Earlier this morning, the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied the Trump Campaign’s petition to overturn, on various grounds, Joe Biden & Kamala Harris’s popular-vote victory in the state. (As a matter of law, the state’s high court affirmed a prior judgment and order against the Trump Campaign in the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County, Stephen A.…
Elections
Elections, Trump
Trump: The O.J. Simpson of 2020
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
David Lauter of the Los Angeles Times aptly describes Trump: Trump says he’s combatting fraud in the election. But, like O.J. Simpsonclaiming to be searching for the “real killer,” there’s no sign of an actual investigation. The filings in courts around the country from Trump and his allies have featured a pathetic lack of actual…
America, Elections, Law, Trump
Michigan
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2020 Presidential Election, America, Coronavirus, Culture, Documentary, Economy, Elections, Film, Trump, Voting Rights
Frontline: A Nation in Turmoil (Full Film)
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Filmed across the country this past year by a production team headed by Mike Shum and Blair Woodbury, “American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil” captures the diverse perspectives of a number of people — a pastor, a barber, a doctor, an activist and more — as they deal with COVID-19 in their communities, respond to…
America, Authoritarianism, Conspiracy Theories, Elections, Law, Trump, Unfit
Attempts
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When a burglar walks through a neighborhood, and tries doorknob after doorknob to see which one might be unlocked, no reasonable person would say that his attempts to enter are innocent acts. On the contrary, he’d rightly been seen as dangerous. In the same way, when Trump challenges election results through lies, his attempts to…
America, Elections, History, Law, Presidential race 2020, Voting Rights
Voting by Mail
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Elections, Law, Presidential race 2020, Voting Rights
Count Every Vote
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Elections, Presidential race 2020, Republicans, Trump, Voting Rights
GOP Election Lawyer Ben Ginsberg: My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump
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Veteran election lawyer Ben Ginsberg writes My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump: President Trump has failed the test of leadership. His bid for reelection is foundering. And his only solution has been to launch an all-out, multimillion-dollar effort to disenfranchise voters — first by seeking to block state laws to ease…
2020 Presidential Election, Elections
Frontline: Whose Vote Counts (Full Film)
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In this documentary with Columbia Journalism Investigations and USA Today, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb reports on allegations of voter disenfranchisement, how unfounded claims of extensive voter fraud entered the political mainstream, rhetoric and realities around mail-in ballots, and how the pandemic could impact turnout. With director June Cross, the Fred W. Friendly Professor of…
City, Elections, Law, Local Government
Election Information for Whitewater, Wisconsin
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Please see information from the City of Whitewater about voting in the upcoming election — The City of Whitewater is committed to making sure every voter who is eligible to vote can do so. Citizens are encouraged to choose the voting option that works best for them. Here are some key dates and facts to…