From the Washington Post: Small-dollar donors were supposed to save democracy. Reformers had hoped that grass-roots political fundraising — connected by the internet and united against corruption — would become a formidable force to counter the money that wealthy individuals… Continue reading

Paywalled story from the Financial Times on the changing ecosystem of large donors on the Republican side: A new class of political donors is funnelling millions of dollars to far-right Republicans, as growing dissatisfaction with the party establishment fuels support… Continue reading

From the Financial Times, paywalled: It’s not every day that foreign observers are needed to monitor an election in Germany, one of the west’s richest and most stable democracies. But then again, Berlin is no ordinary city. Fourteen officials from… Continue reading

The California Law Review has now published this article of mine with the above title. It was also gratifying to see Tom Edsall quoting from this piece in his essay in today’s NYTimes. The article is part of a Symposium… Continue reading

The Christian Science Monitor has a deep dive look into Alaska’s politics, including a balanced set of interviews about how the adoption of the Top-4 primary, with RCV in the general election, has shaped those politics.

This WSJ piece has a lot of good detail elaborating on a point I make in my recent NYT essay, which is the way small-dollar donations have enabled the rise of free-agent politicians. This also highlights concerns I’ve raised before… Continue reading

The Republican Party’s struggle over choosing a Speaker reflects large structural changes in American democracy, as well as democracies more generally. For my perspective on that, see my (RP) latest NYT essay. An excerpt: This Washington drama reflects larger… Continue reading

This is from a WSJ piece, which is paywalled. A few excerpts: In Detroit, about 22,600 fewer voters came to the polls than in the 2018 midterm election, a nearly 12% decline. Philadelphia tallied about 55,300 fewer voters than four… Continue reading

Both before and during the argument in Moore v. Harper, I wrote about the possibility that the Court might think about extending the approach in the CJ Rehnquist’s Bush v. Gore concurrence – which was about state court statutory interpretation… Continue reading

I’m going to re-up a post of mine from Dec. 3rd on this issue: how relevant should the Bush v. Gore concurrence on statutory interpretation, which CJ Rehnquist authored, be in considering the role of state courts in interpreting the… Continue reading

In my testimony to the House outlining different potential versions of an ISLT the Court might adopt, I mentioned a remedial version of such a doctrine.  Without endorsing it, I want to explain further what this version would mean. This… Continue reading

With the argument coming up next week in Moore v. Harper, I’ve thought more deeply about some of the less obvious legal issues underlying the case.  I plan to do a few posts on these issues. At least several Justices… Continue reading

When NC filed its opening brief in the independent state legislature case, Moore v. Harper, I commented on this blog that NC’s brief wavered between taking (1) the extreme position that state courts cannot impose any substantive limits on state… Continue reading

Solid chance that Democrats win Secretary of State races in all of WI/AZ/NV.Combine this with their MI SoS + PA Gov wins + Raffensperger in GA and you may not have an election denier as Secretary of State in any… Continue reading