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How to Steal a Presidential Election

How to Steal a Presidential Election

How might the presidential election be subverted? In this book, Lessig and Seligman work through the strategies, identifying ones that might work.

2024

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What this page is about

Therapy. I get stuck thinking about what seems obvious but never seems to change. Never seems to get fixed. I don’t mean big problems. I…

Feb 19, 2023

What this page is about

Feb 19, 2023

Where we go from here (#2): DOGE

In December, I offered first thoughts on this past election. As dark as these times seem, they promise enormous potential for those like me…

2d ago

Where we go from here (#2): DOGE

2d ago

The Right’s fight to silence “originalism”

The background: You may well have heard the word “originalism” used to describe the method of interpreting the Constitution by at least…

Feb 17

The Right’s fight to silence “originalism”

Feb 17

Where we go from here

Democrats are not understanding what happened in 2024. If they understood it, they would see its enormous potential for 2028.

Dec 14, 2024

Where we go from here

Dec 14, 2024

When words lose their meaning: “Efficiency”

Imagine you walk into a modal Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The lighting is bad; the lines are long; the people are miserable. Some…

Nov 23, 2024

When words lose their meaning: “Efficiency”

Nov 23, 2024

Afterthoughts: the next four years

(Updated: 11/23/24)

Nov 17, 2024

Afterthoughts: the next four years

Nov 17, 2024

Democracy in America (Today)

A letter to the EqualCitizens.US list

Oct 29, 2024

Oct 29, 2024

If Gen Y & Gen Z voted

In this paper, we (I and rising democracy reform star Maia Cook of Yale) model how the 2022 election would have turned out had people under…

Oct 18, 2024

If Gen Y & Gen Z voted

Oct 18, 2024

William Saunders: Why I Support SB1047

Guest essay

Sep 27, 2024

William Saunders: Why I Support SB1047

Sep 27, 2024

The slander of SB1047, redressed.

There is endless misinformation about California’s SB1047. I get it. Bills — even short bills — are hard to read. In the face of endless…

Sep 24, 2024

The slander of SB1047, redressed.

Sep 24, 2024

Our potentially catastrophic election mistake

The strategic game we’ve created that could flip a state’s results

Sep 10, 2024

Our potentially catastrophic election mistake

Sep 10, 2024

On the corruptions of arguments

There’s a firestorm raging around California’s Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act — aka SB1047…

Aug 11, 2024

On the corruptions of arguments

Aug 11, 2024

On Waiving Presidential Immunity

(first published at Slate)

Jul 31, 2024

On Waiving Presidential Immunity

Jul 31, 2024

Goldilocks Meets “Woke”

Barton Leach was a professor of law at the Harvard Law School. He joined the faculty in 1929. He died suddenly at the age of 71 in 1971…

Jul 24, 2024

Goldilocks Meets “Woke”

Jul 24, 2024

A Democrats’ Deliberation Day

Jul 21, 2024

A Democrats’ Deliberation Day

Jul 21, 2024

The case for Biden

Joe Biden insists it must be him. And he has an argument that may not persuade you he will win, but that should persuade you that he’s…

Jul 12, 2024

The case for Biden

Jul 12, 2024

Democratic Humble Pie

So I get it: This debate can’t go on forever, and at some point, the bullet must be bitten, and we must just do the best we can. I agree…

Jul 9, 2024

Democratic Humble Pie

Jul 9, 2024

Barrett, footnote 2, or Why Mr. Smith should stay in Washington

Across the history of Supreme Court opinions, some cases are known more for a footnote than for a holding (United States v. Carolene…

Jul 7, 2024

Barrett, footnote 2, or Why Mr. Smith should stay in Washington

Jul 7, 2024

The war on electors

Today, the Wall Street Journal published an essay of mine criticizing the war on presidential electors. The tl;dr is this:

Jul 2, 2024

The war on electors

Jul 2, 2024

Department of the Supreme Court

At the beginning of this year, I published this piece about the appropriate (institutionally, democratically) response to Dobbs. It’s a…

Jun 30, 2024

Department of the Supreme Court

Jun 30, 2024

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