NEW: The conservative movement’s next big play for their power in the states is to “scare the hell out of Washington' with an unprecedented convention to rewrite the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win. From @BrentGriffiths & me: businessinsider.com/constitutional…
@BrentGriffiths We’ve talked *a lot* about the Constitution lately. This story is about a less-discussed element: Article V, and the little-known but very active — & well-funded — conservative push to rewrite the Constitution with a first-of-its-kind convention of states businessinsider.com/constitutional…
@BrentGriffiths The Constitution has only been amended by Congress, and no American under 30 has seen that in their lifetimes. The convention movement builds on conservatives’ success locking up statehouses & is a next step in wresting power back from the federal gov't businessinsider.com/constitutional…
NEW from me:
A 3-part deep-dive on state supreme courts, an highly consequential legal arena & red-hot political battleground. The growing power of state courts has spurred tens of millions of dollars in campaign spending — and heated political attacks: businessinsider.com/2022-midterms-…
Part 1: Who are our state Supreme Court justices? Here’s a rundown of how states pick their state Supreme Court justices, the 80+ key seats on the ballot in 2022, and the consequential issues from voting rights to abortion that state courts decide businessinsider.com/2022-midterms-…
Part 2: State supreme court races are “the next frontier” of politics – and both political parties are in a frenzied and expensive arms race to lock down control of key judgeships, spurring an influx of interest group cash, dark money, and negative ads: businessinsider.com/state-supreme-…
Quick thread breaking down some of the voting/election section in Rick Scott's 11-point plan to rescue America 🧵 politico.com/f/?id=0000017f…
It begins with this:
Next on voter ID: numerous studies have found that voter ID laws don’t prevent a statistically significant amount of fraud (since voter impersonation is so rare to begin with), nor do they meaningfully boost voter confidence or turnout. nber.org/system/files/w…
This “cloning” ballots thing is…kind of out left field and not really a thing. There are numerous practical & logistical reasons, which I wrote about in 2020, why it’s basically impossible to submit duplicated/counterfeit paper ballots w/o getting caught businessinsider.com/ag-barr-floats…
Inbox: Sens. Durbin, King, and Klobuchar release draft legislative text for their proposal to reform the Electoral Count Act: king.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
The bipartisan group of 16 senators working on Electoral Count Act reform/broader election reform met tonight. Here are some things we learned tonight from senators as they were leaving the meeting 🧵
The group is divided up into subgroups all working on different issues related to election reform (like a big group project!)
The subgroups, per Sen. Manchin, are the ECA, protecting election workers/officials, voting practices & rights, Election Assistance Commission/HAVA grants, and presidential transitions + contingent elections.