Threats to U.S. elections—including disinformation, political violence, and other efforts to undermine public confidence in the election—have grown in recent years, and Lawfare’s coverage has grown with them. Find our articles, podcasts, and other projects on elections, and the efforts to subvert them, compiled below.
Please note that Lawfare’s coverage of related issues, including Section 3 challenges to former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to be a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, the federal prosecution of Trump due to his alleged actions to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election, the Fulton County prosecution of Trump and co-defendants to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, and the accountability efforts in Congress, the criminal courts, and civil litigation for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, have their own dedicated pages linked throughout this paragraph.
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Can the Promise of Reconstruction Be Fulfilled?
A Virginia suffrage lawsuit based on the Readmission Act offers a chance. -
Notes on the Durham Report: A Reading Diary
A section-by-section analysis of the “Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising Out of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns” of May 12, 2023. -
What the Media Has Learned Since 2016—And What it Hasn’t
The question is whether it learned those lessons well enough and how much difference this hard-earned wisdom can really make. -
A Tale of Two Insurrections: Lessons for Disinformation Research From the Jan. 6 and 8 Attacks
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The Lessons of the Electoral Count Reform Act: Next Steps in Reform
What recent successful governance reforms teach about future reforms of the presidency. -
From Fake News to Fake Views: New Challenges Posed by ChatGPT-Like AI
An infinite supply of plausible opinions from fake, AI-powered pundits threatens to crowd out genuine discourse.