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Blog: Cato at Liberty
Donald Trump claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that courts rejected his claims to the contrary without reaching the merits. His claims do not withstand scrutiny.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
The Electoral College is out of favor these days not only among scholars and commentators but also with the general public. Why has it endured for so long despite the discontent?
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Where do the 2024 presidential slates—Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and Donald Trump and J.D. Vance—stand on election policy?
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Will the losing side derail the certification of the 2024 election results? There are reasons to be concerned but not to panic.
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The habit of filing flimsy legal actions against opponents to punish their speech is getting only too common. Latest example: the United Auto Workers' National Labor Relations Board complaint against Donald Trump and Elon Musk over comments in their livestreamed conversation.
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The SAVE Act, which aims to strengthen the prohibition on voting by noncitizens in federal elections, is a mix of provisions that have some plausible basis and others that impose burdens and legal hazards on state and local election officials beyond likely justification, all while handing the federal government new powers to regulate local election administration.
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Here's a roundup of items on the merits of decentralized reporting of election results, partisan trends in turnout, ranked-choice voting, ballot harvesting, and a move in Wales to ban political lying.
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President Joseph Biden bows out of the 2024 presidential race — and the prospects ahead.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
A Maryland judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore seeking climate change damages from oil companies, ruling that it attempts an unlawful end run around federal authority.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
Short election-policy items on the radicalizing effect of rigged-election lies, a stunt by the Illinois legislature, a non-link between mail voting and fraud, two online RCV panels, and a potential Trump prosecutor deterred by a climate of intimidation.
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In Trump v. US, a majority of the Supreme Court went to dubious lengths to insulate former presidents from criminal prosecution.
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When there is genuine uncertainty as to the meaning of a law, judges help safeguard liberty by applying a narrow reading so as to avoid criminalizing conduct not clearly marked out as such. That is what the Court did in Fischer v. U.S., the January 6 rioter case.
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In the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case, a Supreme Court majority chose an individualist rather than a consequentialist view of legal rights.
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As of the end of June, the Supreme Court has granted review in a lot of interesting business‐law cases for the October 2024 term.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
Walter Olson evaluates a Manhattan jury's conviction of Donald Trump on charges of falsifying business records to conceal a crime.
