David Strauss Part of Bipartisan Group Proposing Electoral Count Act Reforms
ALI-Convened Group Issues Proposals for Electoral Count Act Reform
At the invitation of the leadership of The American Law Institute, a group whose members span a range of legal and political views came together to consider possible Electoral Count Act (ECA) reforms. Despite holding diverse legal, political, and ideological commitments, the group is united by the belief that Congress should reform the ECA before the 2024 presidential election. The group has agreed on several general principles that should guide ECA reform, as well as specific proposals as to what ECA reform should seek to accomplish. Read the group’s complete set of principles here, and read ALI’s press release here.
The members of the group, selected for their deep and varied experience in law and government, are:
- Bob Bauer (NYU School of Law and former White House Counsel) (Co-Chair)
- Elise C. Boddie (Rutgers Law School, and former litigation director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and formerly a Justice of the California Supreme Court)
- Courtney Simmons Elwood (former General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency)
- Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School and former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel) (Co-Chair)
- Larry Kramer (President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and former Dean of Stanford Law School)
- Don McGahn (Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, and former White House Counsel)
- Michael B. Mukasey (former United States District Court Judge and former United States Attorney General)
- Saikrishna Prakash (University of Virginia School of Law)
- David Strauss (University of Chicago Law School)
Read more at The American Law Institute