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Our leaders are hearing the howls of the distant wolf pack louder than the bear at their doorstep.

Bills in the House and Senate might clarify the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to prevent a repeat of Jan. 6.

Print this article Theres a lot of performance going on in Democratic circles on the issue of voting rights. Texas Democrats fled their state to stop a voting bill written by majority Republicans that everyone knows will pass in the end. At the same time, national Democratic leaders from President Joe Biden down are employing extreme rhetoric in support of a voting bill, the For the People Act, that everyone knows will not pass in the end. The For the People Act, known as S. 1 in the Senate...

Republican-controlled state legislatures are still passing new laws to make it harder to cast a ballot. Congress needs to enter the fray.

Republican-controlled state legislatures are still passing new laws to make it harder to cast a ballot. Congress needs to enter the fray.

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky More than five months have now passed since the January 6 protests, and the prosecution of hundreds of protesters in dozens of criminal cases filed in the District Court for the District of Columbia are well underway. Like many legal commentators on the conservative side, I expressed some reservations early on with regard to the stridency with which early criminal complaints filed in connection with some of the prosecutions described the events of January 6.  The desc...

Joe Biden needs a democracy czar to jump-start vital changes in elections and education The attack on the Capitol exposed our broken social and political systems. It could be tough to repair them, but it will be disgraceful not to try. Dick Meyer Opinion contributor After Jan. 6, 2021, a day that will "live forever in infamy," as the new Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called it, there can no longer be denials that the mechanisms of American democracy need greater protection and that the...

Print Does the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection demonstrate that the problems with the legitimacy of American elections exceed the capacity of election law to fix them? Those of us in the field of election law were no more surprised that President Trump would threaten the peaceful transition of power if he lost the 2020 elections than epidemiologists were surprised by the deadly spread of COVID-19 in a country without a plan for containment. Last April, a multidisciplinary committee at UC Irvi...

Supreme Court rejects Gohmert’s last-ditch bid to change election results The decision came after Congress approved counting all Electoral College votes early Thursday morning. The United States Supreme Court early Thursday rejected a last-ditch bid by Rep. Louie Gohmert of Tyler to allow Vice President Mike Pence to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Gohmert and his co-plaintiffs — including the GOP chairwoman in Arizona and the state’s defeated slate of Republica...

Trumps Lawyer Jay Sekulow Breaks With Him Over Pences Powers During Election Certification On 1/6/21 at 10:37 AM EST During the Tuesday airing of his podcast, Jay Sekulow Live, the attorney said, "some have speculated that the vice president could simply say, Im not gonna accept these electors, that he has the authority to do that under the Constitution." "I actually dont think thats what the Constitution has in mind," Sekulow, who serves as the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and...