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Lisa Marshall Manheim, associate professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, wrote in the Washington Post that “the litigation is legally incoherent, factually untethered, and based on theories of remedy that fundamentally misunderstand the electoral process,” predicting that it will fail.

The lawsuit, which is based on voter fraud allegations that lower courts have repeatedly rejected, has been widely derided by legal experts, who have deemed it “laughable,” “utter garbage” and, in the words of University of Washington law professor Lisa Marshall Manheim, “legally incoherent, factually untethered and based on theories of remedy that fundamentally misunderstand the electoral process.”

“At core, Texas is recycling legal claims that have already failed, but through a lawsuit that suffers from a whole host of additional procedural problems,” said Lisa Marshall Manheim, constitutional and election law professor at ºìÌÒÊÓƵ in Seattle.

The Supreme Court is sure to reject this latest attempt to overturn the election.

“I like to see the evidence,” Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington’s School of Law, said. “What’s the evidence that something’s working? And I’ve yet to really see that with digital contact tracing.”

The coronavirus vaccine could start becoming available within weeks. Could employers in Washington require their employees to get a vaccine for the coronavirus? Steve Calandrillo, professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.

Since it launched on Monday, more than 700,000 Washington residents have installed or activated the WA Notify app. But even as the rate of adoption climbs, will the exposure notification app make a difference? Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

Monday seemed like the end of President Donald Trump’s relentless challenges to the election, after the federal government acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden was the “apparent winner” and Trump cleared the way for cooperation on a transition of power. But his baseless claims have a way of coming back. And back. And back. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

Massachusetts may soon join more than a dozen U.S. states in offering a smartphone app that can warn users of possible exposure to people infected with COVID-19. But it’s far from obvious that the highly touted technology will actually help check the spread of the disease. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

As ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Professor Hugh Spitzer explained, state law empowers the governor to prohibit activities more often than requiring people to engage in them.

With President-elect Joe Biden’s transition officially underway on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers from Washington and Idaho mostly kept quiet or reiterated their support for President Trump’s effort to overturn the election results despite a growing number of their GOP colleagues walking away from the Trump campaign’s faltering legal challenges. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

After Seattle City Council voted yesterday on the 2021 city budget, partners in the Solidarity Budget coalition hosted a Facebook Live teach-in event to share perspectives and analyses of the close-to-official city budget. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

After hamstringing president Obama’s nominations for years, a Republican Senate during the Trump administration has packed the Supreme and federal courts with conservative judges (including in Washington’s 9th Circuit). How will that affect the state and region? Elizabeth Porter is associate dean at the University of Washington Law School, and a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The campaign's claims of voter fraud are also baseless, said Lisa Manheim, law professor at the University of Washington. "It's not clear that Trump even understands the basic logic of a lawsuit," she wrote. "To win a case, you need a claim, evidence and a remedy.

Legal scholars agree: At this point, the outcome of the 2020 election is no longer on the line — though the future of our democracy might be. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, says that voter fraud is a serious accusation that needs to be backed up by evidence.

The Trump campaign is challenging the results of the election in court, but so far is coming up short in proving allegations of voter fraud. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced Tuesday that they have chosen former assistant secretary for Indian Affairs and Chickasaw citizen Kevin Washburn to take charge of the team reviewing the U.S. Department of the Interior for the incoming administration.

Republican lawmakers from the Northwest have declined to accept President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and instead are backing a barrage of Trump campaign lawsuits, without directly endorsing the president’s allegation that the vote was rigged. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

After her release, when she became worried that she might start the cycle of drug abuse again, Simmons reached out to Shon Hopwood, then a University of Washington law student, who had been outspoken about his own conviction for bank robbery.

President Donald Trump continues to challenge the integrity of the election process, but legal experts say his claims are baseless. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.

As Joe Biden took the lead in key states on Friday, Donald Trump faced an uphill battle in his bid to secure re-election through the courts. Judges in several states hearing the Trump campaign’s election lawsuits have reacted with skepticism this week at what have been unsubstantiated allegations of voting irregularities. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, talks about the legal avenues the President has to challenge election results.

Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, talks about whether President Trump has a chance to win by challenging election results.

Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, comments on whether President Trump’s lawsuits will affect the outcome of the election.