I’m happy to be doing this event shortly. The link to watch the event is here: https://hopkinsathome.jhu.edu/watch-now

The recent 2-1 decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals calls into question the legitimacy of over 61,000 ballots cast in the Griffin-Riggs battle over a critical seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court.  The court’s decision appears to… Continue reading

Maire Le Pen’s National Rally party received the most votes in France’s recent elections and is the largest party in the National Assembly. Tomorrow, the judicial system is going to reach a verdict in a prosecution that seeks a criminal… Continue reading

I’m struck by the similarity of the underlying factual contexts in these two cases. Only one Justice on the current Court, Justice Thomas, was on the Court that decided Shaw, and the similarity is not apparent from the opinion in… Continue reading

I’ll be participating in this important event tomorrow, which is being put on by the ABA Task Force on American Democracy. The other participants are: Judge Paul Grimm (Ret.) – David F. Levi Professor of the Practice of Law, Duke… Continue reading

In light of the upcoming Supreme Court argument in Louisiana v. Callais, Travis Crum published a guest post at this blog arguing that racial gerrymandering should not be unconstitutional. Crum rejects the 30+ year line of cases that began with… Continue reading

In the NYT essay I wrote with Trevor Morrison on the tools courts have to deal with executive defiance of court orders, we concluded by noting that a major confrontation between the two branches might have significant effects on financial… Continue reading

Next week, I’ll be delivering the 45th Sullivan Lecture at the Ohio Statehouse. Here are the details to register. I’m grateful to Jonathan Adler and Eugene Mazo, who will provide comments on the lecture, as well as to my host,… Continue reading

I’ve posted this new essay, co-authored with Sam Issacharoff, at SSRN. The essay is forthcoming in 26 Theoretical Inquires in Law __ (2025). Here’s the abstract: The declining ability of the state to deliver effective outcomes on the major… Continue reading

At Good Authority, the political scientist John Sides has a good summary of the findings in this important new study that’s received a lot of attention. The study, by Stanford’s Chenoa Yorgason, has the title above. Here is from Sides’… Continue reading

That line is from this tweet, by David Shor, who is one of the top political data analysts on the Democratic side. You will see that he references a new academic study that makes this point. As readers of this… Continue reading

That’s one of the bottom-line findings that will surprise many in today’s Washington Post article that Nick Stephanopoulos co-authored and blogs about below. The five states most biased toward one party or the other are CA (+4.5 D seats); IL… Continue reading

Justice Kagan, who went to Princeton, recently received Princeton’s Wilson Award, the university’s highest honor. In one of the best interviews I’ve seen of a current Justice, Princeton President Chris Eisgruber interviewed Justice Kagan. Toward the end, around 42.00, he… Continue reading

I’m often asked, including by students, about how elections in other major democracies are financed. Since Germany just had elections, there was some explanation of this issue in the press. A good summary can be found in this article;… Continue reading