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Lexington lawmaker files three bills he says will improve Kentucky elections

A state lawmaker from Lexington has filed three bills he says would improve elections for Kentucky voters.

WEKU

Experts: How SCOTUS could bail out Trump

Media has “missed” key ways the right-wing court could decide the case without ruling on the merits, professor says

Salon

The Electoral College is a ‘bad’ and ‘undemocratic’ system. So why does the US still use it?

In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four leaders have been chosen by a minority of voters. The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes

The Independent UK

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2024 Polls: Biden falls behind with younger voters

President Biden is losing popularity with young voters – the same demographic that helped get him elected in 2020

The Independent UK

Trump's drumbeat of lies about the 2020 election keeps getting louder. Here are the facts

With Donald Trump facing felony charges over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

Political debates have turned into media circuses. It’s time for a new format.

These big-stage productions with huge audiences encourage all the worst tendencies among the candidates, rewarding the worst demagogues.

Chicago Sun-Times

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US election 2024: beware polling predictions as they can be wrong – but here's an approach which has often been on the money

Despite the avalanche of legal indictments, Donald Trump remains favourite to win the Republican nomination for the 2024 US presidential election. According to a poll reported by the website Real Clear Politics on August 19, he has a 41% lead over his main rival Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida,…

The Conversation

He learned from studying Hitler's speech

Burt Neuborne, one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, says Trump is copying Hitler's early rhetoric

Salon

New video shows Roger Stone ‘working to overturn 2020 election’

Video emerges day after Trump and 18 others indicted by Fulton County grand jury

The Independent UK

Here Is Why Trump's 'Contingent' Electors Say They Did Nothing Illegal

Republicans who participated in the scheme say they relied on legal advice grounded in historical precedent.

Reason

Michigan AG charges 16 people in fake electors scheme: 4 essential reads on how the Electoral College works

The Michigan attorney general on July 18, 2023, charged 16 people with felonies for participating in a 2020 fake electors scheme to interfere with the Electoral College and overturn their state’s presidential election results.

The Conversation

GOP officials call Nessel's Trump elector charges a 'witch hunt,' defend slate

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A group of Republicans on Wednesday defended 16 GOP electors for signing a false certificate claiming former President Donald Trump won Michigan in 2020, a day after Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel filed criminal charges accusing them of engaging in election fraud.

Tribune News Service

How the Supreme Court's conservative majority came to be

The 6-3 majority was solidified in former President Donald Trump's term, but its roots go back to the Bushes and the political circumstances of 1991 and 2005.

WEKU

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How the Supreme Court's conservative majority came to be

The 6-3 majority was solidified in former President Donald Trump's term, but its roots go back to the Bushes and the political circumstances of 1991 and 2005.

WEKU

What we've learned from pro-Trump attorney John Eastman's state bar trial

Attorney John Eastman was a key player in Donald Trump's legal efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The State Bar of California is now seeking to revoke Eastman's law license.

Salon

DOJ likely lost crucial Trump evidence

Not wanting to appear partisan, the Justice Department moved slowly and took a bottom-up approach to January 6

The Times of India

IOA ad-hoc panel calls five disaffiliated state wrestling units for hearing on June 21

NEW DELHI: IOA's ad-hoc committee, tasked with conducting the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections, on Monday called five disputed state bodies for a hearing on June 21 and also extended the last date to receive nominations for the constitution of the electoral college by two days.

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Biden plans a big push in the elusive state of North Carolina in 2024. Here's why

The Biden campaign plans to try to turn North Carolina blue in 2024. A Democratic candidate hasn't done that since 2008, but a win there would make it easier for Biden in the Electoral College.

WEKU

Ghost of William Jennings Bryan haunts Trump's next run for the White House

Comparisons between the two began cropping up early in 2016, right about the time former President Trump's candidacy was bringing the word "populist" back into the daily political conversation.

WEKU

There's a toxic brew of mistrust toward U.S. institutions. It's got real consequences

Republicans are lambasting Democrats' attempts at uniform ethics standards at the Supreme Court as partisan politics. It's just the latest chapter in a decline in national unity.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Trump isn’t Republicans’ only headache

Republicans have a big problem. No, not the guy who got indicted. At least not directly.

Salon

Minn GOPer: Democracy "not a good thing"

A spending bill in the Minnesota legislature would enjoin the state to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

Chicago Sun-Times

Our democracy is broken. Here’s how we can fix It

Our defects aren’t sources of shame — they are opportunities to improve.

Tech&Learning

Best Election Sites and Apps for Education

Teach U.S. elections, civics, law and history with these top election sites, apps and games.

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