Election Security
The Lessons of the Electoral Count Reform Act: Next Steps in Reform
What recent successful governance reforms teach about future reforms of the presidency.
Bob Bauer served as White House Counsel to President Obama. In 2013, the President named Bob to be Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. He is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law, as well as the co-director of the university's Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic. In 2020, he served as a senior advisor to the Biden campaign.
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What recent successful governance reforms teach about future reforms of the presidency.
Congress has made it harder for presidents to replace a fired or acting inspector general with a non-independent official.
Calls for the Department of Justice to judge the political implications and consequences of a potential Trump prosecution are misplaced.
The new bipartisan bill is a substantial improvement over the 1887 Electoral Count Act.
The big reveal from Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony and the Jan. 6 hearings that nobody’s talking about.
Deceptive campaign tactics and dirty tricks cut more deeply into democracy when a president—rather than any other candidate—engages in them.
Bill Barr volunteers his disturbing view of John Durham’s mission.