I know this is far afield from this blog’s focus, but this is such an interesting constitutional issue, with significant practical implications, that I wanted to flag it here for those interested in constitutional law. The en banc Fourth Circuit… Continue reading

From a story by Theodore Schleifer at Puck (behind a paywall): It was after 11 p.m. on Monday evening, and Sam Bankman-Fried was concocting some potato-pepper-onion fake meat stir-fry in his Bahamas kitchen while regaling me with the origin story… Continue reading

From Philip Bump at the Washington Post: The first came shortly after Pence was evacuated from the Senate chamber following rioters having gained access to the building. The vice president was hustled into a ceremonial office across a short… Continue reading

From the Financial Times (behind paywall): Mexico’s populist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has turned his guns on foreign investors, the media and the business elite to rally his base and drive an anti-establishment message. But his latest target seems… Continue reading

This NYT story describes AOC’s intervention in Democratic primaries to attempt to take down Democratic incumbents, including from within the NY Democratic delegation of which she is a part. The story’s emphasis is on these unusual internecine conflicts in the… Continue reading

This week, I was honored to be part once again of the annual CEO Summit run by Jeff Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies at the Yale School of Management. The Summit brings together major corporate leaders, former high-ranking… Continue reading

A new study on the Supreme Court, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has been getting a fair amount of attention for its findings on the relationship over time between public opinion on major issues before… Continue reading

The Supreme Court is likely to grant a cert. petition, possibly the pending one from North Carolina, on what’s known as the “independent state legislature” issue.  The Constitution’s Elections Clause gives state “legislatures” power to regulate national elections; the issue… Continue reading

My piece with that title, for the Stanford Law Review’s online Symposium: Safeguarding the Fundamental Right to Vote, is now published. Here’s the abstract: Election law now operates in a sea of pervasive distrust. The voting wars have led to… Continue reading

Based on the recent redistricting saga in New Hampshire, I’ve published this essay at Real Clear Politics. Maine went through a similar extended saga with its two congressional districts in the 2010 round of redistricting. Here’s an excerpt: In New… Continue reading

From the WSJ (behind paywall): Onetime celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday for stealing $300,000 from the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, whom he represented in her battles with former President Donald Trump. U.S.… Continue reading

From the East Asian Forum:       “Almost a decade of centre-right rule came to an end on 21 May when former prime minister Scott Morrison’s Liberal Party–National Party coalition was defeated by the centre-left Labor Party, which now holds office… Continue reading

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the prevalence of two-round voting systems in other countries for presidential elections, Colombia’s presidential election provides a terrific example. In Colombia’s first-round vote yesterday, three main candidates competed. A former left-wing guerilla, Gustavo… Continue reading

As Ned Foley and I have been writing about in various forums, our typical use of plurality voting rules in the US can lead to factional candidates winning nominations or elections, even though they lack majority support. That’s one of… Continue reading