Lori Ringhand
@loriringhand.bsky.social
Law professor. Knows things about the Constitution and elections. Author of “We the Voters: The Constitutional Choices that Shape America’s Elections.”
Atlantic puffins typically live between 20 and 30 years in the wild. They are monogamous and mate for life, returning to the exact same burrows and partners each year. They perform a tender billing ritual by topping and rubbing their beaks together, reinforcing their bond
@juliacurlee.bsky.social explains why the political pressure now corroding the intelligence community is different from the ordinary friction between intelligence and policy, maps how politicization has led to ongoing policy disasters, and proposes reforms to restore the community’s integrity.
What They Want to Hear: The Politicization of U.S. Intelligence
A campaign of firings and clearance revocations is teaching the intelligence community that silence is the only job security.
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Yes, but who do they think should run elections in *other* states? 
Opinion Today@opiniontoday.bsky.social · 5d agoA large majority of Americans want their own states, rather than the Trump administration, to have the final say in how elections are run. (CBS News poll) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260731
The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China
His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.
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Georgia ballot audit finds 23 discrepancies out of more than 1.1 million ballots, Secretary of State says
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says a statewide ballot image audit confirmed the results of the June runoff elections and found a 99.9979% accuracy rate, with all identified discrepanci...
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And maybe we should also mention that it gave Congress a whole bunch of new power to protect this stuff?
The Story of Writing@sownow.bsky.social · 4w agoOn this day in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It is best known for guaranteeing full citizenship and its protections to Black Americans. It also includes guidelines on disqualifying candidates who participated in insurrection or rebellion against the government.
Thread on KY law from the guy who knows.
Josh Douglas@joshuaadouglas.bsky.social · 4w agoThese news reports are wrong. There is nothing in KY law saying a three-month deadline (that was partially in part of the law that was repealed). There are three relevant provisions: 17th A, KY Const. 152, which says Gov shall appoint, and HB 622, which calls for special election. But no timing.
Here is a link to the Fulton Co decision storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#37 in In re: Grand Jury Subpoena (N.D. Ga., 1:26-cv-02777) – CourtListener.com
ORDER GRANTING Fulton County's 1 Motion to Quash and DENYING the United States of America's 10 Cross-Motion to enforce grand jury subpoena. The Subpoena No. 2026R00350-1 is QUASHED and Fulton County i...
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This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.
I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law
As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...
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This seems to me the headline. I happen to think there’s a lot to be said for the legitimacy of incremental constitutional change through genuine movement-building over decades. This is something else entirely. Unworthy of a constitutional democracy.
Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · last mo.2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble
A lot of intra-Dem fighting is b/c factions are forced into competing in a single primary electorate. It'd be much healthier if it was openly a matter of each going out and winning its share of seats in accordance w/ its general election votes and then having an inter-party coalition shaped by that.
Always remember the majority of us are normal, and normal, even good, things still happen every day
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2mo ago“In Chattanooga, Tenn., locals are camping outside an Embassy Suites for glimpses of Spain’s national team. Residents of Lawrence, Kan., mastered the pronunciation of “Viva l’Algérie!” for Algeria’s team. And sightings of the Egyptian team out and about in Spokane, Wash., are being traded” #WorldCup
NEWSNATION: The Heritage Foundation has dug into this and they found a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of fraudulent voters over nearly 40 years of elections. Doesn't that tell you our elections are secure? SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN: I have not looked at the Heritage Foundation data
“The goals here appear to be to muddy the narrative, run up opponents’ legal bills and send a message to journalists that if you cover us critically, it’s going to cost you a lot of time and money.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/b...
Kash Patel Keeps Suing the Press
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The ToC for The Reconstruction Papers. Read more about it here and pre-order a print copy now www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...
Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US
For the "why is this taking so long" crew, LA County has more registered voters than 41 states.
Meaningful voting rights reform requires Supreme Court reform. The Court has repeatedly struck down voting rights protections enacted by Congress. @wuc3.bsky.social joined The Briefing with Michael Waldman to discuss: bit.ly/4vBwpPP
The only message not voting sends to a politician is that your opinion can be safely ignored because you will never hold them accountable. That's it. You can tell yourself not voting is good for your personal brand or your moral well being, but never pretend it makes a difference in the real world.
max0206.bsky.social@max0206.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you believe that not voting sends a message, you’re wrong. It just shows you’re out of touch. If you want change, you must go to the voting booth. Voting is your constitutional right to make changes to your government. Register to vote, help a neighbor, help someone get ID and register to vote
“Originalism,” the First Amendment, and money in politics. download.ssrn.com/2026/5/20/68...
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