WP: Donald Trump speaks directly to the camera in the first television ad aired by Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue, underscoring how much that race centers on the former president and his grievances about the 2020 election.The 30-second spot, which… Continue reading

From Ross Douhat, NYT: Republicans have long feared voter fraud and noncitizen voting, for instance, but the fear — and for liberals, the oft-discussed hope — that demographic change could deliver permanent Democratic power have raised the salience of these… Continue reading

A modeling agency alleged a political ad implied that it was involved in sex trafficking. A candidate had created the agency and his opponent attacked him in the relevant ad. The AZ Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision held that… Continue reading

NC News and Observer: North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn, whose eligibility to run for reelection to Congress is being formally challenged, has now begun his legal fight against that effort. Aside from a blanket one-sentence denial, Cawthorn does not address… Continue reading

From Axios: Some of Donald Trump’s handpicked candidates are hitting an obstacle in their efforts to purge the Republican Party of Trump skeptics: money. Lots of it. Driving the news: Key Trump-backed Republican challengers were heavily outraised by their Republican… Continue reading

At the Fulcrum: Most senior U.S. election officials come to their posts through explicitly partisan processes, such as partisan elections. The vast majority of these officials rise above the flaws in the positions they hold and render impartial service,… Continue reading

From Deadline Detroit, via Political Wire: Two candidates for state office in Michigan, both Republicans, “encouraged supporters to interfere with election processes, and come armed to polling places, in a recent joint appearance,” Deadline Detroit reports. Said gubernatorial candidate… Continue reading

New accounts show that Donald Trump “was more directly involved than previously known in exploring proposals to use his national security agencies to seize voting machines as he grasped unsuccessfully for evidence of fraud that would help him reverse his… Continue reading

Remarkable story from the Washington Post: Chief Justice Burger had delivered a letter to Mitchell telling him there was no woman qualified to be on the court. According to Mitchell, Burger recommended “the same bunch of names, all the… Continue reading

Hadn’t been aware of this until this post from Jonathan Adler at the Volokh Conspiracy: One of the things that surprised me about President Trump’s judicial nominations was the (relatively) large number of legal academics he tapped for the federal… Continue reading

The sources and amounts of money contributed to the political parties must be fully disclosed. Not so for this type of outside funding. I have done empirical work, with Mike Norton, demonstrating “How Outside Money Makes Governing More Difficult.” … Continue reading

Washington Post editorial: The focus of the Democrats’ failed bills was on ensuring Americans access to the ballot box — a response to voting restrictions imposed in 19 states by Republicans. But at least as important is ensuring that Americans’… Continue reading

The moment when the Supreme Court declined to do anything about the massive disenfranchisement of black voters throughout the South is embodied in Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ opinion in Giles v. Harris, 189 US 475 (1903). Justice Kagan’s dissenting opinion… Continue reading

Two decisions involving race, partisanship, and redistricting stand out for me as Justice Breyer’s two most consequential election-law opinions for the Court. If we take them in chronological order, the first is Easley v. Cromartie, a 5-4 decision out of… Continue reading