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Derek Muller

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1116 Eck Hall Of Law
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Professor of Law

  • Election law
  • Federal courts
  • Voting rights
  • Election administration
  • Legal education
  • Civil procedure

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Public Notice

September 17, 2026

Alito shrugs off a mountain of evidence that allowing the administration to operationalize this scheme would cause chaos, airily asserting that “twelve States supported the rule below and asserted that compliance at this time is practicable.” As Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller pointed out, that’s a blatant distortion of the record.

September 15, 2026

“The court didn’t have to explain that it was disinclined to side with the government on the merits, but it did that, and that is a sign for the future,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor.

September 14, 2026

“There’s a suggestion on the election administration side that no one really thinks this is going to be implemented,” said Derek Muller, an elections law professor at Notre Dame. “And a lot of the litigation is just theatrical at this point.”

September 04, 2026

Derek Muller, a professor at the Notre Dame Law 91视频 in Indiana, recently examined which law schools produced the most professors over the past decade on his Substack, the Law 91视频 Docket. Using hiring data compiled by Sarah Lawsky, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign, Muller examined where professors who were hired between 2017 and 2026 had received their law degrees.

September 03, 2026

Notre Dame law professor Derek ‌Muller, 鈦爓ho tracks bar exam trends, said the decline is likely to fuel speculation that over-reliance on AI for studying and an increase in student accommodations in law school were factors. Students who use AI shortcuts in law school may not be gaining the foundational knowledge they need to pass the bar, Muller 鈥媠aid, though he cautioned that 鈥媔t's too early 鈦爐o tell. He also said law schools tend to be more generous with accommodations — such as extra time on tests — than bar examiners, meaning test takers 鈥媤ho are accustomed to those accommodations might struggle to perform under the 鈥媡ime pressure of 鈦爐he bar exam.

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September 03, 2026

Derek Muller is a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame and joins the show to discuss the potential impact.

September 03, 2026

“The Court has repeatedly said we’re worried about intruding on how states run their elections,” said Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频.

Above the Law

September 03, 2026

Professor Derek Muller of Notre Dame Law 91视频 recently took a look at which law schools produced the most professors over the past decade at his Substack, Law 91视频 Docket. Using hiring data compiled by Illinois Law professor Sarah Lawsky, Muller examined where professors hired between 2017 and 2026 received their law degrees.

The Mirror

September 02, 2026

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University, likened the win as "the first inning of a very fast nine-inning game."

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August 31, 2026

Derek Muller, Notre Dame law professor: "So several months ago, President Trump issued an executive order asking, among other things, the Department of Homeland Security to develop some lists of citizens to help states determine whether or not they're non-citizens on their voter rolls, and gave the Postal Service some instructions to update its system for mailing absentee ballots and requiring states to submit a list to the Postal Service to say who could or could not be receiving those ballots."

Spectrum News

August 27, 2026

“I think it’s unlikely that the Postal Service rule goes into effect simply because of the significant logistical hurdles that have to be overcome by the beginning of September, when states start mailing out these ballots,” said Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频.

Northeast Times

August 27, 2026

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University, said the fight is far from over. “This is just the first inning of a very fast nine-inning game,” Muller said.

American Press

August 27, 2026

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University, said, “This is just the first inning of a very fast nine-inning game.”

Washington Times

August 27, 2026

Still, legal experts across the spectrum, including UCLA’s Rick Hasen and Notre Dame’s Derek Muller, doubt the changes actually reach voters by November. More lawsuits are expected first.

August 26, 2026

“It seems like the rule is more significant than the solicitor general is suggesting,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame.

August 25, 2026

“This is just the first inning of a very fast nine-inning game,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University.

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August 25, 2026

I do want to welcome a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame. Derek muller joins us now. Derek, good to have you with us.

August 14, 2026

The jumble of lists confuses even election-law experts like Derek Muller of the University of Notre Dame. “It is quite unclear to me how the various lists are supposed to interact with one another,” he says. Part of the confusion regards timing. The deadlines for the federal government sending lists to the states and the states sending lists to the USPS are both 60 days before an election, which seems to make it difficult for the former to inform the latter.

Raw Story

August 03, 2026

As Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller explained, "Purcell has more weight when you are enjoining a state rule because of federalism concerns."

August 03, 2026

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame who is an expert on election law, agreed. “Purcell has more weight when you are enjoining a state rule because of federalism concerns,” Muller said. “That on its own is a powerful distinction” from a federal election policy.

Votebeat

August 03, 2026

Still, “I think everyone agrees that it’s not going to be implemented for 2026,” said Derek Muller, an elections specialist at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频. “The logistics are so horrific.”

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July 17, 2026

Joining me now to discuss: Derek Muller, law professor at the University of Notre Dame

July 13, 2026

“We like to have stable rules in advance of the election for voters and for election administrators, so anything that disrupts that stability is problematic,” said Derek Muller, an election-law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

July 10, 2026

“Excluding candidates who engage in deception in their efforts to appear on the ballot is hardly new,” Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller recently wrote. “The courts routinely permit states to filter out candidates who are ‘frivolous.’ Indeed, the Supreme Court has been quite clear on this issue.” On that point, he says, Judge Matthews’s holding “should be explicitly reversed by the Alaska Supreme Court.”

July 08, 2026

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in election law, said it’s not clear the 50-state letter means anything except to restate some parts of the law, with a request to follow up, “which I’m sure many states will ignore.”

July 06, 2026

“He has a tremendous amount of power,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor. “It feels like every big case, it’s constantly Chief Justice Roberts.”

July 06, 2026

Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who specializes in election law, said he saw a legal logic to the court’s moves. “The Supreme Court is stepping back from cases in Alabama and Louisiana. It’s not issuing a rule to alter the rules of the election,” Muller said. “It’s allowing the legislatures to issue the rules they want.”

July 06, 2026

“Justice Alito had a hand in many of the most influential decisions, held together majorities and continued to write in ways that advanced many of the conservative legal movement’s causes over the last 50 years,” said Derek T. Muller, a professor and election law expert at Notre Dame’s law school. “It’s a vote of confidence from the chief, and suggests a respect for his mind, his craft and his ability to keep a majority together in high-profile cases in which the justices might divide on how broadly they want to resolve something,” said Sherif Girgis, a law professor at Notre Dame who was a law clerk for the justice.

Roll Call

July 02, 2026

Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, said at the same event that through its current majority, Roberts has wielded a large amount of power over the high court. “I think he’s the deciding vote in some cases, but he also controls the opinion assignment in many of the biggest cases,” Muller said.

