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Professor of Law, ; election law, federal courts, & legal ed. 313 native. I don't read the replies. Rhymes with duller.

Iowa City, IA
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Joined May 2012
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    Download of the Week: "Unpunishable Criminals" by Diamantis

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  2. Dec 4

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  3. Dec 4

    Good time to re-up my short piece Online, "Restraining Judicial Application of the 'Safe Harbor' Provision in the Electoral Count Act":

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    Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomrorow.

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  5. Nov 12

    Congress would stop the most rogue Electoral College scenarios in their tracks

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  6. Nov 9

    Aggressive litigation in Arizona, Wisconsin, & Pennsylvania kept the Green Party off the ballot this year. One such detail below:

    Democrats successfully challenged the Green Party presidential ticket, removing Howie Hawkins from the Pennsylvania ballot. It looks like it may have made a real difference. With :
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  7. Nov 9

    No "folly," no "Potemkin Villages," no "wildfires"--a semester of in-person hybrid legal education

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  8. Nov 9

    No, the Electoral College will not give the presidency to Donald Trump

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  9. Nov 7

    It's all a replay of 4 years ago--late fundraising for recounts vaguely alleging fraud, pushing wild Electoral College scenarios--except that instead of being led by fringe groups like the Green Party & Harvard Law faculty, it's out of the White House.

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  10. Nov 7

    Nearly four years ago, & kicked around a "Lame Duck Pardon Amendment." It didn't go anywhere. Here it is:

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  11. Nov 5

    ...worth adding that while state legislatures have the final say over the choosing of electors, Congress has the final say over whether to count them....

    REMINDER TO THE REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATURES, YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY OVER THE CHOOSING OF ELECTORS, NOT ANY BOARD OF ELECTIONS, SECRETARY OF STATE, GOVERNOR, OR EVEN COURT. YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY -- ARTICLE II OF THE FED CONSTITUTION. SO, GET READY TO DO YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY
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  12. Nov 4

    Publicly-funded presidential campaigns--run as recently as 2008--would have entitled candidates to $103.7 million to run a national campaign this year. Some Senate races are starting to outpace even that total.

    Amy McGrath and Jaime Harrison raised a combined $199,004,686 and lost to Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham by a combined 35 points.
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  13. Nov 4

    A recount in a close statewide election rarely changes the result. History shows the margin has to be something like 0.01%--not 1%, one-hundredth of one percent--separating the two candidates for a *possible* change in outcome.

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  14. Nov 3

    Four (unlikely) ways the 2020 presidential election ends up in the House of Representatives

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  15. Nov 1

    The 2014 Cromnibus allows you to contribute $5600 to a presidential primary & general campaign, but $106,500 "to defray expenses incurred with respect to the preparation for & the conduct of election recounts & contests & other legal proceedings." It incentivizes litigation.

    Trump on PA: “We’re going in the night of -as soon as the election is over - we’re going in with our lawyers”
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  16. Nov 1

    I don't know how to quantify my improvement, if any, as a scholar over the years, but I've tried (still not great) to be much better about (1) respectfully (2) engaging opposing views, in part by (3) fairly summarizing those views & (4) avoiding adjectives & adverbs

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  17. Oct 28

    Election litigation 2020.

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  18. Oct 28

    I wondered back in May what would happen in jurisdictions that didn't scale & equate their bar exams. The result, it appears, have been significant increases in pass rates as a result of state-specific new scoring:

    Good news from several early online bar exam states: Pass rates are up in Michigan and Indiana. But those states didn't administer the NCBE's October online exam.
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  19. Oct 26

    What the lawyers fought for so vigorously in Bush v. Gore was actually the exact opposite of what would later prove most advantageous to their clients--a peril of election litigation positions over the unknown.

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  20. Oct 23

    Federal judges are announcing future vacancies at historic lows ahead of Election Day

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