#electionlaw — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #electionlaw, aggregated by home.social.
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She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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DOJ Election Monitors Face Limits the Right Surprisingly Spent Years Building
DOJ election monitors are heading to six states for the 2026 primaries, but conservative lawsuits have already limited what they can do at the polls.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/doj-election-monitors/
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DOJ Election Monitors Face Limits the Right Surprisingly Spent Years Building
DOJ election monitors are heading to six states for the 2026 primaries, but conservative lawsuits have already limited what they can do at the polls.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/doj-election-monitors/
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DOJ Election Monitors Face Limits the Right Surprisingly Spent Years Building
DOJ election monitors are heading to six states for the 2026 primaries, but conservative lawsuits have already limited what they can do at the polls.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/doj-election-monitors/
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The 1965 #VotingRightsAct, the #centerpiece legislation of the #CivilRights Movement, succeeded in opening the ballot box to #Black Americans & reducing persistent racial #discrimination in voting. Nearly 70 of the 435 congressional districts are protected by #Section2, #ElectionLaw expert Nicholas Stephanopoulos has estimated.
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Writing to James Madison from Paris in 1787, Thomas Jefferson warned that such an incumbent, if narrowly defeated, would “pretend false votes, foul play, hold possession of the reins of government.” Were that moment ever to come, the #Founders believed, it would mark the #demise of the nation that they had conceived, bringing to a calamitous end the greatest experiment in self-government ever attempted by man.
#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
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The ruling, filed w/the court clerk on Mon, will require Mayes to assemble a grand jury to present the case along with a copy of the #ElectoralCountAct, attys said. The initial presentation of her case took weeks. Mayes plans to appeal to try to get the prosecution back on track.
“We vehemently disagree with the court, & we will file a special action to appeal the ruling,” Mayes spox said.
#Trump #BigLie #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VoteNullification #FakeElectors #SeditiousConspiracy
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Among those who were indicted were White House chief of staff #MarkMeadows, attorneys #RudyGiuliani, #JohnEastman & #ChristinaBobb, top campaign adviser #BorisEpshteyn & former campaign aide #MikeRoman. The grand jury accused them of unsuccessfully trying to award the state’s electoral votes to #Trump instead of #Biden even though Biden won the popular vote there.
#BigLie #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VoteNullification #FakeElectors #SeditiousConspiracy
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An #Arizona grand jury last year indicted 18 people as part of the effort to reverse Joe #Biden’s 2020 presidential win in the state, including 7 attorneys & aides affiliated with #Trump’s national campaign & 11 Arizona #Republicans, including some who sought to act as fake presidential electors.
#BigLie #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VoteNullification #FakeElectors
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“We are extremely pleased with the court’s ruling, & we think the judge got it exactly right,” said Stephen Binhak, the attorney who spearheaded the effort to get the case back to a grand jury. The decision is a major setback for #Arizona AG Kris Mayes (D), who promised to appeal the ruling so she could keep the prosecution going.
#Trump #BigLie #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VoteNullification #FakeElectors
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#MaricopaCounty Superior Court Judge Sam J. Myers sided w/ #Republicans & found that prosecutors failed to provide the grand jury w/the text of an 1887 federal #law that is central to the Republicans’ defense. The #law, known as the #ElectoralCountAct, spells out how presidential electoral votes are to be cast & counted.
#Trump #BigLie #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VoteNullification #FakeElectors
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Judge deals blow to #Arizona case over 2020 Republican #FakeElectors
An AZ judge has ordered state prosecutors to send back to a grand jury a case in which #Republicans were charged last year for their alleged roles in trying to overturn the #2020election, potentially jeopardizing the
high-profile indictments.#Trump #BigLie #law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VoteNullification
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Defense proposes #JuryInstructions on campaign finance law “#FECA” (federal election campaign act) must include the word "willfully" to specify a #criminal violation.
The 34 falsifying business records charges against #Trump are #felony charges bc prosecutors say he used the false records to try to conceal a 2nd #crime.
That 2nd crime, prosecutors specified, is a violation of a state #ElectionLaw that forbids a person from seeking election by “unlawful means.”
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The afternoon session is beginning.
#Trump is back w/his posse, including #DonaldTrumpJr; #ChuckZito, the fmr #HellsAngel ldr; & the actor #JoePiscopo.
Justice #Merchan asks the defense to argue on behalf of one of its many requests: to add the word “willfully” in 2 places to the #JuryInstructions on a federal #ElectionLaw which isn’t charged.