San Francisco Chronicle

July 02, 2026

“It’s been a mixed bag for Repub­lic­ans,” said Uni­versity of Notre Dame law pro­fessor Derek Muller. But the pres­id­ent, he added, “has come up mostly empty-handed.”

July 02, 2026

"He has a tremendous amount of power," said Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller, a leading scholar of election law and federal courts. "It's a convergence of factors that's allowed him to write about things he's long cared about, sometimes for the administration, sometimes against."

The Center Square

July 02, 2026

Derek Muller, a law professor at the Notre Dame 91视频 of Law, said numerous election cases decided throughout the term showed the high court’s desire to step away from litigating the political process. He said the court’s decision to strike down party spending limits, push back against racial gerrymandering, and allow late mail-in ballots are examples of shifting attitudes. “There's a theme in all these cases to say courts are stepping back from the political process, states can handle these issues. If Congress speaks, it has to speak pretty explicitly,” Muller said. Muller said Watson v. RNC, where justices on the high court allowed Mississippi to accept and count ballots received after Election Day, shows the court’s unwillingness to deal with the political process. “Even if this case had come out the other way, you wouldn't get faster counting in most of these jurisdictions,” Muller said.

June 30, 2026

“It’s been a mixed bag for Republicans,” said University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller. But the president, he added, “has come up mostly empty-handed.”

Washington Examiner

June 29, 2026

Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame election law professor, told the San Francisco Chronicle that quo warranto actions are rarely used in modern election disputes, making the city’s standoff an unusual test of how courts handle elected officials who refuse to leave office after a successful recall.

June 29, 2026

Derek T. Muller is a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame.

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June 29, 2026

Derek Muller, an election law professor at Notre Dame, said earlier this year that if the SAVE Act were passed, it would be one of the most significant nationalizations of elections in American history.

Foreign Policy Journal

June 08, 2026

University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller noted that, had it passed, the act would have been “among the most significant nationalization[s] of elections in American history,” marking a sharp break from the traditional Republican opposition to federal oversight of voting.  Muller argued in a March blog post that the bill’s failure may still carry lasting consequences for how both parties approach election policy at the federal level. “It does strike me that the debate has shifted from whether to nationalize elections to how, at least for many Republicans,” Muller wrote, adding that even in failure, the act could make it “much easier” for Democrats to pursue similar nationalization efforts when they next hold power.

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June 04, 2026

Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller has an equally critical, but less apocalyptic, view. He says the court seems to want to wash its hands of political cases, the result being maximum gerrymandering, whether the state is Alabama or California. He too sees the court's most recent decisions in voting rights cases as limiting how Congress can go about protecting minority voters. That said, there are ways that Congress could still act, he says. "Even if you did very simple restrictions, such as…you can only engage in redistricting once a decade or you can't change the rules for redistricting more than a year before an election. Those are ways to prevent some of the opportunism we have," Muller observes.

June 01, 2026

Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, said on social media there are “major” issues about whether the plaintiffs will be allowed to sue. But he said the hearing schedule will give both sides time to present full written arguments for Brinkema to consider before the government can take any irreversible steps to create the fund or distribute funds.

May 21, 2026

University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said the recent decisions shared a similar idea: restoring state legislative action that 鈦爃ad been blocked by a lower court. The cases, Muller acknowledged, may inject uncertainty into elections due to their timing. "But it's not because the court has changed the rules," Muller said. "It's because the court has stepped back and allowed the legislature to act."

May 14, 2026

In explaining how the court may feel it is acting consistent with the Purcell principle, Derek Muller, an election law expert at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, said it does not apply when a court is lifting an injunction, as the Supreme Court did this week in allowing Alabama to move forward with its preferred map, which had previously been blocked. While he acknowledged the court’s recent decisions have favored Republicans, giving fuel to critics, Muller noted that the court would face scrutiny whenever it acted.

April 23, 2026

If Democrats win the House by a dozen or so seats with wide margins across several states, there is not much to do but “throw a tantrum”, says Derek Muller, an expert in election law at the University of Notre Dame. 

April 20, 2026

As Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller notes, this puts 270 plausibly within reach for the first time. “If Michigan (15), Pennsylvania (19), Wisconsin (10), and Nevada (6) all tip toward Democratic trifectas” — meaning Democratic control of the governorship and both houses of the legislature — “that’s 50 EVs,” he observes. If each of those states ratified the NPVIC, it would control an Electoral College majority — 272 votes out of 538 — and the compact, by its own terms, would go into effect.

Politifact

March 23, 2026

Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor, wrote in the Election Law Blog that "literally nothing more than an affidavit would suffice in these circumstances. This should dramatically alleviate — if not wholly eliminate — the concerns about name changes."

February 16, 2026

Derek T. Muller, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

January 15, 2026

“This is an effort to separate even more formally from the brand of the ABA, which is quite obviously in the crosshairs of the current administration and which faces significant opposition in some states,” said University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller. Those changes may still not be enough to assuage concerns over ABA accreditation from states such as Texas and Florida, Muller said.

January 15, 2026

Federal judges — including Republican appointees — have been retiring at an unusually slow pace since Trump’s second inauguration, according to federal data and research by Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who has tracked vacancies by recent presidential administrations.

November 25, 2025

That reading of the pardon’s text is believable, said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, about the request Laiss’s lawyers were making. “Here you’ve got kind of a broad set of conduct and an undefined group of individuals who are protected,” Muller said in an interview. “It’s quite plausible to read this and suggest that anyone involved in voting for slates of presidential electors in 2020 has now been pardoned.”

Roll Call

October 27, 2025

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 who focuses on election law, called the case a “surefire loser” where the courts were unlikely to decide to step in to help. “She won her election, and she ought to be sworn in. That is a separate question from whether a court can step in and force the issue,” Muller said.

September 24, 2025

University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller has been tracking the political contributions of lawyers and staff at large law firms for more than a decade. He first wrote about the topic in 2013, based on data from the 2012 presidential election, then revisited it in 2021, looking at the period from 2017 to 2020. This year, Muller updated his research yet again.

August 26, 2025

Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller, who has opposed the plan in public comments to the ABA and on his blog Excess of Democracy, welcomed its pause. “Anything that delays this costly proposal is a positive development,” Muller said.

August 20, 2025

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the idea of seizing voting machines in 2020 was a sign of how few levers the president has to influence an election, not of his power. Under the U.S. Constitution, elections are run by states and only Congress can “alter” the procedures — and, even then, for federal races alone. “It’s a deeply decentralized system,” Muller said.

