Updates | The Week of September 18, 2017
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity led by Vice President Pence won’t improve U.S. election integrity, write Francisco Cantu and German Feierherd at the Washington Post.
Calamitous election outcomes bring reform proposals; one such proposal is Professor Larry Lessig’s litigation to establish that states may not allocate Electoral College votes on a winner-take-all basis, writes Bob Bauer at More Soft Money Hard Law.
Documents show that a Trump nominee for Deputy United States Trade Representative may have voted illegally (NYT, WaPo).
The Senate Judiciary Committee should question Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the DOJ’s connection to President Trump’s voter fraud commission, argues the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights (The Hill).