Federalist Society Review, Volume 25 - August 2, 2024 - by Eric Criss
Recent political earthquakes such as the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 campaign quickly overshadowed the various court proceedings involving the former president. Tucked even further back in the corner of the electoral process is the litigation involving Georgia’s controversial election law, the Election Integrity Act (EIA). Nevertheless, issues such as absentee voting—a key element of the EIA litigation—are likely to reemerge. While many polls show Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris, the race remains tight, with most polls showing the candidates inside the margin of error. Winning the competition for absentee ballots in battleground states like Georgia could mean the difference between winning and losing the entire election in 2024.
Georgia’s Election Integrity Act, passed in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, was an immediate source of controversy.[1] News outlets and corporate leaders pounced on the law, conflating justifications for the EIA with Donald Trump’s claims that the Georgia election was stolen.[2] Major League Baseball even pulled the All-Star Game from Atlanta. And yet, both Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger denied that widespread voter fraud occurred in 2020—a stance that created a rift between Kemp and Trump.[3] Nonetheless, President Joe Biden described the EIA as “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” and “an atrocity,” announcing the Justice Department was “taking a look” at the measure.
Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association
Vol. 61, No. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 133-161 (29 pages) (Subscription Required or Alternate Free Access through JSTOR)
Martin Behrman is one of the most consequential and least remembered of America’s big city “bosses.” Orphaned as a young boy, he survived to reign as mayor of New Orleans from 1904-1920, and again in 1925 for a brief period before his death. As both mayor and boss of the political machine known variously as the “Choctaw Club,” the “Ring,” and the “Regulars,” his influence extended to state and national politics. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Behrman and the Choctaws leveraged patronage and city contracts to attain a level of hegemony rivaling Tammany Hall in New York.1 Eventually, however, the machine lost power to New Orleans reformers and later, to Huey Long. This decline began with the fight over Storyville and the New Orleans Navy Yard during World War I.
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