I just compiled this list for other purposes and figured I might as well share it in light of the upcoming Jan. 6 anniversary. It’s a catalogue of my writings (together with a few podcasts) since November 2020 on topics of election law and process:

  • “No, State Legislatures Aren’t Going To Override The Popular Vote on Presidential Electors” (Nov. 6, 2020)
  • “The Framers Wisely Left Election Practice Decentralized” (Dec. 3, 2020)
  • “Don’t Count On The Supreme Court To Hear Any Election Challenges” (Dec. 4, 2020)
  • “Why Do Election Fraud Claims Fall On Receptive Ears?” (Dec. 7, 2020)
  • “Trump Cannot Stay In Power By Declaring Martial Law” (Dec. 29, 2020)
  • “In the Wake of the Pro‐​Trump Attack on the Capitol, Let’s Clarify What ‘Sedition’ and ‘Incitement’ Mean,” Cato Daily Podcast (Jan. 8, 2021)
  • “The 2020 Election and the Capitol Insurrection,” Free Thoughts Podcast (Jan. 28, 2021)
  • “House Democrats Go Fox Hunting” (The Dispatch, Feb. 24, 2021)
  • “Redistricting In Maryland — The Tentacled Horror of Gerrymandering,” You Don’t Have To Yell podcast, Mar. 4, 2021)
  • “Is H.R. 1 a ‘Voting Rights Bill’?” (Mar. 5, 2021)
  • “H.R. 1: The Overstuffed and the Skinny” (Mar. 22, 2021)
  • “H.R. 1: Cracks Appear In The Coalition” (Apr. 2, 2021)
  • “Why State Election Reform Bills Don’t Signal a New Jim Crow Era” (The Dispatch, Apr. 5, 2021)
  • “H.R. 1: When Is It OK for Partisans To Control An Elections Panel?” (Apr. 7, 2021)
  • “How Many of H.R. 1’s Provisions Are Unconstitutional?” (Apr. 20, 2021)
  • “Reasons To Like Ranked‐​Choice Voting” (May 7, 2021)
  • “ ‘Partly Constitutional’ Isn’t Enough: Senate Should Reject the ‘For the People Act’ ” (National Review Online, May 13, 2021), and related Cato at Liberty blog post, same day)
  • “Congress Should Clarify The Electoral Count Act Of 1887” (June 29, 2021)
  • “Protecting Our Electoral Institutions” (The Dispatch, July 13, 2021)
  • “Getting Serious About Election Reform” (July 19, 2021)
  • “Do Voter ID Laws Matter Much?” (Aug. 16, 2021)
  • “How Ballot Measures Fared” (Nov. 3, 2021; ranked‐​choice voting, other state and local election law questions)
  • “Governor’s Commission Proposed Fair Maps to End Gerrymandering” (Frederick News‐​Post, Nov. 13, 2021)
  • “A General Thought (And a Personal Update) on Gerrymandering” (Dec. 2, 2021)
  • “The Dos and Don’ts of Defending Democracy” (Nov../Dec. 2021 Cato Policy Report, a longer piece)
  • “In Final Weeks, Trump White House Searched For Excuses To Overturn Election Results” (Dec. 13, 2021)

The longest piece in the list happens to pull together themes and arguments found in quite a few of the others relating to election law reform as well as the aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021: it’s the one on “The Dos and Don’ts of Defending Democracy” from the recent (Nov./Dec.) Cato Policy Report.