The NYT has this story on racial disparities in rejection rates in Washington state, which is an all mail-in balloting state: Among the thousands of mail-in ballots that were rejected in Washington State during the 2020 election, auditors have found… Continue reading

Different take, from a piece for The American Conservative, by Micah Meadowcroft: “Social media do not contribute to political extremism by letting us sort into ideological silos; instead, they constantly expose us to people with beliefs and ways of… Continue reading

From the NYT: Democrats across the nation have spent years railing against partisan gerrymandering, particularly in Republican states — most recently trying to pass federal voting rights legislation in Washington to all but outlaw the practice. But given the same… Continue reading

From Jonathan Lai, at the Philly Inquirer: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday took control of a high-stakes redistricting lawsuit and will now decide how the state’s congressional districts will be drawn for the next decade.A lower court had been… Continue reading

Politico: In the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump seriously considered issuing a blanket pardon for all participants in the Jan. 6 riot, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.Another adviser to the former president said… Continue reading

I’ve written this piece from NYU’s Just Security blog, on the relationship between preventing electoral subversion and ECA reform. A key line is this: “Proper reform of the ECA would also do much more to address the risk of electoral… Continue reading

From Shane Goldmacher, at the NYT: A series of new remarks by Donald J. Trump about the aftermath of the 2020 election and new disclosures about his actions in trying to forestall its result — including discussing the use of… Continue reading

From Politico: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in another sign that he may veto a new congressional map being drawn by the state Legislature, asked the state’s highest court on Tuesday to tell him whether or not a 200-mile congressional district… Continue reading

Plan Score, the tool the Campaign Legal Center created to evaluate redistricting maps, concludes the proposed NY congressional map is more favorable to the Democratic Party than 91% of prior plans (on one measure) or 78% of prior plans (on… Continue reading

From NPR: INSKEEP: Well, let’s talk this through for a moment. It seems to me that, on one level, the law is clear. Vice President Pence, who was presiding over the joint session of Congress, looked into this. Constitutional scholars… Continue reading

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