August 18, 2025

“The president doesn’t have any unilateral authority over election devices, and the states principally control presidential elections,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. 

August 11, 2025

The Rucho decision was part of a larger trend, said Derek T. Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame. “These developments reflect a federal judiciary increasingly unwilling to engage in judicial review of the political process,” he said. “And political actors in response are flexing the new power they have.”

August 08, 2025

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said Democrats are likely to argue that they are in fact representing their constituents by doing everything in their power to deny Republicans the ability to redraw the state’s congressional map.

Democracy Docket

August 06, 2025

Along the way, the Court continued to weaken the VRA, leading Notre Dame Law Professor Derek Muller to conclude after the Court’s 2021 decision in Brnovich v. DNC that “it is perhaps only a small overstatement to say that the Court is less interested in plaintiffs’ election law challenges than at any point since the 1940s and 50s.” 

Raw Story

August 05, 2025

In May, Notre Dame Law Professor Derek T. Muller pointed to a slowing of bench retirements since Trump was re-elected, noting the "exceedingly slow pace of retirements in the second Trump administration, disproportionately low."

August 04, 2025

Abbott could not remove lawmakers on his own and would need the courts to go along with his plan, according to University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller. While Abbott and other Republicans could argue that the Democrats had abandoned their duties, those lawmakers would have a chance to make the case that they were representing their constituents by denying the majority the quorum it needs to operate, he added.

August 01, 2025

But Derek Muller, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, told OSV News that Talwani’s order was “aggressive and broad.” “It orders the president to spend money Congress has expressly forbidden it to spend,” he said.

The Washington Times

July 28, 2025

Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said that precedent is clear, suggesting the independent voters challenging these state rules are likely to lose.

July 11, 2025

University of Notre Dame Law Professor Derek Muller spoke with FOX News' Will Cain on the recent Supreme Court rulings and Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent.

June 27, 2025

President Joe Biden gained 57 openings, both current and future, between January 1 and June 1 of his first year in office, according to Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who tracked the early pace of vacancies for recent presidencies using the US Courts’ archived data. George W. Bush had 30 during the same time frame, while 29 opened for Obama.

June 23, 2025

A 2023 analysis of law school debt-to-income ratios by Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller had found that at more than a quarter of American Bar Association-accredited law schools, graduates had a median cumulative debt that was more than twice their annual income one year after graduation.

June 04, 2025

Data from Notre Dame Law professor Derek Muller shows that federal judges are retiring at a record-slow pace at the beginning of Trump’s second term. 

May 08, 2025

University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said a small number of illegal voting activity cases are prosecuted around the country every year, and they “tend to be isolated incidents and not at large scale.” They are rarely at a level that would affect the outcome of a race, he said. “That doesn’t mean it isn’t serious,” Muller said.

The Times

May 05, 2025

“The plain text of the 22nd amendment makes it very clear — you cannot be elected to a third term. So that is clearly off the table,” Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said. 

Fox 6

April 25, 2025

鈥嬧�婦erek Muller, a professor of election law at Notre Dame, noted that the , which was ratified in 1804, says "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

Newsbreak

April 24, 2025

Election law scholar and University of Notre Dame law professor Derek T. Muller said, “It reads like somebody who doesn’t want to be treated like a lame duck and is throwing it out there right now.” He added, “It’s really hard to be a lame duck president or to be treated that way, and people are talking to you like your term’s already over.”

April 14, 2025

Notre Dame Law professor Derek Muller agreed, saying the rulings are “pretty small ball in the large scheme of things.”

WFAE/NPR

April 10, 2025

According to Notre Dame constitutional law professor Derek Muller, the president can unquestionably do certain things in his order, such as direct the attorney general what to investigate or instruct the U.S. Department of Justice to prioritize enforcement in certain areas.

April 02, 2025

Derek Muller, a professor of election law at Notre Dame, told The Associated Press: "I don't think there's any 'one weird trick' to getting around presidential term limits. A lame-duck president like Donald Trump has every incentive in the world to make it seem like he's not a lame duck."

HuffPost, Yahoo! News

April 02, 2025

And Notre Dame professor Derek Muller has argued there isn’t “any ‘one weird trick’ to getting around presidential term limits,” suggesting Trump’s rhetoric is, as a “lame-duck president,” just intended to “show as much strength as possible.”

April 01, 2025

Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the Constitution's 12th Amendment says "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice-president of the United States".

April 01, 2025

“It reads like somebody who doesn’t want to be treated like a lame duck and is throwing it out there right now,” said Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and a scholar in election law. “It’s really hard to be a lame duck president or to be treated that way, and people are talking to you like your term’s already over.”

April 01, 2025

"I don't think there's any 'one weird trick' to getting around presidential term limits," Derek Muller, a professor of election law at Notre Dame, told the Associated Press.

March 31, 2025

Derek Muller, a professor of election law at Notre Dame, noted that the 12th Amendment, which was ratified in 1804, says “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

March 31, 2025

Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and a scholar in election law, said there has been a dissenting view about the provision of the 22nd Amendment — which focuses on being “elected” president without addressing the idea of ascending to the office. However, he said, such a route would be complicated by the 12th Amendment.

March 07, 2025

Barrett defenders have fought back, with Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who studied under Barrett, saying in an interview he doubted she would be affected by the negative reactions.

March 07, 2025

“It doesn’t have the neutrality, whether actual or perceived, that it might have once had,” Derek Muller, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, said of the ABA. “It’s just lost its influence more generally as a result.”

February 13, 2025

There would be no similar questions about the meaning of the 22nd Amendment, said Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频. “You would not have the factual disputes, so it would be much wider,” Muller said of the number of states keeping Trump off their ballots. “I’m not persuaded the Supreme Court is going to roll over.”

January 06, 2025

“Congress has often changed the date of counting electoral votes in the past, when January 6 fell on a Sunday or for other matters of convenience. The date is not fixed by the Constitution but chosen by Congress and can easily be moved,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

January 02, 2025

Derek Muller, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, said the Constitution gives the House the authority to organize itself, which would give members enough legal wiggle room to find a way out of what would be an unprecedented situation.

Washington Reporter

December 17, 2024

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December 02, 2024

There’s a collegiality, a kindness and a lack of an edge,” said law professor Nicole Garnett, a close friend of Barrett’s from their years as colleagues and neighbors, and the driving force behind the school’s success in placing law clerks at all levels of the judiciary.

