Derek Muller is a journalist and host of the Analytics on Fire Podcast. His work has also been featured in The Gazette | Cedar Rapids. Derek's articles primarily focus on legal issues, including voting rights, ballot access disputes, and constitutional law.
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By: Paul Caron, Derek Muller
I recently pulled data from Professor Brian Leiter ’s extraordinarily helpful list of law school hires. I looked at the last six years, 2019-2024, to see if there were any interesting trends.... There has been a sharp uptick in lateral hires, from 68 in 2019, to 99 in 2020, up to 153 in 2022 and 155 in 2023, tapering off a bit last year....
Virginia has around 5,800,000 active registered voters. In , about 1600 voter registrations are in dispute–about 0.02% of the total registered voters. (And of course, while not all registered voters vote, many of these disputed voter registrations might never be used.)
By: Derek Muller
Wonky civil procedure decision today (that is, Republicans filed in state courts and would have preferred to stay there; the board removed to federal court and wanted to stay there) in (lightly revised):
In the midst of so many disaster scenarios and worries ahead of this election, it's worth noting that the more that risks are overstated, the more legitimate those risks appear. It's been disappointing to see many stories (too many to aggregate, but I did a bit here ) continuing to overstate those risks.
By: Derek Muller
One more story to watch in Pennsylvania, from the Former President Donald Trump's campaign is planning to file a lawsuit against Bucks County
By: Derek Muller
There have been some doomsday scenarios about activities state legislature might engage in after Election Day. A little context (and a long blog post!) may help explain why state legislatures are not free to do whatever they'd like, contrary to some right-leaning and left-leaning commentary over the last few weeks.
Ugly election administration scene and legal dispute playing out in Pennsylvania, here reported by Katie Bernard, Jeremy Roebuck, Sean Collins Walsh, and Fallon Roth at the Philadelphia Inquirer
By: Derek Muller
From , an opinion by Judge Wilkinson, joined by Judges Richardson and Rushing:
By: Derek Muller
From the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania's decision , a unanimous three-judge decision (lightly revised):
By: Derek Muller
That's the headline from the Associated Press The Electoral Count Reform Act pushed back the date the electors meet by one day to allow an
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