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America’s Post-Roe Constitutional Abyss The states’ rights theory embraced by slaveholding states before the US Civil War and later used to defend racial segregation is again threatening civil rights and the underpinnings of the American state. The doctrine is part of a right-wing legal insurgency attacking everything from federal regulation to the electoral system. May…

Supporting local election officials will help protect our democracy | Opinion May 6, 2022 | Mary B. McCord and Ari Mittleman | Pennsylvania Capital-Star The very foundation of our democracy has been tested over the last two years. It has withstood the challenge so far, but the cracks are showing. A cornerstone that has helped…

Opinion: Most Americans don’t know about these secret presidential powers May 4, 2022 | William S. Cohen and Gary Hart | CNN The January 6 House Select Committee is steadily peeling back the layers of deceit and deception practiced by those who planned or participated in the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.…

The Card a Republican House Can Play That Turns Us Into a House of Cards | Opinion May 2, 2022 | Tom Rogers and Timothy E. Wirth | Newsweek We wrote a column early in 2020 describing how Donald Trump would attempt to steal the election by using Congress to overturn the legitimate Electoral College…

Big tech companies defend their hands-off approach to their platforms by arguing that they’re defending free speech. Geoffrey Stone, professor at the University of Chicago Law School; and Mary McCord, professor at Georgetown Law, join The Atlantic’s Rebecca Rosen for a conversation about free-speech standards on day two of a conference on disinformation and the…

Featuring Mary McCord, Keep Our Republic, David Thornburgh, Committee of Seventy,a nd Jonathan Winer, Keep Our Republic Although Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential Election by 306 to 232 votes in the Electoral College (and by 7 million in the popular vote), Donald Trump refused to acknowledge the result and instead led an unprecedented onslaught…

Prosecuting Trump and his Accomplices: Their Crimes and the Laws They Broke January 4, 2022 | Jonathan M. Winer | Washington Spectator After the first year of investigations into the January 6 insurrection, which the House in authorizing its Select Committee termed a “domestic terrorist attack,” there is extensive evidence that the assault was instigated…