NAME OF EVENT: One Week Out: The Legal Landscape of Election 2020 (This event has been approved for 1 hour of MCLE credit.)

DATE | TIME | LOCATION: October 27, 2020 | 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET | Briefing Call

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: A moderated discussion on the 2020 election cycle. Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the way many Americans will cast their ballot, but longstanding norms that have governed political actors' conduct during elections have already been undermined. With the narrative and legal landscape surrounding the election seeming to shift by the hour, many questions have arisen as we enter the final week of voting. What should we expect on Election Night and the weeks to follow? How could ongoing litigation impact the administration of the election in these final days and could it impact the outcomes? What have we seen from the Supreme Court recently on election-related matters and how might that change with a new Justice on the bench?

SPEAKERS’ NAMES AND BIOS:

Lindsay Langholz, Director of Policy and Program, ACS, Welcome Remarks Jonathan Mehta Stein, Executive Director, California Common Cause, Moderator Kat Calvin, Founder and Executive Director, Spread the Vote Jonathan Diaz, Legal Counsel, Campaign Legal Center Daniel Tokaji, Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law, University of Law School

AGENDA OF CONFERENCE CALL:

5 minutes introduction 35 minutes speakers’ presentations 20 Q&A

MATERIALS FOR CALL:

Nick Corasaniti, Kenneth P. Vogel, Luke Broadwater & Hailey Fuchs, As Courts Back Broad Mail- In Voting, DeJoy Apologizes for Missteps, N.Y. TIMES, Sept. 17, 2020.

Josh Douglas, The scary part of the Supreme Court ruling on 's mail-in ballots, CNN, Oct. 20, 2020.

Edward B. Foley, A Big Blue Shift: Measuring an Asymmetrically Increasing Margin of Litigation, 28 J.L. & POL. 501 (2013)

David Gans, The Roberts Court, The Shadow Docket, and the Unraveling of Voting Rights Remedies, ACS ISSUE BRIEF (Oct. 2020). On the Issues with Michele Goodwin: Can the President Suspend the Elections? MS. MAGAZINE (Sept. 28, 2020)., 2020).

Richard L. Hasen, In a 4-4 Split, the Supreme Court Lets Pennsylvania Make Voting Easier—for Now, SLATE, Oct. 19, 2020.

Eoin Higgins, As More States Turn to Mail-in Voting, Problems Pop Up Across Country, APPEAL, Oct. 8, 2020.

Carrie Levine and Matt Vasilogambros, How One Tribe is Fighting to Vote Early, CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY, Oct. 8, 2020.

Marie Tae McDermott, What to Know About Voting by Mail in California, N.Y. TIMES, Sept. 28, 2020.

Amber McReynolds & Charles Stewart III, Let’s put the vote-by-mail ‘fraud’ myth to rest, HILL, Apr. 28, 2020.

Jennifer Steinhauer & Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Election Officials Are Preparing for Potential Unrest at the Polls, N.Y. TIMES, Oct. 7, 2020.

Pete Williams, N. Carolina GOP asks Supreme Court to roll back extra time for accepting mail-in ballots, NBC NEWS, Oct. 22, 2020.

Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar, No. 20A54 (Oct. 19, 2020).

People First of Alabama v. Merrill, No. 20A67 (Oct. 21, 2020).