ELB Podcast 7:7 Protecting Voting Rights After Callais (Blencke, Katz, Perales, Ross)
How did the Supreme Court gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais? How will the decision affect Black, Latino, and Na...
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20 of 63 episodesELB Podcast 7:6 Can and Will Courts Ensure Free and Fair Elections in 2026? (Ringhand, Seifter, Vladeck)
What is the role of state courts in guaranteeing free and fair elections? Are federal courts better equipped to handle novel attacks on the...
ELB Podcast 7:5: Myths and Facts About Contesting the 2026 Midterm Elections (Foley, Green, Muller)
How will federal and state court handle post-election disputes in connection with the closely contested 2026 midterm elections? Can the Spea...
ELB Podcast 7:4: Greg Bluestein: Making Sense of the FBI Raid on Fulton County, Georgia Election Offices
Why is the FBI investigating voting from 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, years after false claims about election fraud have been de...
ELB Podcast 7:3: The Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act, and the 2026 Elections (Blencke, Katz, Ross)
What’s at stake for the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court in the pending Louisiana v. Callais case? Will the Court weigh in on the ques...
ELB Podcast 7:2: Leah Litman: (When) Is the Supreme Court “Lawless?”
How has the Supreme Court moved to the right in areas including voting rights and campaign finance? What is happening with “shadow docket” r...
ELB Podcast 7:1: The Risk of Federal Interference in the 2026 Midterm Elections
How likely is it that federal troops will be in United States cities on election day in 2026? Have federal agencies moved from allies of sta...
ELB Podcast 6:8: Danielle Lang: Is Trump’s Executive Order on Voting A Threat to Democracy?
What does the Trump executive order on elections purport to do? Why did a federal court put big parts of that executive order on hold? Does...
ELB Podcast 6:7: Combatting False Election Information: Lessons from 2024 and a Look to the Future (Marwick, Starbird, Tucker)
How did campaigning and false information in campaigns change in the 2024 elections? What role did platform content moderation play in 2024?...
ELB 6:6: What Do Documentary Proof of Citizenship Laws Accomplish? (Fontes, Olson, Perales)
Do documentary proof of citizenship laws stop a lot of illegal voting or suppress the votes of eligible voters? How have such laws been impl...
ELB Podcast 6:5: Fair Elections and Voting Rights: What Ahead in the Next Four Years? (Gardner, Karlan, Richer)
What will the new Trump Administration and the new Congress do when it comes to voting rights and fair elections? What challenges face state...
ELB Podcast 6:4:Katie Harbath: The Present and Future of Social Media, Politics, and Elections
How did social media’s treatment of election content change in the 2024 elections? What do Meta’s new announcements mean for politics and so...
ELB Podcast 6:3 From Nov. 5 to Jan. 6: Are We Prepared for a Fair and Safe Election?
What are the risks to a peaceful transition of power once all the votes have been cast? What can we learn from history and from other democr...
ELB 6:2 The United States Electoral College and Fair Elections (Fishkin, Hollis-Brusky, Muller)
Why do we have the Electoral College and is its use justified today? Why do Democrats and Republicans think differently about the Electoral...
ELB Podcast 6:1 Democracy and the Risks to the 2024 Elections (Aden, Fortier, & Roth)
How prepared are we for a peaceful transition of power in 2024 in light of what we witnessed in the 2020 elections? What hurdles stand befor...
ELB Podcast 5:8: Renee DiResta: Invisible Rulers and the 2024 Elections
What’s the difference between how Americans communicated about politics and policies 20 or 30 years ago and how we do it today? What are the...
ELB 5:7: Rick Pildes: The Two Ricks Discuss the Trump Immunity and Hush Money Cases
How should we understand the Supreme Court’s questions in the Trump immunity case? Will the Court let Donald Trump go to trial for 2020 elec...
ELB Podcast 5:6: Rick Hasen and Erwin Chemerinsky: A Real Right to Vote
Why doesn’t the U.S. Constitution contain an affirmative right to vote? Can constitutional reform promote political equality, defuse the vot...
ELB Podcast 5:5: Steve Vladeck: Trump, the Supreme Court and the Shadow Docket
What are the costs for democracy when the Supreme Court decides cases on the “shadow docket?” Is the Purcell Principle a license for states...
ELB Podcast 5:4: Ian Bassin & Jess Marsden: Protecting Democracy in 2024…and 2025
Has the United States done enough to minimize the risk of election subversion in 2024? How might problems in Congress affect a fair tallying...