New Jersey Monitor reports. Also the New Jersey Globe. And NorthJersey.com

(If I have any comments on the opinion that I think worth blogging, I will update this post accordingly.)

Greg Bluestein in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution with more evidence that currently we really have three political parties that don’t fit easily into our existing two-party electoral system. (The solution is the kind of Top Three electoral system I’ve been advocating over at Common Ground Democracy.)

On Friday (April 19), Rick Pildes is delivering the Dunwody Lecture, sponsored by the Florida Law Review. His topic is “Combatting Political Extremism,” something I’ve been very fortunate to work with him (among others) on over the last few years. (Along with Larry Diamond, he and I are in the process of editing a volume of papers that grows out of a task force devoted to this topic that emerged in the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the Capitol; and he and I had a hand in drafting a couple of those papers.) I’m also fortunate to be participating in the Law Review’s symposium that accompanies–and precedes on Thursday (April 18)–Rick’s lecture. (Participant bios are here.) For those unable to attention in person, there’s a link to register for the zoom presentation. It should be a great set of discussions.

Rick LaRue in the Fulcrum. This piece echoes the one earlier this year by Larry Schwartztol and Justin Florence in The Atlantic: “Amending the Constitution Is Impossible Until Suddenly It’s Not.” It is also possible that the threat of a constitutional convention could spur the adoption of specific amendments, as it did with the Seventeenth Amendment’s adoption of direct election of U.S. senators. But Alex Keyssar’s important book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? is an important cautionary tale concerning the immense difficulty of electoral reform by means of constitutional amendment, even when America’s voters overwhelmingly want the reform in question.

Via electionline.

Detailed discussion of yesterday’s oral argument in the Washington Post. Another politically divided ruling seems likely, unfortunately, on an issue that would be better to decide unanimously, if at all possible.

Update from the N.Y. Times. Subtitle: “Georgia, Michigan and Nevada have already brought charges against people who posed as electors for Donald Trump, and Arizona and Wisconsin have active investigations.” Also this snippet: “Mr. Chesebro, who pleaded guilty to a… Continue reading

Courthouse News Service.

Must-read commentary by Nick Troiano, who is a leader of the effort to replace partisan primaries with the kind of all-candidates first-round elections that California and Alaska have as part of their top-2 and top-4 systems, respectively. Here’s the… Continue reading

Useful analysis of this year’s Electoral College battlegrounds by Doug Sosnick, arguing that Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada are most likely to be decisive.

Adam Liptak for the N.Y. Times. I haven’t studied this issue closely, but based on this (and other) reporting, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Supreme Court interpreted the relevant statute narrowly, with the consequences that two of the four… Continue reading

Interesting data analysis from The Fulcrum.

L.A. Times reports.