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National Law Journal

Judge Luttig Hopeful on Updates to Electoral Count Act

"Under the current Electoral Count Act, Congress has the power to decide the presidency in a host of circumstances," the retired judge said. "After the [amended] ECA passes, it will not."
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Secretary of State Wants to End General Election Runoffs

Brad Raffensperger said in a statement that Georgia is "one of the only states that always seems to have a runoff" and that the legislature should "consider reforms."
4 minute read

National Law Journal

'An Attempt to Undermine the Constitution'

The sanctity of the obligation to defend the Constitution—indeed the entire legal system—depends on lawyers adhering to the oath they took. When that oath is ignored, the bulwark against tyranny disintegrates.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In Arguments Challenging Abortion Bill, Judge Pinpoints Threshold Issues

Seconds into arguments for petitioners Gov. Tom Wolf and acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman, Judge Patricia McCullough launched into questions about whether the challenge could be brought at all.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

'Utterly Baseless': Court Upholds Sanctions for Attorneys Behind Frivolous Election Fraud Case

"[I]t was evident from the beginning that the plaintiffs faced an uphill battle," the judges said.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

DOJ Subpoenas Ga. Secretary of State in Trump Probe

In a Jan. 2, 2021 phone call, President Donald Trump had suggested that Brad Raffensperger "find" the votes needed to give him a win in the state.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Effect of Georgia's Voting Law Unclear, Despite High Turnout

"Now there will be those both in our state, and across the country, who will point to our victory tonight and try to use it to argue there is no voter suppression in Georgia," U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said. "The fact that millions of Georgians endured hours in lines — and were willing to spend hours in line, lines that wrapped around buildings and went on for blocks, lines in the cold, lines in the rain — is most certainly not a sign voter suppression does not exist."
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Flynn Testifies in Fulton County Election Probe

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was at a downtown Atlanta courthouse Thursday to testify before a special grand jury that's investigating…
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Electoral Count Act of 1887: Part 8—Comparison of H.R. 8873 and S. 4573 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute

The many provisions that S. 4573 and H.R. 8873 provide for federal court suits and expedited Supreme Court review raise issues of confidence in prior Supreme Court presidential election decisions.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett Are Key to Fate of Revolutionary Election Theory

Voting rights groups and many election law scholars believe allowing the independent state legislature theory to survive will have a revolutionary effect on election law in the United States.
4 minute read

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