Updates | The Week of April 17, 2017
The broken American political system that elected President Trump must restore the economic and political middle, argues Jamal Greene at Take Care.
The special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by now Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price may indicate an anti-Trump tide, reports the New York Times.
- President Trump tweeted that Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff “would be a disaster in Congress” (Politico).
When it looked as though Trump may lose the election, a Russian think tank suggested highlighting voter fraud in order to undermine confidence is the U.S. electoral system (Election Law Blog).
- Meanwhile, the Nevada Secretary of State believes 21 noncitizens could have voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election (Election Law Blog, HuffPo).
Kris Kobach seeks a stay from a judicial order to hand over documents from his meeting with President-elect Trump to an organization that argues his lobbying Trump to change federal law would amount to an admission that he cannot currently enforce the Kansas voter ID law (Election Law Blog).