It's not yet really reflected in the congressional legislation, but election subversion has belatedly been getting serious attention in recent weeks.
https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1442487758862184455?s=20
When I wrote about subverison and the Georgia law in early April, the term hadn't really even been once over the preceding month. It was badly overshadowed by voter suppression. Now there are congressional hearings, conferences and real if early ideas for dealing with it
As the noise of new GOP voting laws has faded, it's become more obvious that subversion is the more serious risk to democracy. The persistence of the 'big lie,' Trump's grip on the GOP, the Eastman memo, and more, have helped keep the issue in the lime-light. It won't go away
Subversion is still somewhat on the sideline in Congress, where the D bill is still not really tailored to addressing the issue. And it still bares more of the hallmarks of an effort to achieve the facade of intra-party unity than a serious legislative effort
I doubt there's any real path to legislative action at this stage. But one obstacle to subversion-related legislation--an absence of serious legal/policy thinking on the issue--is fading. And for the most part, those ideas still haven't been put to the test in Washington
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