a reminder that watergate was legitimately bad. nixon weaponized presidential power to cover up crimes committed by his subordinates, illegally spying on americans and using agencies like the IRS to harass political opponents.

I’m sure that the Haitians in Ohio are just like the Haitians I grew up around in South Florida—decent, hardworking people no different from anyone else. Unlike Stephen Miller, a reprehensible ghoul who deserves to be launched into the sun.

NEW RESOURCE: Communities around the country are preparing for voter intimidation and midterm election interference from the federal gov. Ready? Start here: protdem.org/community-resilience Our new guide helps community leaders and members (all of us!) spot intimidation and know how to push back.

@jamellebouie.net is right. It's never been about "fraud." It's always been about who is American "enough" to have a say in our society and our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

A throughline of Sam Alito's jurisprudence is that the law protects conservatives from getting their feelings hurt. Here, he says Hawaii's gun licensing law is unconstitutional because it forces business owners who are fine with guns to risk "alienating other customers." Straight-up policy choice.

John Roberts’s SCOTUS: anti-immigrant, anti-democracy, pro-cancer.

No major decisions on election issues from SCOTUS this morning, but the 6-3 majority's anti-immigrant decisions in Mullin v. Doe and Mullin v. Al Otro Lado are part of the same despicable and racist attacks on multiracial democracy and America's ethnic and cultural diversity.

IMPORTANT to know that the vast majority of Haitians with TPS entered the country legally at ports of entry, not illegally. The majority have NEVER violated the law. The admin stripped their status by breaking the law, but today SCOTUS says courts can't do anything about that.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem

TL;DR - the federal government has no authority to create a national citizenship database and force states to use it to administer elections. USPS has no legal authority to issue binding regulations on mail-in voting, and the President can't force USPS to set any.

noticing a lot of people forgot what our greatest modern philosopher said about patriotism

This is what the American World Cup should’ve been the whole time, a celebration of our diasporas, a chance for all these countries from around the world to feel at home here because there’s a bit of their home already here

People often ask—how do I prepare for potential election sabotage? What can I do to protect our elections? This is a great new resource from our friends at @brennancenter.org and @protectdemocracy.org that includes ways for individuals and organizations to do just that.

There's more in my full post, which concludes: More and more, this Court shows itself to be little more than a partisan tool engaged in results-oriented jurisprudence, despite protestations to the contrary. electionlawblog.org?p=156541

This is a license for putting last minute unconstitutional plans in place and sow chaos for election administrators and voters.

Shameless, galling, anti-constitutional. The Supreme Court majority is opposed to American democracy.

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

Election Day is the deadline for voting, but not for counting ballots or declaring a winner. States are in charge of counting votes. Officials make sure every eligible vote is counted before they announce a winner.

A few weeks ago, @brendanfischer.bsky.social and I sat down with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social to talk about the Trump admin's attempt to take over our elections and restrict voting access, backed by a dark money network of election deniers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUHm...

A message for my friend Stephen Colbert as "The Late Show" draws to a close:

If you've ever been to the @campaignlegal.org office and wondered why there's a giant oil portrait of Stephen Colbert in a conference room -- here's your answer!

It's primary Election Day in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania! Need to find your polling place? Check your registration status? Report an incident at the polls? Call 866-OUR-VOTE or check 866ourvote.org for nonpartisan assistance. We're here to help!

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Five years ago, I wrote an essay for @brightwalldarkroom.com on Buena Vista Social Club (www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/02/22/d...), accompanied by artwork by the amazing Tony Stella. I’m so sad to hear about his passing, and so grateful for all the amazing pieces he left behind.

1/ Here is what you need to know about the Trump Administration's attempt to get the names and contact details of the thousands of election workers and civic volunteers in the 2020 election in Fulton County, GA www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

BREAKING: Campaign Legal Center is suing to block Florida’s new illegal congressional map. The new map was drawn with the explicit goal of eliminating districts held by one political party — directly violating the state constitution: campaignlegal.org/update/campa...

Nothing in Louisiana law gives the Governor any authority to cancel an already ongoing election. Declaring an "emergency" based on a SCOTUS decision is a flagrant abuse of power, made all the worse because he's doing it to disenfranchise Louisiana's Black voters. www.axios.com/local/new-or...

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

(2) It is an abuse of power and illegal for a governor or any other executive official to declare an "emergency" when one doesn't exist, as as excuse to expand their power. A change in the law is *not* an emergency under any legal framework.

2 cardinal principles of democracy: (1) It is wrong & illegal to suspend an ongoing election when voting is already underway. This causes immediate disenfranchisement and chaos. In fact, SCOTUS doesn't allow courts to change maps or election practices close to elections even before voting starts. /1

With Trump’s unprecedented push for mid-decade redistricting and the Supreme Court’s ruling eviscerating the Voting Rights Act, CLC's @danilang-votes.bsky.social says voters have been turned into "pawns in a set of political games instead of being the decision‑makers themselves."

This is what the Roberts Court's 20-year campaign to dismantle the Voting Rights Act has always been about. From Justice Alito's majority opinion in Callais:

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan dissenting in Louisiana v. Callais in today's devastating decision for the Voting Rights Act.

New from our team at @campaignlegal.org - What roles do the Constitution and federal law give the federal government with respect to elections? The answer--not much. campaignlegal.org/update/what-...

Proud to work at @campaignlegal.org, and proud to stand with @splcenter.org in the face of the administration’s baseless attack on a pillar of the civil rights community. SPLC brought down the Klan. They’ll win this fight too.

The annual Charity Bowl, raising money for @newap-georgia.bsky.social, is the best thing that happens on the internet. Donate to provide critical support to newly arrived refugees in Atlanta, prove that your alma mater is morally superior to your rivals, feel great. www.edsbscharitybowl.com

Hey @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social did you know that Miami beat FSU, Florida, Ohio State, and Notre Dame last year? And did you know that the combined score of those games was 105-67 (plus fees)? $105.67 x 12 months = $1268.04 on the board for the U

The federal law prohibiting federal armed agents from polling places has been on the books since the Civil War. If ICE shows up to the polls, voters should report it to their local election officials or call 866-OUR-VOTE if they have any issues. bit.ly/4s3UQDe

Did my best to make sense of the administration’s latest attack on elections with @jenrubin.bsky.social — the one thing that’s clear about this EO is that it’s 100% unconstitutional.

The administration is going full sovereign citizen

Campaign Legal Center is suing alongside @democracydefendersfund.org on behalf of LULAC, Secure Families Initiative and Arizona Students’ Association. Read more about our lawsuit: campaignlegal.org/update/campa...

Back at it again 💪

it is not too late to decide not to go through with your April Fool's joke. together, we can defeat April Fool's Day

Read @votebeat.org, listen to @danilang-votes.bsky.social

We are drafting the lawsuit right now. The Constitution gives authority over elections to the states and Congress. The president does not have the power he is claiming. We will see him in court.

Our coalition defeated President Trump's last illegal anti-voter executive order in court and we will defeat this unlawful and incoherent one, too.

Just like last time, this EO is unconstitutional. The federal government does not run our elections. The President does not get to decide who can vote, or how. We'll see him (back) in court.

BREAKING: Texas is relying on faulty and unreliable data from the Department of Homeland Security's "SAVE" system to illegally purge voters ahead of the midterms. This violates federal law. We’re filing a lawsuit.