November 22, 2024

Gaetz specifically stated in his resignation letter that he did “not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress,” which Notre Dame law professor Derek T. Muller said on X Thursday is “enough to trigger a vacancy” for the spot Gaetz won in reelection under House precedent.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

November 21, 2024

The boards’ decision, however, was unusual, said Derek Muller, an election-law expert at the University of Notre Dame. “In theory, the board should just exclude the ballots and then let the contestant go sue,” Muller said.

November 20, 2024

“It’s very much the customs and habits that candidates and the federal government do,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor and expert on presidential transition.

WAMU/NPR

Audio

November 15, 2024

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November 05, 2024

“The testimony does suggest the PAC saw the sweepstakes as an inducement to get voters to register, which would run afoul of federal law,” said Derek Muller, a CNN contributor and election law scholar who teaches at the University of Notre Dame. “This testimony could be used if the Department of Justice later brought charges in federal court.”

November 04, 2024

That process, in and of itself, would be “disruptive” and “problematic,” Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, previously told The Hill. But it could also result in a scenario that the American public hasn’t seen in over 200 years.

Video

November 04, 2024

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November 01, 2024

Derek Muller, who teaches election law at the University of Notre Dame, said the number of votes potentially affected by each pre-election case is "very small" -- 1,000 or 2,000 voters or ballots.

November 01, 2024

“Congress does not have the capacity in the [Jan. 6] joint session to do so,” said Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame constitutional law expert. “Because Congress is not in a position to decide the matter, Congress should count the votes.”

November 01, 2024

“Certainty and finality are valuable,” Notre Dame election law professor Derek Muller said. “That means, unfortunately, reason-giving takes a back seat in the heat of the moment.”

October 31, 2024

“Musk has the right to remove this to federal court if there is jurisdiction, but with removal comes delay,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert who teaches at Notre Dame Law 91视频. 

October 31, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, told CNN that state legislatures would have to first repeal their laws that dictate how elections operate before appointing electors directly.

October 31, 2024

Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor and presidential transition expert who testified in favor of the legislation, said it ensures that potentially two candidates get backing for transitions, with one eventually falling away. He said that’s preferable to having a situation where no transition support is released to either side — which can spark delays leading to national security lapses.

October 30, 2024

“They’ll do everything they can to avoid resolving disputes after the election,” said Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. “Their hand might be forced if it comes down to one very closely contested state. But my assumption is that they will prefer the political process to play out and avoid as much as possible weighing in.”

October 30, 2024

Derek T. Muller, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

Roll Call

October 30, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame , said the Supreme Court generally avoids stepping into high-stakes litigation surrounding the elections, but that may not always be possible.

October 29, 2024

“There’s just an increasingly vanishing domain of cases the court wants to hear in these election law contexts,” said Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame election-law professor. 

October 28, 2024

Research by prominent elections-law scholars (Derek Muller at the University of Notre Dame, Richard Hasen at UCLA and others) shows a steep...

Philadelphia Inquirer (Subscription required)

October 28, 2024

...or you think it's not,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert at the University of Notre Dame.

Audio

October 28, 2024

Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller joins “Cases and Controversies” to explain what states and courts are doing to try to avoid such a situation ahead of Nov. 5, and get his take on what would make high court intervention unlikely and what scenario might trigger a review.

October 22, 2024

Professor Derek Muller of Notre Dame Law 91视频 said giving people rewards that require them to be registered to vote could be seen as an inducement for those who aren’t already registered to do so — something that happens to align with Musk’s broader goals right now.

October 21, 2024

“It’s not even just the parties — it’s outside organizations, and they’re fundraising on how they’re able to protect democracy, how they’re able to preserve the integrity of the election, whatever it might be,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert and professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频. “They have wealthy donors who are backing this litigation. So there doesn’t seem to be any de-escalation in sight.”

October 21, 2024

Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频, told CNN Politics: "When you start limiting prizes or giveaways to only registered voters or only people who have voted, that's where bribery concerns arise." Muller said that offering cash prizes exclusively to registered voters could be interpreted as giving cash for voter registration, which is prohibited.

October 21, 2024

“When you start limiting prizes or giveaways to only registered voters or only people who have voted, that’s where bribery concerns arise,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert who teaches at Notre Dame Law 91视频. “By limiting a giveaway only to registered voters, it looks like you’re giving cash for voter registration.”

October 18, 2024

You can try to have Congress object, and so forth,” University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said.

October 09, 2024

The notion that a lone board could hold up a state by refusing to certify is "this crazy fantasy that has merged the right and the left,” said Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor.

October 07, 2024

Derek T. Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor and an expert in election law, said the Supreme Court would probably have little appetite to wade into election challenges if the margin of victory is by at least three or four states, because the loser would have to win challenges in multiple states to claim a win.

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October 03, 2024

Election law disputes are possible but unlikely, according to Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University. 

Roll Call

October 03, 2024

Election law disputes are possible but unlikely, according to Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Video

October 03, 2024

Rebecca Roiphe, CBS News legal contributor, Derek Muller, law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, and Robert Legare, CBS News Justice Department reporter, join with analysis.

October 02, 2024

Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 and an expert on election law, discusses the barrage of lawsuits filed by Republicans challenging election rules and processes.

Video

September 24, 2024

Derek Muller, professor of law at Notre Dame Law 91视频, joins "America Decides" to unpack the rule changes being pushed through by pro-Trump election officials in Georgia and the potential legal challenges.

September 24, 2024

“It’s a clever strategy,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor specializing in election law. “You’re looking for the circuits that are going to be most hospitable to your claims.”

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September 23, 2024

That’s Derek Muller. He’s a professor at Justice Barrett’s alma mater Notre Dame. And his scholarship focuses on election law.

September 18, 2024

“Now it seems hard to find any of the largest firms that are right-leaning,” said Derek Muller, election law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频. “It’s just been a kind of slow and steady drift over the last several presidential cycles.”

September 12, 2024

By the same token, although there have been instances of officials at the county level refusing to certify local votes, Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, points out that, in the end, all the relevant deadlines have always been met.

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September 12, 2024

Notre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller

September 05, 2024

“When you have all this money to spend on litigation, you end up litigating less and less important stuff,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University.

September 04, 2024

Derek T. Muller, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

The Dispatch

September 03, 2024

“There are ways in which you could sort of say they’re sort of comporting with existing rules and nothing interesting or remarkable has happened,” Derek T. Muller, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor who focuses on election law, told The Dispatch. 

