From Axios:
January was Sen. Josh Hawley’s best fundraising month—by far—since his 2018 election, with a flood of small-dollar donations more than eclipsing the corporate cash he lost after leading an effort to block certification of President Biden’s Electoral… Continue reading
With the Democrats starting to push onto the agenda the package of political reforms titled the “For the People Act,” more attention is going to start getting focused on the provisions for campaign-finance reform. Those provisions involve a 6:1 small-donor… Continue reading
The International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON), perhaps the top peer-reviewed journal on comparative constitutional law, has a lead article in its forthcoming issue by Stephen Gardbaum, entitled Comparative Political Process Theory. Drawing on challenges to democracy in a number… Continue reading
Back in 2009, when the issue of abolishing the Senate filibuster was also being discussed, I wrote this piece for the Balkinization blog on the history of the filibuster. Now that this issue is being intensely discussed again, I’m re-posting… Continue reading
The NYT has broken a story that includes coverage of confidential meetings I’ve been involved in with the country’s business leaders since the election about what role they can play in supporting the stability of American democracy. I think the… Continue reading
This is an illuminating story from the Austin American-Statesman about the spread of misinformation. The context is whether President Trump would lose his pension, travel stipend, and other benefits if convicted in the Senate trial. The false information here is… Continue reading
While we are on the subject of how the structure of campaign finance laws and practices can affect democratic governance, I want to remind readers of the recent empirical paper Michael Norton and I published, which shows that the more… Continue reading
This is a new article by Michael Barber, which further confirms what we’ve known about which donors support the ideological more extreme candidates and which support more moderates. I’ve written about these issues and what we know empirically about them… Continue reading
One important direction for improving our election system is taking election administration out of the hands of partisan actors and moving toward more professional election administration, as in many other democracies. I wanted to flag this event I’ll be participating… Continue reading
CNBC and others begin the process of following the money:
The rally, officially known as the “March to Save America,” was largely organized by a 501(c)(4) group known as Women for America First. The organization was certified by the Internal… Continue reading
George Conway@gtconway3d · 1hIf I were a government attorney, and the president asked me to prepare pardon papers at this point, I’d be seriously concerned about being drawn into a criminal conspiracy if I complied.
The reason for such an impeachment would be then, after conviction, to disqualify that person from holding future office. Disqualification is a sanction that can be attached following impeachment and conviction.
The most prominent example of Congress having asserted such… Continue reading
Statement from Richard Pildes, Edward Foley, Rick Hasen, Lisa Manheim, and Nate Persily:
Given the levels of anxiety about the process for counting electoral votes in Congress, we want to clarify certain fundamental legal facts about that process. This clarification… Continue reading