The Washington Post has this story: Twitter is testing a host of new features the social network says will boost user safety on the platform, but free speech advocates warn that the tools could be easily exploited by government officials… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: The legislation permanently extends vote-by-mail provisions enacted in California during the coronavirus pandemic. Those provisions were in place during the 2020 election as well as during this month’s unsuccessful campaign to recall Newsom.Even though ballots… Continue reading

From the AP: Days before Germany’s federal elections, Facebook took what it called an unprecedented step: the removal of a series of accounts that worked together to spread COVID-19 misinformation and encourage violent responses to COVID restrictions.The crackdown, announced Sept.… Continue reading

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: The internal civil war puts the newly minted Trump Ticket — the three Georgia statewide candidates endorsed by the former president — in a strange spot. Do they agree with Trump’s assessment of Kemp,… Continue reading

From Political Wire: “Republicans spent tens of millions of dollars in 2020 to keep Democrats from painting more of Texas blue. Now, the GOP is trying to fireproof its districts with a new map that contains the suburban damage… Continue reading

I’ll be guest blogging this week (and started yesterday). I’ll have a few things to say about what the recent German election and the Democratic Party have in common, after I get posts out this morning collecting recent stories on… Continue reading

I’m a big fan of Iceland, which has one of the richest political and literary histories in the West. So this story from the Washington Post caught my eye: Iceland heralded a weekend election result that would have made it… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said she wasn’t bluffing when warning that progressives were willing to tank the infrastructure plan until the House and the Senate also pass a $3.5… Continue reading

New York Times: “Liberals believe voters will punish them in 2022 if they do not fulfill Mr. Biden’s sweeping campaign agenda, in part because it would demoralize their core voters and ensure that some of them would stay home.”… Continue reading

Associated Press: “Sanders’ celebrity as former President Donald Trump’s spokesperson granted her immediate front-runner status in one of the nation’s most Trump-friendly states. It’s also transforming politics in a place where voters in state races are used to hearing… Continue reading

From Axios AM: In an interview with Axios’ Sarah Mucha, Glenn Youngkin — the Virginia Republican in a dogfight with Terry McAuliffe in the Nov. 2 governor’s election — wouldn’t say whether he would have voted to certify the election… Continue reading

From The Morning Dispatch (requires a subscription) Having failed to deliver a Trump win on the recount, the audit’s organizers are moving the goalposts. Experts say their methodology is faulty.The report claims that “mail-in ballots were cast under voter registration… Continue reading

Paul Starr in the American Prospect: The individual elements in the reconciliation bill poll well, but you have to follow politics closely to know precisely what’s in it. There’s no single policy or idea at its center, no clear… Continue reading

Hayward Smith has posted this detailed article on the independent state legislature doctrine, which also responds to arguments defending certain versions of the doctrine. Back in 2001, when Hayward was a student of mine at NYU, he published a law… Continue reading