August 27, 2024

“The problem is, these cases are always in an emergency posture, so you’re always dealing with short fuses,” said Derek Muller, a professor and elections expert at the Notre Dame Law 91视频. “But the court just seems not interested in adding more details about its basis for granting or denying.” 

August 26, 2024

But professor Derek Muller of Notre Dame Law 91视频 noted that the third-place finisher must actually win an electoral vote — not just finish in third place in the popular vote.

Miami Herald

August 23, 2024

If no candidate reaches 270 votes — including in the case of a 269-269 tie — then the election is settled by the newly elected Congress through what is known as a “contingent election,” Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, told McClatchy News in an email.

 

August 16, 2024

“It’s definitely pushed litigants to try to sue early in the cycle and move quickly,” said Derek Muller, a professor at University of Notre Dame Law 91视频.

August 05, 2024

"The closer it is, you know, the more pressure is going to come to bear," said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame University law professor who advised the Senate on drafting the 2022 legislation.

Ohio Capital Journal

July 30, 2024

“I think both sides are right,” Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said with a laugh.

July 29, 2024

Derek Muller, a U.S. election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频, described the proposal as “a great thought experiment but very different than our tradition of voting,” especially with recent shifts in discussions around voting eligibility that emphasize capability. 

July 26, 2024

Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who is an expert on election law, said in an email: “Democrats do not have a nominee yet.

The Dispatch

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July 25, 2024

Sarah and David are joined by Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller, who teaches “Presidential Nominations in a Time of Uncertainty,” to discuss the legality of swapping out (presumptive) party nominees, the potential consequences of doing so, and the complexity of state election laws at-large.

July 24, 2024

But now that he actually has stepped down, moving forward with the virtual roll call will help preempt the same questions of ballot access for Harris or any other nominee, according to Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

July 24, 2024

"I think there's low likelihood that anyone even sues, much less that anyone will be successful," Derek Muller, a professor at University of Notre Dame who specializes in election law, told CBS News.

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July 23, 2024

Legal law expert and professor at Notre Dame, Derek Muller, fills us in on legal analysis.

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July 23, 2024

University of Notre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller discusses the evolving presidential situation

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July 23, 2024

Interview with Notre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller

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July 23, 2024

While the Indiana Election Calendar gives a July 15 deadline to withdraw, election law expert professor Derek Muller from Notre Dame Law 91视频 said that the deadline and another one for Aug. 1 are for state elections — and that exempts presidential candidates.

July 23, 2024

Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, said that any such challenge would fail because no Democratic presidential candidate has been formally nominated by the party yet. 

July 22, 2024

Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said campaigns are often well ahead spending money before the FEC or courts decide what’s allowed, pushing the final answers until after Election Day.

July 22, 2024

“There’s different dimensions to this,” said Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame. “One is what the Trump campaign itself wants to do, versus what third parties or proxies want to do.”

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July 22, 2024

Election law expert Derek Muller explains how President Biden's decision affects election law.

July 22, 2024

Mr. Biden's decision to step aside before the Democratic convention, which begins on Aug. 19 in Chicago, could bring some chaos, said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in election law. 

CBC

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July 22, 2024

Canada Tonight's Travis Dhanraj speaks with U.S. elections expert Derek Muller.

Roll Call

July 22, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University who specializes in election law, wrote on social media Sunday that there is a “high degree of uncertainty right now.

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July 22, 2024

 For electors “in 49 states and District of Columbia, a Harris-Newsom ticket is not a problem,” said Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频.

Radio Iowa

July 22, 2024

Derek Muller is a national election law expert who left the University of Iowa a year ago to join the law school faculty at Notre Dame.

July 17, 2024

Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said Democrats could face litigation in states like Washington where accepting provisional nominees is a decision made by the secretary of state and not codified in law.

July 12, 2024

“If you try to substitute after the deadline, but before ballots are printed, that’s where it opens a universe of litigation that Democrats do not want to get into,” Derek Muller, a specialist in election law at the University of Notre Dame, told DealBook.

July 11, 2024

Derek Muller, an election-law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said that a lawsuit based on Howell’s theory “would not go to discovery. 

July 08, 2024

Derek T. Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame, said the nature of Justice Barrett’s jurisprudence is evident from an assessment of the whole of her work on the court. 

July 02, 2024

University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said the decision makes it harder to prosecute presidents but does not give them a pass.

July 01, 2024

Trump still could face a trial, said Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller. “But the fact remains that it is almost impossible to happen before the election."

July 01, 2024

Stepping aside before the Democratic convention is legally easy but politically difficult, said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in election law. 

July 01, 2024

Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 and an expert in election law, affirmed the view that the high court makes it "exceedingly unlikely any trial will happen before Election Day."

July 01, 2024

On the first ballot, “we would see if anybody gets a majority, and then if nobody gets a majority, there would be another round of voting”, said Derek Muller, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频.

June 28, 2024

Derek Muller, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor, said the effect of the decision "may be somewhat limited" for other Jan. 6 rioters.

June 28, 2024

“It will be a much tougher case to argue that he impaired an official proceeding if the prosecution must also show that it related to the destruction or alteration, or related activities, of documents,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

June 28, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame, said changing nominees would legally be straightforward from a legal perspective because there is no official nominee yet and no ballots have been printed.

June 28, 2024

"It will be a much tougher case to argue that he impaired an official proceeding if the prosecution must also show that it related to the destruction or alteration, or related activities, of documents," said Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller, an election law scholar.

June 26, 2024

“Presumably, for Democrats, they would pick [vice-president] Kamala Harris,” said Derek Muller, professor at the University of Notre Dame's law school.

June 20, 2024

Derek T. Muller, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频 who studies election law, told me that the Kennedy campaign's case for collusion may not be particularly strong. 

June 19, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, said having an independent candidate like Kennedy on stage may make for a more substantive debate.

June 17, 2024

“Florida is a large state and a state that you hope to carry,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. 

June 10, 2024

Derek T. Muller, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

KITV

June 07, 2024

And then once their state parties submit those names to the secretary of state," Notre Dame election law professor Derek Muller told Island News.

Des Moines Register

June 04, 2024

"You can’t challenge somebody for being a felon for federal office because that’s not one of the qualifications listed in the Constitution," Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, previously told the Des Moines Register.

June 04, 2024

Adams’ lawsuit could also backfire and prove that the certification process — a previously mundane and “ministerial” task that election deniers have hijacked in recent years — is not up to the discretion of officials like Adams, says Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 who has written about the issue of local certification of elections.

