | Mail Voting Litigation in 2020, Part I: Application and Eligibility to Vote By Mail | This post is the first in a five-part series on litigation about mail voting during the 2020 general election. This series is part of Lawfare's collaboration with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project.
Most states, as well as the Distr... |
| 17.09.2020 | Rehearsal for November: An Analysis of 17 August State Elections | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| 17.04.2020 | Election Modifications to Avoid During the COVID-19 Pandemic | As we approach the presidential election this November, election officials are developing plans to deal with the unique risks posed by the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. I have written about how states have grappled with past elect... |
| 27.04.2016 | Want to take a voting booth selfie? Snapchat's got your back | Snapchat filed a brief in New Hampshire last week, calling for an end to a ban on voting selfies
Call me weird, but I love voting. There's something about actually and filling out a ballot, knowing that I (kinda, sorta) participated in demo... |
| - | Elon Musk offers $1 million a day to entice swing state voters to sign petition | Elon Musk said he’ll give away $1 million daily until Election Day to registered voters in swing states who sign his America PAC petition.
“I think think is kind of fun, and you know, it seems like a good use of money basically,” Musk said ... |
| - | Espionage, affidavits, passports: What’s new in US probe of Trump | The United States Department of Justice has said it opposes releasing an affidavit – or sworn legal document – that would reveal its justification for raiding former US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
The federal law enforcement... |
| - | Election skeptics failed to derail a local vote certification in New Mexico, but previewed uncertainty and unrest in the 2022 midterms | Couy Griffin, a central figure in a New Mexico county’s refusal to certify recent election results based on debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines, has avoided more jail time for joining the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol. A... |
| - | Hate political email spam? Federal officials are giving you little time to express your feelings on a potentially pivotal ruling. | Google has asked the Federal Election Commission to rule on its request to make it easier for political candidates to reach potential donors with email solicitations. Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Google has asked federal regulator... |
