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Latest Trump indictment defends America’s battered democracy

by Noah Feldman This is the big one: the first time the Department of Justice has ever indicted a former president for subverting democracy by trying to steal an election he knew he had lost. The prosecution of former president Donald Trump may be the most important criminal case ever ...

Warner’s ‘secret’ and ‘nefarious’ meeting

Secretary of State Mac Warner claims “there was nothing secret or nefarious about” the February meeting of select Republican top election officials hosted by the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing think tanks.  Then why did Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at ...

Early rebuke for Fla. election police

A Miami judge dealt a victory Friday for the law, decency and common sense by dismissing a fraud case brought by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his new elections police force. The ruling was a high-profile rebuke as early voting began Monday for the November general election, and it should send the ...

Secretary Warner is peddling Big Lie Lite

How disappointing  to see West Virginia’s top election official, Secretary of State Mac Warner, peddling sugar-coated election fraud conspiracies. In an op-ed Warner submitted to publications across the state (which we will not run due to its blatant disconnection from reality, but ...

Electoral Count Act up next on Congress’ list

As former President Donald Trump desperately clung to power last year, a number of flaws in the U.S. election system became all too clear. Thankfully, one may soon be fixed. After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators has released a set of reforms to the Electoral Count ...