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June 03, 2024

ABC57 Anchor Brian Conybeare sits down with University of Notre Dame Law Professor Derek Muller, to discuss the guilty verdict from the Donald Trump hush money trial and what possibly comes next.

May 31, 2024

"There's a wide understanding that the qualifications listed in the Constitution are exclusive - that is, we can't add to those qualifications," said Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

May 30, 2024

And law professor Derek Muller raised questions about the debate criteria in a post for the popular legal site, Election Law Blog.

May 23, 2024

Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor, said the power of the electors’ platform alone should not be discounted. 

May 09, 2024

“It would lead to a pretty significant, potentially — I won’t call it disastrous — but disruptive election process if it does happen,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

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May 09, 2024

Notre Dame University election law expert Derek Muller said it would be a safer bet for Democrats to continue seeking a legislative remedy.

May 06, 2024

In states where ballots have already been printed or mailed, the party could instruct voters – and electors – to treat the names at the top of the ticket “as hieroglyphics”, said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

May 06, 2024

"As the campaign sees and recognizes that these are very convenient vessels out there, it's a clever move, and it's not a surprise they do it," Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame professor specializing in election law, told ABC News.

The Bulwark

May 01, 2024

And after they vote, it is really a matter for Congress to determine,” said Derek T. Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor and an expert in election law.

April 22, 2024

"There's a lot of deep legal contestation over what happens next. I mean, in my judgment, I think it needs congressional consent," Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, told ABC News.

April 11, 2024

The willingness to bring more marginal legal cases reflects how the amount of money being put toward election litigation has increased significantly, said Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame who noted that the trend also applies to Democrats and outside groups across the ideological spectrum.

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April 11, 2024

Derek Muller, a professor at the University of Notre Dame's law school who focuses on election law.

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April 11, 2024

Elections law expert Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, discusses the many lawsuits over voting rules that have already been filed. 

April 04, 2024

Political parties’ legal expenses have skyrocketed to $154 million in 2022 from around $5 million in 2003, according to data compiled by Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. 

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March 26, 2024

Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Derek Muller and CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett join with analysis.

March 20, 2024

Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor, said he wouldn’t be surprised if Section 3 litigation eventually targets people for reasons well beyond Jan. 6.

Roll Call

March 20, 2024

And another from Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on election law, urged the court to be precise in any opinion that leaves authority to Congress in that area.

March 20, 2024

Projections of the rankings by Spivey, Pepperdine Law Dean Paul Caron, and Notre Dame professor Derek Muller suggest New York University 91视频 of Law this year would drop to either No. 10 or 11 from the current No. 5 without a change in methodology.

March 18, 2024

... Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 who has written about the issue of local certification of elections.

Arizona Mirror

March 18, 2024

Even with their claims of new evidence, Derek Muller, a professor of law at Notre Dame Law 91视频, told the Arizona Mirror that he believes the case is “a longshot.” 

March 08, 2024

Derek Muller of the University of Notre Dame reckons that “it's not difficult” to get on the ballot in 30 states.

March 08, 2024

University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller agreed the majority opinion left the question muddled.

March 06, 2024

“It appears the court is limiting how Congress goes about enforcing Section 3 through legislation, which may also limit Congress if it attempts to refuse to count electoral votes,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频.

March 05, 2024

“I think today’s opinion will at least close the door on some of that discourse,” said Derek Muller, a constitutional scholar at the University of Notre Dame.

March 05, 2024

Derek Muller, an election law professor at Notre Dame, said in a statement the Supreme Court decision today "shuts the door on any exclusion of Trump from the ballot in any state, either in the primary or the general."

March 05, 2024

Derek Muller, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor closely following the case, said the court’s decision “does not resolve the contentious insurrection issues, which will remain live and disputed in the public domain in the months to come.

March 05, 2024

Notre Dame election law professor Derek Muller agreed that the majority’s opinion “would close the door to some post-election challenges that might otherwise be left open by the decision.”

Colorado Public Radio

March 05, 2024

“Colorado can’t do this and really no other state can do this in the primary or general election,” said Derek Muller, a constitutional law expert and law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频. 

March 04, 2024

“This decision does not resolve the contentious insurrection issues, which will remain live and disputed in the public domain in the months ahead,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor. 

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March 04, 2024

CBS News election law contributor David Becker and Derek Muller, professor for Notre Dame Law 91视频, discuss the legal aspects of the ruling.

March 04, 2024

otre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller said the contentious insurrection issue will "remain live and disputed in the public domain in the months to come."

The Conversation

March 04, 2024

As Notre Dame election law scholar Derek Muller observed: "States are the ones who have the primary responsibility of running presidential elections.

March 04, 2024

Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频, said it seemed the majority wanted to "close that door."

March 04, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University, said “it seems no,” noting that the liberals complained that the majority ruling forecloses any other ways for Congress to enforce the provision.

March 04, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University, disagreed that the court opened the door to a post-election challenge, noting that the liberal justices in their opinion complained that the majority ruling forecloses any other ways for Congress to enforce the provision, according to the AP.

March 03, 2024

Given the justices’ apparent consensus during oral arguments, it’s taking longer than many people anticipated for a decision, said Notre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller, who has been closely following the ballot eligibility issue.

AEI

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February 15, 2024

Co-hosts John Fortier and Don Palmer are joined by Rick Hasen (Professor of Law at UCLA Law) and Derek Muller (Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law 91视频), to discuss Trump v. Anderson.

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February 13, 2024

Law Professor at the University of Notre Dame and nationally recognized scholar in the area of election law, Derek Muller, joins to share more on the fallout from former President Donald Trump's appeal and what it means for the January 6th federal case.

February 13, 2024

If Trump wins in November, it’s possible some Democrats would try to reject votes cast for Trump, said Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame who has followed the case closely. 

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February 09, 2024

Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Derek Muller and Harvard Law 91视频 professor Lawrence Lessig join "America Decides" to unpack how the justices seemed to be responding.

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February 09, 2024

Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, and Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discuss the Supreme Court oral arguments on Colorado's removal of Trump from the ballot.

February 09, 2024

Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who has been closely following the case, said Thursday’s arguments showed both liberals and conservatives on the court are “uncomfortable with the notion that it was going to be the decider here.”

February 08, 2024

“I don’t think [the court] wants to be involved in these disputes,” the University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller told the Guardian’s Sam Levine in his excellent preview of the hearing. 

