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ELB Podcast Episode 3:5: Gellman, Huseman, Sullivan: Journalists and Election Subversion from 2022-01-27T15:32:29
ELB Podcast Episode 3:5: Bart Gellman, Jessica Huseman, and Margaret Sullivan: What Can (and Should) Journalists Do to Prevent Election Subversion and Another January 6?
How can journalist...
ELB Podcast Episode 3:4: Pam Fessler: The Voting Wars and the Media, Then and Now from 2021-11-09T00:30:35
Can the United States continue to run free and fair elections amidst a sea of election disinformation? What has the path of the voting wars looked like since the disputed 2000 election? How should ...
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ELB Podcast Episode 3:3: Guy Charles: Race and Election Law in Today's United States from 2021-10-11T22:44:33
Is the Voting Rights Act effectively dead as a superstatute? Is the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act the best way to protect minority voters in the United States? Are the dangers of electio...
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ELB Podcast Episode 3:2 Brad Raffensperger and Isabel Longoria: The Risk of Election Subversion from 2021-09-28T00:00
Is the United States at risk of election subversion and stolen elections?
Is the key to secure American elections having people of integrity running them?
What role can law play in protecti...
ELB Podcast Episode 3.1: Nate Persily: A Redistricting Season Like No Other from 2021-08-18T22:59:53
How will the new round of redistricting go, with late census numbers, courts refusing to police partisan gerrymanders, and a weakened Voting Rights Act? Will redistricting cost Democrats control of...
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ELB Podcast Episode 2.3: Kristen Clarke: Voter Protection in the 2018 Midterms from 2018-10-17T00:00
Is the state of Georgia going to disenfranchise voters over missing hyphens on voter registration cards? What can be done about new strict voting rules, such as the North Dakota residential address...
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ELB Podcast Episode 2.2, Bob Bauer: Unpacking the Trump Campaign Finance Allegations from 2018-08-23T16:57:03
Does Michael Cohen's guilty plea to campaign finance violations implicate the President in criminal campaign finance activity? What about the defenses that the President has raised to these charges...
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ELB Podcast, Season 2: Episode 1. Dale Ho: From the Trenches of the Voting Wars from 2018-08-03T03:48:15
After a long hiatus, the ELB Podcast is back in time for the midterm election season with a great first guest!
What is the state of voting rights in America? What did the ACLU's lawsuit ag...
ELB Podcast Episode 19: Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein: Trumpism, and America, After Trump from 2017-10-20T00:00
What is the connection between Republican Party extremism before Trump and the rise of Trump? What kinds of economic and political reforms can best preserve American democracy? What will life after...
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ELB Podcast Episode 18. Eric McGhee and Nick Stephanopoulos: Efficiency Gap from 2017-09-03T18:26:06
Is the Supreme Court ready to finally rein in partisan gerrymandering? Can social science give us a manageable standard to decide when there's too much politics in redistricting? Is the "efficiency...
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ELB Podcast Episode 17:Josh Chafetz: Congress’s Power Before, During, and After Trump from 2017-06-19T00:00
In this era of polarization in politics, how much power does Congress have compared to the President and the courts? Is the Republican Congress a meaningful check on President Trump? How well does ...
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ELB Podcast Episode 16. Bob Bauer: The Danger of Trump's "Election Integrity" Commission from 2017-05-25T04:24:45
Will earlier work to improve the voters' experience at the polls be abandoned thanks to unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud? Is the "Election Integrity" commission established by President Trump ...
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ELB Podcast Episode 15: Ned Foley: Ballot Battles, Past, Present, and Future from 2016-10-27T00:12:03
Is this year's concern about "election rigging" and violence at the polls unprecedented? Where do Donald Trump's claims fit within disputes over American elections? Have we as a country gotten bett...
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ELB Podcast Episode 14. Erwin Chemerinsky: Did Justice Ginsburg Cross the Line? from 2016-07-18T23:46:26
Did Justice Ginsburg go too far in her comments against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump? Should comments like Justice Ginsburg's be protected by the First Amendment, and would they be g...
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ELB Podcast Episode 13: Thomas Hicks and Matthew Masterson: Surviving Elections 2016 from 2016-07-10T18:16:41
Is the American election system ready to handle 2016? Has the country done what it can to prevent long lines and election breakdowns? Can the U.S. Election Assistance Commission help Democrats and ...
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ELB Podcast Episode 12. Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein: From Political Dysfunction to Trumpism? from 2016-05-10T00:00
Has the country moved from a period of deep political dysfunction to something bordering on authoritarianism, with the rise of Donald Trump? Does the rise of Bernie Sanders on the left mean Democra...
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ELB Podcast Episode 11. Lee Goodman: FEC Commissioner with Libertarian Outlook from 2016-03-27T23:39:27
How does a Commissioner on the Federal Election Commission skeptical of regulation enforce the law? Is there a sound basis for limiting foreign money in elections? Why does the FEC deadlock along p...
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ELB Podcast Episode 10: Janai Nelson: Minority Voting Rights in 2016 from 2016-03-10T04:51:34
What has happened to African-American voting rights after the Supreme Court's 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder? Can the Voting Rights Act still protect minority voting rights in states such...
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ELB Podcast Episode 9. Ben Ginsberg: The Republican Nomination Battle for President from 2016-01-10T23:53:19
Will the Republican presidential nomination fight go beyond the primaries to a contested convention? Are the rules Republicans passed to assign delegates going to lead to chaos? What's different ab...
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ELB Podcast Episode 8. Pam Karlan: Voting Rights in America, 2016 from 2015-12-17T05:07:58
What is the state of voting rights in the United States as we approach the 2016 elections? Has the loss of a key portion of the Voting Rights Act thanks to the Supreme Court's Shelby County decisio...
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ELB Podcast Episode 7 Ellen Weintraub: The Future of Money in Politics, and of the FEC from 2015-12-04T04:44:14
What is the state of campaign financing in the U.S.? How have things changed in the Citizens United era? Is the Federal Election Commission dysfunctional, and if so do personalities or ideology exp...
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ELB Podcast Episode 6. Nate Persily: Can the Supreme Court Handle Social Science In Election Cases? from 2015-11-07T02:55:41
Can the Supreme Court handle social science evidence in election law cases? Will lack of good data determine the outcome of the Supreme Court's upcoming one person, one vote decision in Evenwel v. ...
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ELB Podcast, Episode 5. Nina Perales: Latino Voting Rights Struggles in Texas and Beyond from 2015-09-12T00:00
What is the state of Latino voting rights in the state of Texas and beyond? What's happening with the never-ending redistricting litigation in San Antonio, raising questions about whether Texas dis...
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ELB Podcast, Episode 4. Bruce Cain: Author Meets Critics from 2015-09-07T00:00
Have efforts to reform the American political system backfired? Do changes in rules for campaign financing, redistricting, government transparency and election administration have unintended and un...
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ELB Podcast Episode 3: Larry Lessig: Bold Campaign Reformer or Don Quixote? from 2015-08-30T00:00
Larry Lessig for president? The campaign finance reformer considers throwing his hat in the ring and proposes being president only long enough to pass a package of election reforms. What does Lessi...
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ELB Podcast Episode 2: Floyd Abrams, Citizens United, Free Speech, and the Supreme Court from 2015-08-26T00:00
In Episode 2, we talk with leading First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams about the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, free speech, democracy and the academy.
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ELB Podcast Episode 1: Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot from 2015-08-11T03:43:03
The ELB Podcast: Episode 1
Interview with Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot
by Rick Hasen of the Election Law Blog