Justin Levitt
@justinlevitt.bsky.social
If you're eligible & want to vote, making sure you can, it's meaningful, and it sticks. Pro-democracy, pro-republic. He/his. Loyola law prof, former WH, former DOJ, former Natl Voter Protection Dir, forever NJDevils fan
True, and disgusting.
And/but also:
And/but also:
Underappreciated silver lining of the pardons: I think Trump just pardoned everyone involved with the 2020 election, _including_ officials who fought to get it right.
Which means the threatened bullshit prosecutions related to the elections should also be dead.
Which means the threatened bullshit prosecutions related to the elections should also be dead.
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
True, and disgusting.
And/but also:
And/but also:
Important caveat there at the end tho.
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Important caveat there at the end tho.
Do I think they meant to do any of this? Nope.
But sometimes performative vindictive idiocy unintentionally yields some tasty lemonade.
But sometimes performative vindictive idiocy unintentionally yields some tasty lemonade.
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Do I think they meant to do any of this? Nope.
But sometimes performative vindictive idiocy unintentionally yields some tasty lemonade.
But sometimes performative vindictive idiocy unintentionally yields some tasty lemonade.
And particularly, I think this pardon cuts off the most unhinged aspect of Project 2025 relating to the elections: the promise to prosecute state officials under the Ku Klux Klan Act for correctly interpreting state law in order to _enfranchise_ eligible voters.
electionlawblog.org?p=148183
electionlawblog.org?p=148183
Pam Bondi, the 2020 election, Project 2025, and the Ku Klux Klan Act #ELB
Pam Bondi’s hearings start today. She’s applying for the job of Attorney General: the lawyer for the United States. Given the shifting loyalties and vindictive proclivities of the President-elect wh...
electionlawblog.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
And particularly, I think this pardon cuts off the most unhinged aspect of Project 2025 relating to the elections: the promise to prosecute state officials under the Ku Klux Klan Act for correctly interpreting state law in order to _enfranchise_ eligible voters.
electionlawblog.org?p=148183
electionlawblog.org?p=148183
A modest suggestion that courts have plenty of power to make federal officials forever-bankrupt for ignoring their orders, if they wish…
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Against a defiant White House, the courts should use this powerful tool
The centuries-old civil contempt authority gives the judiciary ample power to uphold the rule of law.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A modest suggestion that courts have plenty of power to make federal officials forever-bankrupt for ignoring their orders, if they wish…
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
You can’t “Radley” Radley and then turn around and do this, Greg.
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
You can’t “Radley” Radley and then turn around and do this, Greg.
Reposted by Justin Levitt
I don't think it's a coincidence that Kansas state legislators tonight announced that they don't have the votes to redistrict.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I don't think it's a coincidence that Kansas state legislators tonight announced that they don't have the votes to redistrict.