February 08, 2024

“Trump’s briefing so far has really leaned into the argument that the presidency is not an office of the United States, which means that presidency is not covered by Section 3, and therefore, this whole case should disappear,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame who filed a brief in the matter.

February 08, 2024

Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said on Bloomberg Law’s “Cases and Controversies” podcast that the question of whether Jan. 6 was an “insurrection” for purposes of the Section 3 involves “a lot of deep in the weeds factual questions.”

The Conversation

February 08, 2024

The Conversation’s senior politics and democracy editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with Notre Dame election law scholar Derek Muller after the oral arguments.

 

February 08, 2024

Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频 who that offered analysis of key legal questions, said after the hearing that the justices are likely to put Donald Trump back on the ballot in Colorado. 

February 08, 2024

“The court seemed inclined to let the political process play out,” said Notre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller, who has been closely following the ballot eligibility issue.

Roll Call

February 07, 2024

Several arguments made in the case offer the Supreme Court an opportunity to defer the dispute to a different branch of government, said Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on election law.

Audio

February 07, 2024

“That’s at least an understandable minimum threshold to say ‘we’re not going to step in where the outcome of this particular election or candidacy is at stake,’” Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said on Bloomberg Law’s “Cases and Controversies” podcast.

February 07, 2024

I think, on a bipartisan basis, there’s an interest on staying as far away from these issues as possible,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, who wrote an amicus brief in the case that wasn’t in support of either party.

February 07, 2024

Law Professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, Derek Muller, joins to share how significant this ruling is.

ProPublica

February 06, 2024

“It’s very strange to name the Senate and House but not the president,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor, characterizing this position. 

Audio

February 05, 2024

Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Derek Muller joins “Cases and Controversies” to explain the legal issues at play and the potential impacts of a court ruling that fails to give a definitive answer before the presidential election.

February 05, 2024

“The cases have gone poorly for Trump,” Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who has followed the cases closely, wrote Friday in a blog post.

February 05, 2024

“Frankly, I think that’s one of his stronger arguments,” said Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame election-law professor.

February 02, 2024

“It’s hard to say where the court’s going to go on this,” said University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller.

February 01, 2024

“Invoking Scalia is kind of an attempt to cite some moral authority for one of the court’s great originalists,” said Notre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller, an expert on the case. “They’re not just citing anyone.”

January 29, 2024

“It would pretty clearly foreclose any challenge to a presidential candidate for being not qualified under the United States Constitution,” Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, said of the bill.

January 26, 2024

"It would pretty clearly foreclose any challenge to a presidential candidate for being not qualified under the United States Constitution," Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, told the Des Moines Register of the proposal. 

Des Moines Register

January 25, 2024

"It would pretty clearly foreclose any challenge to a presidential candidate for being not qualified under the United States Constitution," Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, said of the bill.

January 17, 2024

In a paper forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller takes a new and interesting approach to identifying the ideological leanings of large law firms.

AFP, including Yahoo News, Barron's +50 others

January 09, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, noted that courts are "asked to decide tough questions all the time."

AFP, including Yahoo News +65 others

January 09, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said he believes Trump, the first former US president ever to face criminal charges, faces an "uphill battle" in the immunity case.

The Conversation

January 09, 2024

The Conversation’s senior politics and democracy editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with Notre Dame election law scholar Derek Muller about the Supreme Court’s decision to take the case, which will rest on the court’s interpretation of a post Civil War-era amendment aimed at keeping those who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from serving in political office.

January 08, 2024

Prof. Derek T. Muller of the University of Notre Dame's law school said, "The court quite clearly understands the high stakes of the case and is aware that Colorado is just the first of many challenges this year."

January 08, 2024

Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Derek T. Muller said, “Trump only needs to win on one.”

January 04, 2024

Trump’s appeal request leaves the Supreme Court with “a variety of options at its disposal” to rule on the case, from narrow, strictly legal questions to broader ones about Trump’s state of mind on Jan. 6, 2021, said Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Derek Muller.

January 04, 2024

Derek Muller, an election law expert and professor at Notre Dame’s law school, said Mr. Castro risked creating unfavorable precedent with his failed lawsuits.

January 04, 2024

"The court will feel pressed to move quickly as voters soon begin casting their votes around the country," said Notre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller, who has been closely following the ballot issue for months.

January 04, 2024

“If you are not eligible to serve in the office, Congress might not count the votes for you,” said Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who specializes in election law.

Video

January 03, 2024

Regarding the legal questions at the center of the ballot bans, Election Law Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Derek Muller, joins to explain a bit about this appeal process and how soon we might see a decision rendered.

January 02, 2024

“In Bush v. Gore they ruled in three days,” University of Notre Dame law professor DEREK MULLER told the Washington Post. 

Axios

January 02, 2024

This is an effort to keep that trial date as much as reasonably possible with existing legal mechanisms," Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law school professor, told Axios after Smith's request.

January 02, 2024

Notre Dame law Professor Derek Muller has suggested that the court will “coalesce around a consensus unanimous opinion.” 

January 02, 2024

“It seems strange to allow the process to continue to play out, so I do think it’s going to force the court’s hand,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame whom the judges cited in the Colorado ruling.

January 02, 2024

There will be major pressure on the Supreme Court to offer clarity very soon,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and election law scholar.

January 02, 2024

“This is a fraught political issue,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

January 02, 2024

“This is a major and extraordinary holding from a state supreme court,” Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, wrote on the Election Law Blog.

January 02, 2024

“In Bush v. Gore they ruled in three days,” said University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller, citing the decision that determined George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election. 

December 21, 2023

"It's an extraordinary decision that puts Trump's election campaign in major legal jeopardy. It also will put a lot of pressure on the Supreme Court to review the decision," Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana told Newsweek.

Axios

December 21, 2023

"There's no winning," Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller told Axios.

December 20, 2023

Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who has studied the cases challenging Trump’s candidacy, called the Colorado decision unlike any other in history.

December 20, 2023

“It’s not an ideal situation for anyone, but I think there’s no question that with any adverse judicial decision, Trump will turn it into campaign talk,” said Derek Muller, an election law professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频.

December 20, 2023

Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller called the Colorado decision “a major and extraordinary holding from a state supreme court. 

December 20, 2023

The case “exerts major pressure on the Court,” said Derek T. Muller, an election-law professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, and taking it will require the justices “to step into the thorniest of political thickets.” 

Colorado Newsline

December 20, 2023

Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who has followed the case closely, called the Colorado decision a “major and extraordinary holding” that will require the U.S. Supreme Court “to step into the thorniest of political thickets.”

