Manoj Mate
@manojmate
Law prof @ Univ. at Buffalo | Constitutional Law, Election Law and Voting Rights, Democracy and Governance, Comparative Con Law, Courts and Judicial Politics, Law and Society. Posts and opinions my own.
48.2 percent of Wayne County in, El-Sayed closes margin in Wayne to less than 9 percent (12,242 votes). Ali Velshi says that there is still a large number of early vote left to be counted that will favor Stevens, but that outstanding vote in Hamtramck and Highland Park will favor El-Sayed.
Looks like large amount of votes just came in from Detroit and Wayne County, Stevens now leads by almost 30 percent in Wayne County, but El-Sayed leads statewide 49.7 to 46.7.
Here are the vote totals from Washtenaw County: El-Sayed leads Stevens 70 to 29 percent with 22 % of vote in.
Jackson's dissent highlights the barbarity of LDOC's treatment of Landor in violation of his constitutional rights even as he brought a copy of the Ware decision.
Raman now only trails Pratt by less than 7,500 votes, still about 194k votes to count.
NYT: CEO Pay soars while wages of rank and file lag - here's the top 10. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/b...
NYT now upping its euphemistic game in using the term "highly unusual plan" to describe slush fund.
With 47 percent of vote in, Stratton leads Krishnamoorthi 38.6 to 33.2 by nearly 32k votes. Now up by 10 points in Cook county (69 percent in). Krishamoorthi leading in Chicago suburbs but margins there may not be enough to overcome deficit in Cook.
Stratton now leads Krishnamoorthi 38.4 to 33.3 by more than 23,000 votes statewide, leads by more than 31k in Cook alone
Stratton surges into a very narrow lead now with more votes coming in from Cook, leads Krishnamoorthi 37.3 to 36.0
Talarico now has taken the lead with 52.2 percent with 31.16 percent of precincts in. www.ms.now/elections/20...
Very close races in Texas, Crockett leads Talarico 51.7 to 47 with 13.54 percent of vote in. Cornyn leads Paxton 44.5 to 39.2, headed to a likely runoff if trends continue.
NYT/Siena Poll: 49 percent say they are worse off than a year ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
The fact that this headline is buried somewhere down the middle of the page highlights just how many horrific things are all happening at the same time.
My article "Elections, Courts and Democratic Crisis: Constitutional Structure and the 2020 Election" has now been published in the @uchilegalforum.bsky.social symposium issue on "Law in Times of Disaster." legal-forum.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...
This is a key passage from Judge Xinis opinion re: removal noting that government misled tribunal regarding Costa Rica's willingness to accept Abrego Garcia.
Like we saw in November, there were massive swings toward Democrats from 2024 to today's TN-7 special election, mostly double digit swings in most counties and a 25 point swing in Davidson County
Van Epps barely winning Montgomery County 51 to 47 in this race, a county the GOP won by almost 20 points in 2024.
Aftyn Behn has pulled into the lead 53 to 45.8 percent with 42 percent of the vote in