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Podcast by Rick Hasen

What is the role of state courts in guaranteeing free and fair elections? Are federal courts better equipped to handle novel attacks on the...

How will federal and state court handle post-election disputes in connection with the closely contested 2026 midterm elections? Can the Spea...

Why is the FBI investigating voting from 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, years after false claims about election fraud have been de...
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...

How has the Supreme Court moved to the right in areas including voting rights and campaign finance? What is happening with “shadow docket” r...

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...

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...

How did campaigning and false information in campaigns change in the 2024 elections? What role did platform content moderation play in 2024?...

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...

What will the new Trump Administration and the new Congress do when it comes to voting rights and fair elections? What challenges face state...

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...

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...

Why do we have the Electoral College and is its use justified today? Why do Democrats and Republicans think differently about the Electoral...

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...

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...

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...

Why doesn’t the U.S. Constitution contain an affirmative right to vote? Can constitutional reform promote political equality, defuse the vot...

What are the costs for democracy when the Supreme Court decides cases on the “shadow docket?” Is the Purcell Principle a license for states...

Has the United States done enough to minimize the risk of election subversion in 2024? How might problems in Congress affect a fair tallying...

Do gag orders against presidential candidate Donald Trump in his civil or criminal trials violate the First Amendment? What should we make o...

Is the Roberts Court shifting on its protection of voting rights? How has the addition of three Trump-appointed Justices changed the nature...

Will the multiple indictments and expected trials of former President Donald Trump lead to violence or unrest? Are the risks of political vi...

What are the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Moore v. Harper for American democracy? What will the case mean for 2024 electi...

Why did two conservative justices on the Supreme Court join the Court’s liberals to save section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Allen v. Mill...

To what extent have abortion politics been the driver of campaign finance fights in the courts? How much of a force has anti-abortion lawyer...

How do Republican voters think about Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election? What are voters’ attitudes towards authoritarian...

Does our decentralized system of government create conditions to strengthen or weaken democratic institutions? Why have red and blue states...

Can an attempt an election subversion in the 1940s teach us how to handle current threats to American democracy? Do failed attempts to hold...

Did the 2022 U.S. midterm elections demonstrate that we have moved beyond risks to American democracy? What explains continued, persistent d...

Does former president Donald Trump know—and does he care—that the statements he has made undermining the integrity of the 2020 electionrun t...

What is the “independent state legislature theory,” and does a potential Supreme Court embrace threaten American democracy? Will use of the...

Will Congress pass bipartisan legislation to fix the Electoral Count Act, that Donald Trump tried to exploit in 2020? Is the new Electoral C...

Why has it gotten harder rather than easier to vote in the United States over the past decade? What can be done about the risk of stolen ele...

How did Wisconsin go from the gold standard for election administration in the United States to its laughing stock? What does the partisan i...

ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused...

ELB Podcast Episode 3:5: Bart Gellman, Jessica Huseman, and Margaret Sullivan: What Can (and Should) Journalists Do to Prevent Election Subv...

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...

Is the Voting Rights Act effectively dead as a superstatute? Is the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act the best way to protect minorit...

Is the United States at risk of election subversion and stolen elections? Is the key to secure American elections having people of integrity...

How will the new round of redistricting go, with late census numbers, courts refusing to police partisan gerrymanders, and a weakened Voting...

Is the state of Georgia going to disenfranchise voters over missing hyphens on voter registration cards? What can be done about new strict v...

Does Michael Cohen's guilty plea to campaign finance violations implicate the President in criminal campaign finance activity? What about th...

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 r...

What is the connection between Republican Party extremism before Trump and the rise of Trump? What kinds of economic and political reforms c...

Is the Supreme Court ready to finally rein in partisan gerrymandering? Can social science give us a manageable standard to decide when there...

In this era of polarization in politics, how much power does Congress have compared to the President and the courts? Is the Republican Congr...

Will earlier work to improve the voters' experience at the polls be abandoned thanks to unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud? Is the "Elect...

Is this year's concern about "election rigging" and violence at the polls unprecedented? Where do Donald Trump's claims fit within disputes...

Did Justice Ginsburg go too far in her comments against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump? Should comments like Justice Ginsburg's...

Is the American election system ready to handle 2016? Has the country done what it can to prevent long lines and election breakdowns? Can th...