December 20, 2023

“I think it may embolden other state courts or secretaries to act now that the bandage has been ripped off,” Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who has closely followed the cases, told the Associated Press news agency after Tuesday’s ruling.

December 20, 2023

Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who has closely followed the Section 3 cases, said the ruling is “a major threat to Trump's candidacy.

December 20, 2023

Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Derek Muller, an election law scholar, told Business Insider he believes the Supreme Court will be inclined to hear the case because it deals with the 14th Amendment — which has never been subject to interpretation by the Supreme Court in the 150 years it has been in place.

December 20, 2023

Critics of the suit have argued that CREW's argument and Colorado's subsequent ruling limit voters' rights to choose who to cast their ballot for — but election law scholar and Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Derek Muller told Business Insider the existing qualifications for office are designed to prevent people from voting for who they want to.

December 20, 2023

“This is an extraordinary holding from the Colorado Supreme Court,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

December 20, 2023

"It exerts major pressure on the court," said Notre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller. "Even inaction would functionally exclude (Trump) from not just Colorado but perhaps other states."

December 20, 2023

Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频, said Wallace’s conclusions about Trump’s role in the insurrection were “remarkable.”

December 20, 2023

“I think it may embolden other state courts or secretaries to act now that the bandage has been ripped off,” Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who has closely followed the Section 3 cases, said after Tuesday’s ruling.

December 20, 2023

“This is a major and extraordinary holding from a state supreme court,” Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, wrote on the Election Law Blog.

Audio

December 14, 2023

Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, discusses the Special Counsel asking the Supreme Court to decide whether Donald Trump is entitled to absolute presidential immunity against criminal charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. 

December 12, 2023

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame, said the procedure remained unusual.

December 11, 2023

"It's always a longshot bid for the Supreme Court to hear a case like this, without waiting for the process to play out in the lower courts," said Notre Dame Law 91视频 Professor Derek Muller. 

December 11, 2023

Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law school professor, described Monday’s filing as rare and said Smith was asking the Supreme Court for “extraordinary relief.”

December 08, 2023

Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has filed a briefing to the Colorado Supreme Court. In it, he said that there have been several cases where presidential candidates were excluded from the ballot because they were deemed ineligible under the U.S constitution.

December 07, 2023

“The justices struggled with whether Colorado courts even have power to hear cases like this,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频 who filed a brief that was neutral on disqualifying Trump. 

December 05, 2023

"Retirements can take many forms. Members seek another office or another career opportunity, or they simply get tired with the job after doing it for many years," Derek T. Muller, professor of law at Notre Dame Law 91视频, told Fox News Digital.

December 04, 2023

“It’s a delicate balancing that the courts are going through," said Derek Muller, a lawyer professor at the University of Notre Dame. "I envy no one in trying to balance them in a case like this."

November 29, 2023

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies election law, said that federal appeals courts with a number of judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans, including the Eleventh and Eighth circuits, tend to have a more conservative approach to interpreting statutes.

November 20, 2023

Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频, said Wallace’s conclusions about Trump’s role in the insurrection were “remarkable.”

November 20, 2023

But Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who has closely followed the issue, said it’s too soon to declare the effort to knock Trump off the ballot over. 

November 20, 2023

“It’s a stunning holding for a court to conclude that a former president engaged in insurrection against the United States,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who has followed the case closely. 

November 16, 2023

“There’s this very public fight, in all these colloquial terms, about whether it’s an insurrection, but it really comes down to brass tacks defining what this constitutional term means,” Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who’s followed the litigation closely, told the Associated Press.

November 03, 2023

"States are looking to start printing and mailing ballots in January so these cases are moving very quickly and Minnesota might be the first state supreme court to issue a decision," said Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor. 

North Carolina Public Radio

November 03, 2023

Courts will now contend with thorny legal questions, such as what actually constitutes a rebellion and whether Congress needs to make that clearer through legislation before courts can weigh in, according to Professor Derek Muller, an elections law expert at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

November 03, 2023

Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频, filed a brief in the case that was neutral on Trump’s eligibility but offered analysis of key legal questions.

October 31, 2023

“We’ve had hearings with presidential candidates debating their eligibility before — Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, John McCain,” said Derek T. Muller, a Notre Dame law professor, listing candidates challenged on whether they met the constitutional requirement of being a “natural born citizen.”

October 31, 2023

"We’ve never seen a challenge like this to a presidential candidate, hearings that go for days to evaluate their eligibility,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频 who filed a brief in a similar case that was neutral on disqualifying Trump but gave analysis for key legal questions.

October 26, 2023

"It's the first domino to fall. We've never seen a challenge like this to a presidential candidate, hearings that go for days to evaluate their eligibility," Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频, told CNN.

October 19, 2023

“Hassan is kept off, because he’s not a citizen,” Derek T. Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame who has the legal significance of Hassan’s case, told me. 

October 16, 2023

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame said the bench order appeared narrowly tailored, but enforcing the eventual written order could still become a challenge.

October 05, 2023

A May analysis of Education Department data by Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller found that Western Michigan University Cooley Law 91视频; Atlanta's John Marshall Law 91视频, and Appalachian 91视频 of Law were among the schools with the highest debt-to-income ratios.

September 20, 2023

Derek Muller, an election law expert who teaches at the Notre Dame Law 91视频, said he believes it’ll be a “heavy lift” for their argument to prevail in court.

September 15, 2023

“Many states do not have a law on the books empowering the secretary of state to judge the eligibility of presidential candidates,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert who teaches at the Notre Dame Law 91视频.

Washington Times

September 12, 2023

Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said a secretary of state’s authority over removing Mr. Trump’s name from the ballot depends on state law.

September 07, 2023

Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, emphasized that standing requirements are looser in state courts than in federal courts, especially when it comes to voters’ ability to challenge candidates’ eligibility.

September 05, 2023

 “The odds are high that at least one gets to the merits and decides whether Trump participated in an insurrection that disqualifies him,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

August 25, 2023

University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller talked about the Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Harper, which found the Constitution does not allow a state to regulate federal elections, rejecting a broad interpretation of the so-called “independent state legislature” theory. 

August 21, 2023

“People are not anticipating how pervasive these will be,” said Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller, an election law expert.

August 17, 2023

“To the extent that attorneys are looking for an alternative on the Republican side, it’s no surprise to see them coalescing around DeSantis,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame University law professor who has studied lawyers’ political contributions. 

Detroit News

July 19, 2023

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, said the criminal charges leveled are a "fraught" area of the law.