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The settlement is best understood not on its own, but as the most prominent example so far of a trend toward using defamation litigation to counter election lies.
This ruling marks the first instance in which allegations that Dominion engaged in fraud have been declared false by a judge.
The clear parallels between the attacks in Brazil and the U.S. shed light on the challenges of responding to growing anti-democratic extremism on digital platforms.
What recent successful governance reforms teach about future reforms of the presidency.
Brazilian Supreme Court justices recently decided to intervene to prevent an authoritarian government, which could be the first move in a process of democratic consolidation or, by contrast, the seeds of a later autocracy using judicial authority in its favor.
The authority to both define state emergencies and exercise state statutory emergency powers rests almost entirely with America’s governors. When emergencies—real or supposed—and elections intersect, state executives could leverage their emergency powers to influence electoral outcomes.
The new bipartisan bill is a substantial improvement over the 1887 Electoral Count Act.
A review of Richard L. Hasen, “Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It” (Yale University Press, 2022).
This is the first criminal case brought by the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force, which was created in June 2021 to prosecute those making threats against election workers.
A judge denied motions to dismiss voting machine company Dominion’s defamation suits against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Lindell for their claims that it was involved in 2020 election fraud.