Abstract: This technical report presents findings from a two-phase analysis investigating potential algorithmic bias in engagement metrics on X (formerly Twitter) by examining Elon Musk’s account ...

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From Sharma v. Hirsch, an opinion by Judge Wilkinson, joined by Judges Richardson and Rushing: The plaintiff here lodges a challenge to the felony-disclosure requirement for a candidate running for ...

After Donald J. Trump won the election this month, his supporters gravitated to a panoply of online destinations to celebrate. Hundreds of thousands of posts lauding Mr. Trump’s victory filled Truth ...

The theory of associational party building, which Didi Kuo and I have written about, started with my in-depth look at the work of Harry Reid in Nevada. It is perhaps not surprising then that of all ...

Before the Nov. 5 election, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that provisional ballots must be signed in two required places and that mail-in votes must be dated. Yet elected Democratic officials in ...

The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: https://papers ...

WaPo: The soon-to-be president, who vowed to shake up Washington, this week tapped several highly unconventional candidates for his Cabinet, pressured Senate leadership candidates to back his plans ...

Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., forthcoming 2024), draft available: Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: ...

WaPo: Muslims in Michigan began seeing pro-Israel ads this fall praising Vice President Kamala Harris for marrying a Jewish man and backing the Jewish state. Jews in Pennsylvania, meanwhile, saw ads ...

Bolts: Justin Heap, an Arizona lawmaker who has pushed for severe voting restrictions and whose campaign was led by an indicted 2020 “fake elector” for Donald Trump, has won control of one of the ...

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s analysis of local turnout data reveals a few interesting tidbits: It is much less clear that Trump made significant inroads with Black voters: “[D]espite significant ...